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The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the burden on healthcare systems in the UK, preventing most normal patient visits. People with lung disease need regular lung function testing (spirometry), which is difficult to perform, especially in people with severe classifications of all lung diseases. In the UK approximately 12.7 million people have longstanding respiratory illness. SinceContinue reading “An Opportunity to Provide Lung Function Testing Remotely, Safely and Accurately”

Now is an opportunity to increase the availability and desirability of degree level apprenticeships; COVID-19 has greatly affected the 18-23 age group and the Government should seize the opportunity to create new development paths for our future leaders. A degree level apprenticeship offers the advantages of an income from an employer and a degree qualification,Continue reading “Degree level apprenticeships – an opportunity presented by COVID”

The special place that the NHS has in our hearts and minds has been amply displayed during the current pandemic. The NHS Covid-19 app should now be expanded not just to focus on Covid-19 related matters but should in essence be our first port of call in all aspects of our health and social careContinue reading “New NHS App”

Recent figures show the prescription of antidepressants is at its highest ever level, with long waits for talking therapies and GPs reporting an increase in patients presenting with mental health concerns as they struggle with the impact of the pandemic. There is a challenge for the NHS to deliver effective mental health treatment quickly beforeContinue reading “Improving access to online psychological therapies during the pandemic”

In monetary terms covid-19 recovery is already ¬£300bn and growing; the price paid by individuals, families and communities will sit long in their memories and may prove itself capable of denting confidence in government. What would Covid-19 prevention or preparedness cost e.g. NHS surge capacity; track and trace; vaccine production capability. What would be theContinue reading “Price of recovery vs cost of prevention”

The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded the UK‚’s healthcare requirements at a time when the number of healthcare staff has reduced, in part due to changes in visa and residence entitlements. Our shortage of staff, from healthcare assistants and porters to intensive care nurses and consultants, has been made evident. Inadequate hospital staffing is a hugeContinue reading “A nation of medics – part 1”

During the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, the Prime Minister drew attention to the ‘disproportionate price’ that ‘BAME communities’ had paid during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime Minister’s words were buttressed by various reports, including from Public Health England, that ‘after accounting for the effect of sex, age, deprivation and region’,Continue reading “Racial and ethnic disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic”

To give medals and awards to people who have given exemplary service to others during the Covid pandemic (in a similar way to those given during wartime). A. “Covid Campaign Medal” awarded to front line staff in the NHS; the scientists responsible for the production of the vaccine; those that organised the roll out ofContinue reading “Covid Campaign Medals, Ribbons of Care”

One key opportunity arising from COVID-19 and its consequences is the social and economic reinvention of the High Street which serves to resolve the emerging economic, retail, mental health, climate, opportunity and community crisis across England and is measured through a new Gross Domestic Wellbeing metric. There is a risk that these issues – someContinue reading “Reinvent the purpose of the High Street and measure its success through a new metric”

The pandemic has demonstrated our collective dependence on organisations, systems and structures that are highly complex and, as we now know, vulnerable to disruption. And it has become clear, too, that many organisations (and people) operate day-to-day without alternative ways of working – or the depth of resources – that can carry them through difficultContinue reading “Reducing our vulnerability to failures in the complex organisations and systems that support our lives”