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Healthcare today
Healthcare faces existential challenges - escalating demands against constrained resources, increasing co-morbidities and global crises in public health
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Crisis in UK General Practice
Crises accelerate rapid adoption of new technology and processes, and the use of telemedicine has expanded over the last 18 months far...
Oct 15, 20213 min read
COVID hospitalisations & variants
Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...
Apr 24, 20212 min read
Patterns of hospitalisation across Europe
The Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (more) provides a daily update on numbers of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalisations and...
Apr 16, 20211 min read
Wider innovation in healthcare
Lateral flow tests Lateral flow tests (LFT) are increasingly ubiquitous. Less sensitive than the gold-standard PCR swabs, but they...
Apr 12, 20212 min read
Yellow Cards - putting risks into perspective
For the last two months, the MHRA has been producing a weekly summary of Yellow Cards linked to COVID-19 vaccines - the early warning...
Apr 12, 20212 min read
COVID-19 and Long-Term Care
The tireless work of the International Long Term Care Policy Network (more) has been pivotal to our better understanding of the impact of...
Apr 9, 20212 min read
Our hospitals at start of November
As England moved to Tier 4 last Thursday and an attenuated version of the first national lockdown, we update our prior analysis of...
Nov 7, 20201 min read
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