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The Hidden Toll of the Pandemic: Adolescent Social Isolation and Its Relevance as of Today
FAYEZA AHMED
To Professor Chris Whitty
Chief Medical Advisor and Expert Advisor
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street, London
SW1H 0EU
Dear Professor Chris Whitty,
Does Data Really Save Lives? Considerations in Digitising Health
SERENE LIM
To: Simon Bolton, CEO of NHS Digital
Boar Lane,
Leeds, West Yorkshire,
LS1 6AE
Dear Mr. Bolton,
Reclaiming relationships and thinking differently about people in healthcare systems: reflections on insider-fieldwork, access and inclusion
SARAH YARDLEY
Instead of trying to construct healthcare systems that don’t rely on people knowing each other, our energies would be better spent focused on creating mechanisms that facilitate relational working through equitable opportunities for people to connect with each other.
I wonder what your reaction to reading the above statement is? By people, I really do mean all people, regardless of role or position and so this includes patients, carers, professionals and anyone else involved.
Treading softly while jumping through hoops: ethnographic adventures in pursuit of palliative medication work-as-done in hospice, hospital and at home
DR SALLY-ANNE FRANCIS & DR SARAH YARDLEY
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” (W.B.Yeats)
“A rapid, focused ethnography will be conducted using a cross-sectional approach,” we said.
Living with multiple health conditions in an East-London borough: early findings from a participatory photography project
ESCA VAN BLARIKOM
Multimorbidity in the UK
Historically, biomedicine focused on single disease categories. As a result, many of our current clinical guidelines are almost exclusively focused on managing single conditions. Considering that in the UK, people with multiple health conditions make up most primary healthcare encounters (Cassell et al. 2018), these approaches urgently require critical evaluation.
Rapid ethnographies in the NHS
STEPHANIE KUMPUNEN
Long-form ethnography is a long-term investment…but rapid ethnography can help sometimes
Early Career Ethnographers of the NHS: Series Introduction
REBECCA IRONS
Social Science and Humanities research with and on the NHS has never been more urgent than in a post-pandemic context. However, interdisciplinary collaboration with health services presents particular issues ranging from practicalities of access to expectations and differing disciplinary approaches between the clinical and the social/humanities.
Modernizing the US Coast Guard’s Miscarriage Leave Policy
JULIEANN THOMAS
March 1, 2022
Rear Admiral Eric Jones
Assistant Commandant for Human Resources (CG-1)
United States Coast Guard
Washington, DC 20593
United States of America
Dear Admiral Jones,
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