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Real life
After refusing to issue my HRT without a blood pressure test, the GP surgery rang to offer me an appointment.…
Rishi Sunak’s real opponent
Things are starting to get more awkward for Rishi Sunak — something the Chancellor has long been prepared for. He…
Covid’s long game
Why do some people’s symptoms not go away?
Vaccination offers us a road out of lockdown. Let’s take it
As an epidemiologist and doctor who volunteered to return to the frontline in both waves, I have seen first hand…
Why are so many health workers turning down the vaccine?
On Saturday the government hit its target of administering a first vaccine dose to 15 million of the highest-risk groups…
Tavistock gender clinic whistleblowers have been vindicated
The Care Quality Commission has released its reports on the gender identity services offered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS…
NHS Notebook
Across Europe, hospitals have been filling up again with the second wave of coronavirus. France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the…
Letters
Cancelled procedures Sir: Your leader (‘A lockdown too far’, 7 November) suggests that the Prime Minister should have shown ‘leadership’…
Barometer
The start of lockdown The earliest known use of ‘lockdown’ in its current sense was in a 1973 story in…
There is no Santa Claus, Sir Patrick
It seems, then, that this latest lockdown has been instigated simply to protect two very questionable institutions — the National…
Instead of lockdown, let’s create a National Shielding Service
So what would you do? That was the question that cropped up on my Twitter timeline after I’d sent out…
Low life
My last NHS scan showed a shadow on a rib. The scan report couldn’t decide between a new cancer metastasis…
Cost of living
Why has much more been spent on saving lives from Covid than other conditions?
The memo Dominic Cummings never sent
There’s something about Dominic Cummings I will always like, and perhaps partly it’s the danger. I hardly know him well…
Real life
A man without a mask appeared to be dying of Covid, or something quite like it, on the London to…
Real Life
After driving around the hospital grounds in concentric circles until I was surely down a wormhole, I found the scanning…
Real life
‘Hallo! You was callin’ us about appoint…MENT!’ said the lady at the scanning unit of my local hospital in broken…
Net effect
Let’s face it. Theatre via the internet is barely theatre. It takes a huge amount of creativity and inventiveness to…
Are whistleblowers being silenced at the NHS gender clinic?
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust carries out some of the most…
Political pandering won’t prevent Covid deaths
When the media have gone large on the conclusions of an overpoweringly tedious report, one of the biggest favours a…
Battle lines
The art of corona warfare
Real life
Opting out of organ donation was one of the hardest things I’ve done in a while. I don’t mean the…
Letters
Hong Kong’s future Sir: So we have a moral duty to protect the people of Hong Kong and guide them…
Barometer
Covid deaths Has Covid-19 evolved to become less deadly? — Global infections reached a new peak on 29 May, with…
The NHS has quietly changed its trans guidance to reflect reality
Imagine you have a child who says they believe they were born in the wrong body, describing what amounts to…
