A challenging winter lies ahead of us

Prescribing e-cigarettes

Healthcare workers must be protected

For many of you in clinical practice, although you have not stopped face-to-face contact, it has not been the same as it has been previously, and many patients have found the pandemic system confusing...

Overcoming vaccine hesitancy

I'm sure you have all read the more outlandish and outright illogical arguments for not having the COVID-19 vaccine, and these don't really warrant touching upon in a healthcare journal, but there are...

Maintaining safe practice

I don't know about you, but I find it difficult when reading news and updates these days not to see COVID-19 everywhere I look! But a few non-COVID things have caught my eye this month, and one...

Take Pride in your progress

In a year of news about COVID-19, it is easy for a genuinely exciting development like the topic of this month's editorial to get lost in the relentless news cycle of late. I don't think I myself have...

Small steps, big changes

I suppose I should begin this editorial by letting you know I have now had my second COVID-19 vaccination! I know I am part of a growing number of those afforded increased protection from the virus,...

A time for reflection

This has been a month of progress and reflection here in the United Kingdom. As restrictions start to lift after many difficult months of lockdown, I'm sure, like me, you find yourselves having to...

Tackling vaccination concerns

The first thing I wanted to tell you in this editorial was that I have had my first vaccine! Like many million others I was delighted to get the call and I feel relief and privilege to have received...

Progress in practice

Sometimes it is hard to quantify the progress being made in the wider world, but seeing these small victories within your family really brings home the significant work and progress we have made since...

Working through the pandemic

Fresh and familiar challenges greet us in 2021

wrote my first draft of this editorial before Christmas, apprehensively waiting with bated breath to see just how the lift of restrictions for the holiday season would affect us going forward. Of...