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Articles from IPPO

  1. COVID-19: How well-protected was the medical profession?

    COVID-19: How well-protected was the medical profession?

    May 26, 2022

    The BMA has launched a review into the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic – from the impact on the medical profession to the NHS and social care systems and public health. This is the first of five BMA reports, each with a particular focus on the pandemic response. The report finds that the wider health and public health systems entered the pandemic under-resourced. Before the pandemic, health systems across the UK were operating in an environment of scarcity; general health spending was below that of comparable countries and there were chronic...

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  2. Notes from Bilbao: why is it necessary to incorporate psychology in urban planning?

    Notes from Bilbao: why is it necessary to incorporate psychology in urban planning?

    May 24, 2022

    Idoia Postigo, General Director of Bilbao Metropoli-30, writes for IPPO Cities on the emotional life of the city and calls for a more holistic urban planning. Idoia Postigo Living in an urban environment is one of the defining characteristics which unites many of the planet’s inhabitants at the present time. The city represents the daily environment in which an increasing proportion of people live each year. However, of the estimated 107 billion people who have existed in the history of mankind, only a few have lived in the city, with the urban...

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  3. To Learn the Lessons, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry Must Consider the Experiences of Migrants During the Pandemic 

    To Learn the Lessons, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry Must Consider the Experiences of Migrants During the Pandemic 

    May 19, 2022

    Matteo Besana is the COVID-19 Advocacy Project Lead for Doctors of the World UK Matteo Besana Earlier in the year, the government published the draft Terms of Reference for the forthcoming public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic which will examine the UK Government’s response to the pandemic with the hope of learning the lessons from the pandemic and informing the government’s preparations for the future. Here at Doctors of the World we believe that key to this exercise, and to the work of the Inquiry, is to consider the experiences and the...

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  4. ‘It was brutal. It still is’: a qualitative analysis of the challenges of bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic reported in two national surveys

    ‘It was brutal. It still is’: a qualitative analysis of the challenges of bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic reported in two national surveys

    May 19, 2022

    Anna Torrens-Burton (Cardiff University School of Medicine), Silvia Goss, Eileen Sutton and colleagues examine the difficulties faced by people bereaved during the pandemic (April 2022) Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating, mass bereavement event characterised by high levels of disruption to end-of-life, grieving and coping processes. Quantitative evidence is emerging on the effects of the pandemic on grief outcomes, but rich qualitative evidence on the lived experiences of people bereaved during these times is lacking. Methods We analysed qualitative data from two independent UK-wide online surveys to describe the experiences...

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