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Emma Wilkinson

Sheffield
As seen in: The BMJ, Cell Press, Pulse Magazine, The Pharmaceutical Journal, The Limbic
Covers:  Health, medicine, science, NHS, public health, pharmacy
Award-winning freelance health journalist @pulsetoday, @bmj_latest, @PJOnline_News. Co-founder @freelancingfor. Vice-chair @mjauk. Runs up hills for fun.
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NHS hospitals not equipped to follow own advice on smoking cessation: audit

NHS hospitals not equipped to follow own advice on smoking cessation: audit

The NHS is missing many opportunities to help people quit smoking, the British Thoracic Society has warned af…

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Rheumatology clinics struggling to review patients annually: audit

Rheumatology clinics struggling to review patients annually: audit

Only 43% of new inflammatory arthritis patients have had an annual review, new audit data suggests. Less than…

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Post-Covid clinics underway for those with ongoing symptoms after discharge

Post-Covid clinics underway for those with ongoing symptoms after discharge

Clinicians around the country are doing their first face-to-face follow-up clinics for patients who recoverin…

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Rheumatology departments facing uphill battle as 'normality' returns

Rheumatology departments facing uphill battle as 'normality' returns

As staff redeployment ends and hospitals restart routine care, the limbic talks to rheumatologists about the …

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Treat-to-target still in 'too hard basket' for PsA

Treat-to-target still in 'too hard basket' for PsA

Barriers to rheumatologists adopting a treat-to-target approach in psoriatric arthritis (PsA), include lack o…

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How mental health services are adapting to provide care in the pandemic

How mental health services are adapting to provide care in the pandemic

Emma Wilkinson talks to healthcare workers who are trying to ensure that vulnerable psychiatric patients do n…

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Mending the gender pay gap in medicine: 'It is not going away on its own"

Mending the gender pay gap in medicine: 'It is not going away on its own"

Professor Dame Jane Dacre talks to the limbic about gender pay gaps in medicine and adapting patient care dur…

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Many questions remain on medicinal cannabis in pain and inflammation: expert

Many questions remain on medicinal cannabis in pain and inflammation: expert

Dr Steve Alexander, Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Nottingham, admits he …

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RECOVERY trial: the UK covid-19 study resetting expectations for clinical trials

RECOVERY trial: the UK covid-19 study resetting expectations for clinical trials

Emma Wilkinson talks to the researchers who recruited 7000 NHS patients in a few weeks In a short space of ti…

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Mixed sex wards: progress towards elimination is slipping

Mixed sex wards: progress towards elimination is slipping

Breaches of rules enforcing separate men's and women's accommodation are creeping up again, finds Emma Wilkin…

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How to fix doctors' rotas

How to fix doctors' rotas

Not being allowed to attend your own wedding is just one example of how inflexible rostering in the NHS contr…

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How medical teams are coping with rising knife crime

How medical teams are coping with rising knife crime

From staffing to technical advances, doctors around the UK are responding to escalating stabbing injuries. Bu…

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GP recruitment: could an undergraduate apprenticeship create the generalists the NHS needs?

GP recruitment: could an undergraduate apprenticeship create the generalists the NHS needs?

Imperial College London is trialling a US inspired scheme that gives students their own patient caseload to h…

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The patients who decide what makes a good doctor

The patients who decide what makes a good doctor

Patient involvement in medical education is moving to the next level, finds Emma Wilkinson : they now design …

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Five things pharmacists should look out for in the government's Brexit deal

Five things pharmacists should look out for in the government's Brexit deal

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Pre-pandemic NIV audit shows clear improvement in patient selection and mortality

Pre-pandemic NIV audit shows clear improvement in patient selection and mortality

Use of non invasive ventilation in hospital has improved by several measures in recent years including select…

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Lung function tests in IPF should be given priority: BTS

Lung function tests in IPF should be given priority: BTS

Lung function tests for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) should be a priority so they can ac…

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Respiratory experts call for vigilance over use of JAK inhibitors in Covid-19 trials

Respiratory experts call for vigilance over use of JAK inhibitors in Covid-19 trials

A multidisciplinary group of experts has called for vigilance over the use of JAK inhibitors in patients with…

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Lack of evidence on COVID-19 treatment a point of tension for haematologists

Lack of evidence on COVID-19 treatment a point of tension for haematologists

Haematologists are caught between a rock and a hard place as the Covid-19 pandemic forces clinicians to retur…

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Sustained drop in A&E attendances suggests delays in blood cancer diagnosis

Sustained drop in A&E attendances suggests delays in blood cancer diagnosis

Haematologists have raised concerns about delayed diagnosis of blood cancers as new figures show a dramatic f…

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No going back: how the pandemic is changing hospital pharmacy

No going back: how the pandemic is changing hospital pharmacy

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Sustained drop in A&E attendances suggests delays in blood cancer diagnosis

Sustained drop in A&E attendances suggests delays in blood cancer diagnosis

Haematologists have raised concerns about delayed diagnosis of blood cancers as new figures show a dramatic f…

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Flu and Covid-19 vaccines will need to be given separately, says deputy CMO

Flu and Covid-19 vaccines will need to be given separately, says deputy CMO

GPs will not be able to co-administer Covid-19 and flu jabs due to safety concerns, the deputy chief medical …

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