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Dr Zara Aziz is a GP partner in a practice in north-east Bristol
  • UK Aims For 2 Million Vaccinations Per Week<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 07: Joan Worsfold receives the first of her two jabs of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a member of the Newham Health Trust team at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Building on January 07, 2021 in London, England. The UK aims to vaccinate all over-70s, front-line health workers, and the most clinically vulnerable by mid February, when its current lockdown rules will be reviewed. That would require around 13 million covid-19 vaccinations. As of Tuesday, the country had vaccinated more than 1.3 million people. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    My GP practice vaccinated 900 patients in a day – but it's only the start

    Zara Aziz
    Vaccinating all adults against Covid by September will require unprecedented levels of coordination, staffing and round-the-clock clinics, says GP Zara Aziz
  • FILES-US-health-virus-pandemic-epidemic-disease-research<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 5, 2020, in this image courtesy of the Henry Ford Health System, volunteers are given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE), in Detroit, Michigan. - US biotech firm Moderna on November 16, 2020 announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Vaccinating patients against Covid will be a mammoth task for GPs like me

    Zara Aziz
    GP practices in England have been told to be ready for 1 December, but little else. The government must work with us on a planned rollout

  • Stocks of PPE in a GPs’ surgery

    This pandemic has strengthened bonds between doctors and patients

    Zara Aziz
    Our GP practice has been resilient but the government must listen to its health workforce if we are to cope with a second wave of Covid-19, says Bristol GP Zara Aziz
  • Coronavirus Outbreak, London, UK - 23 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock (10622318h) Street art in Shoreditch, East London, during the covid-19 outbreak. Coronavirus Outbreak, London, UK - 23 Apr 2020

    Platitudes won't stop more BAME health workers and patients dying of Covid-19

    Zara Aziz
    I’m a British Asian GP who’s been hospitalised for coronavirus – protecting staff must be a priority, not just a tickbox exercise
  • A worker in a protective suit inside of County Oak Medical Centre in Brighton

    GPs are already overstretched. We need better planning to tackle the coronavirus

    Zara Aziz
    Measures need to be in place to help GPs cope if inundated by fearful patients or those presenting with the symptoms, says GP partner Zara Aziz
  • Doctor and a surgeon push a patient on a hospital bed trolley through accident and emergency department of a UK hospital

    As NHS delays increase, we must not accept this crumbling system as the new norm

    Zara Aziz
    It’s taking longer to see a GP due to the fallout from rushed hospital discharges. All services must be properly funded and staffed, says GP partner Zara Aziz
  • General practitioner with a patient who is holding his back

    As a GP, I know there is a huge void for patients where the NHS used to be

    Zara Aziz
    Rationing means that hernia repair, hip or knee replacements and removing tonsils or a gallbladder are no longer routinely funded, says GP Zara Aziz
  • Drugs on the shelves of a pharmacy

    Drug shortages are endangering lives and wasting NHS time

    Zara Aziz
    I shouldn’t have to spend large chunks of my day tracking down certain medicines or researching alternatives, says GP Zara Aziz
  • A GP checking a patient’s blood pressure.

    GP practices are struggling – and Brexit will only make things worse

    Zara Aziz
    The demands of the NHS plus better conditions in the EU means pressure will mount on already overstretched staff, writes Zara Aziz, a GP partner in inner-city Bristol
  • Prime Minister Theresa May launches the NHS long-term plan in Liverpool.

    Without more staff, the NHS plan will fail. GPs will have to pick up the pieces

    Zara Aziz
    Government long-term plans for the health service promise a lot, but success depends on having enough people to implement it
  • Patients to visit GPs within five years<br>Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday July 20 File photo dated 10/09/14 of a GP writing a prescription, as patients who do not visit their GP for five years face being axed from their doctor’s surgery under plans being rolled out across England. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday July 20, 2016. NHS England has employed private company Capita to lead the drive - known as “list cleansing” - to cut costs to the NHS and ensure accuracy over which patients use which services. See PA story HEALTH Patients. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

    Medicine isn’t a quick fix for society’s ills. Overdiagnosis can cause more harm

    Zara Aziz
    When health problems are triggered by economic issues, they are medicalised as anxiety and depression instead of poverty, says Zara Aziz
  • Health workers and NHS campaigners march to a rally outside Downing Street

    Long waits, cuts and rationing: happy 70th birthday NHS

    Zara Aziz
    It’s getting harder for doctors to provide good care. But the NHS would be lost without the goodwill of those who work there
  • Older people in outdoor gym

    Poverty medicine: how we are failing poorer and isolated patients

    Zara Aziz
    Empathy alone can’t solve life’s problems, but GPs don’t have the means to treat the root causes of patients’ malaise
  • Accident And Emergency Figures Show Worst Performance In 10 Years<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 06: A patient is taken from an ambulance outside the Accident and Emergency ward at St Thomas' Hospital on January 6, 2015 in London, United Kingdom. Figures released suggest that the NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&amp;E waiting time target with performance dropping to its lowest level for a decade. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    My patients want an NHS that is fast and reliable – not Theresa May’s apologies

    Zara Aziz
    Long waits for ambulances, a lack of hospital beds, cancelled operations ... these are the results of a government sucking the lifeblood from our health service
  • Child looks out the window

    It’s not enough to train GPs in child protection. What happens next?

    Zara Aziz
    Doctors are getting better at spotting the signs of neglect or abuse. But with children’s services devastated by cuts, referrals do not always lead to action
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    Gender dysphoria patients deserve better treatment than I can give them

    Zara Aziz
    GPs don’t have the time or the expertise to provide the holistic treatment that transgender patients require. Proper services are required urgently
  • Young female Doctor taking senior man’s blood pressure<br>ERDXH7 Young female Doctor taking senior man’s blood pressure

    As a GP, I face the social care gap every day. A ‘dementia tax’ isn’t the answer

    Zara Aziz
    Health professionals feel increasingly like social workers as we try to access care for the vulnerable. Making them liable for the cost of their illness is wrong
  • Doctor doing blood test on female patient in GP group practice in Kings Cross London UK<br>AXAB75 Doctor doing blood test on female patient in GP group practice in Kings Cross London UK

    Time for a rethink on GP numbers

    Zara Aziz
    The GP recruitment crisis is only going to get worse as overwork and low morale push doctors out of the profession. More funding is desperately needed
  • Trolley queue in a hospital corridor

    Don’t blame GPs for NHS crisis. Blame chronic cuts to social care

    Zara Aziz
    Increasing our working hours will not stop hospital trolley queues. Only the proper funding of care for older people will do that
  • The NHS Is Experiencing Unprecedented Demand After A&amp;E Visits Surge<br>BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 10: Ambulances wait outside the Accident and Emergency department of the Bristol Royal Infirmary on January 10, 2017 in Bristol, England. According to documents leaked to the BBC record numbers of patients are facing long waits in A&amp;Es and that nearly a quarter of all patients waited longer than the four hour target set in 2004. The figures come after the British Red Cross claims the NHS was facing a "humanitarian crisis" this winter. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

    The NHS no longer has the resources to care for our sick population

    Zara Aziz
    The government is in denial - the chronic underfunding of the health service is bad for patients and staff
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