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Data suggests that the interventions put in place to control the pandemic may have reduced the childhood population’s resistance to normal endemic diseases leading to a ‘build-up of susceptibility’. Roshni Mistry and James Hibberd warn us to be prepared for a possible rise in paediatric respiratory viral infections.

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) affects approximately 14 infants a year in England. The condition is usually fatal by 12-18 months of age without bone marrow transplantation. Public Health England will be performing a two year evaluation of newborn screening for SCID in six English screening regions. Here is what we need to know.

The UK Government announced its intention to introduce a national system of medical examiners in England which will result in the scrutiny of all deaths not referred to the coroner. Frances Cranfield explains what we need to know.

From this year GP registrars will be spending two years of their training in the community. Rachel Roberts and her colleagues share their findings from a pilot scheme.

GPDPR is a new initiative from NHS Digital to collect data held in GP medical records, to be available to third parties for research and planning. Unlike most other projects, patients have to actively opt out if they do not want their data to be used. But how many patients know about GPDPR? Do we ourselves know much about GPDPR?

Modern Wales was built on the production of coal, though with it brought great losses: harsh working conditions, industrial pollution, and tragic disasters, such as that which occurred at Aberfan. With the Welsh government’s proposal to ban coal, Rhodri Evans provides a brief history of coal in Wales, and shows a glimpse of what a coal-less future may mean not only for Wales, but for the world.

Covid is like a stress test for national governance. Jihane Naous and Basem Saab update their previous report from Lebanon, where they’re not doing so well.

The “Wise GP” website aims to provide a set of resources that can be used by GPs, GP trainees, medical students and the general public that show the complexity in general practice and some of what GP scholarship involves. It sounds like a good time to join in!