This paper seeks to give an overview of the role of clinical empathy in therapy and in the
physician-patient relationship. Researchers have offered definitions of empathy in the …

Background COVID-19 has led to rapid and widespread use of remote consultations in
general practice, but the health inequalities impact remains unknown. Aim To explore the …

With increasing numbers infected by SARS-CoV-2, understanding long-COVID is essential
to inform health and social care support. A Scottish population cohort of 33,281 laboratory …

Background An unknown proportion of people who had an apparently mild COVID-19
infection continue to suffer with persistent symptoms, including chest pain, shortness of …

Background Multimorbidity occurs at a younger age in individuals in areas of high
socioeconomic deprivation but little is known about the 'typology'of multimorbidity in different …

Previous studies on the natural history of long-COVID have been few and selective. Without
comparison groups, disease progression cannot be differentiated from symptoms originating …

Background The coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic has had far‐reaching effects
upon lives, healthcare systems and society. Some who had an apparently'mild'COVID‐19 …

Long-COVID prevalence estimates vary widely and should take account of symptoms that
would have occurred anyway. Here we determine the prevalence of symptoms attributable …

Primary care has a central role to play in supporting multimorbid adults living with cancer,
providing holistic care of physical and mental well being, while taking treatment burden and …

Chronic pain is experienced unequally by different population groups; we outline examples
from the pain literature of inequities related to gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic and …