Editor Kevin Fox introduces the content of the October 2020 issue of the Future Healthcare Journal, which focuses on the theme of digital health. There are also a broad range of other topics covered, from problematic polypharmacy to the benefits of a ‘general medicine consultant of the week’ model.

The issue contains extensive material covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and the RCP journal subject collection at www.rcpjournals.org/covid-19 now contains over 80 articles on all aspects of the pandemic.

  • Respiratory specialists working in different ways: Development of a GP hotline and respiratory support service during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Establishing a remote clinical advice service during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Managing high-acuity outpatient services during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from the acute diabetes foot service
  • Remodelling elective hospital services in the COVID-19 era – designing the new normal
  • Rostering in a pandemic: Sustainability is key
  • COVID-19 pandemic personal development plan: A model for maximising higher specialty training
  • Keep calm and carry on learning: using Microsoft Teams to deliver a medical education programme during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Communication in the time of COVID
  • Improving wellbeing among UK doctors redeployed during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Peer support for junior doctors: a positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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