Blog | Dr Rita Issa

Don't just clap for carers tonight – chant for PPE

Originally featured in The Independent 24 April 2020 The first time I heard the Clap For Our Carers applause on a Thursday night at the...

I'm a GP registrar – here's what's going to happen to the NHS now.

Originally Featured in The Independent 17 December 2019 It bears no repeating but the NHS is in crisis – and there are no signs that's...

I wish Boris Johnson could sit in my GP’s chair...

...and tell my sick and suffering patients we cannot give them what they need. Originally featured in The Independent 10 December 2019...

For doctors like me, joining Extinction Rebellion is a moral duty

Boris Johnson is wrong to call us ‘uncooperative crusties’ – Extinction Rebellion is a movement of doctors, teachers, lawyers, families,...