One body, many parts

The little things make a big difference. Your hammer and anvil are as valuable as your hand and your arm, your pineal gland as essential...

Where have all the nurses gone?

Adrift and deserted, the disappearance of the crew from the Mary Celeste remains a mystery. Walking onto a hospital ward today, you might also notice...

A Blind-Spot

A medical education in the UK is a very specific affair. There are some facts that of course are global, fundamentals of anatomy for example,...

Next generation dreaming

As someone who has watched a close relative go through the experience of receiving chemotherapy, it is not something that I would ever wish upon...

Destructive Innovation creates a wasteland

The wasteland created by the political class post-Brexit is the ultimate expression of a deluded mantra which has gradually been eroding the NHS and now the country....

Young voices changing health care

Imagine a room full of passionate, talented young professionals with a desire to help build a fair, sustainable and highly innovative NHS in the UK....

Save the NHS

A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite...

A national health concierge service

As a busy GP, I am fully aware and exposed to the everyday pressures faced by our National Health Service, sadly witnessing the NHS stretching...

After the exams are over

It was little over two weeks past that I found myself in Sackville Park in the centre of Manchester next to the statue of Alan Turing...

Dear Doctor’s Diary: Work Made Me Cry

SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one-minute films capture the thoughts and opinions of young UK...