Saliah’s story for MSF
Saliha is a patient at MSF’s women’s health clinic in Kamrangirchar, a densely populated slum in the south of Dhaka,…
Unsung Heroes
The plight of child refugees
Volunteers at Doctors of the World help child refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq as well as Libya, Eritrea…
Would you use a public access defibrillator?
All around the country - in health centres, schools and even old phone boxes - public access defibrillators are being…
30 Years of the Rosetrees Trust
The Rosetrees Trust is a unique charity which works on the basis of venture philanthropy for medical research. In other words,…
Dying of Aids in 2017
AIDS continues to kill: one million people died of the disease last year. The death rate remains shockingly high despite the…
Diana’s endless empathy
How did Diana learn to become the 'Queen of Hearts' for the marginalised and unloved? Nurse Helen Cowan says she…
Diaries of a First World War Nurse
https://youtu.be/IFW0gVfjArE Dorothea Crewdson, a Red Cross nurse, was given instructions to leave for northern France in 1915. She spent the…
RSM Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship 2016 – an update
Neurology trainee Dr Smriti Agarwal, awarded an Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship in December 2016, has recently…
Keeping nurses interested
New figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have revealed that more nurses and midwives are leaving the profession…
Médecins Sans Frontières – a humanitarian imperative
For many years, I have worked with and supported an independent non-governmental organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders) which…