NHS Five Year Forward View
As the NHS approaches its 70th anniversary the health service has published the plan setting out how it will deliver…
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Doctors Adrift are world record holders!
Here at Hippocratic Post, we are absolutely delighted to hear that our doctor bloggers, Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have…
The cost of lung disease
Lung disease affects millions of people in the UK every year, but it doesn’t just cost individuals and the families in…
Missing early signs of heart attack
Heart attack symptoms may have been missed in one in six heart attack patients admitted to hospital in England who…
Cancer survivors rate telehealth
‘To mark World Cancer Day, It is important that we raise awareness of this serious illness and consider the impact…
30-year NHS bed crisis
Every day we hear more horrifying stories of people lying on trolleys in A&E for hours at a time, whilst…
The lesser of two heart attacks?
Let's start with the good news. If you are unlucky enough to suffer a major heart attack, you are more…
Doctors Burning Out
New research led by George Lewith, Professor of Health Research at the University of Southampton suggests doctors’ burnout should be…
Doctors need empathy
Empathy in clinical practice is an essential component of the doctor-patient relationship. This is the understanding of how another human…
The NHS is bracing itself for the toughest winter in a decade
Not only is it treating more patients than ever before, but A&E performance in the UK has slumped to a…
Pancreatic cancer: Improving outcomes
Pancreatic cancer has no early warning signs and the majority of people with this disease present with acute symptoms such…
Why did you get cancer?
I am a father of someone who had cancer. My daughter, Bryony, died in 2004 when she was 23 after…