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 suffering from three highly malignant cancers, starting from when she...
Tag: NHS
A checklist for life
'When it comes to safety for patients in the operating theatre, it’s not always the ‘big spends’ that make the biggest difference. For instance, the...
Brexit and the future of UK medical research
We are now living in a post-Brexit world. On the 23rd June 2016, we as a nation decided to leave the European Union and navigate...
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,...
Why multiple jeopardy is wrong
Despite having observed at first hand the effects of patient complaint procedures against doctors for several years now, I have been surprised by the extent...
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....
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...
Flexible Careers Scheme for NHS Hospital Doctors
The Flexible Careers Scheme is a response to the Improving Working Lives Initiative, which aims to make the National Health Service a better place to...
