In December 2014, Dr Myles Bradbury, a Consultant Paedicatrian, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment (reduced to 16 on appeal) for abusing 18 children at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. He would abuse his victims and secretly film what he did using a “spy pen”. Often the parents would be in the same room but behind […]
In nursing there are many ways of saying goodbye when the therapeutic relationship ends. Some patients bid a cheery goodbye, cherishing their restored health, even prematurely self-discharging; for others, adieu is agony since it is a wrench to leave the ward routine and regain independence. Sometimes the farewell feels forced in the face of escalating […]
In London we have seen in A&E centres a 30% increase in penetrating violent trauma and 75% increase in firearms related injury in the last 12 months. Many urban communities in the UK have suffered repeated physical and psychological trauma from a crescendo of societal violence. For many of our most vulnerable children, emotional, physical […]
His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine during a ceremony at the Society on Wednesday 17 January. The Honorary Fellowship was presented to The Duke by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the RSM and Mr Babulal Sethia, Immediate Past President, and was […]
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Christmas is the season of giving and goodwill and NHS Digital has trawled through the analytics of NHS Choices over the past year to bring you the numbers behind what the nation is searching for via this improvised Christmas Carol. On the first day of Christmas NHS Choices gave to me – 525 million reasons […]
Recent figures published by the Lancet show 36 million people are blind, yet 75% of blindness is preventable or treatable. Cataract, which takes just 10 minutes to treat and costs as little as £30, is the leading cause of preventable blindness. Every cataract operation, regardless of who receives it, is like a little miracle – […]
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As an academic, I am interested in the political and health nexus of conflict, and three years ago, I was working on an academic study concerning sexual and reproductive health amongst forcibly displaced communities in Greece. As I explored the high rates of survival sex amongst young migrants, it became abundantly clear that the entire […]
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No cash, no care is the reality for many patients in many countries around the world and it is harming the most vulnerable people including refugees, displaced people, pregnant women and children, says Medecins Sans Frontieres At a Malawian health care centre, a mother receives only half of the pills she needs to treat her […]
Ruth Taylor lived and worked in the foothills of the Himalayas during the decade of the nineties. Based at Woodstock School in Musoorie , a hill station in North India, she travelled extensively in the region. She regularly visited and stayed with Dr Rajesh and Rajkumari Singh who run an isolated rural hospital, village clinics and […]
The Kingston and St George’s Nursing oral history project ‘Nurse’s voices’ captures the experiences of nurses working at St George’s hospital in the 1940’s and 50’s. In this video you can hear their memories of working on the wards at Christmas time. […]
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