What killed the residents of the Grenfell Tower?
What killed so many of the residents of the Grenfell Tower? In the weeks after the tragedy in London, it’s becoming…
Nursing & Care
Boosting empathy-based medicine
Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the Royal…
A&E departments failing young people with alcohol problems
Nine of out of ten Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments are failing to identify young people with alcohol problems, preventing…
A complete healthcare systems failure
Last week I delivered a keynote lecture at the Public Health Collaboration annual conference in Manchester where I explained to an…
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…
Music therapy in clinical settings
Music therapy is not widely known amongst healthcare professionals but it is widely used in clinical settings, often alongside conventional…
Cancer – a story that concerns every one of us
One in every two people is going to get cancer in the UK so it’s a story that concerns every…
Males Nurses (1948)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4VSm9skr4 An insight into the work of male British nurses in 1948 by British Pathe
Twins – nature or nurture?
Twins have been of interest to scholars since early civilization; my twin sister and I would have definitely made an…
Would you know how to use an EpiPen?
Would you know how to use an EpiPen (epinephrine injection) if someone collapsed with a severe allergic reaction? The recent…