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…
Nursing & Care
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…
First aid in a terrorist age
Would you know what to do if you were first on the scene of a terrorist outrage where dozens of…
Names I will never forget
As a nurse, there are some patients whose names I will never forget, as they have taught me something…
Planning end of life care
There is little doubt that end of life care is important to everyone. People generally recognise that both they themselves,…