I met with four of my personal academic tutees this week. They are the life-blood of medicine and the people who will be looking after me in the not-too-distant future. These medical students, the doctors of tomorrow, are hard-working, considered and
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I still recall the day in 1983, when I was told that my “chosen” research area was osteoporosis. I had completed my senior house officer rotation in medicine between the Royal South Hants Hospital, Lymington and Southampton General the month
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This is my first blog having only recently taken on the Interim Director of the Wessex Institute role following the departure of Matt Westmore. This is part time in additional to my role as Chief Executive Officer of the National
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It is inevitable that when coming to the end of something, you begin to reminisce and look back at what you have achieved. This is what I have been finding myself doing recently. When I wrote my last blog in
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Many of us tell our children not to wish their lives away in their haste to get on with the next phase. However, I suspect we are all longing to get to the point when the restrictions of lockdown will
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Many of us will be about to embark on a much needed extended Easter break. We celebrated the submission of the REF return for the University on Tuesday, I want to personally thank John Holloway who has been working towards
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I write this, 12 months from when I sent an email message to my School informing them that our buildings would be closed from 5pm the following day and that they were to take home with them the things that
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There is a Chinese proverb, 时不待我 or time waits for no-one. Within a blink of an eye, a year in the era of Covid has passed. It is an experience that is remarkably difficult to describe in words. It was
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Primary care is the bedrock of the NHS, with about 90% of all NHS contacts occurring in primary care. Primary care in the UK is delivered by a highly trained workforce managing patients of all ages and with an almost
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What an opportune time to be the Associate Dean International (Education). If ever there was a time for imagination and innovation, this is it. Thinking outside the box is one thing, getting out of the box during a global pandemic
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In my clinical life, I am an oesophogogastric cancer surgeon, which means I operate on people who have cancer of the oesophagus (gullet) or stomach. Whilst these cancers are relatively rare when compared to breast cancer or prostate cancer, they
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It is now over a year since the pandemic began and like many individuals I have taken time to reflect on what has changed during the past year, and how they may affect our future work. This current blog presents
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