Adele Waters
Journalist - on the health beat for 25 years+. Currently at BMJ plus freelancing. Freelancer of the Year 2024 (Medical Journalists' Association).
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3 weeks ago |
bmj.com | Adele Waters
News & ViewsRob Sapsford:... Rob Sapsford: cardiologist whose generalist knowledge, humour, and calm authority made him “virtually irreplaceable” Obituaries BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r992 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r992 In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their way.
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2 months ago |
bmj.com | Adele Waters
Elections are under way for a new RCP president. But what does the college want in its new leader, Adele Waters asks, and, perhaps more importantly, what does it need? Since last year the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) of London has been under pressure to make appreciable changes to its operations. An emergency general meeting in March 2024 was followed by a shaming external review last September, which identified a range of collective failures in leadership.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
dailymail.co.uk | Adele Waters
When Maria Waters, a 58-year-old GP from Richmond, in Surrey, went for her hospital outpatient appointment last summer, she carefully prepared. She was booked in to have a hysteroscopy – an examination of the inside of the uterus (womb) using a narrow telescope containing a camera – after experiencing unusual vaginal bleeding, to rule out cancer.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
bmj.com | Adele Waters
Before Pippa Tyrrell led the overhaul of Manchester’s stroke services, patients were admitted to general medical and geriatric wards in their local hospital and had limited access to emergency brain scans, treatment, or coordinated care. But as the city’s first ever dedicated stroke physician, Tyrrel believed that specialised units were the way forward.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
bmj.com | Adele Waters
News & ViewsRobert Geoffrey... Robert Geoffrey Twycross: palliative care physician, pioneer of the modern hospice movement, and staunch opponent of assisted dying Obituaries BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2630 Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2630 Adele [email protected] befitting someone whose life’s work was to enable patients to have a good death, Robert Twycross had mapped out his own to the last detail.
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Will the next president of the Royal College of Physicians be able to re-build its credibility? Doctors @mancunianmedic @parthaskar @PhilSmithIsBack @drmattuk @RobLaurensonD4P have their say. https://t.co/kmjhk5LXpD @bmj_latest @RCPhysicians
RT @health_justine: Women still not being warned that #hysteroscopy can in some cases be extremely painful - so denied opportunity to have…
Thousands of UK women have found the gynaecological procedure #hysteroscopy too painful to bear - my article for today’s Daily Mail underlines the importance of clinics following @RCObsGyn guidelines. #hysteroscopy @hysteroscopyA https://t.co/1kpdQaE1kU
