Adele Waters

London

Writer and Editor at Freelance

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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Will the next president of the Royal College of Physicians bring the change its members want?

1 month 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.
Revealed: The 'barbaric' procedure that leaves women traumatised, in agony and no longer wanting to have sex

1 month ago | 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.
Pippa Tyrrell: Manchester’s first ever dedicated stroke physician whose overhaul of the city’s services led to change throughout the UK

2 months ago | 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.
Robert Geoffrey Twycross: palliative care physician, pioneer of the modern hospice movement, and staunch opponent of assisted dying

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.
RCP fellows demand correction from academy chair over her claim that PA concerns were “devoid” of facts

Oct 7, 2024 | bmj.com | Adele Waters

News & ViewsRCP fellows demand...
Child protection medicals must be carried out only by doctors, not PAs, say safeguarding experts

Oct 4, 2024 | bmj.com | Adele Waters

News & ViewsChild protection... Child protection medicals must be carried out only by doctors, not PAs, say safeguarding experts News BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2172 Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2172 Physician associates (PAs) should not be carrying out medical examinations of children who have reported abuse or who are at risk of abuse and should not produce evidence for courts, forensic doctors have said in guidance.
Medical students must be protected from sexual abuse, say campaigners

Sep 30, 2024 | bmj.com | Adele Waters

Sexual safety campaigners have written to the health secretary Wes Streeting to call for action over what they deem a failure of medical schools to acknowledge the problem of sexual assault and abuse of students at university and during clinical placements. In an open letter published on 30 September, Becky Cox and Chelcie Jewitt, co-founders of the campaign group Surviving in Scrubs, urged the health secretary to meet them to discuss the need for robust action to protect medical students.
Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting, appointments being booked, and people constantly knocking on my door”

Sep 17, 2024 | bmj.com | Adele Waters

Adele Waters, freelance journalistLondonadele.waters{at}me.comA recent report has set out recommendations that could prevent doctors from taking their own lives. Adele Waters speaks to doctors and families touched by suicideSarah Jacques remembers the day she came close to killing herself. The 46 year old former GP from Battle, East Sussex, says she “just snapped” one day at work, drove to the seafront, parked her car, and got out to watch the sea.
Medical training at breaking point: will an increase in learners push the system over the edge?

Aug 21, 2024 | bmj.com | Adele Waters

Intended for healthcare professionals News & ViewsMedical training at... Medical training at breaking point: will an increase in learners push the system over the edge?
Exposed: The sexual assault epidemic in NHS hospitals with 33 rapes and assaults every WEEK. Here, women tell their harrowing stories...

Jul 15, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Adele Waters

Pauline Brewer, 77, was ill. So ill she'd been admitted to hospital for urgent investigations after developing chest pain. She'd been waiting two days for an angiogram — a type of heart scan — and, feeling tired and uncomfortable in the stuffy women's ward, decided to freshen up. Pauline, a retired administrator from Birmingham, slowly made her way to the washroom for a shower.

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Adele Waters @AdeleWatersRx

12 Mar 25

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

Adele Waters @AdeleWatersRx

4 Mar 25

RT @health_justine: Women still not being warned that #hysteroscopy can in some cases be extremely painful - so denied opportunity to have…

Adele Waters @AdeleWatersRx

4 Mar 25

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

Adele Waters

Articles

Will the next president of the Royal College of Physicians bring the change its members want?

Revealed: The 'barbaric' procedure that leaves women traumatised, in agony and no longer wanting to have sex

Pippa Tyrrell: Manchester’s first ever dedicated stroke physician whose overhaul of the city’s services led to change throughout the UK

Robert Geoffrey Twycross: palliative care physician, pioneer of the modern hospice movement, and staunch opponent of assisted dying

RCP fellows demand correction from academy chair over her claim that PA concerns were “devoid” of facts

Child protection medicals must be carried out only by doctors, not PAs, say safeguarding experts

Medical students must be protected from sexual abuse, say campaigners

Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting, appointments being booked, and people constantly knocking on my door”

Medical training at breaking point: will an increase in learners push the system over the edge?

Exposed: The sexual assault epidemic in NHS hospitals with 33 rapes and assaults every WEEK. Here, women tell their harrowing stories...

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