Peter Blackburn

London

Senior Staff Writer at BMA News

Award-winning journalist. Forest fan. Sometimes found on @forestfocuspod // Only love and then oblivion. Views my own.

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Articles

Nottingham Forest's magnificent season - and the moments that matter

2 months ago | thefamousclub.co.uk | Peter Blackburn

Nottingham Forest are genuine contenders for European qualification. Peter Blackburn reflects on a journey few could even have imagined and the moments and memories that really matter along the wayMy son has started telling me that he loves me. It came out of the blue a few weeks ago – the most welcome, guttural, stomach punch I’ve ever felt. He tells me a few times every day now. But it never gets old. It still feels like the first time, every time.
Hopes and fears - what might 2025 bring for doctors?

2 months ago | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

For many people a new year brings a new start but, with doctors in the thick of yet another winter crisis and services stretched to breaking point in so many parts of the NHS, can optimism be found? Peter Blackburn speaks to four doctors from different specialties, and different parts of the country, about their ambitions and fears for 2025 It is far from a new concept, but continuity of care is Carey Lunan’s great hope for 2025.
Following the evidence

Jan 16, 2025 | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

The chair of the health and social committee is planning to take on some of the thorniest issues facing the NHS, and has valuable personal experience to draw upon ‘There’s nothing like seeing something under enormous strain to start to get to know it a little bit.’Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, is reflecting on her first ‘foray’ into health and care – as chair of the APPG (all-party parliamentary group) on coronavirus.
The human factor: the effects of remote working on doctor and patient

Nov 10, 2024 | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

The pandemic saw a rapid shift in general practice towards remote care and many of the innovations remain in hybrid form – but what effect do they have on patients? Two leading GPs set out to find out the answers and came to some worrying conclusions When Trisha Greenhalgh strained her ribs after ‘overdoing it’ at the gym, one of her colleagues, a sports medicine consultant, suggested an anti-inflammatory treatment.
A voice for the dispossessed

Oct 16, 2024 | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

Some of Andrea Williamson’s colleagues at medical school joked that she ought to become a social worker rather than a doctor. For the renowned GP, it is the social determinants of health that drive her work The words ‘health is a human right’ greet visitors to Glasgow University’s school of health and wellbeing on a buzzing Byres Road.
Friends of Victoria Square fundraiser event

Sep 20, 2024 | penarth.nub.news | Peter Blackburn

Following a successful plant and cake sale in the spring The Friends of Victoria Square are to hold another event in the autumn. This time volunteers will be indoors in the Lesser Hall All Saints Church Victoria Square on Saturday, 5 October from 10am to 2pmApart from plants, cakes and refreshments the group will be offering books, raffle, soup, bacon baps and kids activities which will include; clay modelling, face stencilling and handicrafts.
The eye of the storm

Aug 20, 2024 | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

Two years ago BMA council chair Phil Banfield took on his role with a rallying call to doctors: ‘Start to believe your future is in your own hands.' Industrial action, the national COVID inquiry and long-lens intrusions from national newspapers followed ‘I love it.
Not the only failing

Aug 12, 2024 | thedoctor.bma.org.uk | Peter Blackburn

The final part of a special review into Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – ordered following the Nottingham attacks in which Valdo Calocane, a man who had been treated by the trust, killed three people in June 2023 – was published today and finds a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements in his care.
failures at NHS hospital that left Nottingham triple killer free

Aug 12, 2024 | msn.com | Peter Blackburn |Rebecca Thomas

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Revealed: failures at Nottingham NHS hospital that left triple killer Valdo Calocane free

Aug 12, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Peter Blackburn |Rebecca Thomas

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