Peter Blackburn

Feb 3, 2025 | 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.

Jan 29, 2025 | 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.

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.

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.

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.