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Jan Melichar: addiction psychiatrist who led the introduction of long acting opioid substitution therapy
November 6, 2025
Douglas Gow Garvie
November 5, 2025
Gordon Murray Charles McDonald Paterson
November 5, 2025
Ralph Anthony Lee
November 4, 2025
David Brooks
November 4, 2025
Hari Kumar: orthopaedic surgeon who trained in the “lost paradise” of the USSR
October 24, 2025
Vasanthi Balasuriya
October 22, 2025
Doris Franklin
October 22, 2025
Caroline Anne Martin
October 21, 2025
Aine Marie McShane
October 21, 2025
Ali Agha Khaleeli
October 20, 2025
John James Jones
October 20, 2025
Vicky Johnson: brain researcher who studied the links between traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease
October 16, 2025
Rupa Tewari: classical Indian singer and sexual health doctor who championed women and children
October 9, 2025
John Goldsmith: refugee from Nazi Germany who became a pioneer of kidney dialysis
October 9, 2025
David Albert Hopkinson
October 8, 2025
Humphrey Martyn Drake
October 8, 2025
Jeremy John Stuart Gibson
October 7, 2025
Dimitris Tsitsikas
October 7, 2025
David Enoch: campaigning psychiatrist whose book Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes became a medical classic
October 3, 2025
Graham MacGregor: researcher and clinician whose dogged campaigning persuaded governments to lower salt levels in food
September 30, 2025
James Dornan
September 25, 2025
Peter Neville Paterson-Brown
September 25, 2025
Drummond Rennie: medical editor and elegant prose stylist who championed scientific standards and integrity
September 24, 2025
Michel Odent: French “guru of natural childbirth” who pioneered the use of birthing pools
September 24, 2025
Edward Hugh Mackay
September 23, 2025
James Alastair Binnie
September 23, 2025
Sophie Jackson: paediatrician and trailblazer for doctors with disabilities
September 18, 2025
David Isaacs: paediatrician who risked his career speaking out against Australian government policy of detaining refugee children
September 17, 2025
Patrick Vaughan: epidemiologist, WHO public health expert, and model for Piggy from Lord of the Flies
September 15, 2025
Oliver Russell: psychiatrist who fought for the rights of people with learning disabilities
September 10, 2025
David Nabarro: global health troubleshooter who helped coordinate UN emergency responses to Ebola and covid
September 8, 2025
Julian Henry Shelley
September 5, 2025
David Michael Graham Jenkins
September 5, 2025
John Davis: academic and paediatrician who helped revolutionise understanding of newborn babies
September 4, 2025
Liz Whipp: pioneering oncologist who was suspended and then reinstated over her use of experimental radiology
September 4, 2025
Rupert James Courtenay-Evans
September 3, 2025
David George Carden
September 3, 2025
Barry Kelly: writer, editor, and expert radiologist
September 1, 2025
Paul Walker
August 26, 2025
Christopher Rigg
August 26, 2025
Gilbert Napier Penlington
August 26, 2025
Kenneth William Pearson
August 15, 2025
Frederick Peter Sefton Marriott
August 15, 2025
Julian Scott Elkington
August 15, 2025
Douglas Chamberlain: cardiologist dubbed “grandfather of paramedicine” after he trained ambulance crew in resuscitation techniques
August 13, 2025
Charles Easmon: microbiologist who helped revive the specialty and led medical training across London
August 12, 2025
Kenneth Calman: chief medical officer for Scotland and England
August 7, 2025
Ray McMahon: good humoured pathologist who taught hundreds of students and trainees
August 7, 2025
Donald Watson Rankin
August 6, 2025
Steve Bennett Britton
August 6, 2025
Robin Winney
August 6, 2025
David Alan Aubrey
August 6, 2025
Charles Justin Mullin Clark
August 5, 2025
Geoffrey Robb
August 5, 2025
Muhammad Kausar: GP and faith leader who had to appeal to government to win the right to run a general practice in Glasgow
August 4, 2025
Nawal Bagaria: GP who set up care homes and helped found a Hindu temple in Edinburgh
July 29, 2025
Marinus Dirk Hage
July 18, 2025
John McKenzie Kennedy
July 18, 2025
Chris John Ryan
July 18, 2025
Arumugam Nallasivan
July 18, 2025
Yvette Hendricks: GP and campaigner for patients with sickle cell disease
July 9, 2025
Bernard Christopher Leahy
July 8, 2025
Robin Marsh
July 7, 2025
Mary Elizabeth Williamina Findlay (née Wright)
July 4, 2025
Christopher Mark Kenyon
July 4, 2025
Brian Whitaker
July 3, 2025
Margaret Helen Herbert
July 3, 2025
Stuart Farrimond: trainee GP whose brain tumour diagnosis prompted a switch to science writing and presenting
July 2, 2025
Graham Serjeant: British physician who moved to Jamaica where his life’s work became the study and treatment of sickle cell disease
July 1, 2025
John Hampton: author of the The ECG Made Easy, one of the founders of Nottingham medical school and challenger of medical orthodoxies
June 26, 2025
Matthew Dunnigan: crusading physician who exposed cruel treatment of patients with disabilities and campaigned against PFI
June 25, 2025
Hem Chandra Kumar Laljee
June 23, 2025
Hamish McClelland
June 23, 2025
Padinharath Krishnakumar
June 20, 2025
John James Holden
June 20, 2025
Anne Merriman: “forceful and stubborn” physician who introduced palliative to countries across Africa
June 10, 2025
James Montserrat Walker
June 10, 2025
Jonathan Cummings Levy
June 9, 2025
David Neil Landon
June 9, 2025
Stuart Henry Weir Duncan
June 6, 2025
Callum Michael Chapman
June 6, 2025
Richard Clarke: anaesthetist and medical historian whose graveyard research helped many amateur genealogists trace their family trees
June 2, 2025
Michael Modell: GP, researcher, and teacher who pioneered medical education in primary care in face of academic scepticism
May 29, 2025
Michael Hession: psychiatrist, music lover, and “red rebel from Barts” who organised a protest against poor pay and working conditions
May 28, 2025
Stephen James Collighan
May 28, 2025
Arthur David MacAdam
May 27, 2025
Hugh Malcolm Bristow Busfield
May 27, 2025
Sarfraz Qureshi: gastroenterologist and skilled diagnostician whose keen interest in people made him popular with patients
May 26, 2025
David Michael Rapley
May 23, 2025
John David Hughes
May 23, 2025
Bert Brooker: psychiatrist and polar adventurer who advocated the “British system” of prescribing heroin
May 22, 2025
Alan Jardine: renal physician who rescued Glasgow medical school from the bottom of the league tables and led research into kidney transplant outcomes
May 22, 2025
Paula Salmons: psychiatrist who established eating disorder service in Birmingham and warned against social pressure on women and girls to be thin
May 20, 2025
Mary Lindsay: paediatrician and psychiatrist who championed the right of parents to stay with their children in hospital
May 19, 2025
Rob Sapsford: cardiologist whose generalist knowledge, humour, and calm authority made him “virtually irreplaceable”
May 15, 2025
Lawrence Joseph Wilson
May 14, 2025
Montague Frank Poynton Marshall
May 13, 2025
James Frederick Douglas
May 13, 2025
William John Gillespie
May 12, 2025
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