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Ahilya Noone: public health expert who led work on hospital associated infection in Scotland
April 22, 2026
Jennifer Rosemary Anderson
April 22, 2026
John Harkness: GP and public health officer who carried out a comprehensive study of community diabetes
April 21, 2026
Nick White: tropical diseases expert who led development of artemisinin to tackle resistance to standard malaria treatment
April 21, 2026
Harold Ellis: doyen of surgery and clinical anatomy, who loved sharing anecdotes from the operating theatre
April 9, 2026
Lelia Duley: epidemiologist whose eclampsia trials transformed maternal health worldwide
April 8, 2026
Gil Thompson: showed, despite fierce opposition, that high cholesterol leads to heart disease
April 8, 2026
Ken Taylor: cardiothoracic surgeon who set up the world’s first heart valve registry
April 7, 2026
Ian Manson: obstetrician and early pioneer of laparoscopy
April 2, 2026
John Robert Martin
April 2, 2026
Charles Price: public health expert who advised Europe on health inequalities
April 2, 2026
Neville Leon Gittleson
April 1, 2026
Sami Zahi Saba
April 1, 2026
Iain Ruairidh Cameron Swan
March 31, 2026
Nigel Starey
March 31, 2026
Ali Ashraf: founder of surgical training in Bangladesh
March 25, 2026
Richard Whittington: outspoken coroner who investigated the last recorded death from smallpox
March 24, 2026
Ralph Ross Russell: pioneer of stroke medicine and astute diagnostician
March 20, 2026
Leo Stimmler
March 20, 2026
Sheila May Arnold
March 19, 2026
Ian Dunlop Melville
March 18, 2026
Joyce Alexander
March 18, 2026
Edwin Charles Ashby
March 17, 2026
Jack Eyton-Jones
March 17, 2026
Charles Polkey: neurosurgeon and pioneer of the surgical treatment of epilepsy
March 6, 2026
Bill Foege: leader in smallpox eradication and campaigner for global health equity
March 5, 2026
William Stewart Taor
March 5, 2026
Claude Seng
March 5, 2026
Alexander Graeme Yule
March 4, 2026
Olivia Guly
March 4, 2026
William Stuart Adams Smellie
March 3, 2026
Michael Woods Haslett
March 3, 2026
Frances Olwen Wilson
March 2, 2026
Michael F Sudlow
March 2, 2026
Tessa Richards: BMJ editor who championed patients
February 26, 2026
Mike Morgan: respiratory physician and researcher who became the first NHS “respiratory tsar”
February 24, 2026
David Richard Elliott
February 19, 2026
Jeremy Bradbrooke
February 19, 2026
James Michael Hirons
February 18, 2026
Daniel James Peter Money
February 18, 2026
Roger James Wolstenholme
February 17, 2026
Abdosamad Taghizadeh
February 17, 2026
Alex Poteliakhoff: GP and anti-war campaigner
February 14, 2026
James Robert Doty: neurosurgeon, entrepreneur, and proponent of altruism whose memoir inspired a K pop song
February 14, 2026
Pam Zinkin: paediatrician who helped rebuild Mozambique’s post-colonial health system
February 12, 2026
Aggrey Burke: psychiatrist who exposed racial bias in medical school admissions
February 12, 2026
Tim Draycott: obstetrician whose evidence based initiatives helped save the lives of mothers and babies around the world
February 4, 2026
Donal William Armstrong
January 30, 2026
Reginald Arnold Elson
January 30, 2026
Frederick Edwin Willmott
January 29, 2026
Richard James Neville
January 29, 2026
Neil Smart: colorectal surgeon who sought to improve the lives of patients with stomas
January 22, 2026
Pamela Mary Fisher
January 20, 2026
Gail Iona Hodgson
January 20, 2026
Helen Mary Herbert
January 16, 2026
Anne Amelia Hadfield
January 16, 2026
David Shaw: Newcastle University dean of medicine whose report on doctors’ training brought the medical curriculum into the 21st century
January 14, 2026
Girish Chandra
January 9, 2026
Helen Cecily Issler
January 8, 2026
Anthony Faulkner Jefferis
January 7, 2026
Iain Drummond Gordon
January 7, 2026
Katie Jane McDougall
January 6, 2026
Mary Bernadette Synnott
January 6, 2026
Len Doyal: medical ethicist who enjoyed robust debate and set up one of the NHS’s first clinical ethics committees
December 18, 2025
Terence English: extravagant and uncompromising surgeon who performed the UK’s first successful heart transplant
December 15, 2025
Robert Grieve
December 12, 2025
Marjory Florence Foyle
December 11, 2025
Robert Arthur Wall
December 10, 2025
Pauline Ann Manfield
December 9, 2025
Ruth Janet Butler
December 5, 2025
Jeffrey Ellis
December 5, 2025
Andy Whitelaw: neonatologist who led research on “kangaroo care” and changed thinking on neonatal brain injury
December 3, 2025
Jill Tattersall: founder of a sexual health clinic for unmarried women that was branded a den of iniquity
November 27, 2025
Grace Ness Macfarlane
November 21, 2025
Gareth Mervyn Rees
November 20, 2025
Frances Helen Booth
November 19, 2025
Andrew Daniel Flapan
November 18, 2025
John Stuart Brown: GP who championed minor surgery in primary care, claiming to have performed more than 20 000 procedures
November 14, 2025
Hilary Capell: rheumatologist whose research was grounded in the “complex realities of patient care”
November 12, 2025
Klaus Morales dos Santos: BMJStudent editor, anaesthetist, and keen amateur photographer who had a lust for life
November 11, 2025
Winifred Gray: cytologist who promoted the accurate diagnosis of cervical cancer
November 7, 2025
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
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