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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
John Grayson Grounds
May 9, 2025
Sunil Krishnalal Pandya
May 9, 2025
Hamish Simpson: professor of child health who helped establish the UK as a leader in paediatric respiratory research
May 7, 2025
Sheila Clark: paediatrician and Francophile who accompanied children with disabilities on annual pilgrimages to Lourdes
April 29, 2025
Thambirajah Gunasuntharam
April 28, 2025
Peter Gordon Crow
April 28, 2025
Brian Frederick Bracewell
April 25, 2025
David Dawson Hilton
April 24, 2025
Martin Skirrow: microbiologist who put Campylobacter on the map and by 1990 was The BMJ’s second most cited author
April 22, 2025
Vicky Evans: forensic physician who set the standard of care for treatment of victims of sexual assault
April 17, 2025
Judith Steel: founder of pre-pregnancy clinic whose insights helped women with diabetes give birth to healthy babies
April 15, 2025
Marciano Sánchez Bayle: paediatrician and tireless defender of Spain’s universal healthcare system
April 14, 2025
Richard Ainley Firth
April 10, 2025
Stephen Christopher Jordan
April 10, 2025
Roger Avill
April 9, 2025
John Piers Recordon
April 9, 2025
Susan Stuart
April 9, 2025
Sheila Bhattacharya
April 8, 2025
Rosamond Gruer: rose above convention and sexism to forge a successful career in health services research
April 7, 2025
Roger Elston Sturdy
April 2, 2025
Pierre Christian Ip-Yam
April 2, 2025
Stephen Andrew Cairns
April 1, 2025
John Christopher Howard
April 1, 2025
Coral Sharpe: GP who fought against the prejudices of her day to become a doctor
March 31, 2025
Anne Bayley: surgical oncologist who recognised the spread of AIDS in Zambia among heterosexual patients
March 24, 2025
Ian Bownes: forensic psychiatrist who assessed mental fitness of IRA hunger strikers in the Maze prison
March 21, 2025
David Ian Marshall
March 18, 2025
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