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David Watkin: General surgeon who improved surgical training and helped establish the Leicester Medical School

November 19, 2024

Alastair Carruthers: dermatologist who pioneered cosmetic use of Botox in partnership with ophthalmologist wife Jean

November 18, 2024

Godfrey David Ripley

November 15, 2024

Vinit Sheshnath Vedpathak

November 15, 2024

Charles Shaw

November 15, 2024

David Samuel Hopton

November 15, 2024

Emma Margaret Ellen Rankin

November 15, 2024

Olumade Adetola Okubadejo

November 15, 2024

Malcolm Donaldson: paediatric endocrinologist, musician, and proud collaborator with his wife Julia, author of The Gruffalo

November 12, 2024

Helen Jackson: GP who was dedicated to improving primary health care in the Maldives

November 11, 2024

David Sturgeon: consultant psychiatrist who provided counselling to victims of the 2005 terrorists attacks

November 1, 2024

David Paul Brandes Goldberg: social psychiatrist who highlighted the role of GPs in mental health treatment

November 1, 2024

David Norman Phear

October 29, 2024

Chuda Bahadur Karki

October 29, 2024

Annie Sara Mathew

October 29, 2024

John Day: diabetes specialist who seized on concept of patient education and helped establish a medical school in Mozambique

October 29, 2024

Gillian Lesley Rees

October 28, 2024

Kenneth David Hudson

October 28, 2024

Alexander Cresswell Thurlow

October 28, 2024

Mohiuddin Khan Umarkhanji Malik

October 23, 2024

John Alexander Thomson

October 23, 2024

John Matthew Wrightson

October 23, 2024

John Sarginson

October 23, 2024

Sikander Khan Umarkhanji Malik

October 22, 2024

Peter McRorie Higgins

October 22, 2024

Jane Alyson Scourfield

October 22, 2024

Chris Redman: professor of obstetric medicine whose fetal heart monitoring system has saved thousands of lives

October 22, 2024

Felicity Reynolds: professor of obstetric anaesthesia who could not understand the modern obsession with “natural” childbirth

October 17, 2024

James Ciaran Stone

October 16, 2024

Hugh Michael Wieselberg

October 16, 2024

Brian Reginald Wilkey

October 16, 2024

Robert Angus Frederick Bell

October 15, 2024

Pradeep Kumar Saksena

October 15, 2024

Talha Mohammad Al-Shawaf: advocated for fertility management as a routine part of cancer therapy for young people

October 15, 2024

Veronica Moss: early pioneer in the care of patients with AIDS

October 9, 2024

Michael Hale

October 8, 2024

Stuart Stanton: “father of urogynaecology in the UK,” who helped treat many women with stress incontinence

October 8, 2024

Russell Wood Ballantyne

October 8, 2024

Lionel Peter Balfour-Lynn

October 8, 2024

Murid Ahmed Chaudary

October 7, 2024

John Peter English

October 7, 2024

Satish Chander Chib

October 7, 2024

Grant Kelly: GP and IT expert whose work on clinical coding enabled health service to communicate smoothly

October 3, 2024

Mansel Aylward: public health specialist who highlighted links between poverty and poor health, and one of the first responders to the Aberfan disaster

September 30, 2024

Michael Scallan: anaesthetist whose career spanned the early days of paediatric heart surgery

September 27, 2024

Howard Allison

September 24, 2024

Sotirios Zalidis

September 24, 2024

Mazin Mirza

September 24, 2024

Michael McKendrick

September 23, 2024

Julian Mervyn Roberts

September 23, 2024

Dinah Barrie

September 23, 2024

Alistair Adams: ophthalmologist whose inventiveness and dexterity led to a new type of cataract surgery

September 20, 2024

Peter Cole: anaesthetist and researcher who highlighted the dangers of passive smoking years before it was considered a public health threat

September 19, 2024

Alison Mary Brind: liver disease specialist and ultra marathon runner

September 18, 2024

Guy Ah-Moye: London GP who led reform of health services in his native Seychelles

September 17, 2024

Kim Suvarna: histopathologist who carried out Salisbury Novichok autopsy

September 16, 2024

Michael George Francis Crowe

September 6, 2024

Hugh Parker Dinwoodie

September 6, 2024

Henry Hellmut Gossman

September 6, 2024

Ernest Kirwan

September 6, 2024

Wendy Elizabeth Ann Wood

September 6, 2024

Vyakara Kanaka

September 6, 2024

Patricia Elliott: doctor, activist, and general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ Union

September 4, 2024

Helen Whitwell: neuropathologist, expert on paediatric brain injuries, and inspiration for Silent Witness

September 2, 2024

Nigel Klein: paediatric infectious diseases expert who correctly hypothesised that children could have breaks from HIV treatment

September 2, 2024

Ronald Mulroy

August 30, 2024

Tim Baker

August 30, 2024

Maj Hultén

August 30, 2024

John Graham Holmes-Smith

August 30, 2024

Robert Ian Button

August 30, 2024

David Jeremy Galton

August 30, 2024

Peter Buxtun: US government employee who exposed racist and unethical Tuskegee syphilis study

August 30, 2024

Sylvia Gyde: medical researcher in a major study of perinatal mortality rates in the West Midlands

August 27, 2024

Stuart Murray: Glasgow GP whose drive to raise standards saw him design the first national mandatory qualification for general practice

August 23, 2024

Richard Taylor: consultant rheumatologist who became an independent MP, standing on an anti-NHS privatisation ticket

August 9, 2024

Valerie Graves

August 8, 2024

Manak Chand

August 8, 2024

William Goodhugh Dawson

August 8, 2024

Jennifer Mary Fisken (nee Street)

August 8, 2024

Lawrence Mascarenhas

August 8, 2024

V Craig Jordan: pharmacologist and father of tamoxifen

August 1, 2024

Emma Veronica Jane Edmonds

July 30, 2024

Peter Robert Jordan

July 30, 2024

Michael Smith

July 30, 2024

Hugh Thelwall-Jones

July 30, 2024

Mukundrai Kris Jasani

July 30, 2024

Raul Perez-Montejano

July 30, 2024

Joseph McKenna: leading figure in endocrinology who transformed medical education in Ireland

July 18, 2024

Arie Jeremy Zuckerman

July 17, 2024

Peter Mason: leading surgeon and gynaecologist

July 17, 2024

James (Donald) Bissett

July 16, 2024

Jonathan (“Joff”) Harvey Shaw

July 16, 2024

Charles Roger Gomersal

July 16, 2024

Derek Crowther

July 15, 2024

Colin Lionel Bray

July 15, 2024

John Stephenson: paediatric neurologist who found a major area of medical misdiagnosis

July 10, 2024

Keith Alexander Sands

July 9, 2024

Susan Jane Harper Sprigge

July 9, 2024

George Jamieson Ross McHardy

July 8, 2024

David Allden Lloyd

July 8, 2024
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