Saturday, 13 Jun 2026
The Dangers of Hospital Admission 2
The first possible step to avoid the harms of hospital admission is to question how…
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Saturday, 30 May 2026
The Dangers of Hospital Admission 1
A few years ago I visited an old friend who had been admitted to hospital for treatment of an infection…
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Saturday, 23 May 2026
Healthy Life Expectancy
A Recent Survey from the Office of |National Statistics (ONS) There has recently been a rash of news articles about…
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Saturday, 25 Apr 2026
The Problem of The Painful Knee
Many apologies to all readers of our blog for the delay in sending out this episode – which should have…
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Saturday, 7 Feb 2026
Prevention of frailty
As I keep repeating, frailty is not inevitable – it can be prevented – and prevention works much better than…
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Saturday, 24 Jan 2026
Some implications of frailty
Frailty – a modern curse Frailty is usually though of as a normal part of getting older – something that…
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Sunday, 28 Dec 2025
New Year 2026
Last time I said that this week’s blog would be about the current annual winter crisis in the NHS – …
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Saturday, 13 Dec 2025
Exercise for treating cancer
Apologies So sorry that there was no blog two weeks ago – this was due to a technical glitch –…
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Sunday, 16 Nov 2025
Prehabilitation and cancer
What is Prehabilitation? Prehabilitation, or “prehab,” is a programme of support and preparation for treatment for patients about to undergo…
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Sunday, 2 Nov 2025
Exercise in the prevention of cancer
Cancer is a word, not a sentence Cancer and exercise Cancers form a very large group of conditions that are…
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Saturday, 4 Oct 2025
Frailty yet again
I regularly scan the medical literature for articles about all sorts of conditions which relate to physical activity or lack…
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Sunday, 21 Sep 2025
Frailty again – and again!
I have long believed that the enormous and growing problem of frailty in later life is the chief source of…
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