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Date: 21 June 2013
Dannie Abse has been made an Honorary Fellow by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Abse was a judge for the inaugural 2010 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Best known as a poet, Abse also worked as a specialist at a chest clinic for over thirty years. He studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse. He has received numerous literary awards and fellowships for his writing. Tags: Poetry
Date: 25 May 2013
The £5000 open international Hippocrates first prize has been awarded to Harvard poet and physician Rafael Campo. The second prize was shared by UK poet Matthew Barton, US Afghan war veteran Liam Corley from California and New Zealand poet Sue Wootton. The £5000 Hippocrates NHS first prize went to poet and novelist Mary V Williams from Shropshire, Mary V Williams who trained in psychotherapy. The second prize went to former nurse Ann Elisabeth Gray who runs a care home Cornwall and the third prize was shared by family doctor Ann Lilian Jay from LLandysul in Wales, hospital chaplain Ian McDowell from London, and senior lecturer in midwifery Bella Madden from Milton Keynes. The Hippocrates Prize is one of the most valuable poetry prizes in the world, with a yearly purse of £15000. English poet Rosalind Jana was awarded the inaugural international Hippocrates Young Poets Prize of £500. 17 year old Rosalind Jana is from Hereford Sixth Form College in England. The award was presented at the Hippocrates Awards ceremony at the Wellcome Trust in London on Saturday 18th May. Tags: awards
Date: 28 March 2013
A Harvard physician, a rising New Zealand Poet, a BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year from Bristol, and a recent Afghanistan veteran are finalists for this year’s Open International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, at £5000 in both Open and NHS categories, one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. Themes ranged from experience of a children’s hospital, to effects of cancer on a friend, the emergency call, and humanity underlying traditional grand rounds.Tags: interna
Date: 03 February 2013
Entries are now closed for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize Open and NHS categories. There were over 1000 entries from 29 countries: from throughout the United Kingdon and USA, and from Canada to China, Switzerland to South Africa, Netherlands to Australia and New Zealand. Tags: Poetry
Date: 15 January 2013
FPM to provide sessions on leadership and management for health professionals. Well-developed skills in leading and managing people are increasingly important for today's health professional. Staring in 2013, the FPM is collaborating with Fusion Leadership, an experienced provider in this field, to start providing short, expert training sessions on current issues. These sessions will be delivered to small groups of up to 10 delegates and will be designed specifically for less experienced clinicians; more experienced clinicians looking to refresh their skills in leadership and management; and to service managers and senior administrators.
Date: 24 October 2012
The new FPM journal Health Policy and Technology includes a series of interviews in print, online and as podcasts, with international leaders in the field of health policy and technology.Tags: NICE
The 4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine will be held on Saturday 18th May 2013 in London at the Wellcome Collection rooms on the Euston Road.
Date: 10 October 2012 Author: Donald Singer
Entries are now open for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Date: 30 May 2012
Open International Hippocrates winner Mary Bush was interviewed on 30th May 2012 on BBC Woman’s Hour. She won the £5000 2012 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for her poem Women’s Work. Tags: stem cell
Date: 13 February 2012 Author: Donald Singer
The judges for the 2013 Hippocrates Prize are Jo Shapcott, winner of the 2011 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Theodore Dalrymple, doctor and writer, and Roger Highfield, science writer and Executive for the Science Museums Group.