Today marks the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service. To mark the day, hear the inspiring story of 100-year-old Isca Wittenberg and her journey from child refugee to the NHS. Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923, Isca and her family fled to England to escape the war and start…

1993. It was the year my sister was born. The year I finally had the sibling I had waited 16 years for. But just a month after her birth, all that I had believed about myself was thrown into disarray. I had grown up in an eclectic area of South…

Kryssie Tyrtania is the NHS’s only current Arts Apprentice working at as part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) in their arts and heritage team. In this blog, she tells her story of becoming an NHS Arts Apprentice

Bowel cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the UK, with the majority of cases detected in those over 60-years-old. NHS England — London is running a lifesaving campaign until October to encourage more people to do their free NHS bowel cancer screening test, which checks…

Throughout my adult life I had always been in a heterosexual relationship. I never had to declare who I slept with at work, I had never experienced homophobia and neither had I been told I should be sent for conversion therapy to change how I feel. My life, in relation…

For Carers Week 2022, Debbie Hustings, Leadership Support Manager for the London Commitment to Carers Programme at NHS England shares her thoughts on what it is to be a carer. I have heard it be said that there are only four kinds of people in the world: 1. Those who…

April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth. Every 15 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer, but finding it early makes it more treatable. Football-loving Nav Johal was diagnosed with bowel cancer in February 2019. Here she shares her experience. Hello, I’m Nav and I was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer in…

Hi, I’m Andrew and I’m autistic. I’m also the Autism Programme Development Lead for NHS London. It still feels remarkable to have an autistic person in a senior role about autism, but it shouldn’t, and perhaps that is part of the problem that still remains in understanding autism better. Of…

By Dr Jonathan Cohen, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Westminster (part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust). Almost 2.5 million healthy 12–15-year-olds across England have already taken up the offer of the COVID-19 vaccine. You might be asking yourself, ‘Why does my healthy child…