Philip Berry

‘Being Fair’ – the new NHS tool In May 2025 NHSE introduced the ‘Being Fair’ tool. This replaced the just culture (JC) framework. Anyone familiar with JC will recognise its essential elements, however there is one maj…

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Letby: accountability and leadership The news that ex-senior managers at the Countess of Chester hospital have been arrested on the charge of gross negligence manslaughter will undoubtedly send shivers through many NHS staff. They wer…

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Highlights from the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’s third reading. Parliament debated assisted dying (the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill) on 20th June 2025. This was the third reading of Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill and it passed. T…

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‘…9 years’ – a review of ‘Outpatient’ Last week I watched Outpatient, a solo show at Park Theatre, Finsbury Park. Harriet Madelay presented an alternate version of herself, Olive, founded in reality but heightened and exaggerated in li…

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Edvard Munch portraits at National Portrait Gallery. The confidence to swipe white paint across the eye to create reflection in a lens.

Slice When the planet tilts her home will burn.

Now on Substack, first short story. open.substack.com/pub/philaber...

Several of my books are downloadable to Kindle free for the 3 days. Here’s one. www.amazon.co.uk/Ignaz-Philip...

Introducing our new paper on the stark gender disparity in ERCP delivery & training in UK. Free to read. www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

Conan Doyle's self-portrait, depicting himself holding his diploma aloft, inscribed below "Licensed to kill."

Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a little doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill."

My next book, SLEUTH-HOUND, is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes.

#skystorians #histmed

The day assisted dying became legal: choices As a supporter of assisted dying (AD) I ask myself  – ‘What will I actually do if it becomes legal?’ I haven’t travelled to Oregon or Washington state to see how it works, nor have I talked t…

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Mesenteric pancake-itis

Pancreatic Cancer: What to Expect Medicine Podcast · 3 Episodes · Twice monthly

New podcast from my colleague Dr Kiruthikah Thillai podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

‘I saw the doctor…’: the Physician Associate controversy There is a very active and emotive debate in medical circles concerning he role of the Physician Associates (PAs) in the NHS. Council members of the Royal College of Physicians of London have calle…

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(PDF) Discharging the duty of candor following delayed post-endoscopy cancer diagnosis PDF | Endoscopic examination is not risk free. Not only are there well-known complications associated with the procedure, but malignant and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Resear...

Our new paper on applying the duty of candour to missed lesions in endoscopy. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Latest poetry out. Yes if you follow me you get the occasional effort. thenightwriterreview.com/stumbling-by...

Deeper water: religion, end of life care and the case for public disclosure. We don???t ask individual doctors about their religion ??? it is a personal matter. But religion and medicine are clearly interlinked, and this relationship is most apparent when decisions have to …

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Revealed: ‘Grassroots’ campaigns opposed to assisted dying financed by conservative Christian pressure groups Religious lobbyists are secretly coordinating and funding bodies that claim to be led by disabled people and health workers

Important investigation. Full disclosure vital in this debate, faith based moral arguments don’t apply to those who do not believe - the majority. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Dr. Ellen Wiebe with hand clasped in her lap, looking up. She wears a dark cardigan and printed dress. A headline reads: "The Interview: The Doctor Who Helped Me Understand My Mom’s Choice to Die." Photo by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times.

Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who has performed hundreds of medical aid in dying procedures, discussed the medical, legal and philosophical considerations of the practice and what constitutes a good death. Read or listen to more on The Interview. nyti.ms/3UVxUsd

YouTube video by Wing Drone delivery of blood samples between London hospitals 🏥

Happening at my hospital, GSTT. youtu.be/Z_EgMC1cvL4?...

Picked this up in Porto over a year ago, took all this time to start it. The set up - 83% of voters post blank votes, no one knows why, the government has no mandate, nor does any other party, democracy falls apart… imagine that

Thames 16:45

‘Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.’
Coriolanus @NationalTheatre. 5*!

Complexity and Parliament – the limits of assisted dying debate I attended an interesting and important meeting about the assisted dying (AD) this week. The complex life and death decisions group (CLADD), hosted by King’s College London, arranged a panel discus…

UK assisted dying bill to be released today, we will have first sight of the details and safeguards. Here’s my account of a recent debate in London, illusionsofautonomy.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/c...