My barber asked me, "What do you do?" There's a short answer, which is "PR and communications for the hospital" and there's a very long one. The short one is usually fine.

There isn't an awful lot of detailed, first-hand information around on what hospital PR and communications is...

I can't imagine what a state we'd all be in without nurses. They give care unconditionally, regardless of past offences and won't deviate from it until you're better. Then they'll start over again. They save lives as well - that nurse who's only been qualified a few months might have...

The national consent rate for organ donation from the relatives of the terminally ill is around 60% and with three people in the United Kingdom dying every day because of lack of tissue and organs, it's up to specialist organ donation nurses to try and increase the numbers.

The role...

A few years ago, my dad lost a kidney because of misdiagnosed kidney stones. He was annoyed, and so was I, but there was no naming and shaming and no demand for compensation.

The reason - to my mind, anyway - is that we understood that doctors make mistakes....

In response to the kid who defined a haiku in a haiku recently, I've translated a few stories from around The Huffington Post UK.

Smart alec school kid
Defines haiku in haiku
Still needs lunch money
Primary school pupil's witty haiku poem

Picasso had one

Watching Alastair Sooke's BBC programme on painting women rulers on Saturday (2 June), you get a real sense of how, historically - most often for propaganda purposes - it was of paramount importance that the monarchy be portrayed as something unobtainable, often painted as very obvious parodies of...

The extended Rosie maternity hospital at the Addenbrooke's site in Cambridge is something that I have mentioned before, and whilst there is undoubtedly a huge buzz in the area around its opening towards the end of June, the sad fact is, that for many couples, the chances of...

Everyone's heard of guide dogs, and while they do a brilliant job of directly assisting the blind or partially-sighted, the potential for all sorts of other, less specifically-trained dogs to help out those with a raft of complicated problems is still very much open to exploration.

Over the past 10 years or so, the Addenbrooke's hospital site just south of Cambridge, has been expanding; improving existing buildings and birthing some altogether brand new facilities.

Cambridge University Hospitals are amongst some the best performing, patient-rated trusts in the country - including London - and whilst Cambridge's...

According to the UK Charity Commission, in 2012 there are over 160,000 registered charities in Great Britain. More than 25,000 of them are health-related, raising funds and awareness for everything from eating disorders, to heart disease and cancer.

There are 28,000 arts and culture groups, set up and run...

Remember how every year since the mid-nineties, the (un)official start of Christmas was marked for many of us, by a train of red Coca-Cola trucks, rolling through snowy Americatown to a soundtrack of sleigh bells and carol singers? That's arguably one of the most successful television adverts in...

Why should you care about wildlife that exists thousands of miles away? All of these different species and seemingly countless variations on a theme. We're interested, entertained when we see them in one of Sir David Attenborough's documentary films, but then, for most of us that's about as close as...