by admin | Jul 9, 2024 | Blog, Poetry & Creativity
Speech written for the occasion by Osman Dar, NCA /colleague Wellbeing Chaplain We can learn a lot from trees. Symbol of life, hope, joy, shelter, purpose and connection. “We as the NCA Family come together here today, to pause, reset and remember, with a firm...
by admin | Feb 23, 2022 | Poetry & Creativity
Our Chair, Dame Clare Gerada featured on Dr Paula Redmond’s podcast on 14th February 2022, sharing her thoughts on the effects of the pandemic for GPs. Listen...
by admin | Nov 12, 2021 | Poetry & Creativity
A Cardiologist Seeks Certainty by Denise Bundred Expressive Writing Group Participant, published by The Hippocrates Press 2016. I spread cold gel on a newborn chest,rest the probe on creamy skin,angle between ribs, rotate to find a heartno larger than the tiny...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Poetry & Creativity
Bird 1 The bird is waiting. The bird must fly, it’s the time, soon, of change. A change of time and pattern. The next year, as the Sun moves North, In great number, they quietly fall into the gardens. Confetti. There are nests to build, Eggs to lay, Chicks to feed....
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Guest Blog, Poetry & Creativity
A fragment from a recent conversation with a frontline worker, ‘…I just feel unable to come out of shielding…. I don’t think I’m ever going to feel like myself again…’ There is a profound sense of hopelessness in her and as we sit quietly I can feel not just her...
