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Alex talks to Niall Paterson on Sky News UK. The discussion covers Alex’s forty year career working in the NHS; the highs and the lows. See a homemade handheld capture of the interview here and on YouTube. YouTube Title: Alex Anstey talks NHS on Sky News UK. It was broadcast on the UK news cable…… Continue reading Sky News appearance

Huge thanks go out to the three medical students at Imperial College who took time out from their busy lives to read and write reviews for Under The Skin: Marianne Gazet, Chang Kim and Timothy Cheng. Read on to see what they thought. Additional thanks go to Prof. Jonathan Weber, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial…… Continue reading Three Imperial med student reviews

Alex wrote the daily blog on Bookbrunch.co.uk for 16 May 2022. “A Testimony From The Red Zone”Dermatologist Alex Anstey on how he and his colleagues have tried to cope in ‘our much-loved but cash-strapped’ health service. Read the article on Bookbrunch website Full text of article “The latest survey of British Social Attitudes reports that…… Continue reading Alex writing in Bookbrunch

Under The Skin is now available in bookshops, online, and [best of all for me] HERE on this website. Link to Waterstones web page Link to Amazon.co.uk web page

Screenshot Book Review in Healthmatters.org. By Paul Walker. Published 10 May 2022. Go to the review on Healthmatters.org Edited by Steve Iliffe and Paul Walker, Healthmatters.org is an online magazine providing a platform for challenging debate and comment on topical issues of policy and practice in the fields of healthcare, social care, public health and wellbeing. It is…… Continue reading Book review on Healthmatters.org

Nia, age 13, Blisters on hands ‘Nia and her sister were both given baby calves at the beginning of June.’ AA: ‘What did you call your calf, Nia?’ Nia: ‘Violet.’ Nia’s mum: ‘Two or three days after being given them, the two calves became unwell.’ Nia: ‘They were off their food and went floppy. They…… Continue reading Case Study #21 (2014)

The NHS now needs strategic leadership and investment aswell as innovation. Most importantly, it needs to reconnect tothe values articulated by Nye Bevan that made it such a greatand unifying concept. Sadly, the essence of Bevan’s NHS hasbeen gradually lost by creeping privatisation. Perhaps the mostimportant element of the COVID-19 pandemic was to hold amirror…… Continue reading Our fight

Two key groups for whom this book is intended is (a) secondary school students thinking of a career in medicine, and (b) medical students. The numbers are huge. 36 medical schools in the UK, with up to 300 students in each year. Only about 1 in 6 of 6th formers thinking about medicine end up…… Continue reading Becoming a doctor

Here’s Moli! Now a dermatologist at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Istarted working for the NHS in 1983, and have been a consultantdermatologist since 1994. In 2000 I led the NHS teamthat won the UK Dermatology Team of the Year award. I wasappointed as honorary professor of dermatology at CardiffUniversity in 2005, advisory professor…… Continue reading About the author

In 2006 Julian Tudor Hart published The Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective. He was nearing the end of his life, and was expressing dismay at the creeping privatisation of the NHS. ‘They have had to do it by stealth,’ he said, ‘proclaiming each successive capitulation to commerce as support for otherwise declining…… Continue reading My Fight To Save The NHS