Blog

This is an occasional series of blogs on health-related issues.

For my extensive blogging on my bike trips around the UK, Spain and Portugal, please visit https://katycamino.wordpress.com/

Tales from a desert city: the Global NCD Alliance Forum 2017

The best conferences are those in which the formal content is only a part of its success – and the Global NCD Alliance Forum* – held 9–11...

Dec 14, 2017

Watching the thirsty Portuguese countryside slide past the windows of the train, it’s a good time to reflect on a few days at the...

Sep 29, 2017

20 years ago, when living in Cambridge, one of my dear friends was the wonderful Phyllis, in her late 80s when we met. She was an avid...

Aug 7, 2017

Last week, I heard Sir Malcolm Grant, the former (and first) chief exec of NHS England, talk enthusiastically about the need to embed...

Jul 10, 2017

I live in Brockley, a leafy part of SE London that almost no one has heard of, despite our ever-increasing assortment of eateries and...

Jun 17, 2017

Update, 9 June 2017: Well, who would have guessed that omitting the DUP manifesto would be such a miscalculation? Here is what you need....

May 30, 2017

I am recently back from Cuba – a country I've always wanted to visit. Despite ostensibly there as a tourist on a cycling holiday, I...

May 27, 2017

Dear politicians, It's that time again! time to dust off priorities old and new, and polish them up to make them as attractive as...

Apr 20, 2017

At the weekend, Living Streets held a summit in London on the need to get people walking (and keep them walking), which alas I wasn't...

Mar 22, 2017

Dithering about whether to cycle or take the train to a series of meetings in London tomorrow, I have a couple of ways to work out my...

Mar 16, 2017