David Shaw: Newcastle University dean of medicine whose report on doctors’ training brought the medical curriculum into the 21st century Post date 14 January 2026
Len Doyal: medical ethicist who enjoyed robust debate and set up one of the NHS’s first clinical ethics committees Post date 18 December 2025
Terence English: extravagant and uncompromising surgeon who performed the UK’s first successful heart transplant Post date 15 December 2025