Poems and Stories

We currently have 141 poems and stories.

The idea behind our poems and stories is to help children (and adults) understand medical conditions. We have invited people to use their creative writing skills to get health messages across clearly in attractive and exciting ways that sufferers, parents or friends will enjoy reading.

If you are interested in writing something for publication on Patient UK click here for more information.

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Top 35 most requested

  1. Mrs Baxter's Blocked Ears
  2. Getting Your Ears Syringed
  3. You're Feeling Sad? ... You're Not Alone
  4. Mollie and Michael - Mole Detectives
  5. Pleurisy - What a Pain!
  6. Starting your Periods
  7. Ditch Your Itchy Bottom
  8. A Pain in the Heart
  9. A Memorable Day
  10. Keep Taking the Pills
  11. No Ifs, No Buts, No Maybes - It's Scabies
  12. Beating Shingles
  13. When the Chips Are Down
  14. Mumps Can Be a Pain in the Neck
  15. Treating Anal Fissures
  16. Vertigo - a Distressing Wait
  17. Breaking a Bone
  18. Having an Angiogram
  19. Be Safe in the Sun
  20. Dull Days
  21. Now Wash Your Hands!
  22. Walking Back to Happiness
  23. Having a Blood Test
  24. Gerald's Gout
  25. Princess Charlene's Vitiligo
  26. Born to Binge
  27. Nice and Naughty
  28. Giving Up Smoking
  29. Wandering Hand Disease
  30. Quit Before It's Too Late
  31. Where Did My Energy Go?
  32. Meet the Asthma Nurse
  33. Ben has Guillain-Barre Syndrome
  34. Abnormal
  35. Just Stop
Health Matters
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Health Matters

The new book from Patient UK


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Health Matters is an innovative new book about lifestyle, disease risks, diseases and treatments covering a vast range of subjects from period pains to heart attacks; spots to skin cancer; itchy bums to sore heads; and big ears to big bellies.


The book includes absorbing and entertaining stories informed by personal experiences of real patients and backed up by ready reference to the latest clinical evidence - all reviewed by UK health professionals.


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