Awards were announced by the judges at the 4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Wellcome Rooms in London on Saturday 18th May. Judging for the Hippocrates Prize is anonymous and entries are not presented to the judges in anonymised name order to avoid clustering of winning or commended entries.
The 2013 Hippocrates Anthology of the winning and commended poems will be launched after the Awards Symposium at the Wellcome Rooms in London on Saturday 18th May. Winning and commended poets are entitled to one free copy of that year's anthology.
Short-listed NHS entries in alphabetical order
Biopsy - Ann Lilian Jay, Nr LLandysul, Ceredigion
Birds - Ann Elisabeth Gray, Liskeard, Cornwall
Downs - Mary V Williams, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Emergency Call - Ian McDowell, London
The New Man - Bella Madden, Milton Keynes, Bucks
Commended NHS entries
Anaesthesia’s Apology - Cheryl Moskowitz, London
Animal Electricity - Kim Lasky, Eastbourne, East Sussex
Artificial Rupture of Membranes - Ellen Storm, Liverpool, Merseyside
At a stroke: collateral circulation - Valerie Laws, Whitley Bay Northumberland
Bed Blocker - Iora Dawes, Stafford
Bomb - Derek John Peter Stanley, Bristol
Cholecystectomy - Andy Jackson, Tayport, Fife, Scotland
Fine - David Gilbert, London
Invincible - Roshni Beeharry, Enfield, Middlesex
Lucky - Denise Bundred, Sefton Village, Merseyside
My Wife - Thomas Heaton, Manchester
Schizo - M Athar Atherton, Bolton, Lancashire
Singleton hospital at night - Shehzad Latif, Swansea, Wales
Synchrony - Denise Bundred, Sefton Village, Merseyside
The missed appointment - Miles James Burrows, Cambridge
The old lady's friend - Nick MacKinnon, Winchester Hants
Two Bound Copies of the Lancet 1886 - Nick Leach, Market Harborough, Leics
Two to the Soul - Kate Compston, Bude, Cornwall
