Sep 1, 2026 · 22 min · 13 segments
In this episode of the Hidden Currents Podcast, Paraic Mac Donnchadha speaks with Dr. Hatim El-Sherif, owner of Vibrance Aesthetics, about how reputation, patient safety, and long-term relationships…
Hatim El-SherifGuestPádraig McDonaghyHost
Uh, basically, um, I do work in, uh, in for the NHS as also I work for, uh, my own as private.
As I work as self-employed GP, after being doing partnership for almost 10 years, I quit that and I've been working as self-independent GP over the last coming to 10 years now.
And I've worked across different roles, including out of hours, urgent care, hospice at home.
And the whole idea is to Basically, keep patients comfortable at home, trying to look into the most costly part of the treatment, which is patients attending hospitals.
So if we can manage to do these things in the community, that will be a win-win for everyone.
So patients won't be more burden on the hospital, more investigations, more treatments.
And as we all know that we don't have enough places in hospices at the moment now, as also hospice care tend to be a very expensive part of the equation.
And yes, some NHS trusts fund into that, but it is not as we would like to happen.
And unfortunately, we don't have a specialist hospice care in the hospital at the moment now.
So I think the way forward is by having more GPs in the community who are more specialists in geriatric medicine, palliative care, terminal care, chronic conditions, and actually can plan with the rest of the team, including nurses, pharmacists.
physiotherapists and families and carers about the patient care which actually will work cheaper for all the taxpayers including yourself and myself in the UK and having much more favourable outcome including continuity of care stopping unnecessary investigations and unnecessary treatments and respecting patients and family wishes
Uh, basically, um, I do work in, uh, in for the NHS as also I work for, uh, my own as private.
As I work as self-employed GP, after being doing partnership for almost 10 years, I quit that and I've been working as self-independent GP over the last coming to 10 years now.
And I've worked across different roles, including out of hours, urgent care, hospice at home.
And the whole idea is to Basically, keep patients comfortable at home, trying to look into the most costly part of the treatment, which is patients attending hospitals.
So if we can manage to do these things in the community, that will be a win-win for everyone.
So patients won't be more burden on the hospital, more investigations, more treatments.
And as we all know that we don't have enough places in hospices at the moment now, as also hospice care tend to be a very expensive part of the equation.
And yes, some NHS trusts fund into that, but it is not as we would like to happen.
And unfortunately, we don't have a specialist hospice care in the hospital at the moment now.
So I think the way forward is by having more GPs in the community who are more specialists in geriatric medicine, palliative care, terminal care, chronic conditions, and actually can plan with the rest of the team, including nurses, pharmacists.
physiotherapists and families and carers about the patient care which actually will work cheaper for all the taxpayers including yourself and myself in the UK and having much more favourable outcome including continuity of care stopping unnecessary investigations and unnecessary treatments and respecting patients and family wishes
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