The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather.
The Hippocrates £5000 NHS first prize went to former counsellor Kate Compston from Cornwall for a poem about revealing the diagnosis of dementia.
Parisa Thepmankorn from Rockaway, New Jersey received the £500 2015 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Intraocular Pressure.
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The judges agreed 3 poets from the USA and the UK for the shortlist for the £5000 Open International award and 4 poets from England and Wales shortlisted for the £5000 NHS award in the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. More …
A further 31 poems were commended, by poets from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the USA and New Zealand. More …
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