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8 Jun 2021
We Support Carers Awareness Week 8th – 14th June 2021
This is great opportunity to recognise those with caring responsibilities so that we can collectively ensure they can access support when required. It is also a chance to show we care for them and help empower them because often they are too busy juggling their caring role and either they do not have the time […]
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7 Jun 2021
New Best Practice Guide For NHS Hospitals
A new guide was issued to help NHS hospital trusts improve patient safety by learning lessons from previous clinical negligence claims. Behind this is the cost to the NHS from claims and the collaboration between GIRFT (the Getting it right first time) programme and NHS Resolution resulting in this best practice, Learning from litigation claims. […]
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12 May 2021
Stroke Awareness Month May 2021
As we approach the month of May while we have all been walking through the pandemic this is an opportunity to talk about stroke awareness. The facts A stroke happens every 5 minutes in the UK and each year there are about 100,000 people who have a stroke with 1.2 million stroke survivors – https://www.stroke.org.uk/ Against […]
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26 Apr 2021
4.7 million waiting for NHS Treatment
It has been in the news about the latest figures of how many people have been waiting for more than a year for treatment on the NHS. This is about 4.7 million. A terrible consequence of the pandemic as well as previous years of underfunding. This is the largest number since records began in 2007. […]
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20 Apr 2021
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Awareness Week 20-26 April 2021
This month we mark MS Awareness week. According to the MS Society more than 130,000 people in the UK are living with this condition and about 7,000 people are diagnosed with MS each year. There is no cure as yet for this condition but it can be managed if diagnosed and those with MS can […]
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13 Apr 2021
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month April 2021
This month marks Bowel Cancer awareness. Did you know that every 15 minutes someone in UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer ? According to Bowel Cancer UK charity every year in UK about 16,000 people die of this terrible disease that is 44 people a day. This is the fourth most common cancer in UK and […]
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15 Mar 2021
Brain Awareness Week 11th -18th March 2021
As we approach this week we have the chance to thank all those involved in raising awareness of how important our brain is. This is a global campaign to raise awareness and raise vital funds for brain awareness, innovation, research and science. The movement was started by the Dana Foundation and around the world many […]
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1 Mar 2021
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month – March 2021
There are more than 7,500 women in U.K. who are diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and sadly, this cancer is one of the 6 most common cancers in women in U.K. The awareness month seeks to raise awareness of this disease and to educate us all. Ovarian cancer is cancer of the ovaries. Symptoms of Ovarian […]
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26 Feb 2021
Fall In Cancer Referrals By 50% To Cancer Services During Pandemic
There was a fall in referrals to cancer services by half in the first wave of the pandemic. This potentially means late diagnosis and an impact on recovery as well as survival rates. A recent BBC report mentions that a study from Cardiff University and Cancer Research UK which interviewed 8,000 people raised concerns that […]
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