Health
THE Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has signed up to leading charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s initiative to ensure services for local breast cancer patients are of high quality and provide the best possible experience. Breakthrough’s Service Pledge for breast cancer was designed to enable hospitals…
A YOUNG mum of three is doing her bit to raise money for Macmillan as she begins her own battle against cancer. Annie Cain, of Old Harlow, discovered a lump in her breast while watching a television programme urging women to check themselves regularly. Tests…
A LEADING paediatrician at Princess Alexandra Hospital has won a prestigious regional award for the training he gives junior doctors. Dr Elmo Thambapillai, Consultant Paediatrician and Lead Neonatologist at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT), won the prestigious Paediatric Award for Training Achievements (PAFTA)…
The Royal Institution’s ExpeRimental team hosted an afternoon of exciting workshops for young patients and staff as part of this year’s British Science Week. They ran a variety of hands-on activities involving balancing sculptures, a kitchen paper colour quest and a fizzy cubes experiment* to…
LIVES are at risk throughout Britain from unrecognised kidney disease. As part of a drive to increase awareness and treatment for it, the Lister Area Kidney Patients’ Association (LAKPA) ran stands at Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Lister at Stevenage on World Kidney Day, 12th…
NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group urged smokers in Harlow to take the first step in giving up cigarettes for good on Wednesday’s No Smoking Day 2015. Although studies show that two-thirds of smokers in the UK want to quit1, 27 percent of adults in…
THE region’s ambulance chief has hailed the success of a major recruitment drive, which will see more than 400 student paramedics working on the front-line by the end of next month. Plans to hire hundreds of new student paramedics were set out by chief executive…
NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) encourages Harlow residents to attend feedback event on local health services NHS West Essex CCG is holding a feedback event next Monday 2 February between 19:00-21:00 at the Leisurezone in Harlow. This will be the first of several…
PRINCESS Alexandra hospital in Harlow has, again, missed their target for the number of people set to be seen within four hours at A and E. The national target is 95% but the Harlow hospital could only achieve a 71.6% success rate. However, that is…
Gary Sampson, from Waltham Abbey, decided to show his appreciation after being successfully treated at the Harlow hospital’s Williams Day Unit. His wife, Mary, who works for Arsenal, was given the Gunners shirt after she mentioned her husband’s condition and treatment. The prized item fetched…
SYDENHAM House in Long Ley, Harlow is to be used as part of an extra bed plan to relieve pressure on A and E in Princess Alexandra hospital in Harlow. Harlow MP Robert Halfon was in discussion with senior health bosses at the beleaguered hospital…
NHS 111 remains the best way to access the right service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is for when you need medical help fast but it’s not an emergency. Excessively high attendances at Princess Alexandra Hospital’s (PAH) Emergency Department over Christmas…
PRINCESS Alexandra hospital in Harlow has, again, missed their target for the number of people set to be seen within four hours at A and E. The national target is 95% but the Harlow hospital could only achieve a 69.2% success rate. The waiting time…
ESSEX County Council is joining the call for families to cut down on their sugar intake as part of a new national Change4Life campaign. According to Public Health England’s latest Health Profile for Essex, 16.7 per cent of Year 6 pupils (2,174) in the county…
FOUR of Tottenham Hotspur’s biggest stars delighted sick youngsters at Princess Alexandra Hospital earlier this week when they turned up with sackfuls of Christmas gifts. During the afternoon, left-back Danny Rose, full-back Ben Davies and midfielders Nabil Bentaleb and Ryan Mason made their way around…
Contribute your experiences of muscle, skeleton and joint (musculoskeletal) services. West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which plans and buys health and care services on behalf of people in Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford, is asking local people to share their experiences of musculoskeletal services…
