Health
FIVE times World Snooker Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan will be on hand to start things at Princess Alexandra Hospitals NHS Trust ‘fun day Sunday’. The event on September 29th will include hot air balloon rides, a teddy bear’s hospital and a circus workshop, with a selection…
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced £5.7m extra funding for Princess Alexandra Hospital ensuring it will be ready for any additional demand on services that might occur this winter. The extra funds, in addition to £470,000 in funding for St Clare Hospice, should ensure it…
Dr Rob Gerlis, chair of West Essex CCG said: “This is just the start of a conversation with people across Epping Forest, Harlow and Uttlesford, and everyone who has an interest in health and care services. We want to get everyone thinking about their own…
A EUROPE-wide recruitment search has begun to find nurses to work at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow. Recruitment firm, Kate Cowhig International Recruitment Specialists have placed adverts in a number of publications as well as posting on Facebook. The interviews in Portugal take place…
DO you want to know who plans and buys local health services on your behalf and how you can have your say? If you do then a new information guide is for you. It tells you all about the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG),…
118 people in Harlow were referred to their doctor by a Healthy Lifestyle Roadshow having been identified as being at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, say Diabetes UK and Bupa. The charity offered free diabetes risk assessment tests to 232 people to identify their risk…
ST CLARE’S Hospice is delighted to announce three new and exciting community developments that will transform the way it is able to provide end of life care for people with life-limiting or terminal illnesses in their own homes throughout west Essex. The hospice has been…
A FORMER Harlow GP has been killed after colliding with a lorry whilst cycling to his surgery in north London. Dr Clive Richards, 67, worked at the Lister Medical Centre in Staple Tye for several years. It is understood that Dr Richards, who lived in…
THE NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) has today confirmed the appointment of Sheila Childerhouse and Frances Pennell-Buck as interim non-executive directors of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Dr Geoff Harris, interim chair of the Trust said: “I am delighted that we…
HARLOW LABOUR were out in force at the weekend to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the NHS. Prospective parliamentary candidate, Suzy Stride was joined by a number of Labour councillors as well as union officials and health workers. Suzy Stride said: “We are here to…
