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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
Strength in Numbers dedicated to my late mother Kay
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- A link to My mothers story in The Mail on Sunday 5th June 2011 by Joanna Slater
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- Helping you through life’s pressures and stress
- Poem – About dementia – “YOU SEE ME” , “AND YET, YOU DON’T KNOW ME?
- Poem – Heart rendering poem about old age – Take a few minutes to read, it says it all
- Poem: To Love a Diabetic – By Katherine Marple
- Robbie Powell, died 25 years ago aged 10. Difficult to believe that this 4 part ‘Wales This Week’ documentary was aired 11 years ago and yet the NHS cover up continues 25 years after Robbie’s needles death!
- Six Things to Never Say to a Bereaved Parent – By Angela Miller
- Video – Alzheimer’s- Most People Don’t Know How To Reach Someone With Alzheimer’s But This Angel Sure Does
- Video – Cancer awareness – Check yourself, don’t wreck yourself
- Video – Cancer Patient Does This To Show The World What Being Sick Really Means
- Video – Miracle of life – From conception to birth
- Video – People With Down Syndrome Dance To ‘Happy’ To Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day
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- Epileptic boy, 13, whose case led to the legalisation of medical cannabis in Britain gets his first legal dose in the UK after three-month ‘exile’ in Canada
- Man, 29, with terminal brain tumour denied cannabis prescription that family claims is ‘his only hope’ in race to save him
- CBD Oil, What do you know?
- My dad was a GP for 40 years. The NHS let him down when he needed it most…
- Has your operation been cancelled? Please share your experiences with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
- Health secretary Jeremy Hunt sorry as A&Es struggle to cope
- The Daily Mirror is calling for a ban on NHS hospital car park charges. Please sign the petition
- Inadequate staffing implicated in stillbirths and neonatal death. By Steve Ford, News Editor for Nursing Times
- Map: Which CCGs are most at risk from the GP ‘retirement timebomb’?
- Amy’s Place: Inside The Women-Only Rehab Centre, One Year On
- Connor Sparrowhawk mother attacks ‘barbaric’ treatment by tribunal
- Robbie Powell post death falsifying medical records. Please read, thank you. Will Powell father of Robbie
- Stephen Hawking blames Tory politicians for damaging NHS
- Here is a story on how there is no help regarding Mental Health
- The Government is lying when they say mental health services are getting better – it’s time we did something about it
- MyNotes Medical – Download the app to your mobile or tablet.
- Parents share heartbreaking final photo of Charlie Gard as they reveal doctors won’t let him die at home
- Staffing crisis leaves NHS on brink of another Mid Staffs disaster, nurses warn
- GP statistics available to public through new data hub
- NHS cyber-attack: hospital computer systems held to ransom across England
- Whistleblowers Speak Up… Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, 28th May, 1:00pm. All Whistleblowers and Concerned Public welcome
- NHS whistleblowers claim patients ‘are being woken up at 4.30am for a wash as hospital staff are too busy to do it during the day
- 30,000 excess deaths in 2015 linked to cuts in health and social care
- Exclusive: Morecambe Bay inquiry chair to lead new investigation into baby Lizzie Dixon death By Shaun Lintern Senior correspondent for Nursing Times
- My mum’s care means that decisions not to resuscitate must now be discussed with patients by Kate Masters
- My best friend Marsha’s daughter Lauren is desperately trying to raise money for Jeyda and Sherri her mum, please help.
- NHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk
- BBC war reporter, 49, flies to Mexico for a £62,000 MS operation after being refused NHS treatment
- NHS crisis tracker – What’s the state of the NHS crisis in your area? Check here
- Love itself lives on even when the memories fail
- Bed-blocking: ‘Managers ask how long patient will live’
- Government has tried to ‘scapegoat’ GPs for NHS crisis, say angry GP leaders
- How can this be happening?
- Tory Health chair says Theresa May risks allowing NHS crisis to worsen as she is ‘distracted by Brexit’
- On the 9th anniversary of my mother’s passing… By Joanna Slater
- I’m a junior doctor in the NHS, and I’m terrified for this winter… By Aislinn Macklin-Doherty
- ‘Humanitarian crisis’ in NHS hospitals, warns Red Cross
- ‘Inaccurate and incomplete’ nurse record keeping raises safety concerns, warn researchers… BY NICOLA MERRIFIELD Deputy news editor Nursing Times
- Questions over efficiency of NHS referral management centres
- Barcode technology helping to improve patient safety
- Dad DIES 10 months after Job Centre bosses told his doctor not to write any more sick notes
- Breast cancer drug rejected for NHS use on cost-benefit grounds
- Acutely ill children waiting nine hours for beds in intensive care. Some paediatric units now at 115% capacity, warns doctors’ body
- Wall of silence that shames the NHS: Grieving families who complain over blunders are ‘fobbed off’, damning report reveals
- Disabled pensioner trapped in her home
- NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’ an investigation has found
- Heartache as mother-of-three, 31, dies just weeks after being refused funding for a cancer drug because her disease wasn’t ‘exceptional enough’
- Exclusive: GP practices serving more than 5m patients could close in the next year
- Policy changes to implement the NHS five year forward view: a progress report by The Kings Fund
- Exclusive: Trust guilty of serious service failure over child’s death by Shaun Lintern written for HSJ
- Surgeons should ‘let patients choose’ to avoid litigation, new guidance states
- NHS whistleblower ‘facing sack’ goes on hunger strike
- A&E in Meltdown?
- How MyNotes Medical got started by Joanna Slater
- Document all your health issues for you and your loved ones. MyNotes Medical download today
- ‘If you pay for a Mini you can’t expect a Ferrari’: Disgraced plastic surgeon told a mother-of-two it was HER fault after botching her £3,500 boob job
- Boss of scandal-hit hospital with 287 unexplained deaths apologises for suffering patients endured
- They’re not bed blockers, just older people who want to get home
- Calls To Improve Diabetes Care As Amputations Hit Record High
- New dementia training package for nursing staff by Steve Ford for Nursing Times
- Terminally ill actor Brian Rix calls for assisted dying law change
- Drug shortages are ‘harming’ patients, say GPs
- Big rise in patients falling victim to NHS surgical mistakes
- Whistleblowers being ‘blacklisted by NHS’ as staff records state they were ‘dismissed’ even after being cleared at tribunal
- Cancer overtakes heart disease as No1 cause of death: Statins, healthier lifestyles and better treatment help cardiovascular deaths to plummet
- More than 50 allegations of ‘dirty practices’ against Nottinghamshire dentist
- ITV Tonight is making a programme about the financial abuse of the elderly
- Thousands of cancer sufferers surviving decades after diagnosis. Macmillan researchers say
- Mother claims she has to restrain mentally-ill son, 24, with handcuffs due to ‘lack of support from NHS
- ‘We were told not to pick a fight with the NHS’: Parents of three-year-old who died needlessly from sepsis were made to feel like the tragedy was ‘just bad luck’
- 5 News investigation: Failures in mental health trusts exposed
- Doctors’ basic errors are killing 1,000 patients a month. Biggest ever study of errors in British hospitals finds one in ten patients affected
- Pregnant mental health patient ‘pinned to floor’
- Government commits to high quality end of life care
- GP care plans to prevent hospital admissions not effective, warns CQC
- Listen to parents of sick children rather than tests, NHS tells doctors
- Church Crookham baby death sparks national review into care for newborns
- NHS plan to shut child heart surgery units causes outcry
- Care quality set to worsen this year, warn finance directors
- Children’s hospital ‘let down by parents’
- Children let down by Bristol hospital’s ‘poor care’
- Family who lost son speak of ‘toxic culture’ at Bristol Children’s Hospital
- Midwife sacked over new Morecambe Bay death
- NHS to withhold report on primary care support problems until 2017
- Coroner puts hospital’s weekend staffing in spotlight after death of woman
- The NHS needs a strong dose of tech investment
- £177k forked out by NHS on New Cross whistleblower bill
- Hospital apologises to parents after damning report on handling of baby’s death
- North Middlesex hospital A&E faces closure on safety grounds
- ‘I survived sepsis – only for it to kill my son’: Mother whose baby boy died after medics missed killer illness discovers she had battled blood poisoning first
- Patients ‘will be put at risk and operations delayed’ as shortage of anaesthetists in the NHS is set to grow
- The dawn of a new era for cancer survival: Tailored treatment made ‘inoperable’ liver cancer vanish – giving new hope to patients
- Southern Health Trust made a statement to Sara Ryan and her family saying they were very sorry for Connor’s death.
- ‘This isn’t acceptable’: outcry at state of NHS mental health care funding
- North Middlesex issued with warning over emergency department
- Bowel cancer: Stents ‘may prevent need for colostomy bags’
- Priory Hospital in Ticehurst ‘neglected’ girl, 14, found hanged
- Revealed: 30,000 patients left waiting in ambulances outside London A&Es last year
- Hospitals hit by a 36% rise in heart failure cases: Number up by a third in a decade… because more people are surviving heart attacks
- Winterbourne View scandal families urge PM to shut ‘outdated care units’
- Horrifying Photos Show What Nursing Staff’s Alleged Neglect Did To Elderly Woman’s Body
- Communication and the 6Cs: the patient experience … Author Christopher Barber for Nursing Times
- Decline in NHS quality’ reported – International Medical Press – 25 May 2016
- NHS failing to learn lessons from complaints, says health ombudsman
- Living with Dementia: Chris’s Story – To be aired on BBC 1 Thurs 2 Jun 2016
- Exclusive: Charity nurses warn of ‘postcode lottery’ in specialist children’s care by Jo Stephenson for Nursing Times
- My Story With Addisons Disease – Justice for Robbie Powell! article by Malisha Fuller
- Daughter launches app after seeing mother’s struggle – but now she needs your help
- Junior doctors dispute: BMA and government reach deal. 18 May 2016
- How it all started, my mothers story
- A good death should be doctors and patients’ last life goal
- This is what the health professionals are saying about MyNotes Medical from Elissa Bradshaw – Clinical Nurse Specialist St Marks Hospital
- Jeremy Hunt ‘not fit to wear’ an NHS badge, says consultant
- Mother gave birth in her bedroom after being ‘turned away’ from hospital
- My Child did exist
- Girl, 14, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital after overstretched staff operated on her by torchlight
- Medical students set to ‘abandon’ the NHS
- ‘This shade is Complete Mental Breakdown’: YouTuber creates satirical make-up tutorial to candidly detail her struggle with the many symptoms of her depression
- Southern Health chief executive to face MPs
- Senior nurses emphasise need to target ‘shocking’ staff retention rates – By Nicola Merrifield for Nursing Times
- 9000 Gloucestershire patients caught in NHS no man’s land
- Coroner gives cops deadline to finally interview staff at hospital over Seanpaul Carnahan death
- Pre People’s Assembly Protest in London LIVE on 16.04.16
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- 87 years old and unwashed for days, left alone and in the dark – this is Britain’s care crisis.
- NHS complaints watchdog deputy quits over sexual harassment cover-up
- Government urged to close junior doctors whistleblowing loophole 5 APRIL, 2016 BY SHAUN LINTERN – FOR HSA
- Datix appoints James Titcombe OBE as Patient Safety Specialist
- Press release – NHS Improvement intends to take further action at Southern Health
- Junior doctors’ row: The dispute explained
- Mum with breast cancer urges women to trust their instincts – Doctors told her not to worry
- Second NHS whistleblower tsar departs as Office of National Guardian sinks further into ‘crisis’
- NHS whistle-blower told she was ‘too honest’ to work for the health service
- NHS has 70,000 fewer staff after new headcount
- Terminally ill patient tells ITV News: I want to die at home – hospitals don’t care as much
- Mother whose son killed himself ‘let down’ by mental heath services
- Funding research into and supporting those affected by genetic heart conditions in children
- Nursing training places shortfall revealed in report “sneaked out” before Parliament’s Easter break
- The number of ‘serious untoward incidents’ in the Welsh NHS has doubled in four years
- NHS junior doctors who turn whistleblowers risk ‘career suicide’ reveals a doctor who did it
- Francis adviser to lead inquiry into ‘heart breaking’ baby death – BY SHAUN LINTERN
- NHS Scotland whistleblowing line gets extra year – BBC News
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- *CBD OIL – WHERE TO BUY
- A link to My mothers story in The Mail on Sunday 5th June 2011 by Joanna Slater
- Contact Me
- Getting your message across. There are lots of ways to get your message across and all for free
- Helping you through life’s pressures and stress
- Poem – About dementia – “YOU SEE ME” , “AND YET, YOU DON’T KNOW ME?
- Poem – Heart rendering poem about old age – Take a few minutes to read, it says it all
- Poem: To Love a Diabetic – By Katherine Marple
- Robbie Powell, died 25 years ago aged 10. Difficult to believe that this 4 part ‘Wales This Week’ documentary was aired 11 years ago and yet the NHS cover up continues 25 years after Robbie’s needles death!
- Six Things to Never Say to a Bereaved Parent – By Angela Miller
- Video – Alzheimer’s- Most People Don’t Know How To Reach Someone With Alzheimer’s But This Angel Sure Does
- Video – Cancer awareness – Check yourself, don’t wreck yourself
- Video – Cancer Patient Does This To Show The World What Being Sick Really Means
- Video – Miracle of life – From conception to birth
- Video – People With Down Syndrome Dance To ‘Happy’ To Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day
- Your comments – Thank you
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- Search for How your GP practice is performing. Enter in your postcode
- Swan UK. (Syndromes Without A Name)
- Syncope Trust and Reflex Anoxic Seizures – Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS).
- The Patients Association
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