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• Time to Remember
• CBD for Crohn’s Disease [Why it Works]
• * Welcome to Strength in Numbers *
• ****** Europe’s Finest Organic CBD ******
• 50% of millennials would pick CBD oil over prescriptions for mental health
• CBD oil boasts a myriad of potential health benefits. What better way to support your overall health and wellbeing than by using a product produced by nature!
• What do you know about the therapeutic benefits of Cannabis oil?
• Elderly people should take MARIJUANA to ease aches and pains, study claims
• CBD can help your wonderful pets be pain-free. Written by Lorraine Meredith
• 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
• Please watch this short video explaining the Cannabis Industry and the making of Europe’s Finest Organic CBD
• Man, 29, with terminal brain tumour denied cannabis prescription that family claims is ‘his only hope’ in race to save him
• How to Choose a CBD Oil
• CBD…”It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
• CBD Oil, What do you know?
• My Mothers passing 11 years today
• My dad was a GP for 40 years. The NHS let him down when he needed it most…
• On the 10th anniversary of my mother’s passing
• 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
• Millions Will Discover the TRUTH About Cancer — The Little-Known Best Ways to Prevent and Beat It You Aren’t Being Told About — Starting April 12. Don’t Be Left Out of This Life-Saving Event…
• 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