Health

AMID VERY difficult economic circumstances, public sector bodies have come together across East London to help young people aged 16 to 24 who have a learning disability to find employment. The partners in the scheme – Project SEARCH – are ...

Emdad Rahman To continue to promote healthy living and sports in the community, the Leftley Sports Club Team was invited to attend the Barking Abbey School community fair.  The event took place within the school fields, and attendees included students, ...

AFTER SPENDING three years working out what was going on with its waiting list, Barts Health NHS Trust says it is now on top of its data – and that it’s giving a good service to East Londoners. The Trust ...

Emdad Rahman ART AND CRAFTS, fun learning, games and a bake sale are all on the menu to help children overcome their fears of visiting the dentist. The team at All Smiles Dental Care in Essex have organised a fun ...

Muhammad Ismael EMDAD RAHMAN MBE has signed up to run 100 kilometres for Running Down Dementia. The community volunteer is also a Dementia Friends Champion and is lacing up to defeat dementia. For the second year running, the Freeman of ...

Ismael Rahman Ahead of a weekend of sporting activities, Leftley Sports Club (LSC) arranged for members to participate in a Dementia Friends session. Members of the sports and wellbeing group convened at the Barking Learning Centre to learn about dementia ...

Ismael Rahman WITH THE ARRIVAL of summer, Beanibazar and Dakshin Surma went head to head at Stratford Drapers in a benefit game for the Beanibazar Cancer Hospital – an entertaining Greater Sylhet friendly. Forid Ahmed and Aktar Hussain stayed true ...

Emdad Rahman The 2018 East End Health Network Health Fair at the Idea Store Whitechapel was an even bigger success than the previous year as large crowds of local residents and visitors to the borough participated in a host of ...

Emdad Rahman The 2018 East End Health Network Health Fair promises to be bigger and better, with more organisations holding stalls, providing specialised services and running insightful workshops focusing on – amongst other issues – diabetes and how to manage ...

FROM TODAY – Friday, 6th April – there will be an extra tax on soft drinks which contain high levels of added sucrose (sugar). The tax has been put in place to reduce childhood obesity – but will it work? The ...