A new report has revealed that up to three quarters of children who have diabetes are not getting all their regular health checks – and are therefore at risk of developing complications sooner than necessary. Nearly three quarters of children ...
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Mental health project aims to raise awareness through outreach
Emdad Rahman The Lighted Path, a new Tower Hamlets-based mental health project, is launching on Sunday, 5th June 2016 at Sir John Macdougal Gardens, 121 Westferry Road, London E14. The project aims to raise awareness of mental health, and volunteers ...
Read More »Hunt ploughs on regardless
As we come to the end of the first day in the latest bout of industrial action by the junior hospital doctors, Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt has been on TV and the radio telling the doctors off ...
Read More »Here’s some help to ward off Type 2 diabetes
The east London area is one of 27 areas across the country to be chosen to be part of the first stage of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. That means that money will be spent now on helping ...
Read More »Doctors on fourth strike to save NHS
As junior doctors begin their fourth episode of industrial action, all the signs are that both their resolve and public support remain solid. The latest recruit to the doctors’ cause is the Patients Association, which has now indicated its formal ...
Read More »Get ready to Vitality-Run Hackney
What better way to let off steam the weekend after May’s election than to go for a run – and what better way to go for a run than to join thousands of other people doing the same thing? Fortunately ...
Read More »Cash-starved NHS struggles with targets
As the junior hospital doctors started their second day of strike action, new figures were released which showed that the Government’s strategy of starving the NHS of money are having an effect on patient treatment. The NHS has a target ...
Read More »Government braced for 2-day doctors’ strike
At 8am today, junior hospital doctors began a 48-hour strike – wondering whether it would be third time lucky as they attempt to defeat government attempts to change their contracts. Doctors had already staged two one-day strikes, after negotiations between ...
Read More »St John Ambulance recognises Tower Hamlets heroes
Taysir Mahmud St John Ambulance has recognised ordinary people who have done extraordinary things in the City of London and Tower Hamlets. Twenty-six volunteers were recognised at an award giving ceremony held on 23rd February in Barber Surgeons’ Hall in ...
Read More »Emma Thompson: “Early diagnosis and treatment are vital in the fight against TB”
Mayor’s TB Ambassador visits The Whitechapel Mission Emdad Rahman British actress Emma Thompson visited the Whitechapel Mission and called on Londoners to get tested for TB as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the disease, which is more prevalent ...
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