Jenny Fisher Emdad Rahman has completed an abseil off the roof of the Royal London Hospital to raise money for London’s Air Ambulance Service – including for a planned second helicopter for the capital. Emdad joined an array of abseilers ...
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Diabetes Week: stay safe during Ramadan
Diabetes Week runs from 14-20th June and is seen as a time to increase awareness and provide further advice, support and information on the condition. The national campaign, led by Diabetes UK, is encouraging people to share their hints, tips ...
Read More »Sophie’s story: why we all need to Race for Life
Sophie McCallum, 25, from Lewisham, is putting on her war paint and appealing to mums, daughters, grans, friends and colleagues to unite and form a “pink army” at the Race for Life events taking place across the capital this year. ...
Read More »They’re taking our NHS!
We’ve all heard that the Barts NHS Trust has the largest deficit of any NHS Trust in the UK – and now there’s a chance to see why. The Brady Centre will be hosting an exhibition by Marion Macalpine using ...
Read More »#DoSomethingNew for Dementia Awareness Week
#DoSomethingNew! Life doesn’t end when dementia begins – as public health staff from Tower Hamlets Council will try to show you during the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from 17th to 23rd May. Doing something new could be ...
Read More »Healthwatch finds dreadful discharge
Emdad Rahman Thousands of people are potentially being sent home without proper support when they leave hospital or a care home. Some of them are left isolated and end up in a predicament that could have been averted. An enquiry ...
Read More »Get on board the new sexual health bus!
Local people are being urged to look after their sexual health as experts take to roads across Tower Hamlets to provide advice aboard the new Barts Health bus. The innovative service launched on Wednesday this week at Mile End Hospital, ...
Read More »People call for action on Barts deficit
The Barts NHS Trust has revealed that it has amassed a stonking deficit – and local pro-NHS campaigners are blaming the costly PFI deal which financed the new Royal London Hospital. The Trust seems to be resorting to desperate measures ...
Read More »News from TH-KONP
Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) is a campaigning group, working to preserve a public NHS run for people not profit, patients not shareholders. And it’s going to be very busy on Saturday, 28th February, which is a national Day of ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets Board first to sign up to reduce late HIV diagnosis
It’s Tower Hamlets first, as the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board is the first such Board to support the “Halve It” coalition. The move has been warmly welcomed by health campaigners and lesbian and gay activists alike as a move ...
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