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A charity fund set up in memory of a newly-wedded bride who died suddenly last month has almost reached its target of £4,000 just two weeks after it was set up. Claire Reed was 22 and had been married for only five months when she collapsed and died while out on a friend’s Hen...
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The quality of elderly homecare services to get worse under coalition cuts, says the National Health Action party’s candidate for Eastleigh. Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s report on home care services published today, Dr Iain Maclennan said: “This report found evidence that a quarter of homecare services are not meeting quality and safety standards....
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Professor Khalid Aziz, Chairman of Naomi House children’s hospice, today met with the Prime Minister and two neighbouring MPs to discuss funding for children’s hospices across the UK, and was delighted with Mr. Cameron’s response. Prof. Aziz was seeking a unified national model for children’s hospice funding in the UK and to put public funding...
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Eastleigh’s MP, Chris Huhne, has announced on his website that he has launched the Borough’s Safer Places Scheme, at a recent event in Netley. The Safer Places scheme provides places for vulnerable people to go if they have a problem whilst out and about. Participants now extend across the whole Borough and include local Town and Parish councils, shops,...
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Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Frank Turner visited the Naomi House children’s hospice last Thursday, 29th November, to meet the children and entertain them with a few of his songs. Originally from Meonstoke, Frank studied alongside Prince William at Eton college and was formerly a member of the band Million Dead. His acoustic music has taken him...
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The Chair of Botley Air Pollution Group has called on townspeople to be more proactive in the campaign for a reduction in traffic – and its accompanying air pollution – driving through the congested town centre. In a newsletter reviewing the campaign so this year Steve Robinson-Grindley told the group that politicians ‘at...
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British wheelchair tennis player, Peter Norfolk OBE, visited Naomi House recently, looking at the facilities at the hospice and getting a feel for the happy and memorable place that the children and their families stay in. After a motorbike accident left Peter paraplegic, he decided to start playing tennis and took to the courts in a...
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The Charity Director for the County Air Ambulance Trust, HELP Appeal has appealed to the public to dig deep this Christmas and help them to save lives by donating towards more and facilities for critically ill patients who need to be airlifted to hospital. The HELP Appeal is part of an ongoing programme to raise the...
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The Office for National Statistics have recently published a new set of statistics on national well-being, the first snapshot of life in the UK to be delivered by the Measuring National Well-Being Programme. This recent innovation quantifies the subjective feelings that we all have about life in the UK to create a statistic that can be monitored...
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Do you suffer with or care for people with Cataracts or Age-Related macular Degeneration? The Royal National Institute of Blind People is looking for patients and carers to take part in two research projects that will identify what needs to be done to improve access to sight-saving treatments. Arbitrary restrictions to cataract surgery and...
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Thousands of people in the South East are at risk of stroke because they fail to recognise the signs of a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA, also known as mini-stroke), according to the findings of a new poll launched today on World Stroke Day (29 October 2012). A Stroke Association survey of over 511 members of the...
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A super slimmer from Eastleigh has been congratulated on her inspirational weight loss by Dancing on Ice winner and Emmerdale actor Matthew Wolfenden at the semi-finals of a national slimming competition, before skating into the final 10 of the contest. After losing 9st ½lb, Jo Jackson earned a place as one of 47...
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A new political party organised by a group of leading health professionals opposed to current government policy on the NHS, launches it’s website today to coincide with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech to the Conservative Party conference. The National Health Action party (NHA) says that when NHS patients and staff took centre stage at...
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A local private hospital has been given outstanding reviews from its patients and external auditors for the high quality care on offer. Findings from an annual Nuffield Health survey on quality has found that patients at the Nuffield Health Wessex hospital reported 99% trust in the care they received from the hospital’s doctors and...
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Plans to set up a new smoking cessation group at the Velmore Centre were given the support of The Mayor of Eastleigh, Cllr Rupert Kyrle, today. The Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust run quit4life smoking cessation groups around the Borough of Eastleigh and more widely throughout Hampshire. Busy at the Velmore Centre’s fun day, trying to recruit enough smokers to make a...
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