by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 14, 2019 | Exercising
Exercise is cheap – and effective The NHS says exercise helps boost recovery, and unlike many schemes, it needn’t cost anything. Yet another ‘initiative’ is appearing at a local surgery near you: Social Prescribing (SP). Basically this is an...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 8, 2019 | Skin Problems
Almost every cancer survivor has skin problems And Winter winds can make them worse. When you have cancer, skin problems seem to multiply. Drugs we are on do no favours to our skin support system; scientists cheerfully tell us to expect the toxins in the treatments...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 3, 2019 | NHS
Don’t patients have rights too? NHS hospitals have notices saying that ‘we treat patients with DIGNITY’. What’s dignified about being ignored when waiting for a badly-needed bedpan? Or having your case discussed over your head, as though you...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 1, 2019 | News
Basher Boris v. Crafty Corbyn start Electioneering slugging it out over NHS ‘facts’ All politicians will claim that the NHS, first discussed during the 1930s, worked on during the War, and eventually launched in 1948, is ‘dear to their hearts’....
by Verite Reily Collins | Oct 27, 2019 | Tips & Tricks
Dear cancer survivor, I am NOT going to lecture or say you MUST do/eat/read/this – enough ‘friends’ will bore you with pet theories. You will get used to them; smile sweetly and say nothing! The best advice I had was from a friend who chaired a...
