June food

Summer food When the sun finally appears, no-one wants to waste time cooking big meals when you can be outdoors. Take a tip from the Greeks, Italians and the rest of the Mediterranean, and serve up big platters of cold salads, with hard-boiled eggs,  cold sausages,...

Confused about sun care?

  Sunshine brings worries about skin cancer  In Summer, it’s right to be concerned about avoiding the sun – and its consequences, especially if you are a cancer survivor. And it’s right to be concerned about Moles, lesions etc. on your body as...

May Food

Summer Salads are here! Verité Reily Collins © Tis the season for fresh, crispy salads. Which is a lovely way to eat healthily, lose weight and get a big dose of Vitamin ‘C’. If you are suffering from fatigue, Salads are very ‘accommodating.  They...

Why clap for the NHS?

Going forward – have lessons been learned from Lockdown? Or will the NHS continue to bumble along, desperately needing more funding to keep up with demand?  Where is the politician with the guts to admit we must pay more to keep the NHS properly funded?...

New Mandate from NHS

“Objectives for the NHS” The latest annual Dept Health Mandate is out,…. and in this unprecedented year for the service, what does it offer?  A way forward  out of the current crisis, or sensible plans for the future? Er….No.Its….Starting...

NHS/cancer alliances

Wake Up NHS England Just received the Cancer Stakeholders’ Bulletin from NHS England, typically glossing over recent problems faced by those with cancer. As one of those involved with the start-up of the London Cancer Alliance, it should be no surprise that the...

Army

Time to acknowledge Forces’ contribution As they did during the last Foot and Mouth crisis, our Forces have quietly stepped in and got on with ensuring the current vaccination programme runs superbly.  When TV cameras pan around a vaccination centre, look...

Cancer vaccine

When will cancer have a vaccine? When Governments get scared, they act fast;  thanks to the massive amount of official resources thrown into developing an anti-covid vaccine, cancer prevention could possibly advance quicker now. The scientists who won the race to...

Will you just SHUT UP

Let me be blunt. It’s hard enough handling cancer problems, without having to put up with incompetence from bureaucrats.  Paid a fortune, yet they step away from problems without a care for the consequences.  I have been trying to get the anti-covid vaccination...

March food

Easter food For centuries, Easter was the time when people feasted.  It signified the end of Lent, Spring fruit and vegetables were coming through, and all sorts of goodies were in season. Easter Sunday Lunch  Traditionally, this would have been lamb – but as a...