by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 23, 2020 | Exercising
Fighting for Hydrotherapy NHS canceling hydrotherapy treatment to cut costs What is Hydrotherapy? Hydrotherapy is the use of water in the treatment of different conditions, including arthritis, muscular-skeletal and neurological conditions, lymphoedema,...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 21, 2020 | News
Loneliness is today’s hidden disease Approx. nine million people live on their own in the UK. Today, thousands of these have been facing life on their own during lockdown, and many say ‘Covid’ fears make them worried about mixing with others. Many...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 18, 2020 | Events, Humour
Are we now in safe hands? Test and Trace is another Government wheeze to add to the pile of post-Covid problems. The past few months has seen turmoil with official plans, but Baronness (Dido) Harding has been appointed to the latest ‘flagship’ initiative...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 3, 2020 | News
Ministry of Silly Walks Is it just me who is confused about lockdown? Or has Dominic Cummings introduced a new Department. named after the John Cleese sketch? Downing Street doesn’t seem to realise what’s happening in the real world. John Lewis, city...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 29, 2020 | News
Issue latest Cancer Experience Registry® (CER) A recently commissioned survey by the Cancer Support Community of America has some interesting findings, which show we in Britain are not alone with our survivorship problems. Their Cancer Experience Registry is...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 27, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Gran was a wise old bird If you want to live healthily and lose weight, ask yourself “would Gran have eaten this? Her generation were usually leaner, slimmer and healthier. In her day, food was sold unpackaged. But, modern eating habits have seen us adopt...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 20, 2020 | Exercising
Romans introduced hot baths and central heating to Britain, then left So we shrugged off foreign customs and went back to our old ways. During the following centuries, we generally thought one bath a year was sufficient; except for eccentrics like Queen...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 19, 2020 | NHS
Am I the only patient who has to ‘explain’ clinic letters to my GP? Apparently not. Dr. Morgan, writing in the august BMJ (British Medical Journal) says A BMJ Opinion piece published in 2018 argued that clinic letters should be written “to” patients, not...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Lessons to be learnt post-Covid Boris Johnston has said there will be an enquiry into the Coronavirus outbreak. Let’s use this to find out why the NHS always seems reluctant to consult specialists and/or patients who have dealt with similar situations. Those of...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 13, 2020 | News
Pandemics happened before Up until the 1950s – 70s, the world reeled under semi-annual outbreaks of polio. To many OAPs, today’s Covid-19 pandemic brings back that time; many who succumb to this virus will go through what heppened then. Medicine has moved...
