by Verite Reily Collins | May 21, 2024 | Diary Archive, Post Treatment
The King is now getting out and about, turning up at the UCH Macmillan Centre, looking much healthier and happier. Hopefully his treatment is working. He has obviously listened to his medical team, who probably told him to ignore family members who aren’t...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 27, 2024 | Getting an Appointment
With over SEVEN MILLION of us on NHS waiting lists for treatment, etc., the NHS seems shell-shocked and unable to do anything to improve matters.. If you are on its list if must seem never-ending, and, sadly it seems it is up to us, the patients/victims, to help...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 30, 2024 | News
Content goes here;;;;;;;;; Is cancer now ‘by Royal Appointment’? Suddenly, our Royal Family is showing the reality that ‘one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes’. Cancer is no respecter of birth, or lifestyle, and both King Charles...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 21, 2024 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Next time you can’t face the thought of getting out into the kitchen, a Dietician has just suggested this simple milkshake, using Ovaltine. or Horlicks. This makes a nutritious alternative to making a meal, when you just can’t face the thought of cooking. ...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 21, 2024 | Diary Archive
It’s the sanctimonious attitude the NHS exhibits when you try and find out when will you finally get an appointment, that drives me mad . Have you noticed recently whenever you phone an NHS number, there is an announcement asking us to treat staff with...
by J Dunlop Design | May 18, 2023 | Getting an Appointment
Playing the NHS appointments system Recently two senior Consultants told me they don’t expect the NHS to be around in ten years’ time. So I just hope those 7 million plus of us on waiting lists get seen before this happens. Mulling this over, I reflect I...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 23, 2023 | News
The club no one wants to join Dear L This isn’t a fun place to be, in fact, it is B……y confusing and scary You see, there is no typical case, so no one is really able to tell you what is going to happen. The next few weeks you might feel you are on...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 16, 2023 | Skin Problems
Don’t compromise on Skincare Today’s medical treatments use strong drugs, which can leave patients with nasty side effects, similar to the left side of this image, and often worse. Skin is our largest organ, but drugs used to treat us can produce nasty...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 2, 2023 | Getting an Appointment
Getting what I want! Last January I posted this article, and a friend has just phoned to say it’s worked for her too – so here it is again! ……… Last January my polio consultant gave me new instructions and said he would see me in May to...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 29, 2023 | NHS
Feelings run high over private medical care. In other countries, private and state-funded care run side-by-side, but here it can lead to bad feeling.When I lived in London, some private providers had seen opportunities and were providing sub-standard services to the...
