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...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 6, 2023 | NHS
We need a medical professional in charge of NHS – not politicians It’s all coming out now – thanks to 100,000 leaked WhatsApp exchanges, showing that the then Health Minister, Matt Hancock, rejected official guidance from Prof. Sir Chris Witty (the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 1, 2023 | Humour
Humour in Headlines Sometimes Newspapers can give me an unexpected laugh. The Polio Survivors’ Network has come up with the following genuine headlines, sent from their American colleagues, which might give you a lift when enduring yet another ‘bad...
