by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 20, 2019 | Tips & Tricks
Post Lockdown is time for a good clear out But don’t fill up the rubbish bin. Instead, take unwanted clothes, small items etc. to charity shops – to help someone else. Cancer charities such as Marie Curie, Cancer Research UK etc. have shops in most major...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 20, 2019 | NHS
Who cares where the money goes? Or/ Don’t live in a wealthy area Lord Prior of Brampton (above) is current Chair of NHS England. I wrote to him, commenting on a brave Nurse’s challenge over staffing levels – at a back-slapping NHS Executive...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 13, 2019 | Lymphoedema
Oscar-winning actress fights for Lymphoedema When Americans think their healthcare needs a spokesperson, they field the big guns. Albeit Oscar-winning Kathy Bates might seem an odd choice. But she uses every trick in the book to get her message over, and anyone...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 8, 2019 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Movement and Cancer Isabelle Brough is providing mini-massages at the Wellness Day (Dorchester-on-Thames Friday April 12th). She kindly sent me a copy of the Essay she wrote for her Oncology Massage Practitioner Diploma. Whilst you lie back and let her work her...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 27, 2019 | NHS
With waiting lists getting longer What are we doing about it? YOU can do your bit, help shorten waiting times, and even improve healthcare. As a start, how many genuine patients sit on their local hospital Board? Having sat on several, by-and-large the Patient...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 24, 2019 | Diary Archive
I have just realised the Wellness Day I am organising is a few days away. The idea behind the event is to showcase some of the therapies and products available to help us look and feel better. I will be welcoming people as they come through the door, but I have done...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 15, 2019 | Diary Archive
I am a simple soul. I expect my elected MP to vote to represent their constitutents’ views. Nuff said about this week’s performance in Parliament; instead have decided to make ‘use’ of him. When, yet again hospital transport...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 10, 2019 | Diary Archive
Digging amongst the rubbishy murk of PFI funding, bad contracts and other NHS-management that is the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, there is pure gold. Such as the young visiting Swiss Opthalmologist who is prepared to try a new idea on my almost-blind Tamoxifen...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 8, 2019 | NHS
The privatisation con trick rolls on NHS chiefs are pushing through plans to let private companies take over scanning services that are vital in treating cancer patients, having told ministers last week that privatisation was harming patient care. Ten years ago I was...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Fell down (as one does) ar home, and was eventually carted off to the local hospital – John Radcliffe in Oxford. Had a comfortable wait on a trolley – I’d grabbed a good book to read – before I was wheeled off to X-ray. On the way back, my...
