by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 31, 2018 | Diary Archive
Do we expect too much from the NHS? When The King’s Fund, an important think tank asks this question – it makes me think. Moving from one area of the country to another, I’ve just given up expecting anything. On the plus side I now belong to a...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 26, 2018 | Contacts
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by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 13, 2018 | Diary Archive
13.2.18 Set off for my very first medical appointments in Oxford, and had a wonderful welcome at both. First stop was to check in with the Maggie Centre and a meeting to discuss benefits. In London I qualified for enough of these to cover the cost of a carer; I...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 13, 2018 | Lymphoedema
Health Unlocked is an excellent website Forum for those of us with Lymphoedema or Osteoporosis Today, a subscriber asks where she and her husband should move to? She wants to know which area has the best health service for those o us with Lymphoedema, and obviously...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 14, 2018 | Osteoporosis
‘Hit and miss’ might best describe current NHS treatment for Osteoporosis In typical NHS fashion, its post-code lottery could decide what treatment you get – good, bad or indifferent. My Oncologist had arranged for me to have regular DEXA scans, and...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 11, 2018 | Diary Archive
11.1.18 First, one of the Queen’s bridesmaids was apparently left on a hospital trolley for 20 hours, before being found a bed in an NHS hospital ward. What on earth were the family doing? Her mother was one of richest women in Britain, so why on earth...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 31, 2017 | Treatment & Massage
At this time of year most people have a New Year Resolution If yours is to get a Puppy – well done. Health gurus say having to exercise a puppy/dog gives enormous benefits, and one of the best ways of incorporating exercise into your life-style, and getting...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 6, 2017 | Diary Archive
28.11.17 Am I alone, or are others fed up with TV ads and speakers harping on about how cancer makes them feel, and how they bravely got through it. We all know what it’s like – what we need is a strong charity behind us who will act as advocates, going...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 4, 2017 | Websites
France is acknowledged to have some of the best cancer care in the world And with over 140,000 Britons officially going abroad for treatment last year, increasing numbers of us are taking advantage of French healthcare because it is relatively affordable, easy to...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 3, 2017 | Diary Archive
The NHS doesn’t understand good housekeeping; it wastes our money in so many ways, one wonders what the next daffy ‘initiative’ will cost. Our local Kensington and Chelsea Healthwatch has decided that cancer care and prevention is no longer a priority, so it closed...
