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 | Dec 26, 2018 | Diary Archive
My first Christmas in the country since I was a child produced two delightful surprises. First one was on Christmas Eve, I had woken up to a painful, puffy eye, the long-term consequences of Tamoxifen treatment which sometimes returns, and had chosen that day to...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 15, 2018 | Diary Archive
An enquiry has found Jeremy Hunt’s statement to the House of Commons in May that nearly 500,000 women had not been invited for breast camaancer screening, and that 270 may have died needlessly, was based on wrong advice. Thousands of women were rightly concerned about...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 28, 2018 | Diary Archive
Skin is our largest organ So why doesn’t the NHS help us look after it? I eep on banging on about looking after it, but if we don’t, germs and nasties can enter through the cracks and cause untold harm. So make look after it – pamper with a purpose....
