New service for over 65s can benefit survivors My Care, My Way is a new service for the over-65s with benefits for cancer survivors Anyone, over 65, who tries to negotiate the minefield that is post cancer care should ask if My Care, My Way system is available...
NHS Trusts announcing yet more closures what is going to happen to this beloved service? Today, a stay in hospital finds patients facing a shortage of nurses, and doctorind ng by remote control as staff haven't time to talk to patients - just glance at their notes...
Do NHS hospitals know how to process visitors? With Brexit looming, perhaps the NHS will train staff to claw back some of the millions we lavish on overseas visitors. Ministers have suddenly realised patient are fed up with funding Outpatients full of 'health...
No-one seems to have told the NHS that time costs money; you have to pay staff, otherwise they get stroppy. This is written after a recent stint in one of the NHS flagship hospitals, showing how cracks in the service are widening out like Donald Trump's smile. this...
NHS Hospital shows off new idea for improving patient care We all know the NHS is underfunded Now an NHS hospital is asking Patients to make up shortfall by using Crowd Funding. The Royal National Orthopeadic Hospital (RNOH) at Stanmore...
Recent figures out from NHS show targets for cancer treatment missed across UK. Even more shocking - most European cancer patients on average live TEN years longer than we do. Conservatives come Clean At their recent conference in Birmingham, Minister for Health...
Thank you to all who sent emails To all of you who answered my plea on https://aftercancers.com/cancer-care-shame/ and sent an email to your MP and/or Simon Stevens - thank you. Judging by my website stats. there were a lot of you. How it works Nothing much will...
Don't talk of 'Fighting' when dealing with cancer Told I had to 'fight' cancer, when all I wanted to do was follow my treatment plan and work at getting better, I didn't think of it as a fight. As The Guardian says, "language is intended to motivate people and make...
Warch out for massive NHS contract tendering It's quiet on the NHS tendering front - for the moment - but watch out for a flurry of activity once the Party Conferences get underway. Politics has given us a leader who slips on banana skins: buying illegal water cannon,...
Not another Strike ! A major result of the current Government cutbacks is strikes. Latest strikes are in support of Health Visitors. Currenty Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire county council, are striking. Initially this is for six days as they say they are...