COMMUNITIES AGAINST CANCER (CAC) 2024-2025 What is the aim of Communities Against Cancer? The project is about raising awareness of cancer, helping improve early diagnosis and encouraging people to attend cancer screening. Closely working with Wessex Cancer Alliance, who are funding CAC. It is not designed to support people already affected by cancer. You do […]
SAINTS legend Francis Benali joined staff and patients to open a new multi million urology centre in Southampton yesterday. Franny, who received an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List for his services to charity after raising more than £1 million for Cancer Research UK, arrived at University Hospital Southampton yesterday at 12pm to cut […]
This year for BBC Children in Need we wanted you to Do Your Dance. Thank you to everyone who got involved – we loved them all. Here’s a selection. Watch how people are getting involved and dancing for Children in Need on the BBC website
NHS bosses have spent more than £20m over the last three years to send Hampshire mental health patients miles away from home for treatment. Between April 2018 and April 2019 Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust placed mental health patients in hospitals not run by the trust on 698 occasions, racking up a bill of £12.6m. […]
South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) officials say they have a “completely unacceptable” ambulance shortage. SCAS, which serves Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire, is often 12 to 15 ambulances short, according to a board report. The shortage meant some crews had no ambulance when their shift started. SCAS said it had launched a review into how […]
Labour is promising free personal care in England for over-65s most in need of it, so they will not have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals. Currently, state help with the cost of home or residential help is available for those with assets below £23,250. Labour says the pledge, costing an estimated […]
It has been announced that the current NHS Health Check scheme is to be scrapped in Southampton after a report by Medicspot revealed only 42 per cent of eligible people had participated in the scheme. Southampton was named in the report as among the least proactive places in England when it comes to health due […]
This BBC article is relating to a report about the regional funding of children services using speech therapy has an example of the difference in the spending per region. Read more here
This feature from the BBC tells two personals stories about families who feel neglected by the NHS with hints that this part of larger problem. It also gives a possible explanation to why this is the case. Read more here
