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Blog: Tackling loneliness is everyone’s responsibility; not just the lonely person’s.
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 05/05/2022 in Blogs‘Look, if you need to chat, just call.’ ‘I’m here any time. Honestly, all you need to do is pick up the phone.’ ‘I’m literally three doors down the road. You’re welcome any time. Just pop over – really, it’s no trouble at all.’ How many times have we said...
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Roll out of Digital Social Prescribing in Barking and Dagenham
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 31/03/2022 in NewsSocial prescribing is going to play an integral part in the way residents and people local to the borough will be able to access services for their healthcare needs. In Barking and Dagenham, the clinical commissioning group and Barking and Dagenham Council, in partnership with Care City, has announced the...
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Treating Long COVID - A Massage Therapist's Perspective
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 28/03/2022 in NewsAs individuals try to cope and local clinical services grapple with the best way to deal with it - qualified massage therapist - Susan Harrison - has written an article about how an alternative therapy approach to treatment using massage techniques could compliment care and support for Long COVID. There...
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BHRUT CEO Highlights Healthwatch Long COVID Work
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 25/03/2022 in NewsThe Chief Executive of the BHR Hospital Trust, Matthew Trainer has highlighted the collaborative work currently being carried out by Healthwatch Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge 'One longer term impact as we know is those residents living with Post Covid Syndrome (Long Covid). Our Healthwatch colleagues across Barking and...
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The Impact of COVID 19 on Cancer Patients
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 17/03/2022 in News"Knowledge is power and power used in the right way can bring about significant positive change." NHS Digital Cancer information has been made available in a secure enviroment to enable researchers to understand the impact of COVID-19 on people affected by cancer. This is with the view to improving outcomes...
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New Me - Healthy Lifestyles
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 17/03/2022 in NewsAs the Spring is upon us, are you looking to turn over a new leaf..consider where you are with your health and look more to a healthy living lifestyle? It's often difficult to know where to start however, Barking and Dagenham Council are offering people the opportunity to get the...
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Blog - Prescription Charges for Over 60s – ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow?’
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 09/02/2022 in BlogsOn 2nd September 2021 - around the time, government departments look at their mid-year review budgets and in advance of the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget Statement – a little known public consultation to align the upper age for NHS prescription charge exemptions from 60 to 66 ended. The proposals for the...
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Reducing the Backlog of Appointments at BHRUT
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 08/02/2022 in NewsA t the end of March 2021, following a difficult 12 months, two lockdowns and several variants, the hospital trust at BHR had 2,430 patients waiting over a year for treatment. By the end of last December 2021, that was down to 959, with the aim to get close to...
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King George and Queen's A&E waits among worst in country
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 07/02/2022 in NewsKing George and Queen’s Hospitals have among the worst A&E wait times in the country and are “getting worse”, a committee heard. Just under three out of ten type one A&E patients were seen within four hours at the Goodmayes and Romford facilities, according to NHS figures for December. The...
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GPs told to resume face-to-face appointments after Covid booster success
Posted by HWBDAdmin on 31/01/2022 in NewsGPs have been told to resume face-to-face appointments after routine services were paused for the vaccine rollout. NHS chiefs told doctors to “restore routine services” now that most people have received a booster dose. It comes as official data revealed that only 61 per cent of GP consultations in England...
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