Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis

Promoting opportunities for young people with MS

Promoting opportunities for young people with MS

Norwich and District MS Society

A guide for newly diagnosed people with MS

Doctors to see patients by video link

Doctors to see patients by video link

The Medical Director of the NHS has said that new broadband technology could allow patients to see doctors remotely as a matter of routine, and that the NHS could even use foreign experts

 

New technology could allow patients and doctors to routinely interact remotely

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor

4:23PM BST 07 Jul 2011

Doctors will routinely use new broadband video technology to consult patients in their homes within “a year rather than a decade”, the NHS’s medical director has said.

Young Norfolk carers interview JLS star Oritse Williams

Young Norfolk carers interview JLS star Oritse Williams

Five young Norfolk carers who interviewed Oritse Williams from JLS before the pop band’s recent Carrow Road concert have put a video of their chat with him on YouTube.

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The youngsters have lost carer services because of cuts to council funding and are campaigning to try and save some of the services, as part of National Carers Week.

The issue is close to the pop star’s heart as he cared for his mother from the age of 12, when she was diagnosed with MS.