Monthly Archives: October 2011

Help carers to better look after their own health, GPs advised

An estimated 1.2 million carers spend over 50 hours a week caring for others

Caroline White

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

GPs need to take a more proactive approach with patients who are carers, because they are at increased risk of psychological and physical ill health, says the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Please give an hour of your time to help someone else get on line

Give an hour Campaign

 

More about this campaign: http://www.bbc.co.uk/connect/campaigns/give_an_hour.shtml Celebrities from Gaby Logan, Stephen Nolan, Simon Rimmer, Colin Jackson, Linda Robson, Christopher Eccleston, Alvin Hall to Bill and Sian from BBC Breakfast all say who they will be getting online and what they hope to show them, for the Give an Hour Campaign.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/connect/campaigns/give_an_hour.shtml

The Hardest Hit March in Norwich against government cuts

Disabled people march in Norwich over government cuts

By Stephen Pullinger

  The Norwich Hardest Hit March against government cuts makes its way through the city centre. Photo by Simon Finlay

More than 200 protesters, including wheelchair users and visually impaired people with guide dogs and white sticks, gathered in Chapelfield Gardens at 11.30am, with a placard-waving march around nearby streets beginning at noon.

 

The rally was one of several organised around the country by Hardest Hit, a consortium of 40 disability organisations.