Monthly Archives: March 2013
Patients in East Anglia will receive care in a “timely and effective manner”
East of England Ambulance Service creates new posts
Maria Ball had been in post since the the trust was formedAn under-fire ambulance service has announced is to create new managements posts, a day after its chairwoman resigned.
The East of England Ambulance Service failed to meet standards in care and welfare in a recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.
Maria Ball resigned on Wednesday, after five years in post.
The ambulance service, which has been ordered to improve, said it would create three new sector leads.
It means the work of the ambulance service in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire will be managed separately to Norfolk and Suffolk, and Essex.
A spokesman said powers were being devolved to a local level, with sector leads and general managers, to “ensure that staff are empowered to make changes that are needed locally”.
Last week’s CQC report came after months of complaints about response times.
AN eggstra-ordinary fun day for Carers
Easter fair to highlight work of Sunderland carers
Viv Watts from Hope for Kidz and Kate Stewart from Sun Fm have teamed up with The Galleries shopping cente to support an Easter Egg appeal for youngsters across Wearside.
AN eggstra-ordinary fun day will help highlight the work of young Wearside carers.
A group of Sunderland University students has organised the Easter fair on Saturday, to show the hard work and dedication of young carers in Sunderland.
The fair is the brainchild of Amy Melody, a final-year criminology with journalism student, who has personal experience of being a young carer.
She said: “I applied to the university’s Social Enterprise Fund as I wanted to put on a family fun event to raise awareness of the role of young carers in society, particularly in Sunderland.
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital will open £4.5m cancer centre later in the year
New cancer treatment centre on course at N&N
Adam Gretton, Health correspondent Tuesday, March 26, 2013
12:00 PM
A multi-million pound cancer treatment building is on course for completion by the end of the year at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
The new radiotherapy cancer treatment building under construction at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. PHOTO BY SIMON FINLAYOfficials at the NHS trust say that the new radiotherapy cancer treatment unit is set to increase capacity by a third when it is fully up and running.
Plans for how the final £4.5m centre will look went on display at the hospital yesterday and will be on show in the east atrium for the rest of the week.
The work by R G Carter has hit the halfway mark and the construction project is on course for completion in October. However, hospital officials are not sure when the centre will be fully operational, which will depend on the installation and testing of a linear accelerator, which will be used to carry out radiation therapy on patients.
