Category Archives: Cancer
Cancer carers ‘overlooked’ by NHS
Macmillan Cancer Support said that so-called “cancer carers” are being “overlooked” by the health service.
It cautioned that many carers are missing out on much-needed practical, emotional and financial help
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The comments come after a poll of more than 2,000 cancer carers found that many were not signposted to support available for them as a carer.
Almost two fifths (37%) said that they were not given any information or advice about the services available to them by a health professional.
New bid to tackle the thousands in fuel poverty in Norfolk
A task force of county councillors are looking at how to stop vulnerable people having to choose between eating or heating. Photo credit: Help the aged/PA.
Dan Grimmer Monday, January 6, 2014
6:30 AM
Together, we can do more to stop people in Norfolk from having to choose between heating and eating – that is the message from a task force set up to investigate the scale of the problem in the county.
Surviving Winter
Norfolk’s Surviving Winter appeal has smashed through the £25,000 barrier. But requests are still coming in faster than donations, as some of our neediest elderly people feel the chill.
Norfolk Community Foundation last month issued a fresh call to those who may not need their winter fuel payments to pass the money on to those who do.
Surviving Winter, backed by the EDP, has been a lifeline for hundreds of Norfolk’s neediest households, giving grants towards the cost of fuel.
There are three ways you can give to the appeal:
Should we have more access to our medical records?
Should we have more access to our medical records? Norfolk MP George Freeman presents bill to call for “full and unfettered” access
MP George Freeman
Annabelle Dickson, Political Editor Tuesday, November 26, 2013
10:28 AM
Patients should be given “full and unfettered” access to their medical records, Norfolk MP George Freeman will tell parliament today as he calls for a change in the law so patients own their own medical data.In a Ten Minute Rule Bill the Mid Norfolk MP will call for patients to be able to hand their medical data over to researchers to help drive new treatments for hard-to-cure diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer.
His bill is supported by more than 50 UK medical charities including the prostate cancer campaign group Movember, Marie Curie, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and a number of leading research doctors.
George Freeman MP said that patient records were too often sitting on hospital shelves gathering dust – allowing failed treatments to be repeated over and over without anyone gathering the evidence to see what works and what fails – and why.
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