Category Archives: Norfolk
Mental-health patients driven hundreds of miles for treatment
Shortage of beds in constituencies of two health ministers is blamed on cuts in East Anglian hospital budgets
A crisis in mental health care has been declared by NHS staff in East Anglia, across a region covering the constituencies of two government health ministers.
Nurses say that it has become common for there to be no beds available for mental health patients in all of Norfolk and Suffolk, leading to severely ill patients being driven hundreds of miles to hospitals as far as Manchester.
Norwich and South Norfolk stroke survivors in call for communication support service
Andrew Papworth Wednesday, May 7, 2014
7:52 PM
Stroke survivors in Norwich and South Norfolk are calling for a communication support service to be reinstated after a loss of funding.
The Stroke Association ran the service to help sufferers left with aphasia – a condition where people have difficulty speaking or understanding speech – learn how to talk again or use other means of communicating.
But the charity stopped providing the service in March last year after losing NHS funding.
Sport Relief Community Cash: £50,000 handed out to good causes across Norwich
Chermond gymnastics club has been given £988 to buy new springboards. The money comes from Sport Relief community cash fund and has been distributed through the Evening News. Club members Alex Potter, left, and Darcey Reil with the old springboards. Photo: Bill Smith
Mark Shields Monday, May 5, 2014
10:19 AM
List of winners
25th Norwich Brownie Unit – £500
27th Norwich Rainbow Pack – £500
35th Norwich Sea Scout Group – £1,000
38th Norwich Brownies – £500
4th Norwich Brownies – £500
4th Norwich Rainbow Guides – £500
Belvedere Community Association – £800
Chermond Trust – £988
Chill4usCarers – £1,000
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