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A health trust is celebrating the success of its first term in a series of workshops
Celebration event for first term of Norfolk and Suffolk recovery college
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Recovery College celebration event at Dunston Hall. Speaker Sue Howlett. Picture: Denise Bradley
Adam Gretton Health correspondent adam.gretton@archant.co.uk
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
11:58 AM
A health trust is celebrating the success of its first term in a series of workshops and courses to empower people with mental health challenges to become experts in their own recovery.
Around 70 people attended a celebration event for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) Recovery College, which was set up earlier this year.
More than 120 students attended one day workshops and courses on offer in the first term of the college, which are run from Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, and have been staged across Norfolk and Suffolk.
Tablets and apps might be doctor’s orders of the future
Devices can enable doctors to closely monitor a patient
Is the doctor’s waiting room due for an update?If you have ever sat in a doctor’s waiting room, next to someone with a hacking cough and with only a pile of out-of-date Reader’s Digests for company, then you may have asked whether the system was fit for 21st Century living.
The NHS seems under increasing pressure, from GP surgeries to accident and emergency rooms. It feels as if the healthcare system is in desperate need of CPR – the question is will technology be the thing that brings it back to life?
MPs urge scrapping of ‘bedroom tax’
A House of Commons select committee has called on David Cameron’s Government to scrap the “bedroom tax” changes to housing benefit.
16th December 2013
The Scottish Affairs Committee said that while ministers considered whether to repeal the measure, the Government should suspend the penalty for claimants who cannot reasonably be offered alternative accommodation.
The MPs said the measure, which cuts housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have a spare room, was ” a budget cut suffered by those in greatest need”.
The interim report was opposed by Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs on the Labour-led committee, but they failed to prevent it being produced.
The Government reduced entitlement to housing benefit for working-age tenants in April 2013. Those with an extra bedroom have a reduction of 14% to their eligible rent, and those with two or more extra bedrooms lose 25%.
The Government estimated that 80,000 claimants in Scotland would be affected by the bedroom tax, with an average weekly loss of £12.
