Tag Archives: Norfolk
What’s it like to have dementia? Presenter Helen McDermott and Radio Norfolk’s Nick Conrad found out
The simplest of tasks can feel like climbing Mount Everest.
Stacia Briggs Friday, May 9, 2014
2:36 PM
Our game recruits were Helen McDermott and Radio Norfolk’s Nick Conrad, who arrived full of beans, excited about their challenge and who were only mildly disconcerted when faced with the disclaimer they had to sign before they were strapped into the GERT suit.
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.
