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Heads of New PCT Cluster for Humber Announced

March 15, 2011

The Chief Executive Designate and Chair Designate of a new regional cluster of NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have been announced. In July 2010, the Health White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ outlined plans to transfer NHS commissioning responsibilities from PCTs to groups of general practitioners. Until the transition to GP consortia in 2013 is complete, PCTs have been directed to pool resources under new cluster working arrangements,…

No Smoking Day:Live Webinar With Shelia Granger

March 9, 2011

Sheila Granger, Clinical Hypnotherapist is conducting a live webinar on Wednesday 9th March for No Smoking Day. The webinar is suitable for anyone trying to quit but unable to break the habit on their own. Hypnotherapy has proven to be the solution for many nicotine addicts and could help you to kick the habit once and for all. If you, or anyone you know is serious about quitting smoking, for…

Beverley Over 50’s Healthy Lifestyles and Information Event

March 2, 2011

A free event to help people lead more active and healthier lifestyles as they get older is taking place on Wednesday 23 March at Toll Gavel Church, Beverley. The event, which has been coordinated by the Beverley Local Action Team, focuses on the lifestyles of residents who are over 50 and will be held between 11 am and 3 pm. Organisations attending the event include NHS East Riding of Yorkshire,…

Ground-Breaking Signals Start of Construction for New Community Hospital

February 28, 2011

A ground-breaking ceremony tomorrow – Tuesday 1 March 2011 – will mark the start of the main construction for the outstanding new community hospital for the East Riding at Swinemoor Lane, Beverley. Karen Knapton, Chairman of NHS East Riding of Yorkshire, will officially break the ground for the main hospital building joined by local Community Hospital Liaison Committee representatives and others who have been closely involved in the project. Following…

A Meeting of the Minds

February 26, 2011

Alternative therapists invited to “A Meeting of the Minds” networking group Following the success of last months meeting, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Sheila Granger is inviting alternative therapists and other health professionals to the monthly networking group on Monday 28th February at the Village Hotel. Sheila Granger says: “We have found previously that typically, health practitioners stay within their niche and rarely mix with other therapists. But we are now onto our…

Kate Hare – Star 9 Therapy

February 9, 2011

Holistic healer, Kate Hare, was diagnosed with a chronic spinal problem and was told by doctors that she would be confined to a wheelchair by the age of 40. Kate decided to literally take matters into her own hands and began to learn Reiki as a means of healing herself. It wasn’t long before Kate started to benefit from this healing technique, it gave her a new lease of life…

Is Your Diet making You Ill?

January 25, 2011

Have you been ‘snoozing’ your alarm clock for an extra half-hour in a morning or, do feel like you could just turn it off and stay in bed all day? Are you lethargic and irritable, suffering from bloating, wind and/or, constipation? If this sounds like you, you are not alone and to help, HU17.net would like to introduce Karina Clappison whose holistic nutritional advice has helped many people to eat…

Do you suffer from SAD?

January 4, 2011

With the cold snap of winter upon us and the miserable weather that comes with it, a lot of people will start to feel personal changes within. The changes are largely inexplicable and confusing. How many of the following symptoms do you recognise in yourself? Depression Sleep Problems Lethargy Over Eating Loss of Concentration Social Problems Anxiety Loss of Libido Mood Changes There is a strong chance that you are…

A&E Services Under Pressure in Adverse Weather

As the snowy weather conditions continue, health officials are asking the public not to use A&E services unless absolutely necessary. NHS East Riding of Yorkshire’s Head of Emergency Planning, Mike McDermott, said: “The area’s A&E departments are under extreme pressure at the moment and staff need to be able to concentrate their efforts on those people with serious life-threatening illnesses or injuries. It is likely that we will see an…

December 10, 2010

Health Service Continuity in Light of the Adverse Weather

December 2, 2010

Health service continuity in light of the adverse weather Due to the severe weather conditions, a number of local health services have been affected and/or are running a limited service. · Community services In Hull and the East Riding, community services (including district nursing, intermediate care and health visiting) will be prioritising patients with urgent care needs. Routine, non-urgent visits and clinics will not be taking place. · Health centres…

Visiting Your Dentist Could Save Your Life

November 9, 2010

Perfect 32 is helping to raise awareness of Mouth Cancer Action Month in East Yorkshire by offering FREE MOUTH CANCER SCREENING on Monday, November 29 running from 8am – 7pm using an advanced oral cancer screening system called The Velscope. The practice will also be giving away specially designed information packs highlighting the warning signs and prevention of mouth cancer. In the UK mouth cancer is diagnosed in more than…

The People Behind The New Community Hospital

October 8, 2010

Meet the team behind the new Community Hospital for the East Riding at Swinemoor Lane, Beverley. The recent open day at Beverley Westwood Hospital gave local residents, groups and hospital staff a chance to view the building materials for the new Hospital, including the living green roof. Representatives from NHS East Riding of Yorkshire and developer Interserve Health were on hand to answer questions about the construction programme. Pre-construction and…

‘Exceptional Nurse’ Mary Wilson voted East Riding’s NHS Star

October 7, 2010

Advanced Practitioner Mary Wilson has scooped the public award for her outstanding care for patients in the East Riding of Yorkshire NHS Star Awards. Pocklington patient Sue Anthony nominated Mary for the award saying: “If I had to sum up Mary in a few words they would be that she is gentle, supportive, thorough, reliable, helpful and professional. She always gives at the highest possible level of care and is…

Public Invited to see Latest Development on New Hospital

October 1, 2010

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, said he hoped as many people as possible would get along to a public event showing what the new East Riding Community Hospital will look like from the outside. The event, which will be held on Wednesday, October 6 at Temperton House, Beverley Westwood Hospital has been arranged to show which materials will be used on the exterior of the building. It will be…

MP Praises Health Bosses as Preliminary Work Starts on New Hospital Site

September 24, 2010

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has toured the new East Riding Community Hospital site with the Chief Executive and Chairman of NHS East Riding. Environmental work has started on the Swinemoor Lane site to trap protected great crested newts. And, health officials say, in just a few weeks work will start on creating the entrance and slip roads which will reduce the hospital’s impact on traffic along the…

Virtual Gastric Band Goes to New York

September 24, 2010

Clinical Hypnotherapist, Sheila Granger who recently conducted a trial with NHS patients in Beverley to demonstrate that hypnotherapy is a viable treatment for obesity is now taking her weight-loss system to New York. Granger’s breakthrough advancement in treating obesity with a weight loss programme which incorporates the ‘Virtual Gastric Band’, gained a 95% success rate in a group trial last year and has now gone on to help literally hundreds…

Regional Approval Paves Way For New Community Hospital for the East Riding

NHS Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has given its approval for the full business case for the new community hospital for the East Riding. This secures capital funding for the development to go ahead at Swinemoor Lane, Beverley. This announcement follows the reserved matters planning approval granted by East Riding of Yorkshire Council last month. The scheme will now progress as planned. Measures to safeguard protected species on site…

September 10, 2010

MP Welcomes News Ambulance Response Times Are Improving

September 3, 2010

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, today (Friday) said he was glad to hear the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust had been taken out of ‘special measures’ after improving response times. In April this year the Care Quality Commission (CQC) imposed strict conditions on the Trust’s licence after it continued to fail to meet national response time targets. Graham said: “The CQC was rightly concerned with the level of…

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