Posts Tagged ‘health’
‘Overwhelming pride’: Hackney GP surgery wins prestigious NHS Parliamentary Award
Richmond Road Medical Centre wins in ‘Excellence in Primary Care and Community Care’ category
Read More‘Such determination’: Hackney Museum display tells story of community’s fight to save St Leonard’s Hospital in 1980s
One man’s collection of photographs and memorabilia shines light on major local campaign
Read More‘Very real risk’: Health chiefs urge parents to get their children vaccinated against polio to prevent it spreading across London
The virus was found in 30 sewage samples in north-east London last year
Read MoreWhooping cough on the rise in Hackney – with parents urged to get their children vaccinated
The bacterial infection can require hospitalisation in acute cases
Read MoreWhittington Hospital urges health watchdog to reconsider ‘requires improvement’ rating for its maternity service
The maternity unit was rated ‘good’ in four out of five areas, so bosses have asked for clarification
Read More‘It can be alienating’: Councillor speaks up for young parents as support service for under-24s is decomissioned
The Family Nurse Partnership is set to be replaced by an enhanced health visiting scheme
Read More‘The inequality is stark’: Councillors to investigate healthcare barriers facing transgender and non-binary people in Hackney
Cross-party motion calls for borough to be inclusive for everyone, ‘no matter their gender identity or gender expression’
Read More‘No way around it’: Demand for care following a hospital stay means ‘significant number’ are being put up outside Hackney
Around 400 people are currently being cared for away from the borough, the council’s head of adult health revealed
Read MoreHackney residents urged to book Covid booster before programme ends on Sunday
Over-50s and people who are immunosuppressed or pregnant can get a jab this week
Read MoreNHS campaigners urge council to fight for beloved hospital in Hoxton – before it is ‘forever lost’
Activists ask Town Hall to lobby government for cash to ensure St Leonard’s is kept for patients
Read MoreMovement Medicine
The importance of getting moving and feeling ‘totally uninhibited’
Read More‘I’ve never had this sort of help’: Support services praised as drug-related deaths in Hackney fall to lowest level in a decade
Borough bucks national trend after receiving £1 million in government funding
Read MoreCouncil ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’
Town Hall procurement committee set to approve £35m plans – with ‘doing nothing simply not an option’
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s support for staff during pandemic sees it nominated for national award
The local NHS trust’s director of people said the hospital is ‘immensely proud’
Read MorePolio boosters to be offered to under-10s after virus is picked up in eight London boroughs – including Hackney
Health experts confirm polio has spread within the community, but stressed that risk to wider population is still low
Read More‘An attack on women’s bodily autonomy’: Hackney politicians protest US Supreme Court’s decision to end abortion rights
Ruling has ‘reset the clock to a time when the constitution was written by slave-owners’, says Cllr Carole Williams
Read MorePollution-blocking green screens to be rolled out in schools across Hackney
Thirty-two schools are set to receive the natural barriers to protect youngsters from toxic air
Read MoreSexual health service launches in Hackney to tackle ‘unfair and avoidable’ inequalities
Project Community will provide free advice and supplies to the borough’s global majority residents
Read MorePoliovirus detected in sewage from north-east London – with UK health bosses urging people to get vaccinated
Health Security Agency triggers national incident after finding two samples of the same virus at Beckton treatment works
Read MoreHomerton Hospital’s new chief executive vows to ‘maintain its reputation for excellence’
Louise Ashley once worked in the Homerton’s children’s wards as a nurse, and rejoins having turned around the fortunes of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
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