‘Health News’ Archives
Seminar will help beat stress in the workplace
Stressed at work? About to reach for the comfort food or feeling yourself getting pent up? If so, a special event being run in Ipswich on 31st October is exactly what you need. Ex-Premiership footballer Ruel Fox will be on hand to help us all de-stress at ‘Wellbeing [Read More]
Suffolk’s truckers put the ‘Heavy’ in HGV
A new initiative, designed to help the 220,716 HGV drivers travelling through Suffolk each year* lead healthier lifestyles, commences at Orwell Crossing Lorry Park today (22nd October). The initiative, piloted by supermarket Morrisons who recently launched its healthier [Read More]
Ipswich joins call for dementia action
Ipswich Hospital is one of the first in the UK to sign up to a ‘call for action’ to improve care in hospitals for patients with dementia. The Dementia Action Alliance and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has set out to make 2012 a landmark year for people [Read More]
Aqua Zumba comes to Suffolk
Known as the Zumba ‘pool party’ Aqua Zumba gives a new meaning to the idea of an invigorating fitness workout. Integrating the Zumba formula and philosophy with traditional aqua fitness disciplines, Aqua Zumba blends it all together into a safe, challenging water based [Read More]
Over 25% of East Anglians do not go to doctors
New research from Bowel Cancer UK has found that over a quarter of people (26%) in the East of England would put off going to the doctor with a potentially serious symptom because they would be worried about what the diagnosis may be. This is despite according Bowel Cancer [Read More]
New chair of The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust announced
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust is today delighted to announce Ann Tate CBE as its new chair. Mrs Tate is a distinguished academic and former vice chancellor and chief executive of the University of Northampton (2002-2010). She was appointed CBE in the Queen’s New [Read More]
Nominations open for NHS trust awards in Norfolk and Suffolk
Members of the public are being asked to highlight the achievements of health care workers in the region by nominating staff from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for an award. Anyone – including the general public, service users, family carers, partner [Read More]
Reminder for nominations to Board of Governors of Mental Health Trust
Nominations for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s board of governors will close on Monday 5 March. Foundation Trust governors are elected from the 15,000 existing Trust members and are a vital part of any NHS foundation trust. Their role is to ensure that the [Read More]
Become a NHS Trust Governor
Could you represent your community by standing for election as a governor for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust? The Trust provides wellbeing, mental health, substance misuse and learning disability services in the two counties. Covering a population of some [Read More]
Dementia cases rise in East Anglia
The East of England has seen an increase in the number of people diagnosed with dementia. [Read More]
