The so-called “Sound of Summer” music festival featuring Rita Ora, The Vamps, Rudimental, and Rak-Su has been cancelled weeks before it was due to take place on August 3rd. The concert, branded […]
Derby News reported a few days ago about how Boots were back-pedalling in the Derby Telegraph article on the issue of lost “prescriptions/tokens” from its Chaddesden store. Why is Boots, with the […]
On 23rd October, Derby News published Boots conceal from customers, breach of confidentiality ; 47 lost ‘prescriptions’ from its Chaddesden store which exposed the fact that Boots had chosen not to communicate […]
[The original version of this article referred to 400 prescriptions being lost ; this was the information from my source in Boots. Boots threatened legal action unless I reduced it to 47; […]
Pear Tree Medical Centre has recently been awarded the prestigious “Outstanding” rating by the Care Quality Commission ( CQC – independent regulator for quality in health and social care in England) which […]
Aneurin Bevan, who spearheaded the formation of the National Health Service in 1948, was quoted as saying from the outset, “We shall never have all we need. Expectations will always exceed capacity. […]
The NHS seems to be in a constant state of change, and over the next few years it will be transformed. Whether that is actually beneficial to the patient is difficult to […]
Knowing what a healthy lifestyle looks like is a challenge for all us, and sustaining it for the long term requires dedication and commitment. There are many factors which determine how successful […]
Inspired by the loss of his father to cancer, Simon Jones (aka Praxis), produced an album, “A Road Less Travelled”, of music, spoken word, and hip-hop, from some of the finest talent […]
From the moment we are born we are defined – boy or girl. There is an overwhelming expectation that our sexuality will be heterosexual – that is the default label, the norm […]
With over 2.3 million signatures on the Stop-TTIP petition, the giant “blow-up pencil” came to St Peter’s cross in the centre of Derby. Accompanied by an NHS ambulance it brought to the […]
About 140 million females worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM – one of the worst bodily mutilation practices prevalent in the world today. Euphemistically, it is referred to as […]
Dignity Action Day is an annual event, UK wide, which provides the opportunity for health and social care workers, and members of the public to uphold people’s rights to dignity and provide […]
In 2004, the Scottish Government recognised that “Hepatitis C is one of the most serious and significant public health risks of our generation”, and The Lancet stated in their article this year […]
There are many difficulties facing people from new and emerging communities within Derby and conversely many challenges that the City’s institutions face in ensuring that the new arrivals can become properly settled. […]
Thankfully, for most of us, the inner workings of our body are a long-distant biology lesson at school. We probably have some idea of which tubes go to which organs, and what […]
Health Champions from all over Derby’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community (BAME/BME) gathered in a city centre hotel to continue their Cancer Awareness campaign. Nishi Madan from the Public Health Team […]
In the last 30 years HIV/AIDS has evolved from being a disease that was going to “threaten humanity” to one that is barely spoken about, publicly. Depending on where one sits on […]
Tuberculosis (TB) is usually considered by the lay public to be a disease of the past in the UK, and only really prevalent in Third World countries. This is not the case. […]
A few days after the official International Nurses Day, a parade took place in Derby from the St Peters Church through the City Centre to the Cathedral. A large audience of Nurses, […]
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