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Posts Tagged ‘health’

Frontline care workers to be trained to help tackle health and wellbeing concerns

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 25 July 2018 at 10:27

NHS staff, council workers and volunteers will be asked to opportunistically engage people in conversations about their health

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Deputy Mayor scolds William Patten parents over pollution ‘publicity stunts’

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 17:56

Campaigners hit back at Cllr Feryal Demirci’s ‘ill-informed and personal attack on constituents’

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Calls for SEND cuts ‘moratorium’ as Hackney Council signs letter urging funding boost

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 18 June 2018 at 15:46
Children protest SEND changes outside Hackney Town Hall

Parents and carers says special needs cuts should be stopped ‘now’

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Hotpod Yoga – a yoga experience like no other, situated in the heart of London Fields

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 15:15
Hotpod Yoga

Try the first one on us – free first class for Hackney Citizen readers

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Deputy Mayor loses SEND brief in cabinet reshuffle, as Chris Kennedy joins the fray

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 13:22

New cabinet member will be ‘leading’ on SEND as council makes £5 million of cuts

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Hackney agrees £4 million deal to combine ‘stop smoking’ services

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 March 2018 at 15:34
Hackney Council’s cabinet member for health Cllr Jonathan McShane

Health chief McShane says the deal will make service accountable

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Closure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 February 2018 at 16:56

Doctors say the five patients’ move to Thames House Ward will improve ‘quality of care’

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NHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 17:34

Trust says five-year sum is lowest for any London hospital with a maternity unit

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Last chance to have your say on the future of Hackney’s pharmacies

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 9 February 2018 at 10:03
nhs graffiti by stik 006

Council survey on draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment closes tonight

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Cllr Jonathan McShane will quit cabinet in May to ‘devote more time’ to charity

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 25 September 2017 at 16:56
Hackney Council’s cabinet member for health Cllr Jonathan McShane

Hackney’s cabinet member for health has been a councillor for 13 years

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Hackney among worst boroughs in London for health inequality, new figures show

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 25 August 2017 at 14:55

Only residents in Tower Hamlets and Haringey spend longer in ill health, as Town Hall cites ‘financial deprivation’ and better life expectancy

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Diane Abbott reveals she has type 2 diabetes and hits out at ‘vicious and negative’ Tory campaign

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 14 June 2017 at 13:36
Diane Abbott MP

Hackney MP tells of health condition and blasts Theresa May for singling her out as part of the Conservatives’ campaign

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‘They helped me get my smile back’: NHS manager Mandy Stevens praises Hackney mental health staff

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 30 January 2017 at 17:27
Mandy Stevens said she wanted to go public to help break stigma around mental illness

Stoke Newington resident speaks candidly about depression that ‘ripped the heart and soul out of me’ following treatment at City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health

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Brain injury survivors show their artistic sides with first public exhibition at Stratford Circus

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 January 2017 at 16:19

Artists are all members of Headway, a Hackney-based charity that provides specialist support for the multitude of effects that can result from a serious brain injury

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Revealed: Hackney Council sprays around 1,200 litres of glyphosate in the borough each year

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 October 2016 at 13:35
pesticide glyphosate free hackney katharine hamnett

Weedkiller is ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ according to World Health Organisation, but Town Hall says it has been declared safe by the EU

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Mulberry University Technical College to open for September ’17 enrolment

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 September 2016 at 15:26
Mulberry UTC 1

The new building in Bow will have a range of creative and digital and healthcare facilities, from labs to studios and even a theatre

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Quitters a ‘priority’ but council failing to kick its own tobacco habit

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 August 2016 at 16:20
Hackney Council’s cabinet member for health Cllr Jonathan McShane

No cuts to Stop Smoking services in Hackney despite council investing millions in tobacco through pension fund

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Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott slams ‘sorry saga’ as junior doctors reject new contract

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 July 2016 at 18:05

‘Disappointing we still do not have contract that junior doctors feel able to support’

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Diane Abbott: Guarantee NHS workers from EU countries the right to remain in UK

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 July 2016 at 17:10
Diane Abbott with Homerton University Hospital chief nurse, Director of Governance, Head of Midwifery, Director, and the head of A&E

Shadow Secretary of State for Health told Homerton University Hospital staff that EU workers’ contributions were ‘invaluable’ to the NHS

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Stik art sale raises £32,500 at Christie’s auction for Hope charity at Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 May 2016 at 17:02
Sleeping Baby artworks

‘I never expected we’d get so much,’ said Stik

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