Scrubbing up
Report by Judith Burnett Creative residents have formed a sewing network to make scrubs and washbags for NHS staff....
Tag: NHS
From the heart
Cardiac physiologist Susan Jamieson, founder of Specialist Cardiac Diagnostics, on how her home-based heart-scanning service is helping local NHS...
The problem with NHS outsourcing
Local service collapse shows NHS outsourcing doesn’t work, argues Norma Dudley from Waltham Forest Save Our NHS (WFSONHS) Jeremy...
We must fight for hospital’s future
Mary Burnett from Waltham Forest Save Our NHS on the latest discussions around the redevelopment of Whipps Cross Nearly...
Future of Whipps Cross ‘still undecided’
Boss of Leytonstone hospital’s redevelopment gives reassurances over land sales and beds, reports James Cracknell The man in charge...
Hospitals should not be hostile
Terry Day, co-chair of Waltham Forest Save Our NHS, speaks out over ‘hostile environment’ policies The government has relentlessly...
A fond farewell
Theresa Leslie, the site manager of Whipps Cross University Hospital, has retired after four decades working in Leytonstone I’ve...
The birth of the welfare state
Graham Millington looks at child mortality rates 100 years ago In 1917 the Bishop of London gave a speech...
New threat to local health services
‘Super managers’ could weaken local accountability, writes Mary Burnett Waltham Forest Save Our NHS is campaigning against changes being...
Money raised in man’s memory
Nearly £1,000 has been raised for charity following the sudden death of a Walthamstow man. Robin Allum-Cornforth, 30, died...