Screening for cancer has made so much difference in the fight against the decease, and has led to so many becoming cancer survivors. Yet in spite of this and all the hype around cancer screening saving lives, there are five million non responders. For some, it is actually going for screening which puts them off. […]

The problem with the winter fuel payment is that everyone born before 23 September 1958 is entitled to it. It is a universal benefit. You can be super rich and still have it paid to you. I don’t think that is fair, do you? Having said that, the way that the new Labour Government has […]

Wednesday, 25th SEPTEMBER 2024, 9:30am-12:30pm sees the second of our popular health awareness drop-in sessions at the Hive Hub, New Invention Square, Lichfield Rd, Willenhall WV12 5EA The first session in July was a great success, so we are hoping that this second session proves equally successful. Save the date in your diaries, Wednesday 25th […]

I received the following off the Black Country Integrated Care Board Involvement Team recently. Thought I would share it with you. People living in the Black Country are being invited to share their views on the future of primary care.? The NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) is working with GPs and health leaders […]

– Willenhall Liberal Democrats urge Labour MPs to vote against cut to Winter Fuel Payments for local pensioners – 13,534 pensioners in Wolverhampton North East at risk of losing the £300 payment this winter – Local Liberal Democrats call on the government to “rethink” the cut so that local vulnerable pensioners continue to get the […]

The 9th July saw the launch of a new bottom-up approach to raising cancer awareness in the community and was voted a great success by those who attended. These drop-in sessions are very much a close collaboration between healthcare professionals based in The Manor Hospital Walsall, the Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) who brought […]

The 25th June 2024 is another one of those days which I will not forget in a hurry. It was the day set aside for the second bit of major surgery to remove the remainder of my colon. Some of you may remember back in October last year I had part of my colon removed […]

The 25th June 2024 is one of those days which I will not forget in a hurry. It was the day set aside for the second bit of major surgery to remove the remainder of my colon. Some of you may remember back in October last year I had part of my colon removed following […]

The past couple of months have, for me, been the stuff of nightmares. As someone who has enjoyed relatively good health most of my life to suddenly find out that something potentially life threatening is happening to you can only be described as earth shattering. It all started back in August following a blood test […]