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How a cup of coffee started something fantastic in Blackpool
When we hear that only 20% of our health needs can be met by medical interventions it’s hard to imagine why we don’t invest our time and money more heartily in finding and fixing [...]
‘Good’ rating for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals from Care Quality Commission
Epsom and St Helier hospitals have been rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission - the independent regulator of health and social care services in England - after a comprehensive inspection of services [...]
Welcome to Thistopia
Thomas More described an ideal world 500 years ago in a book whose title has now become synonymous with an unattainable state of perfect society: Utopia. It is an odd book, written by a [...]
Multi-Professional Reference Panels will help address clinical variation
The pilot for the first Surrey Heartlands Academy Multi-Professional Reference Panel launched last month. Health and social care professionals with a clinical interest in Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), including stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cardiac arrhythmias, [...]
Looking forward to the introduction of a Surrey Heartlands integrated mental health service
These days we are hearing a lot more in the news about mental health. There has been a lot of media coverage about Mental Health Awareness Week, (just finished) including an interesting programme on [...]
Surrey Heartlands recognises the carers among its staff
Astonishing new figures published recently by Carers UK report that one in five NHS staff members are juggling work with care and struggling to do so. Sixty percent of us will become carers as [...]