Young people living in the Woodbridge area have begun benefiting from an innovative project – dubbed @16 – designed by patients from Framfield House Surgery. From mid-November, registered patients turning 16 have been receiving an information pack offering details, contacts and guidance about managing their own mental and physical healthcare. While not widely understood, the…
Specialist nurses from a West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT) team are supporting a nationwide campaign to train people to take immediate action when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. Increasing the number of people in our local community who can intervene, from carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to knowing where defibrillators are stored, could save…
Catering for 300 guests at the Royal opening of EACH’s new hospice near Norwich, The Nook, is being sponsored by The Hotel Folk, who own and run six hotels and event venues across Suffolk. The opening on Friday will be attended by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, Royal Patron for EACH (East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices)….
A specialised group of volunteers at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust are estimated to have saved hospital staff more than 700 hours over a thirteen-month period. Wearing a bright red uniform, the hospital ‘bleep’ volunteers are available to run errands across the West Suffolk Hospital site – each volunteer carries a phone on their…
The new state-of-the-art acute assessment unit at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust was officially opened by Jo Churchill, MP. This dynamic unit has been helping the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds to transform how emergency patients are assessed and treated. It is designed to support emergency patients and GP referrals that need…
It was in the Silver Jubilee year of 1977 that Penny Merritt first put on a nurse’s uniform when she started her training that September in Harrow just after her 18th birthday. Forty-two years on, Penny Pidgeon, as she is now, has just retired from the Mildenhall and Brandon integrated neighbourhood team, part of West…
Businesses in Ipswich are being urged to sign up for an innovative Lunch and Lean workshop, courtesy of local fitness firm Stoic Performance. The interactive 30-minute lunchtime seminars are an opportunity for local businesses to engage in proactive health and wellbeing initiatives. In 2017/18, up to 34.3 million days of productivity were lost due to…
People in West Suffolk with a devastating condition which affects their speech are being supported to use pioneering technology to create a permanent “voice bank” for their loved ones. Voice banking allows a person to record phrases which can then be converted to create a personal synthetic voice when they no longer have the ability…