Parents urged to get their children vaccinated against polio
Parents and carers in Croydon are being urged to ensure that their children get their polio vaccine booster dose. NHS England says 157,000 London children have been vaccinated against polio since...
View ArticleCentrale’s vaccination centre leads way for autumn covid jabs
The covid-19 vaccination centre inside the Centrale shopping centre in Croydon has begun the roll-out of autumn booster jabs, for now being offered to those over 65 years old. The severely...
View ArticleNHS asks women to give themselves some life-saving T.L.C.
The NHS is urging women in Croydon to come forward for breast screening appointments when invited. Each year, more than 2million women across the country UK have breast screening. This helps around...
View ArticleNHS reduces waiting lists for treatment in London by 80%
The London NHS is claiming that it has reduced the number of people waiting more than 18 months for treatment by 80per cent over the past year. “Just one person waiting 18 months for treatment is too...
View ArticleLong-planned Coulsdon medical centre in ‘critical condition’
The long-planned development of the Coulsdon Medical Centre on the site of the CALAT building has been placed on hold. The front page of the latest edition of the newsletter from the Coulsdon West...
View ArticleCroydon surgeries where half GP consultations are by phone
Don’t get old. Don’t get ill. That was the warning about life under a Conservative government 40 years ago, and it holds true today, as ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, discovered when checking out...
View ArticleMore Londoners screened and treated for cancer than pre-covid
Thousands more people started vital treatment for cancer in the capital over the last year compared to before the pandemic, according to latest figures from the NHS in London, whose officials described...
View ArticleNHS issues advice for ambulance and nurses’ strike days
The planned strike days are: Wednesday January 11 from 11 am until 11pm – London Ambulance Service. Wednesday and Thursday January 18-19 – Royal College of Nursing members plan to take strike action at...
View Article14 NHS workers’ unions boycott ‘non-independent’ review body
Fourteen trades unions representing more than 1million nurses, ambulance staff, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and others working in the NHS in England, have today announced that they...
View ArticleLondon Chief Nurse urges careful planning over bank holidays
With a slew of bank holidays coming up in the coming month, the capital’s Chief Nurse is urging Londoners to plan your health needs carefully. The first bank holiday is May Day on Monday, but there’s...
View ArticleClancy moves up to top nurse job for NHS South West London
Elaine Clancy, the Chief Nurse at Croydon’s NHS Trust, working across Mayday and Purley hospitals, has been promoted to become the Chief Nursing Officer for the NHS across south-west London. As Chief...
View ArticleMayday Hospital issues A&E advice as NHS feels the heat
Croydon’s NHS hospitals are having to cope with a “perfect storm” this week of hot weather, dangerously toxic air pollution and a junior doctors’ strike, with NHS London issuing a reminder: “No one...
View Article£1million cost to Mayday Hospital of every doctors’ strike
As consultants and junior doctors begin the biggest industrial action in the history of the NHS, local trust’s CEO says it could take nine months to catch-up with the Croydon hospital’s back-log of...
View Article£15m NHS intensive care unit draws close to completion
Croydon’s NHS hospital’s £15million new intensive care unit is on course for completion with a few weeks, the latest part of a multi-million improvement to the hospital conducted in the last five...
View ArticleCoulsdon ‘shafted’ by Tories as NHS centre site put up for sale
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After an eight-year wait for a new health centre, residents have been shocked to discover the council flogging off the promised site. And now Mayor Perry claims there’s nothing he...
View Article‘Underhand’ Tories blame residents for medical centre delays
The almighty row in Coulsdon over a long-promised medical centre has seen the local Tories panicked into issuing multiple press releases to stake claim to some kind of “victory”, after the Tory-led...
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