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Baby Loss Awareness Week: “My therapy sessions have become an important part of my recovery following pregnancy loss.”

THIS Baby Loss Awareness Week, Gemma Garstang, of Stansted Mountfitchet, shares her experiences accessing EPUT's (Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust) By Your Side...

Mental health trust criticised after suicide of Tilbury man

A MENTAL health trust has been criticised for its failure to support a 42-year-old patient who killed himself reports the Local Democracy Reporter. James Agius...

Dr Rangan Chatterjee The Thrive Tour – Coming to Southend

BEST Selling author and critically acclaimed podcast host, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee will embark on his first ever UK Live tour, The Thrive Tour: Be...

James McMurdock MP commends sepsis awareness debate

JAMES McMurdock, MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, has praised Lee Anderson MP for Ashfield for leading a vital debate in Parliament focused...

Perinatal loss support service marks one-year anniversary during Baby Loss Awareness Week

TODAY, on World Mental Health Day, and during Baby Loss Awareness Week, EPUT (Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust) is reminding everyone that its...

More bereaved parents offered baby-loss certificate

MORE bereaved parents in England will now be able to apply for a certificate to formally recognise the loss of their baby reports the...

Thurrock resident backs winter vaccinations

MID and South Essex NHS is encouraging people eligible for vaccinations to come forward and get vaccinated this winter. Some eligible people may not...

Amazon employees go the distance for mental health charities

400 Amazon employees from the fulfilment centres in Tilbury and Dartford have gone the distance and donated £2,000 to two mental health charities by...

Eye and ear checks to be offered to students with autism at school

CHILDREN and young people in England with special educational needs, including severe autism, are to be offered NHS eyesight, dental and ear checks in their...

Winter fuel allowance ‘risk’ being monitored by Essex hospitals

HOSPITALS in Essex have begun monitoring the number of elderly patients needing treatment because of the cold in response to the cut to the...

Thurrock tops list of worst GP shortages

SHORTAGES of doctors mean the average GP in England has to care for 17% more patients than nine years ago, a BBC analysis shows. It...

Black maternal mental health week focusses on well-being

BLACK Maternal Mental Health Week (23 to 29 September) focussed on the mental wellbeing of Black mothers and their children and addresses the disparities...

NHS campaigners demand more pay for ‘nurses who deserve more’ after pay offer refused

NHS campaigners in Essex are demanding more pay for nurses who “deserve more, as do their patients in their care” after the latest Government...

Healthy Heart Tip: The good and bad of cholesterol – what you need to know

DID you know that more than two in five people in England have high cholesterol? High cholesterol often goes untreated due to its lack...

Six NHS schemes that could help fix the health service

THE government in England is planning the biggest reimagining of the NHS in its history reports the BBC. It follows a damning report by surgeon...

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