Health

A DAD from Grays, is taking on the London Marathon to raise money for The Sick Children’s Trust, the charity that supported him when...

THE majority of people living with chronic pain[i] in the UK (69%) had to visit multiple general practitioners (GPs) and wait more than a year before receiving an official diagnosis, with more than one quarter of people (28%) waiting three years or more. This insight comes as part of a survey of people living with chronic pain, conducted to mark pain awareness month (September) by an independent research agency on behalf of Boston Scientific.

SIXTY advanced paramedics are being recruited into the East of England Ambulance Service to help bring down the number of people needing to be...

DO your bit is the call from the local NHS as the COVID-19 autumn booster jab programme launches this week. In the coming weeks, care...

THIS 'Know Your Numbers' week (5 -11 September 2022) people across mid and south Essex are being encouraged to have their blood pressure taken...

MILLIONS of people will be invited for their autumn Covid booster jab in England and Scotland next week, with care home residents the first to receive them.

BEACONS of green light will shine out across Essex next month as landmarks across the area join the campaign to encourage us all to think about how we can support suicide prevention. 

THE local NHS is reminding people not to leave it too late to order repeat prescriptions ahead of the bank holiday next week. 

D call for deeds not words, as Tory leadership candidates pledge to fix dental crisis

THURROCK has played a major role in the establishment of a new specialist mental health service - and one borough man has told how it literally saved his life. 

A PATIENT who was in so much pain that it left her housebound has had a life-changing device fitted.

PATIENTS will now have essential information about the hospital at their fingertips thanks to new placemats. The new initiative came about as a result of...

THE large number of unfilled NHS job vacancies is posing a serious risk to patient safety, a report by MPs says reports the BBC. It...

GRAYS residents are being asked for their views on the potential options for the future location of GP services to support the Grays Integrated Medical and Wellbeing Centres.

EVERYONE aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster vaccine this autumn to top up their immunity and cut their risk of becoming severely ill reports the BBC.