After uncertainty at the start of the month over the future of St Luke’s Healthy Living Centre, Southend Borough Council’s Head of Policy and Improvement has said that the project will go ahead. In early June it was revealed that the plans for the health centre at Temple Sutton Primary School’s playing fields had...
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Southend West Conservative MP David Amess has further questioned the role of Marie Stopes International in delivering NHS reproductive health services. Mr Amess originally questioned Culture Minister Ed Vaizey over adverts for Marie Stopes International on Channel 4. His question revealed that there had been over 600 complaints from the public about the ad...
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Blaine Robin, the Conservative councillor for the Kursaal ward, has spoken out against Health Department plans to make nurses legally bound to inform patients of treatment errors. It was revealed in the Nursing Times last week that as part of the ‘corporate duty of candour’ proposed in the government’s coalition agreement, nurses could be...
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By Rachel Charman Conservative MP for Rochford and Southend East James Duddridge has asked questions in Parliament about the support for armed forces veterans with mental health care needs. In a Parliamentary debate yesterday, Mr Duddridge asked Kevan Jones, Parliamentary under secretary for veterans at the MOD: “What recent assessment he has made of...
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