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Dig deep (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Compared to Malaysia, there are very, very few birds around the places we've visited so far, and also compared to my memories of the UK ten years ago. Of course, the season doesn't help, nor the fact that it gets dark in mid-afternoon, but still - the birdlessness is quite an unpleasant shock! One of the few birds that still visits my parents' bird feeder - a European Goldfinch. Even Robins, House...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A man who suffered serious injuries in an assault outside a nightclub in Norfolk is critical but stable in hospital.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A 14-year-old girl left severely disabled following her birth at a Norfolk hospital has won a multi-million pound settlement.
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wellbeingnewseditor | 11/03/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Norfolk > Edited by Andy Porter: Health experts at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital will give a talk on stroke care, aimed at the public, from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 12 November 2009 in the hospital’s Benjamin Gooch Lecture Theatre... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland >
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Wellbeing Newsline: Norfolk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Benjamin Gooch Lecture Theatre, 12 November Edited by Andy Porter: Health experts at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital will give a talk on stroke care, aimed at the public, from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 12 November 2009 in the hospital’s Benjamin Gooch Lecture Theatre. Those attending will hear more about the new life–saving Thrombolysis [clot–busting] Service, the early supported...
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What's happening at Barrett & Coe (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
One of the most succesful PR projects I ever did was 'Faces of Norwich'. Portraits in many different locations, often illustrating the sitters hobby or work, of 70 of the leading Norwich figures in Politics, Relgion, Education, Sport, Legal, Arts, Media, Health etc. All the portraits were displayed in 20 x 30 or larger art frames on a special opening night. No one had been allowed to see their portrait...
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mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
There is a current controversy in Norfolk. Norfolk is a very rural county. Apart from in the county town of Norwich, most people seem to be engaged in agriculture and even the local football team is nicknamed "The Tractormen". It is one of those places about which townies make lewd jokes suggesting that there are a lot of brother-sister marriages. The implication is that people who live there...
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The Sagely Wisdom of a British Eccentric (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
My brother Mark had been considering voluntary work at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital.But he decided that as the sort of work they wanted him to do, working on the wards wasn't for him, we e mailed them on the 17th to let them know he had decided against going further. So imagine our annoyance when today he receives a letter from the complaining that he didn't go. The whole point of voluntary work...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Two hospitals in Norfolk are recruiting 24 extra midwives to boost its service for pregnant woman.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to ensure they look after young workers, after two Norfolk teenagers suffered electric shocks while working on a farm near Thetford. One of the teenagers had to have his little toe and part of his big toe amputated from his left foot. He has also been left with long scars where cuts were made to relieve the pressure build-up in his legs.
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Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
BIG RESEARCH DAY HANDS OUT HOT TIPS Tips on how to run a successful mental health research project will be revealed during a special ‘Big Research Day’ at the UEA Sportspark on November 13 2009. “Speakers will be focussing on how good ideas for research projects can be successfully brought to fruition,” said Brenda Jones, research manager at Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health...
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robertatforsythe (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
This bit of blogging has not seen much activity lately. That has been concentrated on http://forsytheonthenrm.blogspot.com/ . The more personal bit of our lives has not been idle though. We are in the countdown to being 50. What a bind especially when the medics tell you it is a good time to start taking insulin for Type 2 diabetes. All the cream cakes of youth catching up with one. However "To...
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EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
TWO separate crashes in Norfolk have today caused traffic chaos with motorists slowly trying to make their way past the accidents which happened in almost identical spots either side of the carriageway.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Ten organisations from the NHS, local government and education apply for a share of £10m to create a new team focusing on health issues in Norfolk.
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Ask or Answer. (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
26 year old Kerrie Wooltorton , who was physically healthy but said to have an 'incurable personality disorder' and who had attempted suicide eight times previously , swallowed poison then called for an ambulance to take her to hospital . She arrived in the Norfolk and Norwich hospital clutching a piece of paper signed by her , a 'living will' , which made it abundantly clear that , according to her...
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wellbeingnewseditor | 11/03/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Norfolk > Edited by Andy Porter: Health experts at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital will give a talk on stroke care, aimed at the public, from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 12 November 2009 in the hospital’s Benjamin Gooch Lecture Theatre... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales > Greater...
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wellbeingnewseditor | 09/02/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Norfolk > Edited by Andy Porter: Building work has began on a 24–bed stroke rehabilitation unit and a 24–bed general rehabilitation unit based at the Norwich Community Hospital site on Bowthorpe Road, in Norwich. The new stroke unit is part of improvements in services for stroke patients, undertaken by NHS Norfolk, to reduce the number of deaths and disabilities, and improve the...
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wellbeingnewseditor | 08/08/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Norfolk > Edited by Andy Porter: To ensure that local healthcare services manage the predicted increase in dementia in an ageing population, the Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust plans to build a centre of excellence in Norwich. The 36–bed Dementia Intensive Care Unit [DICU] will be built at the Trust’s Julian Hospital site in Norwich and open the winter of...
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