Health News
Racing and bingo for CF
Plans are in place for two fund raisers coming up in aid of a local Cystic Fibrosis charity.
Donation to stroke unit
Proceeds from the recent production of “Footprints – Songs of the Slea” have been presented to Lincoln County Hospital Stroke Unit. The show raised £650 for the unit.
County health scrutiny committee welcomes’s Jeremy Hunt’s suspension of plans to scrap children’s heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital
Lincolnshire’s Health Scrutiny Committee has welcomed the decision to suspend plans to end children’s congenital heart surgery at three hospitals, including Glenfield in Leicestershire.
Gluten free food fair
A food fair to raise awareness of just what gluten free food is out there for sufferers of coeliac disease is being held near Sleaford.
Raising awareness of dementia
The county council’s Adult Social Care and the Alzheimer’s Society are working together to give communities and carers a better understanding of how to help people with the condition during Dementia Awareness Week.
Ambulance service gets £3.5 million fine
Bosses at East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) insist that they are improving – despite again being fined for not hitting a response target.
Charity effort in great clothes throw event
Slimmers in the Sleaford area are dropping pounds and bagging up all the clothes they’ve slimmed out of to raise money for a good cause in The Big Slimming World Clothes Throw.
Brownies’ big bounce for Cystic Fibrosis
Fundraisers have been bouncing for pounds and selling lots of yummy cakes, all to raise money for a good cause.
Showcase for health projects
Mental health projects that have received grants from Lincolnshire’s Mental Illness Prevention Fund will be showcasing their achievements.
New NHS lobby group invited to contribute
The chairman of Lincolnshire’s Health Scrutiny Committee is issuing an invitation to the campaign group “Cure the NHS Lincolnshire” to attend future meetings as observers to see the work of the committee first hand.
New medical group meets
South West Clinical Commissioning Group is the new NHS body which is planning and buying health services for people in Sleaford, Grantham and surrounding villages.
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Weather for Sleaford
Tuesday 18 June 2013
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