Healthwatch Dorset has been finding out more about women’s experience of screening services to help inform local GP’s and the national NHS screening programme.
Fewer women are going for cervical and breast screening appointments. According to the NHS, 1 in 4 women did not attend a cervical screening appointment in...
The family of a man who died in a fatal road traffic collision near Sherborne has issued a tribute.
At 5.50pm on Saturday 26 January 2019 Dorset Police received a report of a collision involving a single vehicle that had left the carriageway at Tiley Knap, Middlemarsh. The passenger, 37-year-old...
A passenger involved in a road traffic collision near Sherborne in January has sadly died from his injuries.
At 5.50pm on Saturday 26 January 2019 Dorset Police received a report of a collision involving a single vehicle that had left the carriageway at Tiley Knap, Middlemarsh. The vehicle involved was...
UNITEDHEALTH IN THE NHS: In 2014, America’s largest health insurer UnitedHealth saw their President of global expansion, Simon Stevens, installed as Chief Executive of the NHS in England.
UnitedHealth is now embedding its subsidiary company OPTUM as an integral part of NHS GP care nationwide, including in DORSET, through its...
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision in North Dorset are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At 12.22pm today, Friday 15 February 2019, Dorset Police received a report of a collision on the C13 by the junction with Mill Street near to Fontmell Magna. The...
No one can say how much depression is a genetically determined condition and how much it is a response to lived experience. Whilst genetics cannot be ruled out, lived experience is something that must be ruled in because depression, like poverty, is a whole lot more than just a...
Scott Mitchell, the husband of acting legend Barbara Windsor, has today issued a Valentine’s Day call for people to heed NHS advice and check loved ones for signs of dementia.
The couple have spoken movingly about the former EastEnders and Carry On star’s battle with the disease in an effort to...
According to the South West Trades Union Congress, there are some 1,200 people in Dorset whose main job is a zero-hours contract.
But this is not by choice – the TUC conducted a poll which found two-thirds of zero-hours workers want to be on permanent and secure contracts.
The TUC has...
If you have not read the work of Steven Lukes start now. Read the 'third dimension of power'. Read how we are not so much controlled by the spin attached to what they do tell us (although that is very important) but by everything that they choose not to...
3 weeks ago, I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I could only feel the lump whilst lying down and it completely disappeared standing up. Most websites tell you to check for lumps in the shower but if I had followed this advice, the lump may have grown too large to...
