Persistent bloating - not bloating that comes and goes
Feeling full quickly and/or loss of appetite
Pelvic or abdominal pain (tummy and below)
Urinary symptoms (needing to wee more urgently or more often than usual)
Changes in bowel habit (eg diarrhoea or constipation)
Extreme fatigue (feeling very tired)
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Officers investigating a road traffic collision near Sherborne are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At 5.50pm on Saturday 26 January 2019 Dorset Police received a report of a collision involving a single vehicle which had left the carriageway at Tiley Knap, Middlemarsh near Sherborne. The...
Mental Health Charity Attains Dorset Community Foundation Tampon Tax Grant
Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 16th January 2019. Pioneering mental health charity, Dorset Mind, announce today it has won a £4,500 grant to help provide a new support group for women and girls in rural Dorset, called Women in Mind for a year.
One in...
The NHS long term plan was announced last week, which explains how the healthcare service will develop over the next ten years. Cancer is mentioned as one of the focus areas of the long-term plan. However, there is a lack of focus on cancers like pancreatic cancer which currently cannot be screened for and are less...
A new support group for endometriosis, a condition that affects 1.5 million women in the UK, has launched in Poole. The group will be lead by Gemma Diaper, with the support of Endometriosis UK.
The first support group meeting will be held in the function room at The Grasshopper (139-141...
Christmas could have been a different story this year if it wasn’t for the fast action of staff at Dorset County Hospital.
Unmistakable in his red suit and shiny black boots, Father Christmas arrived unexpectedly at DCH in need of an operation.
Mr Claus came under the care of Vascular Consultant...
There has been recognition for Countrymen UK, based at the Future Roots Care Farm in Dorset, as they have scooped two awards over a short time by winning the Markel Third Sector Award in London in December. This follows the organisation’s national award in Sustainable Health Care under the...
HELP SAVE POOLE A&E and MATERNITY FOR XMAS 2018
The CCG has looked at the issue of patient safety with ‘rose tinted glasses’, which has led to a biased view towards their desired outcome and distracted them from the realities of the difficulty of providing safe, effective care for major...
Ok , in the real world I help stop people killing themselves with a drug overdose.
These were found yesterday and tested as being 3 times the normal dose. Please share, particularly with youngsters, these can kill.
Steve Sherlock
Matt Hancock MP
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
DHSS
Dear Secretary of State,
This correspondence is to bring to your attention the enormous opposition from residents in Dorset to the planned DCCG changes.
I also take note that Bournemouth Cll David d'Orton-Gibson, on behalf of Bournemouth Health Scrutiny Panel, has written to...
