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Dorset
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Please consider objecting. If you do object, please check whether your objection has appeared and, if it hasn't after 48 hours, please contact the Councils. Please note people are reporting that the objections that they have made are not appearing on the site - certainly at least one was made...
Local residents are being invited to hear more about Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s plans to develop the hospital site during a drop-in event. The Trust is hoping to expand its Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as establish an Integrated Care Hub as part...
Dorset Mind, the local mental health charity, has been awarded funding by Sport England and the National Lottery to help people to try new activities to help improve their physical and mental health. Through this work, Dorset Mind will support people experiencing mental health conditions – such as depression and anxiety – to build their...
George has been receiving mobility allowance after contracting meningitis and being left brain damaged , deaf, epileptic, peg fed, non verbal and unable to walk in 2008. Today his payment was not paid so I phoned up to be told he had a form sent to him in December to...
A clear explanation as to why health tourism is not the problem. The problem is, what 'Mr I want a privatised insurance based NHS Farage' refuses to acknowledge, is underfunding and profit based companies taking over important health care services. Farage is a blokey fake news merchant who feeds...
Young female doctors are two and half times likely to take their own lives. (University of Psychiatry) The reasons for suicide among doctors, as in the general population, are often related to untreated or under-treated depression, bipolar disorder, or substance misuse. We know that there are specific risk factors including GMC involvement,...
There are 2 factors: 1. There is no need to give all 3 vaccines at the same time other than financial cost to the NHS, separate vaccines require more medical staff time. Pharmaceutical companies only supply what they’re asked for. Giving multiple vaccines together does increase the risk of reaction damage. 2. ...
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the A31 near Bere Regis are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. Dorset Police was informed of the incident by the ambulance service at 11.08am on Thursday 18 April 2019. The collision happened at the turn-off to Winterborne Kingston...

Freedom and mental health

I do not know what freedom means. I know I have never experienced it and yet I have an idea what I would want it to mean as a lived experience. I cannot think of anything that could or would impact me more than having a quiet mind. That is...
What would you do if you needed to call the police, but were trapped in a situation in which speaking or making any noise would be dangerous? It’s a terrifying thought, and I genuinely hope nobody reading this ever finds themselves in that scenario. Thankfully, the Silent Solutions procedure was put...