28/11/2011
pastingMajor trade unions are balloting members on whether to take industrial action in protest at the Government’s intended reform of public sector pensions. If industrial action follows the date planned is Wednesday 30 November 2011 and is likely to take the form of a strike. Anne Gibbs, Director of Operations for West Middlesex University Hospital said "Patient safety remains our key priority so we have been working on plans to safeguard our services and prevent or minimise any impact o...
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23/11/2011
pastingPutting People First (PPF) - the government's vision for the personalisation of adult social care, aims to increase people's choice and control over how their needs are met. Person centred care is not new but, it has been widely acknowledged that, in the past, success in achieving positive outcomes has been constrained by the range of services available.The Hounslow LINk is currently undertaking a project to review the progress of the implementation of Putting People First in Hounslow. W...
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11/11/2011
We are fortunate to have one of the most modern and well equipped hospitals in the area, and continue to invest and improve our facilities here. If you have visited us recently, particularly as an outpatient or attending our accident and emergency department, you will have noticed some very visible changes. Work has started on a purpose built urgent care centre in front of our A&E department. This will mean that patients needing emergency treatment will continue to be seen in A&E whilst ...
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10/11/2011
The first meeting of people and organisations who are interested in signing up for or
just learning more about the Hounslow Local Involvement Network will take place on Thursday 24th July 2008 from 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm at the St Giles Hotel, Hounslow Road, Feltham, TW14 9AD.
The meeting is open to the public and as many people as possible representing or interested in health and social care are being encouraged to attend.
Local Involvement Networks (LINks) are networks of local people, or...
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16/11/2010
Local residents openly discussed the delicate subject of death and dying at an event hosted by the Hounslow Local Involvement Network (LINk).The LINk gave local people the chance to share their views on how End of Life Care is provided in the borough and how it could be improved at a public meeting held on Thursday 11th November.End of Life Care means caring for people in the last months, weeks and days of their life, whether in their own home, a care home, a hospital or a hospice. It also provi...
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02/10/2009
Half of Hounslow's school children are expected to contract swine flu in a new surge of the disease later this month.
As children returned to school after the summer holidays, cases of the H1N1 virus increased by a third last week.
As the weather turns colder, health chiefs are predicting a more severe bout of the virus. The Hounslow Council report predicts that at its peak 9% of its staff will be off work at once, for such a situation may include cancelling non critical operations and re...
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12/11/2008
Last week a National Audit Office report found that people in England find it easier to make complaints through the adult social care system than the NHS but that a number of improvements were still needed to be made.
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