Health

Specialist cancer treatment in America for Deeping St Nicholas lad Kieran Taylor got under way on Tuesday (June 20). The seven-year-old, who had a brain tumour removed last year, will have daily proton beam therapy for six weeks in Florida. The NHS-sponsored therapy, currently not available in the UK, deals with types of cancer in critical areas when it is ...

Moulton Medical Centre has been given a “good” bill of health by the Care Quality Commission. A recent inspection was carried out with the purpose of ensuring “sufficient improvement” after a “requires improvement” rating in 2015. The latest report, published last month, gave a “good” rating in all assessed categories: safe, effective, caring, well led, responsive to people’s needs. Key ...

Directors of Holbeach Hospital are hopeful of securing a second planning consent to increase its beds by a total 50 per cent and potentially create around 20 new caring roles. A few weeks ago, the hospital, which has a focus on nursing, residential and end-of-life care, got consent for an eight-bed expansion. Plans now awaiting determination are for an additional ...

The new Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance helicopter became operational today (June 14).   The state-of- the-art AgustaWestland 169 (AW169), based at RAF Waddington, will undertake an average of three life-saving missions every day. The aircraft has significant benefits and will enhance patient care. It is bigger, giving paramedics and doctors 360-degree access to patients in flight; it is faster ...

Five Spalding social care workers are celebrating after being recognised for improving the lives of others.   Zoe Ayliff and Caroline James both won in their categories at the Making Space Employee Awards, held to recognise the national heath and social care charity’s 35th anniversary.   Caroline, a support worker at learning disability respite service Cedar House, received the award ...

A new NHS dental practice is to open in Spalding by the end of this year. It will offer routine and urgent care to patients from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. NHS England Central Midlands has commissioned Rodericks Dental Ltd, a Northampton-based business with 70 dental practices across England and Wales. Rodericks declined to give any further information ...

A yoga teacher from Whaplode St Catherine has joined an elite band of instructors after an impulsive decision to jet off to America for specialist training.     Lynn Exley, who runs Wellbeing for Living, decided to join the Foundation Training scheme after struggling with a bad back.   Despite the intensive training being held in Florida, Lynn decided to ...

A lapse in concentration by a long-time Spalding GP may have contributed to his death in a road traffic accident, an inquest has heard.   Dr Charles Lennon, who had been at the Munro Medical Centre in West Elloe Avenue for 28 years, was cycling along the A15 near Thurlby when he was in collision with a bus.   The inquest ...

Patients recovering in hospital are now able to access a small collection of Polish books, thanks to kind donations from members of an online support group.   Staff from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) made an appeal for books written in Polish after a special request for help from a homeless patient, who did not have anything to ...

A renewed bid is to be made to enable expansion of Pinchbeck doctors’ surgery – turned down earlier this year after residents expressed fears about parking issues.     Munro Medical Centre, of which the Church Walk surgery is part, has been told it can still access the NHS England funding to enable the plan, which may have been lost ...

The owners of a Spalding care home have appeared in court accused of breaching health and safety regulations following alleged incidents involving residents.     Apex Care Ltd face three charges of failing to carry out the provision of residential care in a way that ensured the safety of residents was not put at risk.     The charges, brought ...

Free CPR demonstrations are taking place in Spalding tonight (Thursday).   The initiative is part of the BBC Radio Lincolnshire ‘Save A Life’ campaign.   St John Ambulance is one of the partners in this initiative which aims to teach 10,000 people CPR skills.   The demonstrations last between 30 and 45 minutes and will take place at 6.30pm and ...

NHS patients in South Lincolnshire have faced days of disruption following an international cyber attack. Hundreds of appointments were cancelled and only emergency work carried out at many NHS organisations nationwide after computers went down on Friday. On Tuesday (May 16), it was understood that no South Holland GP surgery was yet offering a full “business as usual” service and ...

A network of health walks in the county has a bright future after Lincolnshire Co-op stepped in with fresh support. There are more than 60 regular, volunteer-run health walks across the seven districts. They come under the national Walking for Health scheme, run in partnership by the Ramblers and Macmillan Cancer Support. The free walks boost people’s fitness and wellbeing. ...

Care for new mothers and babies will be enhanced thanks to a new £71,713 training programme for midwives and doctors at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn. Increasing the number of home births and reducing the rate of caesarean sections are among the hopes for the new programme, which will start later this year. The hospital is among 136 ...

Hovenden House at Fleet is to close this summer due to “considerable” repair costs. Leonard Cheshire Disability is shutting the service which gives a range of nursing and residential care to 23 adults. The future of the 42 staff is also uncertain. A spokesperson for the charity said: “We always aim to offer the best quality service in modern accessible ...

Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital has been rated “inadequate” in a Care Quality Commission report published on Tuesday.(April 11) The areas of surgery, critical care, and services for children and young people were all rated “good”, but medical care (including older people’s care) and outpatients and diagnostic imaging were both deemed “inadequate”. Urgent and emergency services and maternity and gynaecology are each ...

Long-serving and well-known community nurse Linda Stafford is looking forward to rest and family time, having retired after 44 years in healthcare.   Most recently serving as an advanced nurse practitioner with Beechfield Medical Centre in Spalding, Linda spent more than 20 years as a community nurse firstly in Spalding and then Long Sutton and Holbeach.   She said: “I ...

Women aged 50 or over are being urged to use a free breast screening service based in Long Sutton for the next couple of months. The mobile screening unit, run by the Lincolnshire Breast Screening Service will be at Long Sutton Medical Centre in Trafalgar Square until approximately the end of May. Women aged between 50 and 70 from this practice will be automatically invited for screening. Women aged ...

Too many children and patients are missing out on vital immunisations and life-saving cancer screening in South Holland. Figures for take-up of MMR vaccines in Lincolnshire have been identified as requiring improvement and South Holland’s are the worst, according to a summary report of quality assurance visits to south Lincolnshire’s 15 GP clinics. Take up for screening for bowel and ...