Health

South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is urging people and businesses to take action on Stress Awareness Day (November 4).  Stress itself is not a medical diagnosis, but severe stress that continues for a long time may lead to a diagnosis of depression or anxiety, or more severe mental health problems. Many of life’s demands can cause stress, particularly work, relationships and ...

Anyone planning to visit Johnson Community Hospital is asked to stay at home if they or their family members have had diarrhoea, vomiting or flu-like symptoms in the last four days. The request from Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) is to help keep ‘winter vomiting’ or norovirus away from vulnerable patients and staff who could pass it on. ...

When four-year-old Lucas Devaney was diagnosed with blood cancer, his elder brother’s first thought was to find a way to support him. Ethan (6) picked up his guitar and put some coins into a cup. Mum Joanne asked him what he was doing. “I’m raising money for Lucas,” came the reply. Six months after that touching moment, the fundraising campaign ...

The annual nasal spray flu vaccine is now available for children in Lincolnshire from the school nursing team at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust. The nasal spray vaccine contains flu viruses that have been weakened to stop them causing flu. It will help a child build up immunity to flu in a similar way as natural infection (but without ...

A transfer of adult home care provision has been criticised as chaotic and upsetting to some vulnerable users. Lincolnshire County Council says it has changed its contracts to ensure the market can continue to support the ever-growing demand. There are now 12 prime providers rather than the 70 which the council used to contract. In Gosberton, one elderly man was ...

Parents and carers now have access to a wealth of information thanks to the school nursing section of the Lincolnshire Healthy Families website, part of Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS). The school nursing service offers support and advice to children and young people in a variety of locations whether they attend a mainstream school, or other types of ...

South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is supporting Stoptober! – England and Wales’ mass 28-day stop smoking challenge, which starts today.(October 1) Someone who quits smoking for Stoptober, and doesn’t smoke again, could gain an extra seven days of life, every 28 days, for the rest of their life. Along with the health benefits, stopping will save the average smoker almost ...

Munro Medical Centre is taking bookings for free flu protection. The sessions are at its Spalding surgery this Saturday (October 3) and Saturday, October 17, and at the Church Walk branch in Pinchbeck on Wednesday, October 14. Patients considered at risk of flu include all aged 65 years and over, people living in residential care, main carers of the elderly ...

Patients in South Lincolnshire are being offered free blood pressure checks as part of Know Your Numbers Week, which runs until Sunday (September 20). NHS South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is urging patients to visit www.bloodpressureuk.org to find their nearest pressure station. The free checks will be taking place in many local pharmacies in Lincolnshire. The tests, which help ...

A Spalding man whose mother won a landmark victory to have his birth certificate amended to female when he was a child is now fighting for it to revert to being male. Joe Holliday was born with a rare defect that led to his genitalia being partially unformed and although at birth he was registered male, when he was 11 ...

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust has demonstrated good practice across all areas of service for infection prevention and control. According the 2014/15 Infection Prevention and Control report, the Trust’s performance standards in relation to reducing the numbers of avoidable infections or “superbugs” including MRSA, MSSA, Clostridium difficile and Escherichia coli, continues to be achieved. For the reporting period, LCHS ...

South Holland District Council is asking Voice readers to back a scheme urging people not to smoke at children’s play areas. Officers also want to know if there is an appetite to see that rolled out to outside schools and nurseries too. The move follows our report on June 25 (pictured) of a call by Spalding father Mark Le Sage ...

A Spalding primary school took delivery of a new kitchen on Saturday (July 11). St John the Baptist in Hawthorn Bank was successful in a bid to the government to receive funding for a kitchen to be able to supply fresh hot meals to their pupils on site. The school said: “The kitchen comes in the form of a pod in which there ...

An event based on NHS health and care services is being held in Spalding. The NHS is inviting anyone who has a story to tell about health or care services to share their experience on Tuesday, July 14 (9.30am-12.30pm) at Springfields Events and Conference Centre. The event will be attended by representatives from across the health and care community who will ...

Spalding resident Mark Le Sage has organised a mental health awareness walk on Friday, July 3, in conjunction with the NHS Walking For Health Group. The walk in Ayscoughfee Gardens, Churchgate, Spalding will last between 30 minutes and an hour and begins at 11am. Mark knows the value of mental health, having been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ...

An infection prevention nurse at The Johnson Community Hospital, Spalding, has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse. Gale Bull based is now the 17th Queen’s Nurse at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS). “I am very proud to be a Queen’s Nurse and to be a part of the fantastic Queen’s Nurse Institute network,” said Gale, who was nominated ...

A team from Spalding’s Johnson Community Hospital has been nominated for The EBP Investors In Education Awards in recognition of its partnership with local schools and for providing high quality work experience opportunities. The team has been providing work experience opportunities for several years. Annette Goulding, administrator at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS), said: “Our team at Johnson Community Hospital ...

NHS South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group is supporting Dementia Awareness Week, which runs from Monday (May 17) to Sunday, May 23. Dementia is arguably the biggest health crisis facing the UK and there are currently around 850,000 people diagnosed with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025. In Lincolnshire, it is estimated that 10,502 ...

Helpful advice and support for people affected by dementia will be on offer at a special event in Spalding. A Dementia Support and Awareness event is being held at St Barnabas Hospice in Clover Way on Friday, May 22 from 10am until 2pm. People living with dementia, carers, friends and support networks are invited to come along. Visitors can find ...

The patient who nominated a Long Sutton case manager for the Queen’s Nurse title has told of her joy at the award. Christine Wicks, who suffers from systemic actinomycosis, put Claire Walpole forward for her unstinting palliative care. The condition affects around one in 300,000 people and, for Christine, it affects all parts of her body, causing pain and “a ...