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Make sure you check out The Healing Festival this weekend at Ventnor Botanic Garden - a wonderful showcase of holistic therapies and music surrounded by beautiful nature
Health and Social Care
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Below are Isle of Wight stories relating to health, wellbeing and social care.
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News OnTheWight shares the weekly results of positive Covid-19 tests and deaths on the Isle of Wight, as well as hospital admissions
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Inspectors found high levels of Legionella bacterium, which causes Legionnaires’ disease, in the pool and hot tubs
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Sister of Colwell ward, Tina Beardmore, says that over the years she's often found a patient with dementia sat outside her office saying they are waiting for a bus - these new signs will provide a familiar place where they can just sit in a quiet and safe environment.
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The Pathology team at St Mary's Hospital prefer to give their equipment names rather than referring to long numbers
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With a week to go until the deadline for care staff to have had two Covid jabs by, the Cabinet member for Adult Social Care urges care staff to get vaccinated
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Interest in attending the national NHS demonstration in London on 4th March is being canvassed and could result in free or subsidised travel for Islanders.
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This new weekly club will give people who live with anxiety the chance to meet together in a safe environment and learn new skills.
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Children's services on the Island will benefit from new equipment.
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Christine says the mood among the packed audience was one of disbelief, dismay, shock, anger and sadness after the screening and talk about the abolition of the NHS.
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News OnTheWight shares a roundup of deaths, vaccinations, hospital admissions and positive Covid-19 tests with age breakdowns on the Isle of Wight
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Bob Seely MP raised the issue of early diagnosis of skin cancer in Parliament. The campaign, known as "Zoe's Law", aims to change NHS medical practices to ensure all moles removed at private clinics are tested for melanoma
