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Did you know that there are 33 million people living with HIV worldwide and that 80,000 of those are in...
Health and Social Care
If you are interested in news from the Isle of Wight NHS, this is the place to find it. We cover details of policy, staffing, medical interest and more.
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Below are Isle of Wight stories relating to health, wellbeing and social care.
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A few weeks ago we popped along to the Public Health Department to chat with Chlamydia Screening Coordinator, Sarah Stringer,...
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We love having news from around the Island to share with our readers and the latest from our friends at...
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Latest news in from the IW Primary Care Trust is that results from a recent survey show that 63 per...
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How about this for bizarre stories. According to the Daily Mail (not our usual rag, but was picked up by...
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Christmas is fast approaching and as we all know, it tends to be a time when services can be limited....
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Earlier in the month, the Isle of Wight Council and the NHS launched a campaign aiming to reduce harmful drinking...
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Congratulations to Glenn Smith, a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability at St Mary’s Hospital who was last week awarded...
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If you are dissatisfied with the services offered by your GP and would like a say in improving them, a...
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Anyone with a long term health condition knows only too well that anything to help make life easier is as...
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We’re greatly saddened to hear that the hugely-inspirational Asa Singleton has suffered a stroke. The stroke was caused by pressure...
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If you used the emergency services on the Island during January and March last year, you may be one of...
