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A RECORD number of ‘healthcare heroes’ have been nominated for accolades in an annual awards scheme. A total of 113 individuals and teams – in both clinical and non-clinical roles – as well as volunteers, carers and service users are up for honours in the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust You’re A Star Awards. The number of nominations – which have been submitted from across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven – is more than 60 per cent up on last year. They include a pilot scheme to improve support for people experiencing a mental health crisis; a clinic’s use of ‘foot selfies’ to help triage patients with diabetic foot ulcers; volunteer marshals at a Covid-19 testing site; a district nursing team which provides vital out-of-hours care; a ‘young involvement partner’ who helps the trust recruit staff; a home-visiting team which has been supporting vulnerable patients, families and carers throughout the pandemic, and carer ....
Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang They hung themselves from meat hooks, pelted their audience with offal – and blazed a trail for radical queer performance in Australia LoCarmen Thu 25 Feb 2021 11.30 EST Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 19.38 EST Sylvia and the Synthetics – Australia’s audacious drag provocateurs and underground LGBTQ pioneers – burned brightly and chaotically for the short two years of their reign. In 1972, Morris Spinetti, the group’s “founding mother”, was performing as a mime artist with Australia’s first female rock star, Wendy Saddington, when the concept was dreamt up with Paul Hock and Denis Norton. ....
A RECORD number of ‘healthcare heroes’ have been nominated for accolades in an annual awards scheme. A total of 113 individuals and teams – in both clinical and non-clinical roles – as well as volunteers, carers and service users are up for honours in the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust You’re A Star Awards. The number of nominations – which have been submitted from across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven – is more than 60 per cent up on last year. They include a pilot scheme to improve support for people experiencing a mental health crisis; a clinic’s use of ‘foot selfies’ to help triage patients with diabetic foot ulcers; volunteer marshals at a Covid-19 testing site; a district nursing team which provides vital out-of-hours care; a ‘young involvement partner’ who helps the trust recruit staff; a home-visiting team which has been supporting vulnerable patients, families and carers throughout the pandemic, and carer ....
Submitting. Paul Hogg, 56, has lost almost a third of his body weight. “I’d been trying to lose the weight - on and off - for around 20 years before I got proper, achievable targets sorted out,” he told The Gazette. Mr Hogg’s road, however, has not been straightforward, as - despite his overall weight loss during the period - he says the initial boredom of lockdown threw new obstacles in his way. He said: I put about nine pounds on during the first few weeks of the original lockdown. I was just sitting around the house doing nothing. I said to myself, ‘If I keep doing this, I’ll just put all the weight I’ve lost back on again – which I’d done before’. So that was when I decided to start going out for walks, walking all over the place, which helped me lose another three stone. ....