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Child life coach speaks on mental health as schools reopen

A youngsters’s life coach and counsellor from south London says the way forward for this technology “rests on a knife edge” as she speaks on education and the pandemic. Cassie Swift, 38,... Read more »
NHS 'privatisation' fears as 9 London GP surgeries taken over by US health insurance firm

NHS ‘privatisation’ fears as 9 London GP surgeries taken over by US health insurance firm

Nine GP practices in West London have quietly come underneath the management of a US personal health insurance firm, prompting fears of NHS privatisation. The practices – in Fulham, White City, Kensington,... Read more »
Boxing club owner forced to turn away 'angry' boxers as lockdown a 'ticking time bomb' for mental health

Boxing club owner forced to turn away ‘angry’ boxers as lockdown a ‘ticking time bomb’ for mental health

The lockdown ban on boxing gyms being open hasn’t stopped folks displaying up to practice at Stonebridge Boxing Club in Wembley, North London. Aamir Ali, its owner, typically has to turn away... Read more »
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Mental health charity fined £40,000 over teenager’s death in West London care home

A 12 months after she was admitted, Sophie Bennett, 19, was discovered hanged in a residential care home in Richmond, West London, in May 2016. The teenager from Tooting, who had bipolar,... Read more »
London close to reaching low emission requirements amid public health crisis – South London News

London close to reaching low emission requirements amid public health crisis – South London News

By Joe Talora, native democracy reporter Over 90 per cent of all automobiles in central London now adjust to the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) minimal requirements, new knowledge from City Hall has... Read more »
UK coronavirus: Six cases of mutant Brazilian variant discovered and health officials don't know where one is

UK coronavirus: Six cases of mutant Brazilian variant discovered and health officials don’t know where one is

Six cases of the P.1 Brazilian variant of coronavirus have been discovered within the UK for the primary time. Health officials are struggling to trace down one of the cases, after the... Read more »
Concerns West London kids are waiting too long for mental health appointments

Concerns West London kids are waiting too long for mental health appointments

Children and younger folks in Hillingdon needed to wait a mean of 46 days for a follow-up appointment after their preliminary mental health referral, recent evaluation reveals. Meanwhile the typical waiting occasions... Read more »
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Low score for Greenwich children’s mental health services

A London Assembly member has written to children’s mental health services in Greenwich urging ‘pressing intervention’ after it acquired a low score following a nationwide report. Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was... Read more »
Strikers were in high spirits at the Park Royal garage in west London

‘Bosses don’t care about our health,’ say striking London bus drivers

Strikers had been in excessive spirits on the Park Royal storage in west London (Pic: Man Smallman) The London bus drivers’ strike over pay and dealing situations continued to enrage the bosses... Read more »
Number of over 70s who have received Covid-19 vaccine in every local health group in England

Number of over 70s who have received Covid-19 vaccine in every local health group in England

The quantity of individuals aged over 70 who’ve been vaccinated towards Covid-19 in England has been revealed – with each area reporting that not less than 60% of the age group have... Read more »