Sam Volpe
Health Reporter at The Chronicle
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1 week ago |
autism.einnews.com | Sam Volpe
Patients with learning disabilities and autism suffered a "significant number of injuries" on NHS wards - while inspectors were also concerned about a rise in assaults on staff, too. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected three wards run by the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust - Mitford Unit in Morpeth, Rose Lodge in Hebburn, and Edenwood in Cumbria. As a result, it has rated the services as "requires improvement".
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2 weeks ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
A Newcastle man is running the London Marathon in memory of the woman whose heart saved his wife's life. Ciaran Carney-Hughes is taking on the 26 mile challenge to thank the kind stranger who donated her heart to his wife Charlotte, who was diagnosed with a condition called restrictive cardiomyopathy at just 19. Charlotte had a successful heart transplant in 2018, but this was only possible due to the devastating death of another woman, due to an asthma attack.
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2 weeks ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
An armed forces veteran and ex-firefighter is taking on a mammoth 650 mile bike ride - despite not being able to walk. John Chart, 54, has motor neurone disease (MND), but thanks to an adapted cargo bicycle, he is cycling from the Kingston Park home of the Newcastle Falcons rugby union team to 10 other top level rugby stadiums around the UK.
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2 weeks ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
One person remains in hospital after a Fenham crash which left a car "smoking", police confirmed. The incident is believed to have involved one car hitting another - stationary - vehicle, which then in turn hit a third vehicle, which was also stationary. The fire service had earlier confirmed that its staff had attended reports of smoke coming from a car and cut open the vehicle in question. The crash took place at around 2.30am in Two Ball Lonnen in the Fenham area.
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3 weeks ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
A new scheme is sharing the horrifying story of Gateshead's Alice Ruggles with schoolchildren around the region. Alice, 24, was murdered by ex-partner Trimaan Dhillon in her Bensham flat in October of 2016. The Northumbria University graduate had been victim to a campaign of stalking by Dhillon. Alice's parents - Clive Ruggles and Sue Hills - set up the Alice Ruggles Trust in her memory, and the trust runs a project delivering school assemblies across the North East.
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