Sam Volpe
Health Reporter at The Chronicle
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6 days ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
An "amazing" mum-of-five died just months after being told she had gallbladder cancer. Kenton Bar's Tracy Smith Trenholme was just 43 when she died last week on April 10 - and had only been diagnosed with cancer in January. Her husband Ian told ChronicleLive that she had been an incredible woman who did everything possible for their children.
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6 days ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
Ex-miner Tom Hedley, 87, is wheeling himself 73 miles - the length of Hadrian's Wall - in the upstairs corridor of his care home to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. Tom's wife Sheila, to whom he has been married for 56 years, has lived with Alzheimer's disease for around five years. Heartbreakingly, she now lives in a different care home to Tom, who lives at Ashington Grange Care Home in the Northumberland town.
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6 days ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
Each month, at the Kingston Park home of the Newcastle Falcons, a different flock meets. A Motor Neurone Disease Association support group welcomes those with the incurable condition and their loved ones - and makes a huge difference to their lives. Led by Linda McNally, Dawn Nichol and Julia Harris - each of whom have close personal experience of Motor Neurone Disease - which remains a fatal neurological disease with no cure.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Sam Volpe
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1 week ago |
chroniclelive.co.uk | Sam Volpe
After ten days of disruption, Gateshead hospital bosses confirmed on Thursday that a "critical incident" affecting patient care had been resolved. Chiefs at the Gateshead Health NHS Trust, which runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, confirmed a failure to an IT system used for the storing and viewing of patient scans had been fixed. The incident first came to light on April 7, when the trust formally declared a critical incident.
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Critical incident declared in Gateshead this week. IT failure. Likely to have a significant impact given how fundamental imaging is to patient care.
Gateshead NHS declares critical incident with patients warned of treatment delays 🚨 https://t.co/E9BPKJzQ7v
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