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• Health and Social Care Secretary announces half a billion rollout to improve patient care

  20-07-2018 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
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  In his first major speech since taking post last week, the Health and Social Care Secretary this morning announced a half a billion pound package to rollout innovative tech aimed at improving care for patients and supporting staff.Matt Hancock, Health and Social Care Secretary, said: “Because we are one NHS, our health system is uniquely placed to become the most advanced health system in the world – one where technology addresses the
  
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• Caldey Island victim: 'It should be given over to the National Trust'

  20-07-2018 17:47
  A victim of Thaddeus Kotik returns to Caldey after 35 years and is haunted by memories of abuse In the bright sunshine, the monastic island of Caldey looked a picture. Visitors, young and old, hopped off the day trippers’ boats and milled around the abbey, the perfumery, the chocolate factory and lighthouse, occasionally catching faraway glimpses of the Cistercian monks who live, work and worship there. For Mark, a retired public servant in his 60s, however, this was no holiday visit. Mark
  
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• Service announcement - Friday 20 July 2018

  20-07-2018 13:14
  Service announcement - Friday 20 July 2018
  
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• Sunrise of Eastbourne collaborates with Cavendish School

  20-07-2018 11:18 via feedproxy.google.com
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  A group of Year 10 students from Cavendish School visited residents in the Memory Care Neighbourhood at Sunrise of Eastbourne on 25th June to present them with beautiful works of textile art based upon the lives of these residents.
  The project was an ongoing collaboration between the Year 10 textiles students from the school – they would come to visit residents and learn more about each other.
  The partnership came about from Sunrise of Eastbourne General Manager, Fiona White, visiting
  
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• Steyning care home residents join forces with nursery children for Arts Festival

  20-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents from a care home in Steyning who joined forces with pre-schoolers on an art project have seen the fruits of their labour showcased at the annual Steyning Festival.Croft Meadow care home residents and staff welcomed the children from Elan Nursery for eight consecutive weeks to complete their masterpiece – a forget-me-not flower made from 13,000 buttons. The symbolic art piece was a representation of the Alzheimer’s Society – whose symbol is a forget-me-not – with
  
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• NHS to receive £487m technology boost

  20-07-2018 09:05
  Matt Hancock says funding package will create ‘world’s most advanced health system’The health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock, has pledged almost half a billion pounds to transform technology in the NHS.
  In his first speech since being appointed to the post, Hancock will announce a £487m funding package to create “the most advanced health system in the world”. He will vow to drive cultural change within the NHS and social care sector, working with staf
  
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• New Century Care fully embraced World Cup fever

  20-07-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents and staff at New Century Care have fully embraced World Cup fever this year by running their very own World Cup themed competition. 
   
  Each of New Century Care’s care homes have been challenged to pick one country to cheer on throughout the World Cup tournament. Alongside hosting viewing parties for each match their chosen team plays in, residents and staff will also be running themed events related to their teams’ country; this will range from
  
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