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           <title>Millwall's £10k aim to match fans' donations for Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign</title>
           
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  MILLWALL has pledged to match fans’ donations to Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign pound for pound.
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  AN ORPINGTON and Beckenham breast cancer expert has praised Angelina Jolie’s decision to speak publicly about her double mastectomy, and has some advice for the women of Bromley.
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           <title>Hospital mix-up forces Abbey Wood mother to hold two funerals for her son</title>
           
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  A HOSPITAL mix-up has forced an Abbey Wood mother to hold a second funeral for her seven-week-old son - 15 years after he died.
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           <title>Bromley has the country's lowest emergency admission rate for asthma</title>
           
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           <title>New bereavement centre opens at the Princess Royal University Hospital</title>
           
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  Today the Princess Royal University Hospital has unveiled a bereavement centre for mums who have lost their baby through miscarriage or stillbirth. Reporter HELOISE WOOD learns why it is so important by speaking to a News Shopper colleague.
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  A HOSPITAL which faces having its services downgraded has been named one of the UK’s top 40 hospitals for the fifth year running.
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           <title>Queen's Speech to outline reforms to benefit carers</title>
           
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  CARERS will get stronger rights to seek financial and practical help to relieve the burden of looking after loved ones as part of reforms to be set out in the Queen's Speech, it has been reported.
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           <title>Video: Lewisham Hospital staff Harlem Shake in dance of defiance against cuts</title>
           
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  LEWISHAM Hospital staff did a dance of defiance against proposed cuts to the hospital with their version of internet phenomenon the Harlem Shake.
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           <title>New Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley health group head backs major NHS changes</title>
           
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  As the north Kent health body now responsible for a nearly £280m budget holds its first public meeting, reporter TIM MACFARLAN speaks to the Greenhithe doctor in charge.
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           <title>Research reveals 69 per cent of Bromley residents are unaware of bowel cancer symptoms</title>
           
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           <title>Darent Valley Hospital raises £70,000 for new cancer-fighting tool</title>
           
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  DARENT Valley Hospital has raised £70,000 to buy a key cancer-fighting tool.
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           <title>Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley parents urged to get kids vaccinated against measles</title>
           
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  PARENTS of Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley children who missed out on measles jabs are being urged to get their youngsters vaccinated.
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           <title>Call the Midwife campaign launched by South London Healthcare NHS Trust midwives</title>
           
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  MIDWIVES at South London Healthcare NHS Trust have launched a Call the Midwife campaign telling people to contact them as soon as a pregnancy is discovered.
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           <title>Beckenham Beacon 'is definitely not closing'</title>
           
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  COMMISSIONERS have said Beckenham Beacon will remain open however the future of other hospitals in the south east remains unclear.
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           <title>SLHT administrator Caroline Taylor refuses to answer questions about 'deliberate cover-up' of £22m NHS Croydon overspend</title>
           
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  SOUTH London Healthcare Trust’s new administrator Caroline Taylor was in charge of NHS Croydon when there was a deliberate cover-up of a £28m black hole in its budget, it has been revealed.
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           <title>Bromley has highest rate of measles in outer London</title>
           
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           <title>Bromley hospital sees increase in 'self pay' patients</title>
           
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           <title>Call for South London Healthcare Trust inquiry after campaigner dad's death</title>
           
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  A HEALTH campaigner whose elderly father "went from being a happy go lucky man to a vegetable" while in hospital is demanding an external inquiry into the health trust that treated him.
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           <title>PRUH staff failing to dress elderly patients appropriately for their discharge from hospital</title>
           
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  PROMISES to make sure patients are appropriately dressed when they leave hospital have been broken, News Shopper can reveal.
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           <title>Spring clean your routine and get fit for free</title>
           
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  The days are getting longer and brighter. So what better time to spring clean your fitness routine - on the cheap? Reporter HELOISE WOOD investigates.
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           <title>South London Healthcare NHS Trust not ranked highly in inpatients survey</title>
           
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  INPATIENTS treated at hospitals in the South London Healthcare NHS Trust have rated their care as being worse than other trusts in four out of 10 areas.
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           <title>Parkinson's sufferer Danny Lavender determined to raise awareness and inspire others</title>
           
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  Parkinson’s sufferer Danny Lavender is determined to not let the disease beat him. To mark Parkinson’s Awareness Week he spoke to ROBERT FISK about his fight and how he is battling to help others.
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           <title>Live video stream: Parkinson's awareness campaign to tackle discrimination</title>
           
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  Every hour someone in the UK is told they have Parkinson's, yet new research shows almost half of those with the condition face regular discrimination.
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  IS IT just a coincidence the latest changes to the NHS came in on April 1, and if not, who’s the fool? Branded the biggest shake-up to the system since it began, it comes in the wake of a whole host of other changes to management.
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           <title>Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to receive Princess Royal University Hospital complaint after elderly patient's 'nightmare'</title>
           
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  WITH conditions ‘like a nightmare’ and ‘worse than how animals are kept’ an elderly patient’s partner says he had no choice to discharge her from Princess Royal University Hospital the same day she was admitted.
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           <title>Soaring Queen Elizabeth Hospital waiting times worry Lewisham Hospital campaigners</title>
           
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           <title>Pensioners march with zimmer frames and walking sticks in support of Lewisham Hospital</title>
           
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           <title>Lewisham Hospital launches clinic for patients with bowel problems</title>
           
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           <title>Greenwich pollution warning over Silvertown Tunnel</title>
           
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  A NEW era of health care landed in the UK when the aims of the Health and Social Care Act came into force on April 1.
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           <title>South London Healthcare Trust gets new boss Caroline Taylor</title>
           
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  LEWISHAM Healthcare NHS Trust has seen a 35 per cent reduction this year in re-admissions to its emergency department.
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  LEWISHAM Council has issued an application for judicial review of the decisions of the Secretary of State for Health and the Trust Special Administrator in the High Court.
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  LEWISHAM Hospital is restricting visitors due to an outbreak of the norovirus.
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