We have heard reports that a man claiming to provide disability aids has been making unsolicited phone calls to vulnerable people asking to visit them at home and declining to provide proper information about who he is and which company he represents.
If you receive such a call do not agree to a visit and please contact us on our Freephone number 0800 055 3637 and we will report it. Any information you are able to provide about the call could be useful.
As far as we are aware this is a problem in the Norfolk area.
Well we'd said we'd do it, we were sponsored to do it, so despite the awful end-May Bank Holiday weather we had to do it for Arthritis Care!
Despite torrential rain, hail, high winds and temperatures under six degrees we still raised over £100 for NRAS at our Bank Holiday Monday fete.
Healthcare Assistant Sue Burrows told us all about her unusual hobby at our meeting on Wednesday 3rd March. When she is not meeting and greeting patients arriving in the Rheumatology Department at the N&N she helps to give talks about Norfolk survivors of the Titanic.
Doctors could soon be able to diagnose Rheumatoid Arthritis before it takes hold and prescribe medication to pre-empt the joint damage which is often the cause of all our problems.
The Scottish equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE, otherwise known as NASTY) has approved Tocilizumab for suitable RA patients north of the border.
Elaine and Jane broadcast five of their favourite music tracks to in-patients at the N&N University Hospital when they were Mike Shenstone's guests on the Hospital Radio Norwich version of Desert Island Discs.
