General News Prime Minister confirms hospital decision expected shortly Prime Minister David Cameron has written to Simon Kirby MP to inform him that a decision on redevelopment funding for the Royal Sussex County Hospital is expected shortly. He also took the opportunity to raise the efforts of the Kemptown and Peacehaven MP in making the strong case for funding on beh By Besi • 2 min read
General News Hove MP Weatherley Joins Paralympians in Parliament At a recent event in the House of Commons, Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, met with two Paralympians to raise awareness of social care for disabled people and discuss the impact of the new Care Bill that is going through Parliament. The event, organised by disability cha By Besi • 1 min read
General News Cold Weather Plan launches to prepare for winter With winter fast approaching, the Cold Weather Plan for England has been published by Public Health England (PHE) today, in collaboration with the Department of Health, NHS England and the Local Government Association (LGA). There are on average 24,000 excess winter deaths per year in England, many By Besi • 3 min read
General News Alcohol related visits to hospital fall in Brighton & Hove New figures show that fewer people are ending up in hospital because of alcohol, more drug users are being treated and crimes against young people have fallen for the third year in a row. These improvements were revealed at the Community Safety Forum on October 7. Hospital admissions because of alco By Besi • 1 min read
Community News World AIDS Day Lunch Lunch Positive, the HIV lunch club, is holding a special World AIDS Day Lunch on Friday November 29. Along with members and volunteers, guests from partner organisations have been invited as a special thank you for the support they have given the charity all year. To coincide with World AIDS Day, th By Besi • 1 min read
Health THT launches online peer support for people with HIV HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has launched a new addition to its myHIV website (www.myHIV.org.uk), which will offer real-time online peer support to people with HIV who may be struggling with the condition. The charity has recruited and trained a team of volunteers livin By Besi • 2 min read
Community News MindOut and mental health! MindOut, the LGBT mental health project celebrated a year in the life of MindOut at the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church last Wednesday, October 16. All aspects of their work were profiled and then some service users gave short talks about why MindOut was important to them. It was powerful stuff, but By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Help Colin raise money for Lunch Positive Colin Bentley is a supporter of Lunch Positive, the HIV charity who provide a healthly meal for people who are positive every Friday at the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church in Kemptown. He is running both the Brighton Half and Full Marathons to raise funds for the charity in 2014. Colin took up runni By Besi • 1 min read
General News Reversing the tide of the UK tuberculosis epidemic A primary-care based screening programme could help tackle tuberculosis (TB) in the UK according to a comment from Public Health England (PHE) published in The Lancet (October 18). London has the highest rate of TB of any western European capital and the UK will have more TB cases than the USA withi By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Art auction raises £30,000 for THT Last week Christie’s hosted a charity auction at its annual Vanity Fair Contemporary Art Party, where an artwork by acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin raised £30,000 for HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT). The artwork, How many times do I say I love you, was created from a By Besi • 1 min read
General News Kemptown MP maintains pressure on Treasury over hospital funding Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has asked the Prime Minister to get behind his Royal Sussex County Hospital redevelopment campaign. At this afternoon’s session of Prime Minister’s Question Time (Wednesday, October 16) Mr Kirby informed David Cameron of the petition he handed to By Besi • 1 min read
Health Kemptown MP Kirby delivers petition to health secretary Simon Kirby MP delivered his petition calling for redevelopment funding for the Royal Sussex County Hospital, to the Department of Health this afternoon, Tuesday, October 15. The petition containing 1,000 names from constituents, back his campaign for the Government to release £420million in funding By Besi • 1 min read
