For the past few years Southend Hospital and local paper Evening Echo have had an award for a patient nominated Hospital Hero – “This is for an individual or team who consistently demonstrate high quality clinical care, with compassion”. SCA UK Group member, Charlie Dickens is a patient at the hospital and had an idea for … Read more
So, you’ve had a sudden cardiac arrest. For you and many of us, this marks the beginning of long-term medical interventions and therapies designed to diagnose and treat the underlying cause or causes of this traumatic heart-stopping event. But while the family doctors, pharmacologists, cardiologists and/or electrophysiologists are working to ensure our cardiac systems are … Read more
As I approach my first ‘re-birthday’ and after the amazing Guinness World Record Attempt day I have been reflecting on my own journey of recovery, even though there is still a way to travel with it. On the video we watched during the attempt it showed that, in terms of issues in recovery, 44 people … Read more