Three generations of women in one family have spent their working lives caring for patients in the NHS, starting with a Caribbean-born woman who arrived in Huddersfield in the 1950s. Her granddaughter, Emma Fleary, is now a midwife in Bradford, continuing a family tradition of healthcare work that has brought the family closer together.
Five people from Thanet were recognised at the Kent Mental Wellbeing Awards. A volunteer at Maurice House, Mary, received the top award.
Specialist paramedics in Kent and Sussex can now give real-time video support to people performing CPR during suspected cardiac arrests before an ambulance arrives. The South East Coast Ambulance Service has also reported its highest-ever 30-day cardiac arrest survival rate for May.
Daniel Parsonage, 29, suffered a severe stroke while preparing for a summer carnival performance in Penarlâg, Flintshire, and doctors told his family to say goodbye. After months of physiotherapy and speech therapy he can now speak in sentences and walk short distances with support, and he hopes to dance again before his 30th birthday in March.
