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A day in the life of a clinical pharmacist – Meet Deepika

Next up in our ‘Meet the team’ series is Deepika who works as a clinical pharmacist. Deepika has given us an insight into what a typical day looks like and provides some reflections about her role afterwards. If you’re a qualified pharmacist or you’re interested in a career in pharmacy come to our recruitment day…

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Meet the team – Maham, Receptionist and call handler

In the lead up to the Newham Primary Care Recruitment Day we’re speaking to different staff members to find out more about their roles, how they started working in primary care and what they enjoy most about their roles. Today, we speak to Maham, receptionist and call handler, who is also completing her biomedical sciences…

Social Prescribing day - Ucehnna's story
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Social Prescribing Day – How gardening helped Uchenna

Today, 9th March 2023, is Social Prescribing day. Earlier we posted an article written by social prescriber Chanel about her role, and now we’re sharing Uchenna’s story of how social prescribing helped her during a difficult period. Gardening together was a lifeline What do you do when your flat is being flooded from upstairs, your…

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Social Prescribing Day – Hear from our social prescriber Chanel

9th March 2023 marks Social Prescribing day! Social prescribers play a key role in primary care, supporting patients to become less socially isolated, and improve their wellbeing and health by accessing activities and services in their local community. Hear from Chanel as she explains what her role involves and why she gets so much satisfaction…

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‘CiC’king IT

Newham Health Collaborative has just become a Community Interest Company or CIC (pronounced kick!).  Unless you are a governance enthusiast (I know our Medical Director, Dr Subir Sen is…) or just keen on company structures you probably would see this and think so what?  And in some respects you’d be right – as not much…

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Awards success at the North East London NHS Primary Care Workplace Awards

Summary: NHC were delighted to be the recipients of not one, but two awards at the North East London NHS Primary Care Workforce Awards on Thursday 1st December 2022. The Awards ceremony, organized by North East London training hubs, celebrated the achievements of primary care organizations and individual colleagues. Our NHC Chair, Dr Nadeem Faruq,…