Health Business News - With Christmas just around the corner, Healthwatch Newcastle and Healthwatch Gateshead are asking patients across the region to order and collect repeat prescriptions in good time for the holiday period.

Health Business News - Volunteering can help save lives Health and social care champions, Newcastle Healthwatch and Gateshead Healthwatch, are looking to recruit volunteers who want to make a difference to local services. Volunteers play a vital role in helping people have their say on health and social care.

Health Business News - A Tyneside care home is celebrating the long service of one of its members of staff. Nikki Foggin started at the care home company, Solehawk, in 2001 as a carer at its Kenton Manor care home, in Kenton, going on to work as a domestic and in the kitchen in its nearby Kenton Hall facility.

Health Business News - A woman, who has a passion for cooking, is celebrating 30 years service at a Tyneside care home. Linda Nigrelli started as a domestic at Ashton Court in Newcastle in September 1991. She since has worked in various roles at the home, on West Road, but the kitchen has been her passion and she has risen through the ranks in that environment from kitchen assistant to head cook.

Health Business News - Malsis Hall, in Glusburn near Keighley welcomed Julian Smith, MP for Skipton and Ripon to see first-hand its specialist care facilities. The country house has been converted into a care centre designed to provide recovery and rehabilitation for people with mental health conditions, often resulting from psychological trauma.

Health Business News - You may read the phrase imposter syndrome and be surprised that there s a term for something you feel without realising it s a common thing. Have you ever felt like you re not good enough for the career you have Do you doubt yourself and feel like an imposter in the workplace Do you have a nagging feeling that you re winging it You re not alone.

Health Business News - A summerhouse erected during the peak of the pandemic at a South Tyneside nursing and residential care home to provide a safe place for visitors to come and meet their family members has found a new role in helping with the mindfulness and mental well-being of those in its care.

Health Business News - A North Shields Supported Living business that supports people with learning Disabilities and Autism has received a national award for the way it looks after its employees. Orbis Support provides supported living for disabled adults with learning disabilities who wish to live in their own home.

Health Business News - Staff at Helping Hands Community Care have been honoured with a Community Champion award from their local MP. Hexham branch manager Pam Smith and the team recently received the award from MP Guy Opperman for services to the community.

Health Business News - The economy is reopening. Workers are returning to the office after a year of remote working and furlough, reigniting our normal schedules and getting careers back on track. However, you may find it difficult to adjust from our lockdown routines and back to a world of work and socialising. We all want to do well at work.

Health Business News - A Wisbech care home s maintenance person has transformed the garden area to bring in more colour and make the space more enjoyable for residents. Janice Webb has created colourful art features in Dove Court care home s garden, as residents at the home are not able to grow many flowers due to a large tree blocking the sunlight to the flower beds.

Health Business News - When you re approaching your period, you ll most likely be on the lookout for some giveaway signs that it s coming. For some people, their period arrives like clockwork, and they can predict it with confidence. For others, however, it can sometimes come as a surprise.

Health Business News - Darlington-based personal trainer, Sara Woods, has taken part in what has been named the toughest event on a road bike . The 55-year-old, who is a self-employed personal trainer at the Bannatyne health club in Darlington, applied to participate in The Yorkshire Beast following a major operation. The Yorkshire Beast is a 200-mile cycle which includes 16,000 ft of climbing.

Health Business News - For new parents, lockdown has been a surreal time. On one hand, many parents have been able to work from home or have been furloughed, allowing them more time than ever to focus on their precious new arrival. On the other hand, however, the pandemic has brought with it many uncertainties and unexpected worries for new parents.

Health Business News - A care home regional manager embarked on a 100-mile cycle to raise money for Dementia UK. Sam Armstrong, who works for Healthcare Management Solutions, planned her bike ride to start at Riverside House, Morpeth, and stop at Appleby Care Home, North Shields, for well-earned refreshments before her trip home. Both homes are operated by Healthcare Management Solutions.

Health Business News - An established County Durham family funeral business is celebrating a century of serving its local community. Alderson s Family Funerals had its roots established in 1921 in Ushaw Moor when Robert William Alderson founded a joinery and funeral directing business.