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.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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.

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 - 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 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 - 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.