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New online hospital appointment cancelling method

Senior sister Shelley French puts a poster up in Southampton General Hospital’s eye unit.

11:26am Monday 8th February 2010

Now Southampton General Hospital’s Eye Unit is the latest department to back The Daily Echo’s “Turn Up or Tell’Em” campaign.

Tributes paid to GP and charity activist

Southampton mums brawl in front of shocked children

11:17am Monday 8th February 2010

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Winchester GP and charity activist who has died after a battle with cancer, aged 62.

Mum’s joy as park attack victim wakes from coma

Mum’s joy as park attack victim wakes from coma

6:40pm Monday 1st February 2010

THE mother of a man left for dead after a sickening attack in a Hampshire park has revealed how she never gave up hope she would be able to communicate with him again.

Pledge to halve number of smokers

Kick it: The NHS Surrey Stop Smoking service hopes the Quit Kits will help smokers give up

3:39pm Monday 1st February 2010

HEALTH Secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to halve the number of smokers by 2020 as figures showed thousands of people in the South are quitting each year.

Swine flu control room to close

Tories warn that NHS 'ill-prepared' to deal with second swine flu outbreak

7:30am Monday 1st February 2010

SOUTHAMPTON'S swine flu control room is to close on Friday.

Girls urged to have cervical cancer jabs

Senior  occupational health advisor Jane Lininsh gives a flu innoculation to a colleague

8:30am Monday 25th January 2010

HAMPSHIRE’S teenage girls are being urged to continue their fight against cervical cancer and get all three jabs.

Tributes after student's mystery death

Tom Hay

5:00pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A POPULAR Hampshire student has been found dead on his bedroom floor by his mum.

Hospitals halt foundation bid

Southampton General Hospital

11:13am Friday 22nd January 2010

A BID by hospital bosses in Southampton to break away from Government control has been delayed for the FIFTH time in as many years.

Time’s running out but Ray still says ‘thanks’

GRATITUDE: Ray Davey with his son Martin and mum Sylvia.

7:30am Friday 22nd January 2010

TIME is desperately short for a Hampshire dad fighting cancer but he is holding a fundraising gig to thank the charity that has been looking after him.

Cancer research nurse is my hero

Nurse Jenny Lowry has been nominated by Grace Burns for a Hospital Heroes Award.

7:10am Friday 22nd January 2010

A RETIRED college lecturer has nominated breast cancer research nurse Jenny Lowry for a Daily Echo Hospital Heroes Award.



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