Health

A PINNER business is launching a campaign to get students' heads off their desk and stop their stomachs from rumbling.

School Dynamics is working with Pinner cartoonist Robert Duncan to make schoolchildren more alert in the morning by encouraging them to eat breakfast.

THE report released by NHS Harrow which stated that the Pinn Medical Centre was coping well with demand has received criticism from patients and the council.

It was reviewed at a health and social care scrutiny sub-committee on October 24 but was not considered to be detailed enough by some members.

DISABLED people around the borough will soon benefit from a new day centre being opened in Pinner.

Harrow Mencap are awaiting approval from the council on the premises at 25-27, Pinner Green which will house therapy rooms, sensory rooms, spaces for arts and crafts and care facilities primarily for children with autism.

By Paddy Cooper

A SCIENTIST from Pinner who lost his wife and sister to cancer and is himself a sufferer is now starring in a national TV ad campaign for Cancer Research UK

Dr Tony Selman, 70, of Uxbridge Road, a biophysicist who was at one time technical director at Guys Hospital, is featured with his daughter Louise in the new campaign, which shows real people discussing how they have coped with cancer in their families.

THREATS of a legal challenge over NHS Harrow's closure of a Pinner GP practice have been extinguished this week, but criticism of the health authority has continued.

A Pinner councillor has compared the primary care trust (PCT) to a big business, claiming it has put financial aims above the needs of patients.

HOPES of a new GP surgery opening in Pinner were dashed by NHS Harrow this week, leaving 2,000 unregistered patients to find a doctor elsewhere.

Following The Village Surgery's sudden closure in April last year, the primary care trust (PCT) decided at a board meeting on Tuesday (11) that issuing a new GP contract was too expensive, given its £16million budget shortfall.

NHS Harrow forced the closure of Pinner's Village Surgery, one of its former partners has alleged, while a local councillor has threatened the primary care trust (PCT) with legal action.

Dr Paul Sheridan told the Observer today (15) that he was asked to sign off the termination of the contract by the PCT within 24 hours of its closure.

NHS Harrow is being urged to consider reopening a family GP surgery in Pinner, before it is too late.

The primary care trust (PCT) is coming under increasing pressure from former patients of The Village Surgery, many of whom feel their views are being ignored.

AN investigation by Harrow Council has found that NHS Harrow 'failed to follow its constitution' in handling the closure of a Pinner GP surgery.

The primary care trust (PCT) is also accused of withholding information in its explanation of why The Village Surgery was closed down with two days' notice.

NHS Harrow turned on the charm at Nower Hill High School on Tuesday night [5], even hiring a professional facilitator to try and win over Pinner residents still fuming about the closure of The Village Surgery.

It was the third public meeting the primary care trust (PCT) has held in Pinner in the last month. But the angry, sometimes confrontational atmospheres of the first two in September was replaced this week with layers of suave and slick presentation.