The NHS is asking more members of London’s black communities to come forward to donate blood, to assist the thousands of sickle cell patients living in the capital.
Give blood: close to half of the country’s patients with sickle cell live in London, which is why the NHS needs more blood donors from the black communities
Nationally, just 3% of blood donors are black, yet people of black African and Caribbean heritage are up to 10 times more likely to have the Ro blood type required by many sickle cell patients for lifesaving transfusions.
Sickle cell disorder is the fastest-growing genetic condition in Britain, affecting almost 20,000 people – half of those living in London. Continue reading
After months of secrecy and suspicion, Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has finally issued a statement to the borough’s elected councillors about the fate of CALAT, Croydon’s long-standing and widely admired adult education service.
A stretch of Purley Downs Road, which runs between South Croydon up the hill to Sanderstead, is to be closed for eight weeks for “essential” gas supply works, starting from this Monday, September 7.
Cash-strapped Croydon now has at least three execs, two of them interims, being paid at rates of £200,000 per year or more. But someone in Mayor Jason Perry’s council is trying to keep the latest appointment a secret.
Council briefing document says Mayor wants to outsource borough’s widely admired adult education service as his latest cost-cutting wheeze.
CALAT, the council-run Croydon Adult Learning and Training organisation, has effectively been evicted from its home in the council-owned Clocktower, amid growing fears that its education services are the next for the chop by the borough’s Mayor, Jason “Philistine” Perry.
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