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23rd November 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Ask Not What Your NHS Can Do For You………..(2)
Over the last two weeks this column has suggested that we can all make a difference to reducing demands on the NHS by taking more regular exercise and making other lifestyle changes – especially now as Xmas approaches. While Citizens Advice cannot help you with regard to a healthy diet or ways in which you […]
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16th November 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Ask Not What Your NHS Can Do For You……….(1)
If you read this column last week you may recall that it was concerned with how to complain about poor service you may have received from the NHS. Now, in a major speech ahead of the budget the Chief Executive of NHS England has predicted that without more money for his organisation, waiting lists could […]
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9th November 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
NHS Complaints
The clocks have gone back and November is upon us. Which means Xmas is just around the corner. It also means that the National Health Service is facing its busiest time of year. In July 1945 the founders of the NHS had three simple aims in mind when determining its core principles namely that it should: · meet the needs of […]
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2nd November 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
The PPI Merry-Go-Round Goes On-And On
Assessing risk is something most of have to deal with during our lives. Risk is normally measured by looking at the likelihood of something happening and the effect it has if it does. For example, if you take out a mortgage you may want to consider the risk of not being able to keep up […]
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11th October 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Housing Crisis-What Housing Crisis?
How do we measure quality of living? An impossible question to answer perhaps because it depends on so many things. However, how we are able to live our lives, our expectations and where we live must play a big part in it for most of us. Surveys and magazine articles have consistently placed Waverley among […]
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5th October 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims Comes into Force
Surviving on a low income is difficult wherever you live. If your expenditure exceeds your income you may find yourself in debt. Locally, regionally and nationally, debt comes second (behind Benefits) in terms of issues for which people seek help from Citizens Advice – a situation unlikely to improve any time soon. This applies to […]
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28th September 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Credit Card Bonanza Creates Crippling Debt
Attitudes to debt have certainly changed in the last fifty years or so. For most of the twentieth century, getting into debt was still widely regarded as being slightly shameful and getting a loan from a bank was like getting blood from a stone. While bank managers can no longer behave like Mr Mainwaring from […]
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21st September 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
UK Broadband – Digital Disgrace
When the government announced its £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund to boost investment in improving broadband services and followed it up with an announcement that it had “clawed back” £645m from BT under its state-subsidised superfast broadband contracts tendered in 2012, it must have thought, ‘At last, a good news story’. However, in the words […]
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22nd August 2017 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Broadband – Snog, Marry, Avoid?
How important is a reliable Internet service to you? Only proposing marriage to someone when you had seen how they reacted to a slow or unreliable Internet connection might be taking things a bit far. Nevertheless a poor service can cost you time and money and the chances of receiving compensation are not good. Research […]
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