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Horder Healthcare are delighted to have been nominated as finalists in the Healthcare Outcomes category at this year’s Laing and Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards. The nomination for this prestigious award goes some way to recognising the huge positive impact Horder Healthcare has had on their patients.

The winners will be announced on the 8th October

We are pleased to welcome Dr Gerry Saldanha who will be holding private outpatient neurology clinics at The Horder Centre from the 21st May. Subsequent clinics will be held fortnightly.

Dr Saldanha is a very experienced Consultant Neurologist who is an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and also holds a post in the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Please see Dr Saldanha’s full profile for further details.

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who was involved in Ladies Night at The Horder Centre. Without the help of our; volunteers, staff, stallholders, exhibitors and of course all of our guests, we wouldn’t of been able to raise so much money for such a worthy cause.

The night raised a massive £2,200 which will go towards our charity fund. We are extremely grateful for your continued support and hope everyone enjoyed the evening as much as we did.

Plan: Living with arthritis and staying active

As a charity, The Horder Centre strives to improve the lives of local people by holding regular educational events.

Located in the heart of the Ashdown Forest, the centre is a leading provider of high quality orthopaedic and MSK services, demonstrably improving patients’ mobility and striving to make a positive difference to people’s lives which are accessible to both NHS and private patients. Our core strategy is growth – to increase the number of people who benefit from our unique brand of care.

We are recognised as a provider of secondary care services (elective surgery). To make our vision a reality we have introduced ways of providing and promoting health and wellbeing services, which include community education events, looking at ways of providing benefit to more people through the provision of health, wellbeing and lifestyle-related education.

We have been holding free events at the centre for a few years and our latest two events were attended by more than 140 people learning about living with arthritis and the importance of staying active. We have now introduced two new fitness and wellness classes on a weekly basis specifically designed for those with arthritis.

We have been nominated for the Heart of the Community Award 2012 – The winners receive a share of a £10,000 prize fund. In order to win we need your votes! Votes can be cast via text message or by sending in the voting coupons which are produced in each episode of the Courier Newspaper.

Congratulations to our very own Annabelle Sears who was nominated and finished as runner-up for the West Kent Employee of The Year 2012 award run by Office Angels in Tunbridge Wells. Annabelle was nominated for all her hard work and support throughout the year. The three qualities that led to her nomination were:

• Working beyond her own area of responsibility when needed.
• Always being willing to put in extra hours.
• Being constructively assertive.

This year Horder Healthcare has been nominated for three prestigious awards at the Sussex Business Awards 2012 to be presented on Thursday 6th December. The award nominations go some way to showing the great work that Horder Healthcare is doing for the benefit of the Sussex community and also for those that it employs.

The award categories that Horder Healthcare have been nominated for include ‘The Healthiest Workplace Award’, ‘The Award for the Best Customer Service’ and ‘Sussex Company of the Year’

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There is help at hand… The NHS have put together a special ‘Quit Kit’ with lots of useful resources to help you stick to the straight and narrow.
To join or to get more information please visit http://smokefree.nhs.uk/stoptober/