Published:
8:35 AM May 13, 2021
Updated:
12:49 PM May 13, 2021
Jo Goodman with her father Stuart Goodman who died in Norwich in April after contracting coronavirus. Picture: Goodman Family
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A Norwich woman who lost her father to coronavirus has criticised the timing of the government s enquiry into the handling of the pandemic.
Jo Goodman, 32, set up the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group following the death of her father Stuart, 72, at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital last year after he was diagnosed with the virus.
The group has welcomed Boris Johnson s announcement there will be an independent publc inquiry into the handling of the crisis, but said the start date of spring next year is simply too late .
Sam Higginson, chief executive of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
- Credit: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
The chief at the region s largest hospital has said it will take years to work through its waiting list, with some 60,000 people awaiting treatment.
However, he also said that the number of people being treated for Covid-19 at the hospital had fallen into single figures at the Norfolk and Norfolk University Hospital for the first time in months.
But a waiting list of 60,000 patients, the chief executive says it will be a multi-year approach to tackle the backlog.
In a wide-ranging interview, he spoke about:
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Photojournalist Maurice Gray, who is sharing his cancer diary with us.
- Credit: Maurice Gray
Back in 2019, photojournalist Maurice Gray shared his cancer diary with us.
Nearly three years on from his original diagnosis, he brings us up to date with a new series of features about his treatment for the ‘Big C’.
In the second part, he remembers his first hospital appointments
A cancer diagnosis turns your whole world upside down.
My wife suddenly became a ‘nurse’ for a long-term patient – me.
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And what we both hope to convey by sharing my diary is the reality of three years of cancer treatment – our feelings, the procedures, hurdles and side effects.
Published:
7:03 AM February 2, 2021
Tributes have been paid to Mike Ling, a third-generation optician from North Walsham.
- Credit: Supplied by the family
Tributes have been paid to a much-loved third-generation optician from north Norfolk.
Mike Ling - christened Ralph Michael Ling - will be best remembered for his work at the family business RM Ling Optometrists in North Walsham, and for his involvement in heritage and charity groups around the town.
Mr Ling died on January 28 at the Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital aged 82, after contracting Covid-19.
A statement from his family said: “Mike has been a well known, well loved member of the North Walsham community his entire life.