What a shock!

On the 6th of March, CICHealth (kick health) are putting on a 'Breast Health, Breast Cancer' event in a pleasant village just outside Cambridge UK.

It will bring together a Dr in Nutrition, a Thermographer and a Therapist who has successfully treated women with breast cancer.

I hoped that a local nurse would attend and demo a self examination of the breast routine for local women.

You would think this would be a great opportunity to help educate women in the care of their breasts.

After all, 1 in 3 women are likely to develop this condition, so we are told, and again you would expect your local surgeries to want to be involved in anything that could help women prevent this condition, detect it early and not cause an increased problem in the detection of it.

Well having asked one nurse who then agreed if there was payment, I then went to 2 other surgeries. 1 nurse couldn't as not available, and felt the rest of the team were not experienced enough???

I then went to our largest village surgery but 4 days on have not heard - still hoping though!

I then asked if these surgeries would display a poster about the event.

Given these are centres for health, unless the words 'Health Centre' mean something else, the receptionists came back with the same reply....'I can ask, but we don't tend to do it'

So i said ''what even when it is for the improvement in health knowledge''

But the reply was the same.  It was the same result on a conference on Women's Health a few years back, having approached all the surgeries and asked all the doctors - nothing!!

So just how 'health centred' are our health centres and how narrow minded are they - increasingly out of step with the general public.

Of course i could pick up a leaflet on whooping cough vaccinations in pregnancy, totally encouraging this vaccine to pregnant mothers and promoting the flu vaccine within the same literature.

So it is safe to give a virus that has been lab altered to the body, when less than 18 years ago, when i has my son, midwives were stressing to take nothing, not even a paracetamol!! In case it should have an impact on the unborn baby and yet suddenly we can vaccinate mothers-to-be with all sorts now.

Has there been a comprehensive study done, would that be ethical even? Could you have a control group that hasn't had the vaccine - you would then have to wait for the births and babyhood to pass to see if prevention had occurred - of course it is hard to prove or disprove  a negative,

Either way, this info is able to be displayed but health info external of the patriarchal NHS can not.

So all the answers for health are not in one 'Health Centre'

I can't tell you how disappointed I feel in our health workers, here is an opportunity to reach local women on a level of education and support for a condition that is on the increase, but it has failed to take an opportunity to be part of something local.

With one week to go, I hope that I can be proved wrong and a nurse will step forward, but i suspect if a poster can't be displayed, a nurse won't be allowed to attend.