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New healthcare business launches
A North Wales mum who set up a healthcare business from her hospital bed says that surviving a lifethreatening condition gave her the courage and determination to launch her ‘next generation’ care agency. Chanel Williams (pictured), from Colwyn Bay, launched Enhanced Healthcare – an agency that specialises in the recruitment and training of nurses and healthcare professionals – in April 2021. At the time, she was seven months pregnant and being treated in Glan Conwy hospital for a serious medical condition. “For too long nurses and health care workers have been under supported, underappreciated, and under rewarded,” comments Chanel, who has worked in the healthcare sector for over a decade. “Then Covid came along. At the same time as heaping even more pressure on healthcare professionals, the pandemic made many of these preexisting issues even worse. The healthcare sector has to evolve, and we’re determined that Enhanced Healthcare will be right at the front of that next-generation evolution.” As well as matching skilled nurses and healthcare workers to temporary and permanent roles, Enhanced Healthcare offers free training for agency staff members who would like to upskill or revalidate professional registrations.
www.enhancedhealthcare.co.uk
Luxury Skincare – without the plastic
Luxurious and ecofriendly skincare is not a dream – it’s a reality at Dancing Barefoot. Their plastic-free and vegan online store features hundreds of sustainable skincare products, all of which contain no plastic – inside or out – and are all made of vegan and cruelty-free ingredients. New in store this month is Purity’s Pink Clay Face Mask, a creamy exfoliating face mask that cleanses and detoxifies, leaving skin feeling refreshed, brighter and
more supple. And it works using just natural ingredients, without any nasty microbeads or harsh chemicals. Packaged plastic-free, it comes in recyclable glass jars. “Our eco-friendly skincare is kind to your skin and kind to the planet too,” said Dancing Barefoot founder Sarah. “Some 16 million plastic bottles are thrown away in the UK every year – many of them used for toiletries and cosmetics. With each plastic-free purchase we make, we can help reduce this plastic waste.”
www.dancing-barefoot.com
LIMB-art wins contract to supply NHS Wales
Multi award-winning LIMBArt, which makes ‘the world’s coolest prosthetic leg covers’, has won a contract to supply the whole of NHS Wales with its products. Every adult amputee in Wales will now have access to a free LIMB-art cover through the country’s prosthetic centres in Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham. “I’m delighted to be working with NHS Wales’ Artificial
Limb and Appliance Centres and to be able to help other amputees to gain their confidence and, like our strapline
says, stand out and stand proud,” said Mark Williams (pictured) of LIMB-Art. “We have already supplied over 70 customers across Wales with a LIMB-art cover and the feedback has been brilliant. Our most popular leg covers are our rainbow carbon fibre ultralight covers and ones
featuring the Welsh flag.
Our covers are quick and easy to fit and restore balance
to a person’s silhouette. They are often instrumental in raising confidence and self-esteem.”
www.limb-art.com
Take a seat
Aspire North Wales Clinic has introduced the BTL EMSELLA Chair for Stress Urinary Incontinence and Female Health treatments to its clients. Featured across the UK and international media, and notably at Sir Alan Sugar and Dr Leah’s London Clinic, EMSELLA is revolutionising the way incontinence is treated, and even helps with your sex life!
DID YOU KNOW?
J An estimated 14 million people in the UK have bladder control problems. That means roughly 20% of the UK’s 68 million population have a bladder control problem or, put another way, two in every 10 people (Nursing Times 2021) J A study in 2002 found that 32% of women in the UK had symptoms of urinary incontinence in the previous 30 days (Hunskaar, S., Lose, et al. (2003) Prevalence of Stress
Urinary Incontinence in Women in Four European Countries, 2002. ICS: UK)
Aspire North Wales Clinic is the first location in Wales to offer the
BTL EMSELLA treatment to help women and men of any age who desire a non-invasive solution for urinary incontinence and improvement in their quality of life.
BTL EMSELLA is a non-invasive, comfortable and FDA cleared treatment to strengthen the pelvic floor and greatly improve the inconvenience and
embarrassment caused by unwanted urinary leakage.
BTL EMSELLA uses electromagnetic energy to cause deep pelvic floor muscle stimulation without you getting
ARE YOU THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR EMSELLA?
J Do you leak urine when you cough, sneeze or engage in sports activities? J Do you need to go to the bathroom often? J Have you refrained from intimate contact recently for fear of accidental leakage?
If you answered “yes”, you are probably suffering from urinary incontinence and EMSELLA could help you.n
undressed! A single EMSELLA session brings thousands of
Kegel-like contractions which help you train your muscles without any effort. A course of six treatments is required. EMSELLA is the first device of its kind and is FDA-cleared
for treating urinary incontinence in women. Scientific
research shows that 95% of treated patients have reported significant improvement in their quality of life.
