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Latest news from Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
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Blesma Statement on NHS England
13 March 2025
We are aware of the announcement today by the Prime Minister regarding his plan to abolish NHS England. We, like others, are waiting for more detail to be released about how and when any changes will take place. We will work with the relevant Departments to ensure that our Members needs are understood and that services remain in place to meet those needs into the future.
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"Achieving dreams is possible"
24 February 2025
Since she decided to have her leg amputated in 2019, Lexi Chambers has been on a long journey. But you can't help thinking that this is just the beginning Turning the daunting into the achievable is what Lexi Chambers does best, and the five-time Guinness World Record holder has just gone to even greater lengths by propelling her standard wheelchair the lengths of Britain! For the whole of September and into October, the former Royal Signals soldier pushed her wheelchair almost 1.000 mi
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Freak accident puts epic challenge on hold until 2025
4 February 2025
A plan to sail around Great Britain in 50 days – which was two years in the making – ran into trouble after a freak accident on the second day. Blesma Members Talan Skeels-Piggins and Neil Baxter, both experienced sailors, had to abandon their detailed itinerary when their 34-foot boat was hit by a wave that sent Neil crashing across the cabin, breaking his hip. A coastguard helicopter was scrambled but, with conditions deteriorating, it had to abort its mission to winch Neil, a below-knee amputee, clear so he could get treatm
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Mac's Rehabilitation Journey Towards The 2025 Invictus Games
28 January 2025
Strongman Mac McLaren has been through an incredible transition, ditching his 6,000-calorie daily intake and shedding three stones to make the UK wheelchair rugby team for the 2025 Invictus Games. The former soldier, who won the World’s Strongest Disabled Man for three years running, needed a drastic transformation to build up his athletic capacity and stamina to compete in the high octane team sport of wheelchair rugby. “It was some change as I would eat six meals a day for strongman events which need explosive power while wheelchair ru
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