Tower Fitness Corporate White Collar Boxing

White collar boxing began in the late 80s but became much more popular in the mid-90s. A gym owner from New York started to organise these events using his clientele from the white collar professions and arranging informal fights, which usually involved (and still do) three 2-minute rounds.

The Manager of Tower Fitness Gym, Jackson Williams, started boxing when he was 9 years old and after years of training decided to turn professional. He is now a personal trainer, runs Tower Fitness Gym in Norwich and organises Corporate White Collar Boxing events throughout the year.

Jackson holds interviews and medicals for everyone who wants to participate in his shows, trains them all together 3 nights a week for 3 months and then pairs them up, specifically choosing the fights with people of similar abilities, for the big “Fight Night”.

The 12 weeks of training leading up to the Corporate White Collar Boxing events is demanding, intense and the hardest training you would ever have encountered, but you will reap the benefits of being healthier, physically stronger and mentally stronger – I train with Jackson in his circuit training sessions so I am talking from experience.

We have sponsored the Fight Nights for the last couple of years and I have been to many shows. It is always a fantastic night, very entertaining and very well organised. You don’t need to know much (or anything) about boxing to enjoy yourself.

The next show is on Saturday 1^st November 2014 in Norwich and tickets are still available. If you want to have a brilliant, hugely entertaining night out then this is where you need to be! To order tickets or for more information please email [email protected].

The Health Secretary for the NHS has said that Doctors and Nurses should apologise to patients when mistakes have been made in order to win back the trust of the general public.

Traditionally, we have seen a culture of defensiveness from the NHS and even when clinical negligence cases have been won, ‘sorry’ is few and far between. New guidelines sent to Hospitals in England and Wales, however, tell staff that saying sorry is not admitting legal liability, it is simply the right thing to do.

Jeremy Hunt told The Telegraph: “saying sorry and supporting patients and their families when they have experienced harm is a really important part of this. It is great to see staff being supportive… Sadly, under the last Government a closed and defensive culture developed in parts of the NHS. We are transforming this culture through a new transparency drive in our Hospitals”.

The guidelines state that a face to face apology should be given as soon as incidents occur also, a written apology which clearly states the healthcare organisation is sorry for the suffering and stress resulting from the incident must also be given. The NHS Litigation Authority is keen to explain that saying sorry is not an admission of liability, it is simply the right thing to do in certain circumstances.

The Health Secretary is hoping that this will end an era of defensiveness where Doctors and Nurses were not inclined to say sorry to patients and relatives for fear of being sued.

The concern now becomes whether we shall start to see apology letters along the lines of “We are sorry that you feel that the treatment you received was less than you expected”, i.e. using the word ‘sorry’ but not actually accepting that a mistake was made.