West Midlands Ambulance Service student features in exhibition
Call assessor featured in NHS anniversary pictures.
This government’s incompetence is astounding
David Rendall says a series of endless blunders has led Britain into a fatal spin.
Bojo and the bunglers
Richard Lutz is repulsed by the government’s incompetency and deceit over Covid-19.
NHS Birmingham & Solihull advice for patients
“Help us to help you get the treatment you need across Birmingham and Solihull.”
Mike Wakelam, 1955-2020
Richard Lutz remembers Mike Wakelam, a major force in medical research who died suddenly of a suspected Covid-19 infection.
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals Charity’s launch appeal
Support some of the most vulnerable in society with urgent COVD-19 appeal.
Charity boost for frontline NHS staff
Thousands of lifesaving face masks donated to city hospital.
Urgent call for Birmingham blood donors
Donors needed at Birmingham Donor Centre due to low stocks.
Concert raises funds for Birmingham medical charity
A charity concert has raised £700 for the Edgbaston-based charity Ammalife.
Double Your Donation and Save Lives
A Birmingham based medical charity is giving you the opportunity to double your donation and help save lives around the world
Call for safe biking
Local ambulance chiefs are reminding bikers not to turn a minor mishap into something more serious.
Cure Leukaemia announces 100% nursing funds increase
Birmingham-based Cure Leukaemia has announced record financial results that will see the charity double the amount of funding for research nurses in the West Midlands.
Annual UK drug deaths fall seven per cent
Annual deaths related to heroin and morphine are continuing to drop significantly, falling from 41 per cent of total drug-related deaths in the UK in 2010 to 32 per cent in 2011
Boost for local hospitals with £232k maternity services investment
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has announced plans for a series of maternity unit improvements following a successful bid for additional funds
Birmingham Medical Charity Raises Cash and Saves Lives- Thanks to City Supporters
A Birmingham medical charity has raised more than £1500 to save the lives of mothers in developing countries.
Be careful out there
Emergency services are urging local people to take some simple precautions during the cold snap.
Good Hope leading the way internationally with bladder cancer laser treatment
A Good Hope consultant has won international recognition for leading a new treatment study
Local hospitals’ emergency departments under pressure
Hospital A&E departments are under extreme pressure this New Year’s Eve and emergency doctors are urging people to consider alternatives if their case is not urgent.
Medical Charity Doubles Your Donation to Save Mothers’ Lives
Medical charity Ammalife kicks off donation campaign with deal to double your offer to help save lives
Quality of Health Conference 19th October 2012
Changing Our Lives, a West Midlands based self-advocacy organisation working with people with disabilities, is holding a Quality of Health Conference at the Midlands Arts Centre
Good Hope to welcome new Chief Whip and the community to its first hospital fête
Sutton Coldfield’s Good Hope Hospital is holding its very first community fête next week
Back to School Warning for All
More children on the roads again means more danger.
More complaints than ever, but complaining should be easier, says Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman reveals that a record number of enquiries were received in the last year from people needing help with their complaint.
Scale of unused medicines in West Midlands putting lives at risk
The British Heart Foundation have launched a new campaign to urge people to take their medicine, ‘just like that’
Running For Ammalife: Parisian Style
Midwife Amie Wilson is running the Paris Marathon with her pal Sophie Webster to raise cash for this website’s official charity- Ammalife. It raises funds to save lives for pregnant mothers in developing countries. Here’s Amie’s latest report on the eve of the race. So we arrived safely in Paris, me from East Midlands…
College Backs Ammalife and Helps Mothers Globally
from our staff A senior principal for a Birmingham college has backed the city based Ammalife medical campaign. Joseph Chamberlain College raised more than £366 for the charity which works worldwide to prevent maternal deaths during pregnancy or childbirth. The money was raised by students who are all learning English at the college. Many are…
Hospital staff to shine as Olympic torchbearers
Four members of staff from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital have been chosen to carry the Olympic flame in Coventry this summer.
New website launched to aid cardiac patients
A scheme to help emergency heart victims has been set up in the West Midlands.
Revealed: The Secret NHS Reforms
In an explosive scoop interview with no one else but me, deputy Tory leader Nick Clegg has told me, exclusively, how the NHS reforms will work once they are railroaded through Parliament. Top points are: ++As revealed on this site months ago, A new DIY health care package that sees patients perform minor surgery on…
Winter warning from Ambulance Service
As the temperature continues to drop, local people are advised to take care.
