Hospital shuts three wards due to norovirus outbreak
Three wards at a south-west London hospital have been closed due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. St ...
Northumberland Coastal Route is 'hidden gem road trip'
A North East coastal road has been described as a "hidden gem road trip" that people should try in 2025. New data has found that the Northumberland Coastal Route, stretching from Blyth to Berwick, ...
Urgent Norovirus warning issued as hospital bosses warn sickness bug 'can rip through wards like wildfire'
It comes as data from NHS England shows cases of the bug are still climbing and health chiefs are urging people to wash their ...
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Patient Safety Watch: Barriers to learning
A Health Services Safety Investigations Body report, published this fortnight, examined deaths in inpatient mental health ...
Essex health service slammed as 'unstainable without fundamental change'
The chief executive of the body that delivers healthcare across mid and south Essex has warned the service is financially ...
Pharmacy cuts hit rural care access, report finds
Pharmacies across the south west have lost more than 134,000 hours in care over the last two years, figures have found. The ...
New £386m of public health funding to target ex-mining areas and regional inequalities
Public health funding of more than £386 million has been made available to the region’s councils, with a particular focus on ...
Devon man will drive again thanks to pioneering transplant
Following Jason's successful transplant, the WEEU has since completed three more procedures. It involves surgically attaching ...
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Davey calls for ‘crumbling hospitals taskforce’, as number of DHSC staff working on new hospitals falls by two-thirds
The number of staff in the Department of Health and Social Care who are working on the New Hospital Programme has fallen by almost two-thirds in just two years, a Liberal Democrat Parliamentary ...
Man queuing at St Pauls dentist says it's been '15 years' since his last appointment
A man who hasn’t seen a dentist in up to 15 years was among those queuing to secure a place at a Bristol practice. Indica ...
Opinion
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Opinion: ‘We’re ensuring people have access to diverse images for healthcare’
Flicking through medical textbooks in 2022, our team spotted a surprising omission: a stark absence of images of health conditions on darker skin tones.