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Wolverhampton to get new cervical cancer mobile health hub

New cervical cancer mobile health hub for Wolverhampton

Joleon Lescott (far left) presenting £11,500 donation cheque, with patient Elizabeth Soffe (centre right, front) and Burns Centre clinical staff

Joleon Lescott backs £1.5m Birmingham Children's Hospital appeal

Sandwell Couch Potatoes climb Snowdon to help raise money for a sailing voyage which will help people recovering from psychosis

Sandwell group tackle Snowdon to raise funds for psychosis recovery

Lou Pickering, Community Service Manager for BSMHFT’s dementia and frailty services (Centre) at the official launch of Memory Matters.

NHS bosses would ‘love’ to see pilot dementia project extended

Bridgnorth Community Hospital

Hospital's concern over Bridgnorth GP surgery patients using car park

High Street, Bridgnorth

Plus Wolverhampton man in court over theft of chocolates from Bridgnorth

Russells Hall Hospital’s Stroke Unit staff receiving their accreditation from the National Gold Standards Framework (GSF)

Every medical ward at Dudley hospital accredited for end-of-life care

Royal Stoke University Hospital Main Building

Urgent and emergency care performance 'worsened' at hospital

Wayne Williams says he has on occasion been forced to crawl across his garden when hospital staff and patients have parked outside his house

Plus I've had to crawl to my home due to hospital parking - disabled man

Russells Hall Hospital

Chiefs apologise for parking errors that saw priest get ticket

Joe Wicks visited Uplands Primary School in Smethwick. One of only 12 schools that were selected out of thousands for a visit.

17 brilliant images as fitness star Joe Wicks visits Smethwick school

Kim Kardashian getting a 'vampire facial'

Plus Blood tests given during investigation into 'vampire facials' clinic

Victoria Shattock

'I have endometriosis and wrote a book so women don't feel alone'

West Midlands Ambulance Service

Ambulance Service lost 14 years waiting to offload patients

Former Little Miz singer Jesy Nelson welcomed twin baby girls Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster with her fiancé Zion Foster. Photo by Instagram/Jesy Nelson.

Newborns to be tested for condition affecting Jesy Nelson’s twins

Dudley's new Health Innovation College is due to open next month. Photo: Steve Leath

£26 million health campus welcomes its first students next month

County Hospital in Stafford, where non-emergency surgery had already been postponed

NHS bosses approve closure of birthing units suspended since Covid
Board members were told it would be safer for mums and babies and more sustainable
Phil Corrigan

The prosecution was brought by the DVLA (Alamy/PA)

Stroke victim with memory issues convicted in court over £16 car bill

The new technology could dramatically reduce the time patients and their families spend waiting for answers

Birmingham to play key role in pioneering brain tumour test

A report said more than 11,000 extra health appointments have been delivered (Picture: Brian Jackson, stock.adobe.com)

More than 200 redundancies at health commissioning bodies

Sonia Kumar

MP calls for 'Body, Bedroom, Brain' health checks to be made permanent

The NHS cancer screening bus arrives in Dudley town centre.
Tim Thursfield/Iconic Media Group

Take peek inside cancer screening bus making way through Black Country

Beechdale Centre, Edison Road, Bloxwich

Plus The 30 Walsall GP surgeries with the most helpful receptionists

Health bosses set out winter plan for Shropshire and Staffordshire

Mia Royle was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when she was 16 years old. Now 18, this summer she joined a sailing adventure with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust from Largs on Scotland’s stunning west coast

Stafford cancer survivor, 18, enjoys life-changing sailing trip

Cuts to waiting lists in the West Midlands hitting national targets

Shaun McEntee crossing the finishing line on Day One

Man running 100 miles in five days welcomed in Wolverhampton

Acocks Green station

Rail disruption after passenger taken ill on Birmingham train
A passenger was taken ill at around 5.30pm
Kirsty-Louise Card

The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

Maternity bosses 'listening to families' after damning report

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

West Midlands NHS bosses braced for winter pressures

Compassionate Lodge In Uttoxeter Road, Draycott

Care home told it 'requires improvement' after CQC inspection

The Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull Cancer Bus will stop at Bentley Bridge Leisure Park on Tuesday, September 22

Cancer patients still ‘waiting too long’ for treatment, report says

Ollie Watkins’s sweet gesture before £50 million move to Saudi Arabia

Students heading for university are being urged to get protected with the MenB vaccine, before arriving on campus

West Midlands university freshers urged to get MenB vaccine

Yorkshire Cancer Research is pleased to see the NHS begin rolling out free at-home HPV testing kits to women who have not attended cervical screening appointments, marking an important step towards a future free from cervical cancer.

Wolverhampton women who miss cervical screening offered HPV home-test

Ambulance lost hours remain 'significant challenge' in West Midlands

Neelam Heera-Shergill, her husband Kal and their daughter

Mum in 'endless cycle of pain and appointments' until diagnosis

Mother of toddler calls for lessons to be learned after tragic death

Penn Surgery

Plus The 23 Wolverhampton GP surgeries with the most helpful receptionists

She is not happy with the work done by contractors.

Plus Woman shares her unhappiness after five months of bathroom repairs

Russell Howard

Russell Howard sets up foundation in memory of 'beautiful baby boy'

Danesford Grange care home Bridgnorth

Shropshire care home vows to tackle ‘inadequate’ inspection

Celebrating the launch of the Find My Loved One scheme at Grace Cares HQ, Elmhurst Business Park

Free dementia devices launched to help keep Lichfield residents safe

The West Midlands Combined Authority office in Summer Lane, Birmingham.

Hundreds died from drug misuse across the West Midlands in two years

West Midlands Ambulance Service has confirmed its new site.

Plus Plans revealed for new £14.2m Shropshire ambulance base off the A5

Players wore special warm-up t-shirts before the Premier League fixture with Newcastle to promote the campaign, as sported here by Rodrigo Gomes.

'Ow am ya?': Wolves fans urged to look out for each other

Sarah Baig, Pharmacy Professional Development and Governance Lead alongside Nazir Hussain, Specialist Respiratory Pharmacist

Two Dudley pharmacists shortlisted for national health and care awards

The singing group in Sandwell

Dementia singing group brings music, friendship and joy to Walsall

Rachel Overfield, chief executive of Compton Care

'Hospice care doesn’t need saving. It needs reimagining' By The Newsroom

Leia Roden of St Giles Hospice will be providing rapid response and virtual ward services

£5m 'hospice in the home' scheme will relieve pressure on hospitals

Unicorn Centre Stourbridge.

Plans for £1m savings with new deal for Stourbridge's Unicorn Centre

James Price of We Love Lichfield and Laura Evans of Cathedral Hearing

Hearing clinic holds open day to raise funds for Staffordshire charity

It is hoped the test will mean many patients can avoid having a cystoscopy

Breakthrough bladder cancer test to benefit Midlands patients first

The Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull Cancer Bus will stop at Bentley Bridge Leisure Park on Tuesday, September 22

Cancer awareness bus to visit Wolverhampton offering free health check

Noora Lewis

Dragon's Den contestant who pitched eyeliner half blind after blunder

Biscuits made from waste plastic bottles could help solve global food shortages

Biscuits made from plastic bottles could help solve food shortages

Food inspectors found a poor standard of food hygiene at Ken's Takeaway in Pensnett

£3,000 court bill for takeaway bosses after six hygiene breaches

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