The firm which ran the shamed care home in Bristol where vulnerable residents were secretly filmed being slapped and doused with cold water is to close another home it runs in Solihull.Read
A surgeon banned from carrying out heart operations after the General Medical Council found he was professionally unfit for his job has had some restrictions on his registration lifted.Read
Long uneasy pauses right from the start of Harold Pinter’s famed ‘masterpiece’ have the audience right where he wanted them – shifting uncomfortably.Read
Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been on the brink of financial distress over swingeing Government cuts. Chief executive Sarah-Jane Marsh explains how she managed to turn the trust’s fortunes around.Read
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has given support for Birmingham’s plans to get junk food firms more involved with cutting the city’s obesity rates.Read
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has given support for Birmingham’s plans to get junk food firms more involved with cutting the city’s obesity rates.Read
When Solihull maternity unit was downgraded last year, health bosses insisted it would make labour wards safer. Since then midwifery services have been pushed to breaking point and staffing levels may have contributed to the death of a baby at Heartlands Hospital.Read
An internal investigation into a baby who died at birth under Heart of England Foundation Trust’s care has revealed short staffing played a part in the death.Read
An elderly Alzheimer’s patient was left battered and bruised on a specialist NHS dementia ward after being repeatedly attacked by other patients, his family has claimed.
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Health chiefs have performed a U-turn on slashing 700 hospital beds in Birmingham – but plan to save £100 million by cutting back on operations instead.Read
Alison Dayani is Health Correspondent on the Birmingham Mail but also covers general news, features, music and theatre. As a trained video journalist, she provides footage of events and health stories for the website too.
