The campaign to protect maternity services in Solihull has reached the House of Commons after an MP demanded that health chiefs scrap plans to transfer pregnant women to Birmingham.
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The spread of swine flu in Birmingham has been more severe because of the high number of close-knit families in the city, the Health Secretary has said.
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Health chiefs have confirmed a further 116 cases of swine flu in the West Midlands, taking the numbers for the region up to 4,424, and nationally to 6,929.
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The Russells Hall Hospital consultant is among the first to use the Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD) device which will prolong the lives of at-risk patients.
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Plans for a £65 million scheme to bring hundreds of new apartments, houses, shops, and offices to a rundown stretch of Walsall canal have been scaled down in response to “market demands”.
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More than £10 million is being pumped into ensuring all NHS hospitals in the Midlands have separate wards for men and women within the next year to avoid Government fines.
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Swine flu cases in the West Midlands have continued to escalate with 115 new confirmed cases as the Government revealed there would be a new way of managing the outbreak in the region.
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Ambitious plans for a new £484 million hospital for west Birmingham and the Black Country are facing a stumbling block after Department of Health executives delayed signing off the business case due to the credit crunch.
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