An internal investigation into the conduct of the former chief executive of shamed Stafford Hospital, where at least 400 patients died unnecessarily due to cuts, concluded that there were “serious failings” in his leadership.Read
Parents of children attending Child Health Medical Service clinics in Birmingham are to receive text message reminders as part of an initiative to reduce the numbers failing to turn up for appointments.Read
Schoolgirls in Coventry are being offered counselling as an urgent probe got under way into why a 14-year-old girl died shortly after being given a cervical cancer vaccine.Read
The retired manager, who was mainly office-based at City Hospital, in Winson Green, filed an injury claim following his retirement and has won his lengthy battle.Read
Plans for a radical overhaul of maternity units across the West Midlands have led to rallies on the streets and calls for politics to be taken out of the health service. Health Correspondent Alison Dayani investigates why changes designed to protect the most at-risk babies have split opinion.Read
Hospital chiefs are preparing to make compulsory purchase orders on properties where they plan to build a new £484 million for west Birmingham and the Black Country.Read
Birmingham researchers are working with a city hospital to start pioneering research into how a hormone can lead some unborn babies to have poor growth and even a low IQ.Read
A Birmingham doctor accused of falsely claiming a wage for his wife as his practice manager has been cleared of all allegations in a misconduct hearing by the General Medical Council.Read
Children’s TV presenter Andi Peters and weather experts have been drafted in to help with the fight against swine flu and ease bedblocking in Birmingham this winter.Read
Two Midland hospitals are leading the way by waiving all parking charges for cancer patients who face the added burden of costly frequent visits to wards.Read
A group of 26 underpaid nurses have won the right to thousands of pounds worth of back-pay following a 15-month grievance battle against Birmingham Children’s Hospital.Read
Relatives of patients who died at a hospital described as having “shocking” standards of care expressed outrage yesterday at plans to hold an inquiry into the deaths in private.Read
Parents are being warned to protect their children against the dangerous measles virus after nearly 100 cases emerged in the Midlands – most of them involving those who had not had the MMR jab.Read
The chief executive of Heart of England Foundation Trust has stressed proposals to downgrade maternity services in Solihull are not being “finessed through the back door”.Read
Numbers of patients seeing their GP over flu-like illnesses stood at 14 per 100,000 people for the week ending August 30 compared to 200 at the end of July.Read
