Plans for a £7 million Ronald McDonald House for parents and relatives of young patients at Birmingham Children’s Hospital have finally been submitted to planners.
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Women across the Midlands are being urged to pull on their trainers to take part in one of the biggest charity 5k races, which willl be staged simultaneously in Birmingham, Liverpool and London next month.
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A hospital tagging system that helps prevent potentially lethal mix-ups in the operating theatre is set to be rolled out commercially after successful trials in Birmingham.
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Motorists are mostly unaware of how different their lives would be if they lost their sight. Emma Brady donned a blindfold and drove around an RAF base to find out what it feels like.
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As a superfit firefighter and former soldier Steve Lock never did ‘sick’ but now his wife is appealing for Midlanders to help him find a bone marrow donor three months’ after he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.
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A dentists' union is launching a legal challenge against the Government's decision to appeal against a judicial ruling that dentists cannot be sacked without reason.
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Midland health bosses have vowed there will be “zero tolerance for error” after figures released by the Conservatives revealed reports of poor nutrition in hospitals more than doubled since 2005.
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Parents of seriously-ill patients at Birmingham Children’s Hospital will be moving into a hotel this week as their “home from home” is knocked down to make way for a Ronald McDonald House.
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A Midland mother whose “incredibly healthy” teenage daughter died three weeks’ after doctors diagnosed her with leukaemia has kick-started a £1 million Teenage Cancer Trust appeal with a £50,000 donation.
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Plans for three ‘polyclinics’ in Birmingham have divided the city’s health watchdog, which had failed to approve proposals tabled by the city’s primary care trusts.
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A legal battle over NHS funding of sight-saving treatment for a degenerative eye disease has been settled in favour of three Warwickshire patients.
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Brain tumour patients face at best an uncertain future as research, treatment and support has been stymied by a lack of investment, but a new Midland support group hopes to change that.
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