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Plans submitted for new 'home from home' at Children's Hospital

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. Read

Kidney cancer drugs fail to get NHS approval

Midland cancer experts have hit out at a decision to deny kidney cancer patients four drugs under new NHS guidelines. Read

Wolverhampton hospital patient tests positive for TB

A patient at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton has tested positive for tuberculosis. Read

Midland nurse awarded honorary title for work with children

A Midland nurse has been awarded the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse in recognition of her work with seriously ill children in Walsall. Read

Plea to Birmingham women to join 5k charity run

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. Read

UK Gear wins US military academy contract

A Midland firm has won a contract to supply training shoes to the US military academy at West Point. Read

Hospital tagging scheme passes Birmingham trial

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. Read

Driving blind to raise money for charity centre

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. Read

How firefighter Steve is taking on the most critical fight of his life

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. Read

Bone marrow donors could help save little Alishba

Little Alishba Qamer is waiting for a miracle, for someone to save her life, after doctors gave her just two months to live in May. Read

Dentists launch legal bid to defend Birmingham NHS sacking ruling

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. Read

Hereford cancer patients wrongly given all-clear

Seventeen patients have been diagnosed with cancer after previously receiving the all-clear, it has emerged. Read

Zero tolerance over malnutrition promise Midland health chiefs

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. Read

Final call for Edward House retreat

It was never going to be an easy day as Edward House closed its doors for the last time. Read

Bulldozers move in on Edward House at Children's Hospital

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. Read

Mother teenage leukaemia victim donates £50,000 to charity

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. Read

£250m plan for new Birmingham 'polyclinics' divides opinion

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. Read

Warwickshire pensioners win sight treatment court ruling

A legal battle over NHS funding of sight-saving treatment for a degenerative eye disease has been settled in favour of three Warwickshire patients. Read

Government plans reform of sick note culture

Employees who fall ill are to be encouraged to return to work before they are fully recovered, under radical plans to reform the welfare system. Read

Midland support group puts brain tumours on top of agenda

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. Read