Size zero and the skeleton culture promoted within today’s modelling industry have sparked furious debate over the messages this sends young, impressionable women.Read
City council social services bosses in Birmingham have decided which old people’s home closures will be postponed for three to five years as a result of the recession.Read
Birmingham has only three official collection points for swine flu medication despite being one of the main hotspots in the country for the H1N1 virus, it emerged.Read
A distraught mother who claims health bosses threatened to arrest her if she took her severely disabled daughter home has opened her heart about the “embarrassment and anger” of battling for her loved one’s future.Read
Birmingham swine flu sufferer Erroll Roberts was caught up in the frenzy of the National Pandemic Flu Service’s first day when he tried to get a diagnosis in its first hours.Read
A three month progress report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) warned that there was an urgent need for new equipment and more nurses at the trust.Read
NHS patients in facilities managed by South Birmingham Community Health (SBCH) benefit from a clean, well-maintained healthcare environment, a review has found.Read
‘Tongue-tied’ may be a common phrase in the English language but it has roots in a medical condition that is still being treated by doctors in Birmingham.Read
The sale of a multi-million pound Birmingham hospital site is not due to go ahead for at least four years when it will be sold to make way for new housing, NHS bosses have revealed.Read
Hundreds of appalling medical errors, including leaving surgical equipment inside a patient’s body, are dogging hospitals in the Midlands – with an average of one every other day.Read
