A series of "harrowing" complaints against the NHS, including one in Birmingham, has exposed how older people are being failed, according to the health service ombudsman.Read
An NHS Trust has paid out a five-figure compensation settlement to a Worcestershire couple whose son was stillborn following a series of "basic errors" in ante-natal care.
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Health Correspondent Alison Dayani talks to a Birmingham GP tasked with spearheading the Government’s most far-reaching health reforms for 60 years.Read
A church minister has received £40,000 in compensation after her husband was left in a “vegetative state” following a stay at a Birmingham care home. Read
Hospitals in the West Midlands are now “leading the way” in improving maternity services after a shocking report revealed the deaths of 21 babies during labour or birth may have been caused by “substandard” levels of maternity care, Ministers have claimed.Read
West Midlands Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are to face even tougher financial cutbacks in the coming year with new efficiency saving orders of at least £29 million from the Government.Read
As few as one in seven hospital workers in the West Midlands have had the swine flu jab – raising fears that wards could be brought to a standstill if virus rates soar.Read
Plans to scrap Birmingham health trusts employing 2,000 people have been criticised by a powerful Commons committee as David Cameron insisted there was no turning back over radical reforms to the NHS.Read
