Birmingham City Council has failed to meet targets to tackle bed blocking and has failed to assess children at risk of abuse adequately, according to a performance review.Read
Claims made by a nurse that a patient was tortured when their anaesthetic failed at a Birmingham hospital were criticised as sensationalist and inappropriate by a senior member of staff, a tribunal was told.Read
England’s chief medical officer has pledged to act on high levels of public health unemployment amid NHS cutbacks after being confronted in Birmingham.Read
Head teachers are to be given the power to object to chip shops, takeaways and pizza parlours within 300 metres of a school under new proposals designed to aid the battle against obesity.Read
Plans for a world-class medical research centre in Birmingham could be scuppered because of local opposition to a housing development that would pay for the project.Read
Investigations into serious failings at hospitals are being prevented because of gaps in the current regulation system, a public inquiry has heard.Read
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has given support for Birmingham’s plans to get junk food firms more involved with cutting the city’s obesity rates.Read
The language used in a damning report into standards at Stafford Hospital “knee-capped” the facility, according to the former chairman of a health watchdog.Read
Diane Parkes speaks to a nursing student who kept diaries of the difficulties experienced by staff and patients in dementia wards across the MidlandsRead
The largest hospital foundation trust in Birmingham has revealed it is to be less secretive by opening up its board meetings to patients for public scrutiny.Read
