Health & Wellbeing

A developer providing affordable homes in the West Midlands has reinforced its commitment to being better community makers with a four-figure donation to a leading charity.

Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours, but they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause.

With rising levels of flu and other respiratory illnesses across Birmingham and Solihull, the NHS is urging the public to get their vaccinations to ensure a ‘flu free Christmas’.

A major new report involving research from The University of Warwick has found that an estimated 720,000 motorists are driving on Britain’s roads with defective eyesight.

Representatives from North East Lincolnshire council, the Humber and North Yorkshire integrated care board, education sector, Humberside Police, mental health providers and the voluntary community sector came together to consider ways to enhance the wellbeing and mental health support for young people in the borough. 

Wolverhampton has called in the Bug Busters to help the city's children fight off their winter foes!

A care home in Birmingham is inviting the local community to get into the festive spirit at its very own Christmas fete.

Nigeria, which has more malaria deaths than any other country in the world, has begun rolling out a vaccine against the disease for the first time.

WV Active is inviting people to help make it a Christmas to remember for local care home residents.

Women are being urged to come forward for cervical screening as new figures show more than five million are not up to date with their routine check-ups. 

The Plastic Health Council was joined by Plastic Soup Foundation, A Plastic Planet, Earth Action, Greenpeace, BreakFreeFromPlastic at INC 5 in Busan in calling for a robust Treaty that cuts plastic production to shield future generations from the impact of plastic and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) entering human bodies.

With a few weeks left to enter, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is calling on the public to support its lifesaving work this Christmas by purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win the £3,000 top prize.

A defibrillator has been installed at East Park Library in memory of a young mother who tragically passed away last year.

The City of Wolverhampton Council and Wolverhampton’s substance misuse service Recovery Near You are launching a new campaign to raise awareness of the risks of alcohol and to encourage people to think about their drinking habits – especially as the festive season approaches.

Local charitable leisure trust, Mytime Active, is proud to announce that it is offering free gym passes for Hatchford Brook Leisure Centre to Yardley residents, where there will be 21 free, one-day ‘bring a friend’ gym passes available every month until September 2025.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has announced the appointments of three new highly skilled trainee critical care paramedics to its pre-hospital emergency team.