Health & Wellbeing

The Chancellor will double down on the government’s commitment of continuing to slash NHS waiting times in this week’s Budget - confirming the investment for hundreds of new Neighbourhood Health Centres that will deliver healthcare direct to people’s doorsteps across the country.

Two Black Country councils recently met with UK Government ministers Josh MacAlister, Minister for Children and Families, and Jess Phillips, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, visited Wolverhampton’s Graiseley Family Hub.

As part of the government’s drive to bring down the cost of living, the Chancellor has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urging them to launch a market study into private dentistry costs and practices. 

As flu cases rise across the region, health leaders in Wolverhampton are urging everyone who is eligible to come forward for their flu vaccination as soon as possible.

Nishkam Healthcare Trust (NHT), based at 21-23 Soho Road, Handsworth, is a beacon of compassion and community services.

Fox Hollies Leisure Centre will once again be offering a free to attend night-time walking and running club to show backing for This Girl Can’s (TGC) Let’s Lift the Curfew campaign, which aims to help women stay active during the winter months.

Proposals by George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton to move hundreds of health workers to a subsidiary company have been reversed after a campaign by staff, says UNISON.

Colleagues at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) are celebrating after scooping a third national digital innovation award this year for transforming how quickly new staff are recruited.

Monica Fox, a mother from Chicago, Illinois, in the USA, who once battled kidney failure, received a life-saving kidney transplant from her daughter, Olivia, nearly a decade after first being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.

Health City Cayman Islands, the largest private sector medical entity in the Cayman Islands and one of the largest in the Caribbean, has announced the acquisition of Practice Plus Group by its parent company, Narayana Health (NH).

Linwoods have announced Olympic gold medal rower Hannah Scott MBE as the brand’s newest Brand Ambassador.

A series of catch-up vaccination clinics will be taking place in Wolverhampton for pupils from reception to year 11 who have missed their free flu vaccine in school, and for children who are educated at home – with the first next week.

Zain Younis is an optometrist graduate with Pakistani origins. In October 2025, he achieved something monumental.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is set to teach lifesaving CPR skills to a further 1,000 people, thanks to generous donation from the charity Get Up Give Back, in support of Restart a Heart Day today.

Berkshire developer David Wilson Homes has donated £3,000 to BIBS (Babies in Buscot Support), a charity dedicated to helping families with critically ill and premature newborns.

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