New antenatal Rainbow Clinic for Stepping Hill Hospital
A new service has launched at Stepping Hill Hospital to provide extra support for mums and dads-to-be who have previously experienced stillbirth, late miscarriage...
Nursing students to receive £5,000 payment a year
Nursing students will benefit from guaranteed, additional support of at least £5,000 a year to help with living costs.
The funding will be given to...
Two apples a day keep the Doctor away
Eating two apples a day has been shown to help keep cholesterol down and fight heart disease risk according to new research.
In a paper...
Worst A&E performance since record’s began
A day after the election, the latest NHS statistics for November show that only seven out of ten patients arriving at a major A&E in...
No place to recover – the rocketing demand on the NHS from homeless patients
Homeless people are attending hospital in ever greater numbers but are discharged back to the streets where they can enter a spiral of decline,...
Labelling foods with the amount of physical activity needed to burn off calories linked...
Labelling food and drinks with the amount and type of physical activity needed to burn off the calories in it might be a more...
Hydration myths may be putting older people’s health at risk
Myths about healthy drinking may be putting older people’s health at risk by discouraging them from drinking enough fluid to stay healthy, according to...
Manchester University Hospital Trust Manchester’s hospitals make more money from parking charges than anywhere...
Manchester University Hospitals took in the most money from its car parks last year, £6.3million according to research out this morning.
A freedom of Information...
Brass bands can improve your health and wellbeing, study shows
Stress relief, improved mental health and lungs like an elite sports star are just some of the ways playing in a brass band can...
4,600 deaths linked to patient safety incidents in the NHS over the past year
Patient safety data submitted to the NHS’s National Reporting and Learning System showed that over 4,600 deaths were linked to patient safety incidents.
Although guidance...