8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (142+ words) Eastern Daily Press Almost 100 patients a week treated in N&N hospital corridors Almost 100 patients a week treated in corridors at Norfolk's biggest hospital Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (Image: Newsquest) Almost 100 people a week are being treated in the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (442+ words) A Norfolk GP has been struck off the medical register after a tribunal found he had behaved in a "sexually inappropriate" way towards two vulnerable female patients. William Smerdon, who worked at the Southgates Medical Centre and Woottons Surgery in…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (214+ words) A GP surgery in a north Norfolk town has announced plans to go fully cashless. Birchwood Medical Practice in North Walsham will stop accepting cash payments for prescriptions. The major change will come into effect from November 1 and the practice…...

6+ day ago   (422+ words) Three bereaved fathers who raised more than £1.5m for a suicide prevention charity have been left devastated at its closure including the loss of its helpline. Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide has closed its doors, with Opus Restructuring & Insolvency - who have…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (911+ words) Discussions which could see Norfolk's second largest hospital lose its A&E, ICU and maternity services has led an MP to seek a “cast-iron” guarantee emergency care at a second hospital won’t be axed too. The EDP revealed last week…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1072+ words) A Norfolk family has raised more than £100,000 for the air ambulance crew that helped them say goodbye to their son. Daniel Leathers, from Lingwood, near Norwich, was 20 when he was involved in a collision on the A47 on December 1, 2022. Daniel Leathers…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1324+ words) One of Norfolk's three major hospitals is at risk of losing its A&E, intensive care and maternity units, the EDP can reveal. Senior sources at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King's Lynn say that officials there have been…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) A King’s Lynn woman died after choking on an egg sandwich at her home, an inquest has heard. Susan Jane Duarte suffered a cardiac arrest after food became lodged in her airway while she was eating in her kitchen. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (796+ words) Plans to cut the number of regional health boards in Scotland from 14 to just two could be “more reckless than revolutionary”, John Swinney has been warned. Roz Foyer, general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, issued the warning after…...