6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (266+ words) UNISON calls for direct NHS employment to be restored After a UNISON campaign successfully paused plans from Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to outsource hundreds of healthcare staff to a subsidiary company, the union is today urging the trust to scrap…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (352+ words) Plans submitted for conversion of The Cat Inn An Egremont pub and restaurant may soon be transformed into a community health and wellbeing hub if plans submitted to Cumberland Council are approved. The Cat Inn on Main Street is the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (475+ words) West Midlands Ambulance Service said it will "future proof ambulance provision within the county for the next 30 years" West Midlands Ambulance Service is set to invest £14.2 million in a new operational hub for Shrewsbury. The new base which meets the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (347+ words) The specialist team is helping the charity respond to more critical emergencies across the region A new 24-hour Advanced Paramedic service run by Essex & Herts Air Ambulance has attended 75 patients since it began. The charity launched the service in partnership…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (317+ words) Mental health, alcohol and debt support are now on offer in the NR3 area People in north Norwich can now get health and wellbeing support from a set of shipping containers in the heart of their community. The new neighbourhood service…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (497+ words) Nine fires in Wiltshire have been caused by batteries in the last twelve months. Wiltshire residents are being reminded not to dispose of battery appliances including vapes in their rubbish bins after new research showed fires had cost the waste…...

3+ week, 34+ min ago   (826+ words) Plans will be discussed next week Ambitious proposals to restore and re-purpose a Grade II listed church in Blackpool as a mental health therapy centre are due to be decided on by planners next week. But the plans for the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (255+ words) A cow on a farm in Dumfries and Galloway has been confirmed to have classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), prompting precautionary measures. Movement restrictions have been enacted on the offspring of the affected cow and its group at the farm,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) A person has died and at least 38 people in Yorkshire have been affected by a food poisoning outbreak, health officials have said. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the salmonella outbreak “may be linked to eggs imported from outside…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (229+ words) Mole activity led to discovery of potential asbestos signs The Valley Playing Field in Chalford will reopen next week, it has been shut since last year when moles in the area dug up what people thought was asbestos. Chalford Parish…...