Health & Wellbeing

The Welsh Government has announced £7.7m of funding so all babies in Wales will be vaccinated against meningitis B.

Across the UK more and more SEN schools are introducing rebound therapy as part of their daily activities and nowhere is this proving more beneficial than at the Lady Zia Wernher School in Luton.

After a very successful couple of years following the launch of The Simmons Method™ for Addiction Freedom, North West London-based addiction therapist, Cathy Simmons has won the Therapist/Practitioner of the Year Award for 2015 in the APCTC Awards run by the Association of Professional Coaches, Trainers and Consultants, for her achievements in the field of addiction.

Members are huge supporters of a properly functioning and efficient NHS and are only too keen to help if someone at the top has the foresight to ask for assistance says GMB.

There are an estimated 92,000 children in care across the UK, many with complex health and well-being needs – and professionals caring for them are crucial to ensuring the poor health, education and social outcomes they too often experience are reversed.

England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, has published his first report on the quality of care provided by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. 

Royal Philips have announced that it has entered into a multi-year development agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Janssen). The collaboration aims to develop a new handheld blood test to provide doctors with a novel tool to improve the care of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Can driving a diesel-powered car be more anti-social than smoking cigarettes? Members of the new Quit Club, set up to support businesses in kicking the diesel habit, might well say yes.

McLaren Applied Technologies and the University of Oxford have announced a new partnership that aims to improve the efficiency of patient care and optimise the treatment journey for serious conditions.

An international panel of global health experts will converge on the Royal Society of Medicine on Tuesday 28 April for the Society's flagship Global Surgery conference which will address the role of high income countries in delivering safe, affordable and equitable care worldwide.

The Birmingham office of global professional services firm, KPMG, has announced its staff will be supporting Cure Leukaemia in 2015.

A teenager suffering from Lupus is planning a charity skydive in order to raise awareness of the disease.

The launch of the SERV (Kent) Blood Bike new Headquarters was officially opened by four times and current British Superbike Champion Shane “Shakey” Byrne on behalf of John Surtees OBE and The Henry Surtees Foundation.

Wales' new 'flying' doctors will travel to the scene of emergencies in the most advanced vehicles seen anywhere in the world, Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced.

Salford is set to be at the forefront of a national health revolution that will bring home care, mental health and community nursing, hospital and out-of-hospital services together, ushering in a new era of joined-up care.

As World Oral Health Day 2015 approaches countries worldwide are preparing to celebrate in their own way. The theme is 'Smile for life'.