WEST Midlands Police and Fire Brigade unions have launched a battle against NHS bosses to overturn a controversial national decision not to give officers the swine flu jab.Read
VIGILANTES targeting Birmingham hospitals to frighten people into not having the swine flu vaccine have been condemned by Britain’s top health boss.Read
THE tireless efforts of Brummies, celebrities and even Dragon’s Den entrepreneurs has seen the Kidney Kids Appeal’s £1.5 million target reached in just 16 months.Read
Down in the archives of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, in Northfield, are even more wonderful moth-eaten gems of brown-edged newspaper cuttings of royal visits and details of servicemen recovering after being injured at Dunkirk.Read
IT felt as though I was caught somewhere between a musical version of Loose Women and the biggest hen night in town as The Nolans made their comeback after 25 years.Read
A CATALOGUE of blunders by a GP surgery turned a terminally-ill cancer patient’s final months into a “horrendous battle for basic care”, his family revealed today.Read
EYE treatment in Birmingham has picked up a national excellence award for exceptional care of patients with a devastating illness that causes blindness.Read
NEARLY 1,000 staff at Birmingham’s largest hospital trust could bring wards to a standstill by going on strike over pay and conditions in coming months, union chiefs have warned.Read
A BIRMINGHAM mother whose baby died from meningitis is taking legal action against an out-of-hours clinic, claiming medics misdiagnosed the infant and missed tell-tale signs.Read
NHS managers were told to rethink plans to downgrade maternity services in Solihull because they haven’t considered the borough’s rising population in top level talks.Read
A TEENAGER forced to spend more than six months in hospital with an incurable painful illness was resigned to spending his 14th birthday miserable on a Birmingham ward.Read
Alison Dayani is Health Correspondent on the Birmingham Mail but also covers general news, features, music and theatre. As a trained video journalist, she provides footage of events and health stories for the website too.
