When cancer-ravaged Birmingham mother-of-two Charlene Harper made a dying wish to get married, she was able to take her vows with her partner and childhood sweetheart Lee within two days. Hospice workers also rallied around to make sure that Charlene’s final days were her happiest. Health Correspondent Alison Dayani reports.Read
HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has given support for Birmingham’s plans to get junk food firms more involved with cutting the city’s shameful obesity rates.Read
ONE of the country’s leading HIV specialists from Birmingham has warned one in four HIV sufferers in the city are dangerously unaware they are infected on the 30th anniversary of the virus being discovered.Read
MIDWIFE shortages at Birmingham’s largest hospital trust played a part in the death of a baby during his birth, an internal investigation has revealed.Read
HEALTH chiefs have performed a U-turn on slashing 700 hospital beds in Birmingham – but plan to save £100 million by cutting back on operations instead.Read
MIDLAND patients have little faith in the NHS improving and are demanding shorter A&E waiting times, better mental health and access to an NHS dentist, a new survey has revealed.Read
NEARLY 900 patients a month are being left stranded on ambulances for more than an hour outside Birmingham accident and emergency departments, new figures have revealed.Read
A “RECKLESS” senior doctor who became the first in England to be prosecuted for falsely signing death certificates is in a fight to save his career.Read
THE mother of a young Birmingham bodybuilder who died after a car driven by a drunken friend crashed said she was outraged he could be out in just 20 months.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.
