Updated 9:16pm 9 February 2012:

Get involved

RSS news for you | Forums
Send your stories

Powered by Google

Alison Dayani

Alison Dayani

Dragon's Den star Duncan Bannatyne makes mercy mission to Birmingham Children's Hospital

FIERY ‘Dragon’ Duncan Bannatyne showed his caring side as he visited sick youngsters at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.Read

Emergency health workers praised after working through Birmingham riots

PARAMEDICS, hospital staff and other NHS workers have been commended for their dedication during the Birmingham riots.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: Teenager left battling for life with rare heart condition saved by eleventh hour transplant

A TEENAGER who escaped death thanks to an organ donor has paid tribute to her benefactor.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: Battling transplant baby Lottie Bryon Edmond returns home

TRANSPLANT baby Lottie Bryon-Edmond has returned home for the first time since being born with a life-threatening condition.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: More than 1,000 people waiting for a life-saving transplant in West Midlands

MORE than 1,000 critically ill people in the West Midlands are waiting in hope right now for a gift of life – but 13 have already died in the past five months.Read

Special Report: Girl who survived eye cancer shows why appeal to boost Birmingham research is so important

DRESSING up in her mum’s shoes and make-up, bubbly Olivia Falato relishes looking at herself in the mirror.Read

Scheme piloted in Birmingham to boost children's dental health

A TRIAL to boost children’s teeth is being pioneered in the region after it was shamed for youngsters’ rotting gnashers.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: Death of Lichfield nurse helps save at least seven lives

THE sudden “freak” death of spirited nurse Pam Taylor from a brain haemorrhage days before Christmas was as devastating as it was unexpected for her family.Read

Hospital security guards scoop bravery awards for trying to stop baby being snatched from maternity unit

HOSPITAL security guards who battled to stop a baby snatch from a Birmingham maternity unit have been honoured with bravery awards.Read

Rosie Farrell, the woman who won NHS battle for cancer drug, dies

A YOUNG brain tumour victim who won a battle against the NHS to get an expensive, highly advanced cancer drug, has died from the disease.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: Teenager Laura saves three people after her death

AN INSPIRATIONAL teenager battling a rare, lethal lung disease has died – but her decision to donate organs means she has saved three other lives.Read

Lottie's Lifeline: Sign up to the Organ Donor Register and save a life

TODAY the Birmingham Mail wants all its readers to become potential life-savers.Read

Trauma shake-up begins at Birmingham hospitals

TWO Birmingham hospitals have applied to become specialist ‘Trauma Units’ as health bosses prepare for a radical shake-up of emergency services.Read

SPECIAL REPORT: How will the NHS reforms affect the Midlands?

JOHN Lister, a member of patient group Health Emergency, claimed: “Taxpaying NHS patients will lose out because hospitals will bring in more private patients from abroad to make more cash once restrictions are lifted.Read

SPECIAL REPORT: How the NHS shake up will affect Birmingham

THERE have been radical ideas, pauses, U-turns, name changes and major adjustments to the new Health Bill, but this week it reaches its final approval in the House of Commons.Read

Doctors step up efforts to save brain tumour youngster Harry Moseley

DOCTORS are stepping up medical efforts to try and save an inspirational Birmingham schoolboy whose brain tumour is expanding.Read

Bartley Green woman received private medical records of her Nottingham namesake

GOVERNMENT bureaucrats sent the wrong medical records to a Birmingham woman, disclosing pages of personal details about a complete stranger.Read

Tumour growth blow to Britain's kindest kid Harry Moseley

‘BRITAIN’S Kindest Kid’ Harry Moseley has taken a turn for the worse after doctors discovered his brain tumour had grown by 50 per cent.Read

Tipton mother brought back from death after caesarian went wrong

A MIDLAND mother ‘died’ and had to be resuscitated within hours of giving birth when an emergency caesarian section went wrong.Read

Teenage girl paralysed after routine operation error at Birmingham Children's Hospital

AN OUTGOING teenage girl has been left paralysed from the waist down after a routine operation to remove gallstones went tragically wrong.Read

Author Profile

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.