A pensioner who unnecessarily had her leg amputated after she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer won a six-figure payout from the hospital trust responsible, it emerged today.Read
HEALTH secretary Andy Burnham has formally approved the go-ahead for NHS bosses to buy land for a new £484 million hospital on the Birmingham and Black Country border by compulsory purchase order.Read
THE NHS could save billions of pounds by tackling the obesity crisis with routine gastric band operations on overweight patients, a leading world expert has revealed in Birmingham.Read
THE region’s growing waistlines are costing the NHS a staggering £64 million every year according to latest disclosed figures on the high price of obesity and laziness.Read
A BIRMINGHAM mother-of-two was killed by a blood clot within days of undergoing routine surgery because she was overweight and taking a controversial contraceptive pill, an inquest ruled.Read