Health

An appeal to help provide a one-stop symptomatic breast clinic at Newark Hospital has reached its half-way point, thanks to a £2,500 donation.

A plus-size beauty pageant finalist is hoping to use her story to spread a serious message about women’s health.

Patients and visitors who need to travel to King's Mill Hospital are driving a new campaign to restore a bus service between the two hospitals.

A student has been inspired to help other young people after a life-saving kidney transplant.

Almost 1,000 A&E patients at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust waited four hours or longer to be admitted, transferred or discharged in January.

Patients, staff and visitors to Newark Hospital are being advised to allow more time for travel from Monday, due to the road works.

A CAMPAIGN to train 10,000 people in key areas of first aid has reached nearly 4,000 people in its first 18 months.

A mother whose son’s quality of life will suffer because of council cuts has asked a national disability charity to back her campaign for change.

Staff from a Newark food company raised £8,200, with match funding from their employer, for a mental health charity.

A conference was held at Newark Hospital last week for staff and managers, supported by a trust-wide menopause guidance document.

Shops were visited to see if they checked customers’ age ID, as set out under Challenge 25, which aims to stop alcohol being sold to under-18s.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust lost £3m in a year due to thousands of patients not turning up to appointments, figures show.

Patients block 27 beds a day at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, NHS England figures show.

Staff at King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield have been encouraged to get involved with a council’s active travel scheme.

Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

The project is delivered by a partnership between charity Involve and social enterprise Leaders Unlocked.

Proposed cuts to disability benefit payments will be delayed and rolled out in two phases.

A mum whose son has Duchenne muscular dystrophy has spoken out about the lack of mental health support.

Work in the community, with local partners and GPs is ensuring Newark patients receive more medical services on their doorstep.

A woman who has managed to shed 100lbs says that if she can do it anyone can.