Health News

This No Smoking Day, Wednesday 12 March, why not take the first steps towards a healthier, smoke-free future? Read More

DOVEHAVEN Care Homes – which runs Callands Care Home at Warrington – has recorded major reductions in pain among residents after using an AI assessment tool. Read More

MORE than 100,000 contributions have already been made to the biggest conversation ever about improving the NHS and now health bosses across the North West are urging people to have their say on some of the early ideas for change. Read More

NHS patients around the country are now receiving a lifesaving medicine made from the plasma of blood donors in Cheshire. Read More

A retired Carer Support Worker has told how total elbow replacement surgery at Spire Cheshire Hospital for severe rheumatoid arthritis has completely transformed her life. Read More

HEALTHWATCH Warrington, in collaboration with the Patient Experience and Inclusion Team at Warrington & Halton Hospital NHS Trust, has announced the launch of a new Awareness Card. Read More

THE UK Health Security Agency is urging people to help prevent the spread of norovirus in the North West as their latest data shows that people who have already had the virus could be at risk of catching it again. Read More

A Stockton Heath care home has been rated “Good” in all areas following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), although concerns were raised over medicine management, staffing levels and staff morale being low. Read More

A new collection of creative art designed to illustrate how an eating disorder can be experienced from different perspectives has just opened at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre. Read More