Health & Wellbeing

Cure Leukaemia is calling on the football community across the world to unite in the battle against childhood blood cancer and forget club rivalries as part of a £10million fundraising campaign launching today at the start of Childhood Cancer Awareness month.

A West Midlands consultant who learned the value of protecting the environment by feeding wild animals in her native Lithuania in temperatures of minus 20 degrees is the Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year 2022. Ingrida Vengalyte, 33, beat off fierce competition to take the overall award after winning the Future Face of Sustainability category.

Service providers are being encouraged to nominate adult social care workers who they believe have gone above and beyond during the Covid-19 pandemic for special recognition.

The Wolverhampton Cares Awards is a one-off ceremony, sponsored by the City of Wolverhampton Council and the Wolverhampton Cares campaign, to recognise the amazing work that was carried out throughout the pandemic by members of the Adult Social Care workforce within the city.

Four out of five (83 per cent) families caring for a disabled loved one believe the Government is not doing enough to support them during the current cost-of-living crisis, according to new research by the disability charity Sense. It comes as the charity announce a new emergency fund for children or adults with complex disabilities living with their families. 

Barbecue experts FoodFireFriends collaborated with nutritionists Ellie Busby and Dr Sarah Cooke to find out what nutrients are missing the most from the average person’s diet.

A paediatric nurse will complete an epic 3,200 mile cycle between every children’s hospice service in the UK on Sunday, 28th August, having started 70 days ago. Starting on 20th June on the first day of Children's Hospice Week, Nurse Francesca Lennon will have cycled an average of 46 miles per day - with the longest leg being 94 miles in one day - to complete the marathon challenge, raising £81,291 to date.

Birmingham’s prestigious annual event is back following the Covid pandemic with the West Midland’s Brain Game bringing together business people from across the region to raise vital funds for end of life charity Marie Curie.

One of the biggest charity events held outside London, the West Midlands Brain Game raised more than £154,000 for Marie Curie in 2019 where representatives from 50 businesses in finance, legal, and construction pitted their wits against each other.

One of the Caribbean’s leading tertiary health care institutions continues its mission to roll out new technologies to improve both surgical outcomes and times.

Health City Cayman Islands has notched another Caribbean first with the acquisition of the Smith+Nephew INTELLIO Connected Tower Solution, packed with 4K technology, which enhances the view of surgical areas, particularly in orthopedic joint repair and replacement procedures.

The offer of free cycle hire during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has proved a huge success with thousands of riders covering an astonishing 49,000 miles in just 12 days.

That’s only a thousand miles short of travelling twice around the world, reflecting the huge appetite for West Midlands Cycle Hire while the region enjoyed the international festival of sport.

Adventurers are being invited to scale great heights whilst enjoying a view of Birmingham as they raise money for St Giles Hospice in an abseil challenge. Fundraisers will descend more than 100ft down the seven-story Green Man Wall on the Custard Factory building in Digbeth on Saturday,15th October.

A 101-year-old Solihull care home resident has revealed the secret to living a long and happy life. A very special birthday celebration took place at Care UK’s Blossomfield Grange, on Worcester Way, when resident Joyce Wainwright, turned 101 years ‘young’.

Reflecting on her many happy years, she revealed the secret to a long life is ‘drinking a glass of baileys every night before bed’.

For many families, this summer is the first chance they have had to plan day trips and holidays together, now that coronavirus restrictions have eased. This includes the estimated 84,090 people living with dementia in the West Midlands.

According to Alzheimer’s Society a well-planned holiday can have a positive impact on the wellbeing of people affected by dementia.

Lifesaving crews based at Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s Strensham airbase in Worcestershire are busy preparing for the return of the service’s popular Open Day, on Sunday 4^th September.

The Strensham Airbase Open Day is a free-to-attend event taking place between 10am and 4pm.

Halfords Logistics’ “safety-first” culture has been recognised with the accolade of Best New Entry at the 2022 RoSPA Health and Safety Awards. 

The RoSPA Health and Safety Awards is one of the most widely recognised award schemes in the world, used by firms to benchmark and celebrate their health and safety achievements.

Responding to NHS England’s letter ‘Next steps in increasing capacity and operational resilience in urgent and emergency care ahead of winter’, Dr Adrian Boyle, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “We are pleased to see NHS England recognise the significant pressure that Urgent and Emergency Care is under and welcome the planning for winter, which we know will bring further severe pressures on a system already in crisis.

With temperatures rising yet again above 30 degrees in parts of the UK this week so has the need to check on and keep people living with dementia hydrated. 

Last month saw temperatures in the UK reach record-breaking levels. At the same time, an innovator supported by Alzheimer’s Society, saw sales and interest in his inventive hydration product ‘Jelly Drops’ soar.