Sheffield residents are calling for unity to tackle 'loneliness' during Mental Health Awareness Week. The campaign is ran by the Mental Health Foundation, which has grown into the biggest awareness week across the UK for over 20 years. The week will have the theme of...
Concerns are growing over low uptake of the coronavirus vaccine among under 12's in Sheffield, with latest figures showing that less than 4% of eligible children have had the jab. According to data from NHS England, just 1,853 children have been vaccinated despite the...
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals will defer the government’s decision to scrap free parking for NHS staff for one month, at the end of this week. Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced on Wednesday that the pandemic had “moved to a new stage” and therefore the scheme, which...
Controversial plans by NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to close 15 surgeries in the city and merge them into five new 'supersurgeries' have been met with mixed reviews. Sheffield has £37m of government funding to build up five new health hubs that...
A Sheffield hospital professor hailed as 'inspirational' for his work improving children's lives was shortlisted for a prestigious award. Professor Paul Dimitri , Professor of Child Health and Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at Sheffield Children’s Hospital,...
The Weston Park Cancer Centre is the subject of a £50million plan to improve care for over a million people in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw. Numerous MPs and leaders have written to the government Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, asking him to invest in and transform...
Sheffield’s NHS support service has experienced a concerning rise in the number of referrals for eating disorders because the problems have not been dealt with at an early stage. South Yorkshire health bosses believe more serious cases have been presented due to less...
Chef Raheel Mizra is attempting to set a new Guinness World Record for the most people cooking simultaneously online this Friday. Mizra, who is from Sheffield, will be guiding participants step-by-step to make Butter Chicken (also known as Butter Paneer) via a live...
The NHS approached businesses, which trade at the Moor Market, before Christmas in order to get some involved in the initiative. Bingham and Browne, a family run business which is over 60 years old, have set up fruit and veg stalls at both the Sheffield Children's...
A school in Doncaster has told staff and pupils who attended a half-term trip in Italy to self-isolate themselves for two weeks due to coronavirus fears. Hall Cross Academy is one among three schools taking measures against the virus, following Don Valley academy and...
Pipeline Theatre’s latest play ‘Drip Drip Drip’ is aiming to break the taboo surrounding racism in the NHS. Written and directed by Jon Welch, the play's plot line is based in a microcosmic world where an extreme-right, islamophobic, discredited academic falls...
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS is raising awareness of death and grief with a week of events as a part of Dying Matters Week. The theme of this year’s campaign is “Are We Ready” and it aims to give an opportunity to talk more openly about making plans for death and...
A new scheme by the NHS to improve children's sleep has been found to improve the mental health of their participants. The children's sleep charity and Sheffield City Council provided sleep clinics, set up by the NHS, to children from troubled backgrounds or with...
A new mental health service has been launched in Sheffield that specialises in mental health during or after pregnancy. Sheffield Health and Social Care set up their perinatal mental health service which was launched on maternal mental health day to celebrate it....
A couple from Dore are campaigning for a helipad at Sheffield Children's Hospital, after their daughter fell seriously ill and needed to be transported by air ambulance. HELP Appeal, a charity which helps to provide funding for helipads, pledges to raise money to...
