Health

The petition to save the All Hallows Healthcare Trust has surpassed 10,000 signatures, as the hunt for a new service provider continues.

Parents of children with speech and language difficulties are praising the hubs across Suffolk for their invaluable support and fear that their proposed closures could see other children being left behind.

No children’s centres will be closed in Suffolk without a full consultation with the public, Conservatives have said.

A campaign has been launched this morning calling for Suffolk’s under-threat children’s centres to be spared from closure.

A man who is in a persistent vegetative state is having to move from his home, after living at the All Hallows hospital for more than a decade.

A group of campaigners gathered to protest against the closure of a crucial healthcare trust.

A new support vehicle, costing more than £30,000, has been handed over during a special ceremony.

Children in the east of England have the least money spent on their mental health care in the country, as some were having to threaten suicide to fight their way into treatment.

A nurse at a Norfolk hospital was sacked after asking a patient how many siblings she had, which was the “sexiest”, and whether she would go on a date with him to McDonald’s.

New management have taken over at a popular health and fitness centre.

Save our hospital!

A campaign group fighting to save its community’s healthcare services has issued a rallying cry for residents to join them in a handholding protest.

A 24-year-old man who has battled vivid suicide thoughts for five years claims he had no choice but to leave Norfolk due to the “disgusting” way he was treated by the region’s mental health trust.

New figures show the number of Suffolk children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) is falling year on year – prompting concerns that the deadly diseases could resurface.

More than 200 NHS staff, service users and members of the community have been reminded of the importance of showing empathy and compassion to others during Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) second equality, diversity and inclusion conference.

Norfolk Family Carers is offering help for families navigating the NHS Continuing Healthcare system, which pays for care for those with long-term significant health conditions.

An award-winning innovation has been unveiled at a sheltered housing site – and it is proving to be just magical.

The Bungay Pool and Gym has shut for the fourth time in six months forcing children to miss out on their swimming lessons and causing local businesses to suffer.

More and more people in Norfolk are surviving cancer when they are diagnosed with the devastating disease.

A man who was paralysed from the waist down after suffering a horrific accident as a teen is backing a national campaign to get people swimming.

A man who has been battling bipolar for three decades has offered help to those with mental ill health at his Waveney drop-in centre.

Information about the future of a community’s healthcare services was in short supply at a packed public meeting, frustrating people worried about those currently receiving care.

Specialist palliative care is now being provided in Great Yarmouth and Waveney after a new service began.

Protestors trying to save a closing healthcare trust have been told 10 alternative providers are in the running to take over its services.

Protesters from the community came together in the fight to save the All Hallows Healthcare Trust, eight days after the shock announcement of its closure.

Women have been urged to be checked for cancer as a travelling breast screening van comes to Beccles.

Protestors will gather to fight the closure of the All Hallows Healthcare Trust after bosses announced financial difficulties left the services in doubt.

Norfolk’s three hospitals look set to end another year in deficit, as NHS cash comes under the spotlight.

Scores of mental health patients in “acute distress” were sent out of Norfolk and Suffolk for care - despite five years of promises that the practice would end.