Dedicated to little Spartan, the baby left blind, deaf and brain damaged by a medical mistake. Watch his video of love

Brave 'Spartan' Vasili Kalisperas has been left permanently disabled

7:00am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THE parents of a newborn baby left severely brain damaged after a student midwife failed to act on the signs of jaundice want to ensure the mistakes are never repeated.

HEALTH MATTERS: Carl Elson, Clinical Lead, NHS South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group

8:40am Monday 20th May 2013

DYING is the one thing that we know will happen to all of us. Why is it then that in the UK we are reluctant to talk about dying, death or bereavement even to our nearest and dearest?

HEALTH MATTERS: Sue Baker, Matron, Community Stroke Service, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

3:22pm Monday 13th May 2013

COMMUNITY Stroke Service (CSS) has just had the results back from a county-wide questionnaire, completed by all patients who were seen on one or more occasion.

'Seven-inch forceps left sewn inside me for three months'

The forceps were sewn inside Mrs Bowett

7:33am Friday 10th May 2013

A HOSPITAL blunder saw a seven-inch pair of forceps sewn up inside a patient following a routine operation at a Worcestershire hospital.

You can take the girl out of Essex...

BIG HUGS: Gemma and her mum Joan in a photo from her autobiography.

11:32am Tuesday 7th May 2013

TOWIE’s Gemma Collins speaks openly to GABRIELLE FAGAN about traumatic events in her personal life

HEALTH MATTERS: Take steps to get back on your path to happiness

11:27am Tuesday 7th May 2013

A GLIMPSE of blue sky and sunshine can lift our spirits but many of us find that complete happiness is far harder to achieve. Author Lois Blyth tells Gabrielle Fagan her easy-tofollow plan to swap worry and anxiety for joy and contentment There is, of course, no single path to happiness because everyone views the world slightly differently, and each person’s road to contentment is unique. But the happiness habit is an easy one to acquire, Blyth believes. Here are her easy steps to get the happiness habit.

HEALTH MATTERS: Ian Roberts, senior paramedic with the Midlands Air Ambulance

2:39pm Monday 29th April 2013

I KNOW first hand just how beautiful Worcestershire is, as a flight paramedic based at Midlands Air Ambulance’s Strensham base I get to enjoy a bird’s eye view of the county on a daily basis.

HEALTH MATTERS: Carl Ellson, Clinical Lead, NHS South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group

11:37am Thursday 25th April 2013

The NHS is there for us from the moment we are born.

A single rose happy in her own company

TURF WARS: Charlie Dimmock’s still smiling, despite her pet horse going on a wrecking spree in her garden.

11:37am Thursday 25th April 2013

Charlie Dimmock found fame on TV’s Ground Force. She tells Gabrielle Fagan about how she’s preparing for old age

Blooming Lamb finds herself in sunny place

I’M SO LUCKY: Amanda Lamb looks forward to the birth of her second child.

10:23am Monday 15th April 2013

AMANDA LAMB talks to Gabrielle Fagan about the heartbreak of miscarriage and her joy at expecting a second child

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