Health & Fitness
East Anglia ‘faring better than most’ in diabetes postcode lottery
Treatment for diabetic patients is a postcode lottery with a massive variation in quality of care from one region to another, according to a report which reveals that East Anglia is faring better than most areas.
FLASHBACK PICTURE UPDATE: Brain surgery unites brave hospital fund-raisers Alex Pickett and North Walsham mayor Vivienne Uprichard
Brain surgery and courage united a mayor and a sportsman at a double fund-raising event in North Walsham which has raised cash for two hospitals.
Horserider’s thanks for East Anglian Air Ambulance care
Many people in Norfolk’s equestrian community have reason to be grateful to the East Anglian Air Ambulance service, and horserider Rachael Hall counts herself among them.
How Norfolk horserider was helped by East Anglian Air Ambulance
Horserider Rachael Hall has every reason to be grateful to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Have your say on Norfolk’s health and social care
People are being asked to give their views on health and social care services at workshops in Norfolk.
- Postcode lottery of care for diabetes patients: find out how East Anglia is doing
- Tributes to eye surgeon who improved sight for thousands of patients in Norfolk
- Norwich hospital satisfied after conducting late-night discharging review
- Norfolk farmer tells how East Anglian Air Ambulance saved his life
- Freethorpe family thank East Anglian Air Ambulance after Strumpshaw crash
- Norfolk community nurses warn they are struggling to cope
- Taverham-based private ambulance service Norvic criticised by inspectors
- Free Norwich gym membership for a local athlete
- Evening News appeal to raise money for East Anglian Air Ambulance
- Norfolk Dogwalker was airlifted after allergic reaction to bee stings
- East Anglian Air Ambulance launches appeal for new equipment
- Health and social care watchdog Norfolk LINk invites public to AGM
- New ‘care farming’ concept welcomed by Norfolk farmers
- The best of British (Norfolk) beauty
- Alzheimer’s Society Norfolk to hold Dementia Awareness Week event at Thorpe St Andrew Sainsbury’s supermarket
- Thousands run Norwich’s Race for Life
- Beaming Ella, eight, battles rare condition to enjoy her Norwich mod fundraiser
- Fundraising Thetford balloon race to raise funds for Maisy
- Photo gallery: Norwich Race for Life at the Norfolk Showground
- Celebrations as Norfolk birthing unit celebrates first year
- Extension plans for Wymondham Medical Centre
- Norwich hospital hopes to have new car park by end of the year
- Schoolchildren in Harleston go for dancing world record
- Norwich hospital on red governance status
- Future of Beechcroft Surgery in New Costessey to be discussed by Norwich South MP Simon Wright
- Norfolk villagers lose fight to save Belton GP surgery
- Olympic medallist Gail Emms attends Active Norfolk’s Adult Disability Games
- Fundraisers cause a splash in Kelling Heath in aid of North Norfolk Different Strokes charity
- Martham pupil from Stalham meets chart topping boy band One Direction after undergoing heart transplant
- Norfolk group educating people about warning signs of inflammatory arthritis
- Pupils try out Zumba class at Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston
- King’s Lynn father with two forms of skin cancer helps others with disfigurements
- Sizewell B shutdown for planned maintenance after potential fault
- Research done at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital could be key to stopping bowel cancer
- Norfolk NHS conference sees vision of improved mental health care
- Dead spider found in bag of grapes
- Thank the Canaries for Norwich’s feelgood factor
- GP will continue to run Costessey’s Beechcroft Surgery until end of September
- Great Yarmouth’s James Paget Hospital ‘trusted’ again
- Young Beccles business entrepreneur takes national prize
- Lowestoft area sports clubs’ lifesaving bid
- Gruelling walk for charity in memory of Earlham road crash victim Simon Aspland
- Norwich businesses urged to become more accessible for people with autism ahead of special cinema screening
- Anglia Stroke and Heart Network campaign is backed by Norwich City defender Adam Drury
- New West Norfolk healthy walks guide explores Wolferton, Burnham Norton and Hunstanton
- University of East Anglia nursing lecturers to help nursing schools in Malawi
- Air ambulances cleared to fly again in Norfolk and Suffolk
- North Walsham chemists Boots and the Co-operative in joint appeal to customers as new Birchwood Pharmacy opens
- Safety fears ground Norfolk and Suffolk’s air ambulances
- First patients admitted to new state-of-the-art North Walsham hospital
- Norfolk campaign for photodynamic therapy cancer treatment appeals for volunteers
- Crusaders Rugby Club to hold fundraiser for Great Ormond Street and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices
- Norfolk to get its first Admiral Nurse for dementia care
- Norfolk health and council leaders lift lid on tension caused by government cuts
- Norfolk farmer’s asparagus success
- Low figures for Norfolk in national survey of alcohol problems
- Warnings over rise in Norfolk’s young women with alcohol-related liver disease
- Top 40 spot for King’s Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Admin Re workers in Norwich make Olympic pledge
- Was Norwich hospital spike in asthma cases due to wet weather and fungal spores?
- Norwich City defender Adam Drury backs stroke campaign
- Norfolk teenage pregnancy rate hits 12 year low, but three districts are above the national average
- Families in Great Yarmouth and Waveney could be among first to get new clinical leaders
- Potentially life-saving Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital screening test team heads for Chapelfield shopping centre
- MPs criticise ‘second-rate’ ambulance performance in rural Suffolk
- New Norfolk & Waveney website and helpline to help people lead a healthier lifestyle
- Norwich diabetic heads to parliament with type one diabetes charity JDRF
- Historic Cromer Hospital archway crumbles during demolition work
- Norwich mum’s Olympic pledge
- Giant crane goes to work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in King’s Lynn
- Air ambulance called after pensioner suffers cardiac arrest in North Walsham
- Norwich riders look to triumph over Parkinson’s with 1,900-mile tour of Britain
- Wymondham nursery on alert after child struck down with meningitis
- Norfolk doctor changed patient records, inquiry hears
- Charity efforts of boy awaiting heart operation nine years after being told his hole had closed
- New chairman appointed at under-fire James Paget Hospital
- One job lost as North Walsham Hospital prepares to open and St Michael’s Hospital, Aylsham, braces itself for closure
- Norwich man’s plea to boost blood stocks
- Widow Sagle Bernstein’s Cromer Hospital cash gift grew by £5m
- Call for more life-saving community public access defibrillators (CPAD) to be put into Norfolk’s towns and villages
- Horticulturist Adrian Bloom helps redesign hospital Jubilee garden after cancer treatment
- Patients’ verdicts on Norwich and Gorleston hospitals
- Couple thank Norwich hospital’s neonatal unit
- Norwich macular degeneration volunteer nominated for award
- Hundreds of new parking spaces for the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital?
- New interim director of nursing for James Paget Hospital
- UPDATE: Committee formed and £100,000 target set as Cromer skatepark campaign gathers pace
- New aneurysm health screening for men over 65 in Norfolk and Waveney
- First hospice beds for Waveney and Great Yarmouth opened in Ditchingham
- Norfolk health bosses make Olympic pledge
- Extra £1.5m for community health care in Norfolk
- Norfolk grandmother calls on the people of Horning to get fit ahead of London 2012 Olympics
- Norfolk’s coast dwellers endorse study saying it’s good for our health to live beside the seaside
- PICTURE UPDATE: Joy as site is lined up for Cromer skatepark
- Under-fire James Paget Hospital announces action plan after third warning notice issued
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