Health

The deaths of two vulnerable people living in the same Norfolk care home, including an elderly woman who died after she was attacked by another resident, have raised serious concerns.

A mother-of-two whose life was saved by a kidney transplant has praised organ donation as the best thing anyone can do.

Faeces under fingernails, weeks without baths and calls to emergency services for support - these are some of the damning observations made at our region's failing care homes.

A North Norfolk Brewery has lanuched a new beer to raise awareness over testicular cancer

A young woman has pledged to repay the donors who have supported her as she bravely battles cancer.

A hospital will investigate what happened before the death of a six-month-old girl just days after she was diagnosed with bronchiolitis on Christmas Day.

A shortage of doctors has left individual GPs in our region responsible for as many as 4,000 patients, figures have revealed.

A young couple are in the midst of a nightmare after suffering the unexpected death of their beloved infant daughter at the age of six months.

Scientists studying dementia are appealing for volunteers to help them investigate how feasible it is for people to take up and stick to a Mediterranean-style diet.

Thousands of patients regularly attending hospital are set to benefit from the introduction of free parking at Norfolk's hospitals.

Almost 200 businesses across Norfolk and Waveney have been told they must clean up their act over food hygiene.

A woman left bedbound with an incurable illness revealed her fight simply to be believed.

A warning has been issued to the parents of schoolchildren in Norfolk that there has been an increase in Norovirus cases.

Sir Norman Lamb is to lead a major London mental health trust.

Senior doctors have warned that children are "super-spreaders" of flu and have urged parents to get them vaccinated - as new figures reveal than less than a third of the country's infants have had their jab.

Visitors to a special festive event are being asked to dig deep to help a nine-year-old girl who faces Christmas in isolation, hundreds of miles from home, after being diagnosed with leukaemia for the second time.

A couple who lost their baby girl at 24 weeks pregnant have revealed an ambitious project to prevent other parents going through the same heartache.

A continued failure to meet ambulance response times has prompted a Norfolk council to demand action.

A slimmer's efforts to ditch the pounds has backed up research that shows people with diabetes can lose weight.

After waiting for years to have their stories heard, victims of the "worst scandal in the history of the NHS" have now finished giving their evidence.

Norfolk health bosses have unveiled their plans to cope with winter pressures, with extra beds and more than £6m of funding in readiness for seasonal demand.

The boss of the region's mental health trust says he can "only imagine" the distress of patients placed in out-of-area beds, as he pledged to cut occupancy rates.

NHS IT systems in Norfolk are the "most digitally" immature in the UK, a health chief has warned.