A young Nantwich girl has undergone a world first Deep Brain Stimulation operation using pioneering new technology at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Hayley, eight, underwent the surgery to help treat dystonic cerebral palsy.
A South Cheshire project to support the mental health and wellbeing of young women has won cash support as it launches new activity sessions.
Inspire Cheshire, under the umbrella of health and wellbeing charity Motherwell Cheshire in Wistaston, has received a grant from the Pilgrim Trust.
A plan to erect a 60ft telecoms mast on land just yards from family homes in Nantwich has been withdrawn by the applicant.
The telecommunication mast was planned for land at TG Builders on Beam Heath Way just a few yards from residential properties on the other side of Middlewich Road.
South Cheshire pharmacies are among the first in the country to pilot a new initiative offering children aged 5-11 to get the MMR vaccine.
Fourteen chemists across Cheshire and Merseyside are involved in the project being trialled in the North West.
Crewe Lifestyle Centre is to host bike therapy classes for people living with Parkinson’s disease.
The classes, organised by Everybody Leisure, will mark World Parkinson’s Day on April 11.
A new purpose-built baby bereavement suite named the “Meadow Suite” has officially opened at Leighton Hospital.
£100,000 was raised through a fundraising appeal called “Lost Little Ones” which was launched by Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity (MCH Charity) in 2019.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A Nantwich councillor has asked if Cheshire East Council has plans to introduce a programme to help people quit vaping amid a rising numbers of young people using vapes.
Cllr Anna Burton’s comments came as a recent support showed the percentage of young people in Cheshire East claiming to vape regularly has almost doubled since 2020.
The Nantwich Clinic family are putting their best feet forward – by tackling the Brighton Marathon in aid of CHANCE Changing Lives.
Tom, Gill and Kate Fox will be running the marathon on the south coast on April 7.
A Nantwich councillor is to table a motion calling for a voluntary ban on single use vapes in the town.
Town and Cheshire East Councillor Anna Burton is behind the motion which she says is supported by public health and environmental experts.
Leighton Hospital bosses have bought land next to the existing site in their next step to developing a major new hospital campus.
The areas of land, which surrounds the current hospital, will become part of the new Leighton site (pictured).
Leisure centres across South Cheshire have had self-testing blood pressure machines installed.
The centres, run by Everybody Health & Leisure, now the testing service for free at Crewe Lifestyle Centre as well as others in Congleton, Holmes Chapel and Macclesfield.
Everybody Leisure is to take over delivery of the “Bikeability” scheme across Cheshire East.
The scheme, funded by the Department for Transport, teaches young people to ride a bike.
A new appeal to raise £100,000 has been launched by Leighton Hospital’s Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity.
The charity wants to raise funds to provide additional comforts and create better environments for patients coming to the end of their lives and for their loved ones.
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