By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Ambulance chiefs have stopped an experienced volunteer life-saving medic in Nantwich from driving to emergencies on blue lights, sparking fears the time delay could cost lives.
Gavin Palin has been with the ambulance service in Nantwich for 23 years and has responded to life-threatening calls, such as cardiac arrests, on blue lights in the area for the past two decades.
New Crewe and Nantwich MP Connor Naismith has raised concerns about the future of Leighton Hospital after the Chancellor’s announcement this week.
Rachel Reeves said on Monday that a number of Tory projects would have to be shelved due to what she called a £20 billion budget blackhole.
A campaign to ensure period dignity for women and girls has won high profile support as it gathers pace across South Cheshire.
Health and wellbeing charity Motherwell Cheshire has welcomed Nantwich Town Council and Crewe Town Council onboard as it works towards making Cheshire a beacon for Period Dignity.
Leighton Hospital and other Cheshire hospitals have received a donation of 7,000 cuddly teddy bears.
The bears, from the Freemasons of Cheshire, will help ease anxiety felt by children going to hospital.
Leighton Hospital is extending its visiting hours today (July 14) so patients can watch England’s Euro 2024 final with family and friends.
Visiting times usually end at 7pm, but today will be increased until the end of the game against Spain.
A new theatre suite has opened at Leighton Hospital as part of the hospital’s plan to modernise and improve maternity services.
The theatre will be used for elective surgeries, such as caesarean birth, and includes a 63m sq operating room with associated ancillary facilities.
Big-hearted Nantwich Camera Club members have donated a speaker’s fee to help those suffering mental illness.
The club enjoyed a talk from Sutton Coldfield wildlife photographer Mike Phelps on how spending time outdoors and taking photographs has improved his mental health.
A Nantwich man who battled back from “rock bottom” as an alcoholic has launched a new business to help others suffering mental struggles.
As part of National Alcohol Awareness Week (July 1-7), Alex Clapp tells Nantwich News how words from his teenage son brought him back from the edge of despair.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The new Leighton Hospital will be a “health neighbourhood” and will include other services and possibly a hospice.
Russell Favager, of the Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust, was updating members of Cheshire East’s health and wellbeing board on the vision for the new hospital, which he stressed was at an early stage.
The Nantwich Clinic is to launch a new private GP service in July.
It comes after the family-run business received CQC registration earlier this month, which they have been working towards for over 12 months.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich ultra-runner Paul Dean has completed a gruelling 24-hour challenge to raise more than £3,500 for Cancer Research UK.
Paul, a father and teaching assistant from Nantwich, started his epic run on Friday at 6pm and completed a 4.5-mile loop circuit, around the streets of Willaston and Wistaston, every hour up to 5pm the following day.
A Willaston couple have written an open letter to Party leaders ahead of the General Election, calling on them to commit to preventing sudden heart deaths in young people.
Alison and Robert Howells lost their 22-year-old daughter Ceri from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) 10 years ago.
Nantwich home care provider Right at Home South Cheshire has given the town’s “Growing for Health Community Garden” a bloomin’ nice boost!
The award-winning firm has donated a “Rose Arch” to the garden on the Brookfield Allotments site.
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