A Macmillan Cancer Unit serving Nantwich and Crewe needs more volunteers to help cope with demand. The Unit, at Leighton Hospital, is hosting a series of walks to support people in their active recovery from cancer treatment.
A 40-year-old Nantwich dad is in training for a 75km bike marathon in the Welsh mountains to raise money for a £1 million hospital appeal. Simon Warbrook, of Stapeley, will tackle a challenging route starting and finishing in Rhayader, the gateway to the spectacular Elan Valley in Mid Wales.
The first Crewe and Nantwich patients have been treated at the newly unveiled operating theatres and critical care unit at Leighton Hospital. Patients in intensive care or on the high dependency unit have been transferred into the new £22.8 million facilities.
Pupils at a school near Nantwich have raised enough money to fund a life-saving defibrillator to be based on site. Tarporley High School students were given one final donation by First Responders in the village to afford the machine.
Green-fingered volunteers across Nantwich and Crewe have helped transform a garden at Leighton Hospital. A team, which included students from Reaseheath College, spent a day weeding, pruning and painting at the coronary care unit garden.
A Nantwich girl who survived three brain haemorrhages – one which went undetected for four years – is defying the odds by running for charity to honour her carers.
Brave Ellie Calder, 20, has lived with a rare condition which can cause a haemorrhage any second of the day, for 13 years.
Staff at Richmond Village in Nantwich are celebrating after it was awarded “Top 20 Recommended Care Home 2014”. The carehome.co.uk Top 20 Care Home Awards 2014 highlight the most recommended care homes in each UK region.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich has become the first college to receive defibrillators from The Oliver King Foundation. Eight life-saving kits are being placed around campus and will be used in the event of anyone having a cardiac arrest.
A Nantwich hypnotherapist is taking his message worldwide after featuring in the in-flight magazine for Etihad Airways. Edward Arran works from clinics in Cheshire and has Premiership footballers, TV celebrities, business professionals and mums to be among his clients.
A new chairman of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Leighton Hospital, has been unveiled. Dennis Dunn MBE takes over from John Moran, who has retired.
Diabetes UK Crewe and South Cheshire Voluntary Group is to stage three meetings in the next two months. The first is at Crewe Library on Wednesday April 9, with guest speaker Dr Adrian Heald (pictured).
The Cat Community Awards have helped to raise more than £600 for St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice Money raised at the awards presentation night was donated to the hospice which cares for patients and families across Nantwich and Crewe.
Nantwich men are invited to undergo a special prostate testing event being staged by Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group. The testing session will take place at Nantwich Civic Hall this Saturday April 5 between 10am and 1pm.
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