Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham toured Leighton Hospital’s emergency department before a major A&E Summit in Westminster. Mr Burnham looked around the department which serves thousands of Nantwich and Crewe residents.
Young revellers across Crewe and Nantwich are being warned of the dangers of drug PMA after the death of a teenager in the county. It is feared 16-year-old Cheshire student Ellie Jones may have died from an overdose on PMA.
Three Peckforton Castle workers near Nantwich are lacing up their trainers to tackle the Manchester 10k in aid of Christie’s. Matthew Naylor, Mike Auld and Emily Stephenson will be joining 40,000 other runners on Sunday (May 26).
A Nantwich firm is joining forces with a hospital and two design companies to help develop new medical devices. Staff from Three Circles are working with University Hospital of North Staffordshire as part of a new “Medical Devices Alliance”.
Leighton Prostate Cancer Support Group will hold a free PSA test session for Nantwich men on June 1. Prostate Specific Antigen testing for men aged 55 will be carried out by fully trained operators at Nantwich Civic Hall.
Staff and shoppers at Sainsbury’s Nantwich have raised £3,300 for the One in Eleven Appeal. The Middlewich Road supermarket chose the appeal as its charity of the year for 2012.
The family of a baby suffering Swine Flu is hoping to top £100,000 charity funds raised, with a special event in Nantwich. Sienna Malley’s parents have so far raised £75,000 for the North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service (NWTS).
A beauty therapy training firm in Nantwich is celebrating 20 years this week. Louise Leach, who founded the International School of Beauty Therapy, has seen therapists jet off to ply their trade around the world.
Six members of staff from Aqueduct Marina in Nantwich have been trained to help save lives. The employees are now equipped with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) given to them by North West Ambulance Service.
Nantwich Rotary Club has agreed to help fund a vital Cheshire support group for dementia sufferers. The funding boost comes as Alzheimer’s Society in Cheshire East celebrates the first year of its befriending service, Forget me Knot.
MP for Crewe and Nantwich Edward Timpson has swapped his usual London Marathon for the Nantwich Triathlon. And Mr Timpson and his wife Julia completed the Cheshire 10km Run in Queen’s Park in Crewe to help prepare.
Drug users in Nantwich are being warned after three deaths in Cheshire East linked to the Ecstasy-like drug PMA. Cheshire East Council and Cheshire Police issued the alarm after the drug was linked to the deaths of two women and a man in their 30s.
St Luke’s Hospice (Cheshire) has been awarded a £570,000 grant to help fund treatment of terminally ill South Cheshire people. It is one of 29 grants to North West hospices as part of a £60 million Government programme.
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