Nantwich Concert Band has moved to a new home in the town after striking a chord with players from across South Cheshire.
The growing group is now staging weekly Wednesday rehearsals in the school hall at Highfields Academy, Cumberland Avenue, after out-growing its old base at Brookfield Hall, Shrewbridge Road.
A care home resident in Crewe has raised £176 for the Leighton Hospital Little Ones baby bereavement suite.
Alan Gibbs raised the money for the Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity’s appeal by cycling the equivalent distance of Land’s End to John O’Groats.
Nantwich Town staged a Festival of Football to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross.
The event was supported by Nantwich Civic Hall and attended by Mayor of Nantwich, Councillor Arthur Moran.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Hospital bosses in South Cheshire are determined to get to grips with an increasing demand for A&E as performance continues to decline.
Leighton Hospital’s A&E department had 700 more admissions in November 2019 than the same month in 2018, board members at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust were told today (January 6).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Two Cheshire councils have agreed to work together to support a Sunday bus service connecting mid Cheshire to Leighton Hospital and Crewe from next February.
A Merry Mile fundraiser to help build a baby bereavement suite at Leighton Hospital proved a runaway success.
More than 170 people including mums and babies and people in wheelchairs, turned out on a frosty morning to make their way round Queen’s Park, Crewe in support of the £100,000 Lost Little Ones’ appeal.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Murray Luckas as its new Medical Director.
Mr Luckas is an experienced consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with more than 30 years’ experience in the medical profession.
Residents in South Cheshire are being urged to follow healthcare professional advice on norovirus following a rise in cases in the local community.
Leighton Hospital has closed two wards to admissions and visitors after it was confirmed that a small number of patients had the illness.
NHS South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has won a national award for a partnership project with a shared vision.
The project aimed to reduce the time patients spend waiting in hospital for discharge.
A director at Leighton Hospital ran a marathon to raise money for a baby bereavement suite appeal.
Julie Tunney, director of nursing at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, completed the Mallorca marathon to raise money for the “Lost Little Ones” appeal.
An NHS and social care project to reduce time patients spend waiting to be discharged from Leighton Hospital has been shortlisted for a national award.
The new leader of Leighton Hospital has outlined partnership working and an improved offer for staff among his priorities.
James Sumner, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the NHS, started as Chief Executive of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this summer.
By Stephen Topping
Leighton Hospital bosses have welcomed a third MRI scanner.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital in Crewe, has spent more than £1.1 million on leasing and installing the new scanner.
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