Health

Dedicated staff providing respite care to people with learning disabilities are "making a difference" according to an outstanding health report.

Daisy* clearly remembers waiting to see a nurse to make a decision she never thought she would face.

Norfolk's NHS is set to spend millions bailing out a struggling group of health trusts outside of the county - despite financial reports from just days ago saying the payments would not happen.

A coronavirus health campaign has been launched across the nation as the government works to prevent the spread of illness.

A two-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis has received her first parcel containing a drug which could add an extra 25 years to her life.

Fears have been raised that free group NHS antenatal classes in Norfolk are being reduced in favour of getting people to watch online videos.

The number of emergency hospital admissions for people in Norfolk with dementia has increased by more than 40pc in five years, a new report has found.

A family has criticised the mental health trust for describing the death of a woman on the M11 as a "media issue".

A family's anguish at moving their vulnerable mother three times in four months has laid bare the grim reality of care home closures.

The deaths of two vulnerable people living in the same Norfolk care home, including an elderly woman who died after she was attacked by another resident, have raised serious concerns.

A mother-of-two whose life was saved by a kidney transplant has praised organ donation as the best thing anyone can do.

Faeces under fingernails, weeks without baths and calls to emergency services for support - these are some of the damning observations made at our region's failing care homes.

Scientists studying dementia are appealing for volunteers to help them investigate how feasible it is for people to take up and stick to a Mediterranean-style diet.

The family of an 81-year-old who was sent more than 250 miles away for mental health treatment and then died on the roadside have faced further heartache after being unable to plan her funeral.

Almost 200 businesses across Norfolk and Waveney have been told they must clean up their act over food hygiene.

Health chiefs are asking paramedics to work in overwhelmed A&E departments in another sign of the extreme pressure on Norfolk's NHS.

Five people are facing Christmas without the care they desperately need because a troubled home care provider is withdrawing from its contracts.

A couple desperate to start a family are saying they will not stop fighting to raise the £11,000 needed to keep their dream alive.

A warning has been issued to the parents of schoolchildren in Norfolk that there has been an increase in Norovirus cases.

Senior doctors have warned that children are "super-spreaders" of flu and have urged parents to get them vaccinated - as new figures reveal than less than a third of the country's infants have had their jab.

Ambitious plans to more than quadruple the size of a Norfolk care home and expand it into a care village have been shot down by councillors.