Health & Wellbeing

Health workers are holding events across the West Midlands today (Friday) to mark the day they should have been receiving their pay rise, says UNISON.

They include launching the “Put NHS Pay Right” Campaign in Bromsgrove, leafleting the constituency of Sajid Javid.Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. This will be taking place from 11:00 -13:00.

A donor with three family members needed lifesaving transfusions donates plasma is promoting one year of plasma donations for medicines. Donations for medicine started at the centre in New Street in the city centre on April 7 last year.

Over the past year, nearly 3,000 plasma donations have been made in Birmingham by more than 1,100 people.

Joel is donating two of his high class bespoke suits, tailored by top London designer Joshua Kane, as the prizes in an online raffle. So for just £5 per ticket anyone can have the chance to win one of the stunning suits worn by Joel on the show. The online raffle will launch on Saturday 2^nd April and tickets can be bought up until midnight on Monday 18^thApril, with the lucky winners being announced the next day.

The latest Winter Sitrep data for the week ending 27 March show:
• There were 79,588 ambulance arrivals, 2.7% less than the previous week.

The University of Wolverhampton is working in partnership with the City of Wolverhampton Council to deliver the #WolvesWellbeingandMe programme, which will provide insight into the mental health and wellbeing of people and communities across the city.   

To help understand local views, people across the city are asked to complete a mental health and wellbeing survey. The study is for people aged 16+ who live, work or study in Wolverhampton.   

Wolverhampton's two remaining rapid Covid-19 test centres closed for the final time yesterday (Wednesday 30 March, 2022). The Government is phasing out free rapid testing – for people without symptoms of Covid-19 – for the majority of individuals in England from the end of this month.

As a result, the rapid test centres, at the Civic Centre and Jamia Masjid Bilal, have closed. Home test kit collection points have also closed, though kits can be ordered online via www.gov.uk/coronavirus until tomorrow, subject to availability.

Leading charity Epilepsy Action has launched a striking new film to support awareness and fundraising work.

The video is called In the Dark and depicts the journey of one person’s experience of epilepsy. The film tackles a complex message with a dramatic approach.

An innovative and unique new Centre in the heart of London has been opened by the Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC), a national charity working with vision impaired children and young people.

RSBC has now moved into the new Richard Desmond Life Without Limits Centre, realising a dream to deliver a space dedicated to supporting blind and partially sighted children and their families.

Social workers in Adult and Children’s Services have a "strong sense of pride" about working for the City of Wolverhampton Council.

That’s according to the latest Social Work Health Check, an annual survey which assesses the health and wellbeing of social workers. As well as having pride in their job, the majority said they plan to stay with the council in the year ahead and would recommend the council as an employer.

Hundreds of people from across the West Midlands lit up Warwick Racecourse on Friday night at Alzheimer’s Society Glow walk to shine a light on dementia after dark. People across the generations put their best foot forward at Warwick Racecourse dressed in neon and glitter to raise money for life-changing dementia support and research.

Ame Chauhan nee Mandair and her family (who are based in Solihull and Coventry) joined the colourful wave of fundraisers uniting against dementia after losing her beloved father Baghail Singh Mandair. 

Labour MP Dawn Butler has said that she has undergone surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer at a routine check-up.

The MP for Brent Central, 52, was given the news in December and recently had a mastectomy at Royal London Hospital. She said she had no signs or symptoms and the cancer was only picked up because of routine breast screening.

The multi-billion pound football industry is in a unique position to promote good causes and needs to start wearing its green credentials on its sleeve.

But according to one group of waste and recycling experts, that’s easier said than done with many major football clubs bottom of the table when it comes to acting responsibly.

A dad whose wife spent her final days in St Giles Hospice is calling on people to get up and go orange for the charity’s Orange Week fundraiser next month.

Gareth Hine’s wife, Karen, aged 49, who had bowel cancer which had spread to her lymph nodes, died at St Giles in August 2021, following nine months of care from the hospice. Now Gareth, aged 50, who has two sons, is urging people to join the colourful annual campaign at home, work or school to help raise funds to ensure that St Giles can continue providing care and support for local patients, and their families, living with a terminal illness.

Anyone with a cough, particularly those in groups that are at high risk for TB, were being urged by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on World TB Day (March 24) not to dismiss their persistent cough and fever as COVID-19 as it could be caused by a range of other issues, including tuberculosis (TB).

It wasn’t until Ioana Gura, 28, started to lose weight that she suspected her heavy cough might be more than a symptom of the flu she’d had for a week or so.

Active Clinic in Edgbaston have won Dr Schrammek’s, Best In The UK category award for Best Green Peel Clinic.

German based, global skin pioneering company Dr Schrammek started more than 60 years ago, Christine Schrammek provided the foundation for the original Green Peel Herbal Peeling Treatment which helps people with various skin problems to get a clean and even skin.

The incredible efforts of everyone working in the adult social care sector through the Covid-19 pandemic will be recognised as the City of Wolverhampton Council joins a national commemoration tomorrow (Thursday March, 17). Organised by social care bodies across the country, the Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection will honour the work of the adult social care workforce – and remember those who lost their lives during the pandemic.