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Patients enjoy special horse visit at The Prince of Wales Hospice.

Patients enjoy special horse visit at The Prince of Wales Hospice

The boxes aim to reduce isolation and enhance patient experience during their hospital stay.

Pinderfields Hospital launches wellbeing boxes to support patients

The Bigger Picture.

The Prince of Wales Hospice community unites to create 165-piece artwork

mydentist Trinity Walk, Wakefield, was officially opened by Practice Manager, Paula Thompson, and her team on June 17.

New dental practice opens at Trinity Walk following £2m investment

Get the help you need during the resident doctors’ strike

Where to get medical help in Wakefield during the resident doctors’ strike

Resident doctors will go on strike next week.

Wakefield NHS Trust shares warning as 16th doctors' strike begins next week

Jon Trickett's views on Palantir contracts.

Britain must rethink its relationship with Palantir

Newel Health designs, develops, and operates digital medical devices in collaboration with pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech partners.

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Co-founders of Predictive Health Intelligence, Tim Jobson and Neil Stevens

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Private MRI scans can now be booked directly online, offering faster results than standard NHS waiting times.

You can now book private health scans from £80 – with results in hours

Pinderfields procedures postponed following shortage of medical material

The new yellow boxes, which are funded by MY Hospitals Charity, aim to help patients keep glasses, hearing aids and dentures safe.

Yellow patient property boxes introduced across Wakefield and Dewsbury hospitals

Scan.com UK’s private service can help cut through the NHS waiting lists

Waiting months for an NHS scan? Private MRI results arrive in days

NHS trust pleads for items to help Pinderfields patients stay warm
Patients across Wakefield are receiving additional support this winter thanks to the return of the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust’s winter discharge packs.
Kara McKune

Urgent warning for patients to keep a close eye on the colour of their pee.

Warning for patients to keep a close eye on the colour of their pee

The Wakefield Community Diagnostic Centre is located the Westgate Retail Park. Picture: Catherine Gannon

'A win for patients and for the local economy'

The respiratory team - back row left to right Neethu Reji Research Nurse, Verity Broadhead Clinical Trials Assistant, Rebeeca Puthur Research Nurse, front row, Manila James Research Nurse.

COPD clinical trial: Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust recruits first patient

Optical Express is encouraging everyone living with diabetes to take action this World Diabetes Day by prioritising their eye health

Expert warns people of Wakefield how diabetes may be silently stealing your sigh...

The MND community - including Rob's parents Geoff and Irene Burrow, Leeds Teaching Hospital's MND patients and their families - celebrate Leeds Hospitals Charity reaching the £6.8million fundraising total before signing the timber frame under construction of the Rob Burrow Centre for MND in Seacroft, Leeds, in December 2024

Rob Burrow Centre for MND opens as a lasting legacy to Leeds Rhinos legend

Booking a private scan can skip long waits on the NHS - and it's more affordable than you might think

Cut waiting times with private medical scanning - full list of prices

Asthma sufferers qualify for ECO4, which requires energy suppliers to fund and deliver energy efficiency improvements in UK homes

Ad Feature Million with asthma unaware they qualify for FREE energy grant

Jeans for Genes Week 2025 will take place from Monday 15 – Sunday 21 September 2025

Ad Feature Fundraising campaign ‘Jeans for Genes’ celebrates 30 years

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The UKHSA have warned people to stop using certain non-sterile alcohol-free wipes linked to infection.

Warning to stop using these alcohol-free wipes linked to infection

The Prince of Wales Hospice celebrated Pride.

The Prince of Wales Hospice celebrates Pride with music, laughter and joy
The Prince of Wales Hospice held their own Pride celebrations in true community style.
Leanne Clarke

Dr Clara Doran has transformed her own journey into a breakthrough in brain health care

From GP to brain health champion: doctor turns burnout into business

A pilot scheme has revealed a widespread genetic sensitivity to common medicines

Pilot scheme reveals genetic sensitivity to common medicines

It comes as obesity affects over 1 in 4 adults in the UK

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Dr Hilary Jones prepares to leave the Practice Plus Group Hospital in Birmingham after his hip replacement surgery.

TV's Dr Hilary Jones travels 360-miles - to bypass NHS waiting lists

54 per cent of those not seeking support blamed the long waits for treatment via the health service

Adults with chronic pain cite long NHS wait times for poor treatment

St John Ambulance Cycle Response Unit

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A third of medical professional believe beds are currently blocked by people in hospital who would be able to go home sooner

NHS bed blocking crisis fuelled by poor quality incontinence care

Not everyone can give blood, these are the common health conditions that mean you can't be a donor.

The common health conditions that could stop you from giving blood

Weight loss injections including Mounjaro and Wegovy have became household names.

Weight loss jabs work 53% better with coaching

TV personality Joe Baggs has teamed up with end of life charity Marie Curie and Superdrug to launch ‘The Art of Care’ – a giant 3D artwork of a Marie Curie Healthcare Assistant caring for a patient, made of the items that the charity’s nursing teams say can make a big difference at the end of life.

Launch of Superdrug’s ‘Purchase for Marie Curie Nurses’ campaign

Dr Clara Doran has turned personal experience into a revolution in caring for brain health

The GP who left medicine to help people beat brain fog

The moment Deborah Gosling, from Sheffield, met Corinne Hutton - the transplant patient who received her twin sister’s hands.

Watch: Woman meets recipient of her twin sister’s hands

The NIHR Bradford and West Yorkshire Commercial Research Delivery Centre has opened in Pinderfields Hospital.

New regional hub offering 'pioneering' clinical trials opens at Pinderfields

If you woke up with your first symptoms of endometriosis today, you’re likely not to get a diagnosis until 2034

Education 'most important thing' in tackling endometriosis delays

Orders can be made at home, and pharmacists will dispense them and deliver them to your door

Supermarket launches new online pharmacy service for home deliveries

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It takes on average eight years and 10 months to get a diagnosis for endometriosis in England.

Endometriosis has cost me £400k - I was told I'm just 'unlucky'

Hay fever symptoms include sneezing, a runny nose and itchy eyes.

The one thing you can do to alleviate hay fever symptoms right now

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Joint pain can be agonising for many people

The £12 knee pain reliever recommended by consultant that 'works'

Norovirus levels across the UK are “the highest in more than a decade” (Photo: Adobe)

How to stop your family from catching norovirus after 'storm' of cases

Patients regularly ask when they can have sex again

'Low impact' sex guide for injured lovers recovering from surgery

These are the 16 health conditions that can now be treated using a new Online Doctor service.

The 16 health conditions that allow you to skip the lengthy GP queue

New rules are coming in for anyone wanting to buy weight loss injections online.

New rules will make it harder to buy weight loss injections online

The tapeworm diet dates back to the Victorian era and can have dangerous consequences for your health.

What is the tapeworm diet and why is it so dangerous?

The new Morrisons Clinic sends treatments to your house on a 24-hour tracked service

Breaking Morrisons launches a new discreet online prescription service

More than 50% of people infected with Covid have reported sneezing as a symptom on the ZOE Covid app. Interestingly it tends to be more common among people who have been vaccinated and then tested positive for the virus.

Flu symptoms to look out for as NHS warn about 'worst ever' flu season

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