Health

A funday raised £2,000 towards a campaign to send a Norfolk boy to Germany to receive essential medical treatment.

Middle-aged people need to stay physically active if they are to enjoy a fit and healthy retirement, according to a new report from the University of East Anglia.

The number of cases of the life-threatening infection sepsis in Norfolk hospitals has risen by more than 70pc in the last three years.

Inspectors have rated a north Norfolk care home as outstanding.

Families of people living with dementia in a north Norfolk care home have been told their loved ones will need somewhere new to live because the home is shutting down at short notice.

Fundraising for an eight-year-old Norfolk boy to receive the specialist proton therapy treatment he urgently needs has reached the £30,000 mark towards a target of £70,000.

Health services across Norfolk and Suffolk will benefit from a £135m funding boost as part of the prime minister's £1.8bn cash injection for the NHS.

A decade after the fight for assisted dying was first taken to court, bereaved daughter Zoë Marley tells Geraldine Scott why the law still has to change.

The region's mental health trust has moved to reassure over care as it was revealed patients were sent to a hospital with "unacceptable" standards.

The region's ambulance service still does not have enough staff to keep patients safe, as bosses were slammed in its latest inspection report.

Norfolk County Council is to crackdown on poor care social care given by private providers.

Campaigners fighting for a new mental health care centre in Cromer have welcomed plans for improved services, but fear they will not go far enough.

A doctors' surgery is prescribing parkrun to patients who would benefit from being more active.

A bid to overhaul the region's air ambulance bases and ensure the service can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, has been boosted by a government grant.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds is owed to Norfolk's NHS by foreign patients not entitled to free healthcare.

Staff on the frontline of community mental health services are reporting much longer waiting lists than those recorded by bosses.

Life hasn't always been smooth sailing for North Walsham's Derek Harrison, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 70 years ago.

Staff at a north Norfolk care home are celebrating after being graded 'good' by the county's health watchdog - following years of negative report cards.

As the temperatures rise and school holidays begin, north Norfolk's beaches and tourist attractions are set to welcome thousands of holidaymakers this summer.

Plans for a £4.15m cancer care centre in north Norfolk to employ 33 people have taken a step forward.

A mum-of-three is recovering after suffering horrific burns from an oven cleaner which required a skin graft from her leg.

A disabled man has been compensated with £1,000 and given an apology after a watchdog ruled Norfolk County Council was in breach of the law over cuts to his social care.

Urgent mental health-related incidents attended by police officers have almost doubled in four years as pressures on the 999 service grow.

Another director has resigned from the region's ambulance trust as a major overhaul of its top management team continues.

Healthcare trusts spent nearly half a million pounds on equipment specifically for obese patients, it can be revealed.

More than one in every ten pregnant women in Norfolk smoke during their pregnancy, new figures have revealed.

A person who called for an ambulance 1,136 times in the last 12 months is among dozens of notorious nuisances who are costing the service a fortune, it can be revealed.

The region's ambulance trust received calls from people suffering with sunburn as the service almost reached capacity over the weekend.

A care home has been rated as inadequate for the second consecutive time - but improvements have been made.