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New home for Black Country NHS trust
NHS
Trust is moving to Quayside House in Oldbury after agreeing a deal to take the entirety of the building
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Teams bid to win Engineering YES challenge
Post People
Engineering YES held its seventh national final at Faraday Wharf on the Innovation Birmingham Campus.
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Carillion lands £430m Midland Metropolitan Hospital contract
Carillion
Black Country support services giant to lead construction of new seven-storey hospital in Smethwick which will cater for around 200,000 patients when it opens in 2018
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New mental health app offers young people help
Technology
Young people and medical experts in Birmingham have created mobile apps which they claim could be a key tool in helping people with mental health problems
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Top temps recognised at annual awards ceremony
Post People
Roisin O'Dubhlaoidh was judged to be the best candidate in the Midlands at the 11th annual Katie Bard Temp of the Year Awards.
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Dementia patients 'failed by authorities' say West Midlands GPs
Alzheimer's disease
Poll by the Alzheimer's Society claims most doctors in the region believe adult social services are not providing enough support
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Fears social media may aggravate eating disorders
NHS
Teens vulnerable to online pressure of 'sucked-in' bodies
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Warnings over child security at Midlands A&E
Hospitals
Chief inspector of hospitals issues warning to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust over concerns about A&E departments following unannounced inspection earlier this year
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The Blairites are taking back control of Labour - and Yvette Cooper is their candidate
Labour Party
The Blairites have been quiet for years but they haven't gone away - and now they see a chance to reclaim their party
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Browne Jacobson appoints partner to clinical negligence team
Law
Previously an associate with Bevan Brittan in Birmingham, Mr Fuggle has more than ten years' experience in handling clinical negligence claims
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Major gains in trauma care ‘must not be lost’
Armed Forces
Huge steps forward at a Birmingham hospital have led to much better survival rates for soldiers who have suffered terrible injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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‘Prejudice by teachers holds back obese pupils’
Economic Development
Low expectations of fat pupils ‘could harm academic performance’, claims researcher
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Hunt pledges to tackle NHS agency staff ‘rip-off’
Economic Development
Fears over quality of work at Midland hospitals as crackdown planned
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Dearth of higher apprenticeships in Birmingham
Economic Development
Only five 'higher-level' apprenticeships in Birmingham area on goverment's 'Find an Apprenticeship' website
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Inequality and how to solve the Ƶ's productivity puzzle
Opinion
Experience in the West Midlands demonstrates that the loss of manufacturing reduces wealth and opportunity.
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West Midlands PFI projects set taxpayers back £12.7bn
Economic Development
Schemes such as Building Schools for the Future and Queen Elizabeth and Walsgrave hospitals have racked up a gigantic bill for the region
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Queen's Speech: Devolution, jobs and EU referendum to be included
Politics
Conservatives claim the Queen’s speech will drive forward jobs, investment and growth throughout the West Midlands
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Labour must stop being "the timid party" warns Birmingham MP
Economic Development
Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff says he warned former leader Ed Miliband that Labour was on course to lose the general election
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MPs slam campaigning group 38 Degrees and back Transatlantic Trade and Investment treaty
Economic Development
MPs defend planned "TTIP" trade treaty with US and condemn campaign group
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More industrial unrest over cuts is predicted
Economic Development
A threatened bank holiday rail strike was averted after Network Rail improved a pay offer, but many other disputes have broken out, or worsened, since the Conservatives took power
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NHS boss: Parents making childhood obesity ‘normal’
Economic Development
Parents who allow their children to eat junk food and lead sedentary lifestyles are “normalising obesity”, the head of the NHS in England has warned.
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David Cameron renews NHS pledges at Handsworth health centre
Economic Development
Seven-day working set to come in following Tory election victory as PM battles flu to deliver first major speech since re-taking power
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Why A&E waiting time failure should set alarm bells ringing
Economic Development
One in eight A&E patients waiting for more than four hours as NHS trusts in England fail to meet target
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General Election 2015: A disunited kingdom?
Opinion
What last week's general election did expose was that the Ƶ seems to be a more fragmented place than ever.
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