Health

A Daventry council worker is saddling up for an arduous 100-mile bike ride in support of the Meningitis Now charity.

A Northamptonshire doctor has welcomed the launch of a new role that will support patients to link up with community and healthcare services as he says GPs are ‘just about on their knees’.

Most carers looking after vulnerable adults in Northamptonshire are tired, stressed and losing sleep, figures reveal.

A year of fundraising activities by the then-chairman of Daventry District Council has raised some £3,000 for deserving causes.

More than 40% of epilepsy sufferers on disability benefits in Daventry had their claims denied after the roll-out of the new system, figures reveal.

Nine hundred patients are currently stranded in Northamptonshire hospitals, making it the worst situation in the country.

Northamptonshire’s commissioner of health services only just managed to balance its books last year and used all of its contingency reserve to do so.

GP surgeries across Northamptonshire will launch new networks next month in the biggest shake-up of primary care services in 15 years.

Northamptonshire has lost hundreds of its care home beds over the last five years, figures reveal.

Here’s the latest column from Robina Wilson.

The teenage pregnancy rate in Northamptonshire has fallen to its lowest level since 2011, figures reveal.

Toby Sanders has a big job. As chief executive of Northamptonshire’s two NHS clinical commissioning groups he has responsibility for an annual budget just shy of £1bn and it’s his role to make sure the health services in the county are performing well and meeting the needs of our ever growing and ever ageing population.

Hundreds of under-75s have died from stroke and heart disease in Northamptonshire in recent years as progress in reducing death rates for the conditions slows, new figures show.

The chief executive of the county’s mental health trust is taking on an additional leadership role at a Leicestershire NHS Trust.

A Daventry super-slimmer has shed nearly ten stone to achieve her weight loss dream and become a fit and healthy mother to her two boys.

Daventry District Council (DDC) is offering mums and dads an incentive to try reusable nappies as Real Nappy Week gets under way.