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Celebration of Achievement 2024 Patient Choice winner. Pictured L-R: Dawn Parkes, Chief Nurse with Richard Atkinson and Simon Morritt, Chief Executive of the Trust

Scarborough Hospital porter receives ‘Patient Choice’ award

Pharmacists can diagnose and treat many common health conditions. (Photo: Andy Buchanan/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

List of 11 health conditions your pharmacist can diagnose and treat

We Remember - recording session

Patients and staff from Scarborough's Cross Lane hospital record second song

Personalised and specialised menu options introduced at Scarborough's Saint Catherine's Hospice

Personalised menu options introduced at Scarborough's Saint Catherine's Hospice

There are over 3 million posts about ADHD on TikTok. (Photo: cottonbro studio/Pexels)

The real symptoms of ADHD and how to spot 'misleading' content

Lecanemab is designed to target and clear a protein called amyloid from patient’s brains (Photo: Adobe)

Lecanemab UK: what is it and how much does Alzheimer's drug cost?

These 8 over-the-counter drug interactions that can make you ill (Photo: Pexel, Etatics Inc)

The 8 over-the-counter drug interactions that can make you ill

Accessing an NHS dentist is a challenge right now. (Photo: Pexels, Cedric Fauntleroy)

NHS dentist: How many dentists are accepting NHS patients?

Expert reveals why we shouldn't rely on voice assistants for medical advice. (Photo: Pexels, Jonathan Borba)

Tech expert warns against using voice assistants for medical advice

Almost a quarter of people do not know the difference between a physicians associate and a doctor a new poll has discovered. (Photo: Pexel/Etatics Inc)

What is the difference between a physician associate and a doctor?

GPs are voting whether or not to go on strike for the first time in 60 years. (Photo: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

GPs are threatening strike action - what does it mean for you?

Here’s what we know so far 🩺

Sarah McCann

There are lots of things that can make us more vulnerable to sunshine. (Photo: Pexel, Maggie Zhan)

'I'm a doctor - these 5 things mean you're more at risk of sunburn'

Blood shortages in England have triggered an “amber alert”. (Photo: Pexel, FRANK MERIÑO)

The health conditions that could stop you from giving blood

A Greece travel warning has been issued as there has been a surge in Covid hospitalisations in the country due to an outbreak of the new FLiRT variant of the virus. (Photo: Getty Images)

Warning for holidaymakers after Covid outbreak in travel hotspot

An estimated 10 million people in the UK live with headaches everyday. (Photo: Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio)

I'm a pharmacist - these are the five different types of headaches

GP practises and pharmacies across the UK have been caught up in the global IT outage (Photo: Pexel, Pixabay)

GPs and pharmacies across UK hit by CrowdStrike outage

L-R : Patient Simon Mitchell and Community Fundraiser Joe Fenton

Money raised brings comfort for cancer patients at local hospitals

Covid tests are in demand as cases of the new Covid variant are on the rise. (Photo: ManuPadilla - stock.adobe.com)

Here is where you can get Covid tests as cases of new variant rise

Endurance athlete Alex Staniforth is running further than he has ever done before

Mammoth 300km, 60-hour run to Whitby is 'just a warm-up' in charity challenge

30% of Brits would back defaulted plant-based menu in NHS hospitals

Surgery staff and Cash for Causes funders with Everyone Active's Martin Russell, second from right

Patients poised to benefit from free gym memberships

UK holidaymakers have been issued a travel warning for the Caribbean, parts of Africa, Central and South America as yellow fever is on the rise. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Killer disease hits tourist hotspots

Ambulance explodes and bursts into flames in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.

Watch: Ambulance explodes into a fireball after dropping off patient

Whitby Hospital. Google Maps

Whitby residents concern over changes to out-of-hours GP service

Electronic repeat dispensing gives patients the reassurance of knowing their next prescription will be ready for collection at their pharmacy when they need it, and flexibility so they have medication at busy times like bank holidays.

NHS patients urged to take up the electronic repeat dispensing service offer

Ad Feature Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal returns to SPAR stores

Sara Shearing, Senior Health Care Assistant and Karroll Powell, Associate Nurse Practitioner with one of the new mobile phone charging units.

Free mobile phone charging comes to Scarborough Hospital

People in the North East and Yorkshire are being encouraged to download the latest version of the NHS App which has been refreshed to make it simpler and easier to access NHS services.

People urged to try refreshed, user-friendly NHS App

People in the North East and Yorkshire are being encouraged to download the latest version of the NHS App which has been refreshed to make it simpler and easier to access NHS services.

Louise Hollingsworth

Labour will introduce a dentistry rescue plan so patients can get an NHS dentist again, as new analysis reveals the overwhelming majority of practices have shut their doors to new patients.

Labour propose Dentistry Rescue Plan as 84% of dentists in Yorkshire shut doors

Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah addresses journalists in London

'Operating hospital ceiling fell on us' - 43 days as a surgeon in Gaza

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Credit: Getty

Labour Party vows to turn NHS "on its head" with fundamental reform

Medical staff wearing FFP3 face masks. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

NHS 'structural racism' led to staff not being heard on PPE

Emergency services at the scene of a coach crash on the M53 motorway, between junction 5 at Ellesmere Port and junction 4 at Bebbington.

Two dead in Liverpool M53 bus crash

Neuralink was co-founded by Elon Musk in 2016 (image: Adobe)

Musk's Neuralink approved to recruit humans for a brain implant

Millions to miss out on Covid booster as NHS slashes eligibility

39% of children can't see a dentist - and it's worse for adults

An air ambulance on the helipad at Scarborough Hospital

Scarborough Hospital helipad sees 30 landings in less than 18 months

Wegovy is now available on the NHS

Weight-loss injection Wegovy now available on the NHS

Do you know a healthcare hero who has gone above and beyond the call of duty? Now is your chance to recognise and celebrate their efforts and pay your own tribute.

Scarborough residents can nominate their ‘health hero’ for NHS award

Deer broke into a hospital in Devon

Watch the moment wild deer break entry into hospital & shock patients

Susan Morrison ‘showed solidarity’ with junior doctors

Junior doctors in England start their 5 day walkout

Sandsend surgery.

Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice to be closed for an afternoon

Wegovy: What is the weight loss jab which GPs will offer on NHS

Warning as most common day to have severe heart attack revealed

The most common day to have a serious heart attack has been revealed after new research

Daniel Mcneil

The NHS will soon allow patients to acces private healthcare

Patients to use NHS app to access private healthcare

Lloyds Pharmacy closures: Full list of branches shutting doors for good over the next few weeks

Lloyds Pharmacy confirms branches closing for good over next few weeks

Allergy sufferers told to ‘immediately’ contact their GP after adrenalin pens recalled

Allergy sufferers hit with warning as epi pens recalled by government

Millions of patients in England will be able to get prescriptions for seven common conditions, plus the contraceptive pill and more blood pressure checks, directly from pharmacies under new plans to tackle the GP crisis in the UK.

Pharmacies to offer prescriptions for 7 new conditions amid GP crisis

Scores of local pharmacies close in England as pharmacists fear being taken advantage of

Scores of local pharmacies close in England

GP appointments face major change with millions affected - how does this affect you?

Major change to GP appointments set to affect millions

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

It costs between £7,100 and £18,100 a year to raise a child according to research from Moneyfarm - an unimaginable amount of money for some, especially amid an ongoing cost of living crisis

3 government schemes that could save parents £1,617

NHS dentist fees in England have increased this week in another blow to those already struggling with the cost of living crisis.

NHS dentist fees increase in England - how much more you’ll pay

Mum of 2 thought ‘tennis ball’ sized brain tumour was stress seizures