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St John Ambulance Cycle Response Unit

Over half of adults in Yorkshire and Humberside can’t tell heat stroke from heat...

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

Owls fan diagnosed with brain tumour after forgetting players names

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

St Luke's artists Graham Butterley and Peter Milner with their self portraits.

St Luke’s patients are in the picture with major new art exhibition

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

Weight loss jabs work 53% better with coaching

Veritas Health Centre, on Chesterfield Road, takes the top spot in Sheffield for this year's GP Patient Survey. An impressive 99% of respondents said their overall experience at the centre had been good.

12 Sheffield GP surgeries rated from best to worst

A new sexual health van officially launched in Sheffield this week with free,, confidential testing.

Sheffield's new sexual health van hits the road

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

Stroke care

Stronger stroke care for local patients, seven days a week

Darnall Dental Clinic

Dental clinic in Sheffield could axe thousands of patients

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

Watch: Sheffield woman meets recipient of her twin sister’s hands

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

Professor Alan Lobo talks about the groundbreaking research on the national stage

Fewer patients with inflammatory bowel disease admitted to hospital thanks to gr...

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

Future of GP surgery remains undecided following death of doctor

The St Luke's singers are creating their own song as a tribute to the support they receive.

St Luke’s singers create their own musical anthem

Barnsley couple Kieran and Emma Hodgson are sharing their story after Emma donated a kidney to save her husband's life.

'I donated my kidney to save my husband's life'

GP Practice stock photo from Anthony Devlin/ PA Archive/PA Images

13 worst rated surgeries in Sheffield based on what their patients say

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'

St Luke's is extending its services even further into the wider community.

St Luke’s Hospice reaches out to Manor community with new sessions

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

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

These were the 18 best rated GPs in Sheffield in the latest figures released by the NHS, ahead of the result of the annual GP Patient Survey in June 2025. (Picture: Marisa Cashill)

18 of the best GP surgeries in Sheffield based on patients' ratings

58-year-old Michelle Grainger from Wath-upon-Dearne in Rotherham, says immunoglobulin has saved her life from a disorder that left her paralysed from the neck down.

'How your donation can help save my life from disorder'

Nicky Hambleton-Jones

World Book Day: Celebrity style expert shares vision health warning as one milli...

The Sheffield Trust is one of only two non-American centres in the world and the only UK site in the North of England, to be recruiting eligible patients into the trial.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals recruits world’s first patients into revolutionary ...

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

File photo. Figures show only one in 33 autism referrals in South Yorkshire result in an appointment in the target time.

Only 1 in 33 South Yorkshire autism referrals meet target

Fiona Kwan began pursuing a medical career after being diagnosed with a brain tumour at 16.

"I was diagnosed with a brain tumour aged 16. Now I'm doing medicine"

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?

An ambulance at the Northern General Hospital

Second A&E discussed to ease 20-ambulance queues

The St Luke's Hospice Ecclesall Road South site.

Something to sing about with music grant for St Luke’s Hospice

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

Morrisons launches a new discreet online prescription service

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Police were sent to the scene after a body was found near More Hall Lane, Sheffield. Photo: David Kessen, National World file picture

Tragedy as body found in countryside near Sheffield beauty spot

Burglar branded “not the sharpest criminal” - left DNA on gin bottle

A community in Sheffield will celebrate the life of 11-year-old Elemie Wainwright, who's life was cut short following a road traffic collision.

Schoolgirl who died in fatal collision to be honoured by community