Health

Children make up a fifth of people receiving NHS help for mental health problems in Calderdale, figures reveal.

Dandelion, garlic and thyme have been named as some of the best plants and herbs to help cure aches and pains.

Hundreds of older people may be living with undiagnosed dementia in Calderdale, figures suggest.

Almost 70 per cent of adults in Calderdale are overweight or obese, with the implications that brings for health, Cabinet members are being warned.

Health trusts in Yorkshire will benefit from a multi-million pound funding project to upgrade cancer testing and detection technology, the Government has announced.

Cancer patients in Calderdale had some of the shortest wait times in England for starting treatment in August, figures reveal.

Disabled people in Calderdale are being forced to wait more than four months for a wheelchair from the NHS, figures reveal.

More than 10,000 A&E patients at the Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust waited more than four hours to be seen last year, figures reveal.

Fewer teenagers are becoming pregnant in Calderdale, figures reveal – but conception rates remain higher than the national average.

Hundreds of vacancies for nurses and midwives were posted by the Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust last year, figures show.

Cancer Research UK has warned that 100,000 cancer patients are being diagnosed too late every year.

Patients missed more than 10,000 appointments at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust last year, figures reveal.

The worst areas for the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections across the UK have been revealed, with chlamydia and gonorrhoea the most commonly diagnosed.

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