Health

The proportion of pensioners to working age people in Calderdale will rise in the coming years, according to new figures.

Kate Humble and Forestry England are encouraging people to put one foot in front of another and soak up the nation’s forests during mental health awareness week which runs from Monday May 13 to Sunday May 19.

A new urine test for cervical cancer could be “game-changing” for the more than 10,000 women in Calderdale who missed their last smear test.

Thousands of children in Calderdale have been left unprotected from measles over the last decade, figures show.

Installations of green energy measures designed to lift households out of fuel poverty have fallen to their lowest level for three years in Calderdale.

More diesel cars and vans are appearing on Calderdale’s roads, despite the dangerous pollutants many emit.

Fewer Calderdale under 18s are becoming pregnant, new data reveals.

Outbreaks of measles were worse in Yorkshire than any other part of the North of England between 2017 and 2018.

More than one in three mothers need surgery or medical assistance when giving birth at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

Upper Stoodley Residents’ Association have unveiled new life saving equipment after raising nearly £2,000.

Lung cancer patients in Calderdale have a lower survival rate than elsewhere in England, figures reveal.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust was hit hard by winter pressures this year, figures show.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust hit its cancer treatment target in January, despite the NHS across England suffering its worst performance on record.

The Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust spent less than £250 on sanitary products for female patients in 12 months, new figures show.

Hundreds of people are being admitted to hospital with vitamin D deficiency at the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, data shows.

Young children in Calderdale were nearly three times as likely to need rotting teeth removed in hospital compared with the England average, the latest NHS data shows.

British favourites such as baked beans and tomato ketchup have been named and shamed on a list of foods that are surprisingly high in sugar.

Hundreds of patients were left waiting up to an hour in ambulances outside the Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust this winter, figures have revealed.

The number of disabled children in need of essential care and equipment has been vastly underestimated by councils across Yorkshire, a national charity’s data analysis suggests.