1+ day, 23+ hour ago A rehabilitation centre that closed due to underuse has now fully reopened. Spinneyfields Care Centre in Rushden, Northamptonshire, has 51 inpatient beds for people who need support to return home after treatment at Kettering General and Northampton General hospitals. The centre…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago A combined authority has been told it has made good progress on its improvement targets after being placed under additional scrutiny by the government. Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) was handed a Best Value Notice in April over concerns taxpayers…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago A nurse who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor has won a claim for harassment against NHS Fife but other allegations of discrimination and victimisation were dismissed. Sandie Peggie was suspended from her job in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has said the news that BP is no longer seeking to build a hydrogen plant on land earmarked for an AI data centre will help to put the area "at the heart" of the UK's…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago BP has pulled out of building a hydrogen plant on Teesside following a row over whether the site would be better suited to housing a data centre instead. A government decision on whether the plant at Teesworks in Redcar could…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago A wood-burning stove manufacturer has been fined "200,000 after an employee had to have his lower leg amputated because heavy metal sheets fell on him. The man was working for A J Wells & Sons Ltd in Newport, Isle of Wight, on…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago A bridge has closed to traffic for additional safety checks after an engineering review. The Heugh Street Bridge, located on River Drive in South Shields, was not due for a major inspection until next year, but recent findings prompted an…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago NHS bosses "penalised" female nurses complaining about a transgender woman using their changing room, an employment tribunal has been told. Eight nurses are challenging a policy which allows the single-sex room at Darlington Memorial Hospital to be used by Rose…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago A transgender hospital worker felt she had a right to use the female-only facility at work, an employment tribunal has heard. Eight nurses have raised a claim over County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust's policy allowing a female-only changing room…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago A poster declaring a hospital changing room at the centre of a transgender row to be "inclusive" felt wrong, a manager who took it down has told an employment tribunal. Eight nurses have raised a claim over County Durham and…...