Staff and visitors have been told to bring their own food and drink to the New QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City after the closure of its café next week.

Nurses and midwives are among those invited to apply for fellowship opportunities that are being funded by the East and North Hertfordshire Hospitals’ Charity.

Hatfield councillor Peter Hebden had to tell the NHS to stop paying him...three months after he had stopped working for them.

It’s Young Carers Awareness Day tomorrow – a day to celebrate, recognise and raise awareness about young carers in the UK.

Hertfordshire has been chosen as a national trailblazer in school mental health support, with children set to get early help from specialist teams as part of a new initiative.

Medication errors, delayed hospital admissions from the emergency department, and falls resulting in fractured bones are just some of the serious incidents recorded by the East and North Herts NHS Trust during a one-month period.

The future of the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust’s cancer centre – which has a catchment population of almost two million people – is at risk.

Urology consultant Nikhil Vasdev, with his team, has performed his 500th robotic urology surgery at Stevenage’s Lister Hospital.

An activist and songwriter from Hatfield has pulled together a diverse group of people from across the Brexit divide to call for a final say in the deal - in very catchy way.

A new vascular hub at Stevenage’s Lister Hospital has been given the go-ahead as part of the government’s £1 billion investment into the NHS.

With the rising rate of suicide among men in the UK, the new Welwyn Garden City Men’s Shed club is hoping to help improve the health of men.

Bosses at Stevenage’s Lister Hospital are looking at ways to speed up the time it takes to hand over patients from ambulance staff to the Emergency Department, having plummeted from being the best performer in the east of England to having less than half of cases meet national targets.

Ambulances have been head butted, kicked, and had blue lights ripped off in shocking acts of vandalism on the emergency vehicles - sometimes while crews have been trying to treat patients.

Women in east and north Hertfordshire have been waiting up to 14 weeks for the results of life-saving cervical screening tests – seven times longer than the NHS target.

A cash injection has been given to the region’s ambulance service as part of £1bn of funding announced by the government.

For the better part of two decades, Glynis Simmons virtually bent over backwards to help those receiving treatment at QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City.

A Welwyn Garden City widow is dissatisfied with the results of an inquiry into what happened at the Lister Hospital prior to her husband’s death.

A midwife has won an award for the sensitive support she gave a grieving family after their baby died, with her nomination saying “she gave light to our darkest time”.

A daughter is encouraging people to visit their GP if they suffer from symptoms such as a persistent cough after losing her dad to lung cancer.

A trainee doctor who used a senior nurse’s computer account to sign off assessments of his work in her name has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months.

Hertfordshire families can now sign up to a new Family Centre Service which started last month and will be fully operational by January.

Two Welwyn Garden City men have opened up about what it is like to live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to raise awareness of the condition.

Welwyn Hatfield’s Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate has slammed the MP’s “enthusiastic response” to 2018 Budget.

Patients registered with GP practices in North Herts, Stevenage and Welwyn Hatfield are now able to book evening and weekend doctor appointments.

Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps is “thrilled” after it was announced the NHS, which once saved his life, will see a record rise in funding.

A petition co-authored by a Welwyn Garden City dad about commercial reps on NHS postnatal wards has had a government response.

Major problems with our hospital trust’s phone lines means patients are struggling to get through, with one patient put on hold for more than two hours.

Labour party candidates for Stevenage and Welwyn Hatfield have blasted plans to axe a subsidised transport service to the new QEII and the Lister Hospital.

Welwyn Hatfield’s MP Grant Shapps has reacted to the majority pro-EU findings of a Brexitometer in the constituency area where he lives.

In this week’s column, Peter Sharkey looks at what impact a rising life expectancy has on your savings.