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The ‘#OurFutureSouthYorkshire’ campaign offers a platform for our communities to tell their stories about the South Yorkshire they want future generations to grow up in.

Please take care in the snow and cold weather affecting our region.

Staff at Barnsley Hospital have reported improvements in flexible working, diversity, equality and inclusion, team-working and compassionate leadership, in the annual NHS staff survey for 2022.

We are calling on all smokers to get in touch and make National No Smoking day on 8th March the day to push a further pledge to quit for good.

Healthcare Science Week 2023 is coming up from 13-19 March, when we celebrate all our amazing healthcare scientists here in Barnsley.

Barnsley Maternity Voices Partnership are teaming up with Neonatal Parents and Families in Yorkshire and Humber to take 15 steps for Maternity, with a focus on the Neonatal unit. They would love some service users to join them on Thursday 2nd March at Barnsley Hospital. If you would like to get involved please email barnsley.mvp@nhs.net to register your interest.

Each year around 450 people in Barnsley experience a stroke, and the sooner a person receives treatment, the less damage is likely to happen.

New figures today reveal that while the highest number of women ever were screened last year, nearly four in 10 did not take up the potentially lifesaving offer.

Ladies who have received their breast screening invite encourage not to delay in booking an appointment.

Since April 2022 the uptake of breast screening appointments in Barnsley has increased by 25 per cent thanks to the opening of Barnsley’s Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) in May and the introduction of new behavioural science methods to encourage women to attend.