Health and Care

Today marks a huge milestone for Sheffield and its older care home residents as all have now been offered the covid-19 vaccinated.  

Statement from Public Health Sheffield on the new variant of Covid-19

Get active this winter by walking, jogging or running a mile a day as we countdown from the 1st to the 25th of December in This Girl Can 25 miles December challenge.

This year Disability History Month runs from the 18th November to the 20th December 2020. UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) is an “annual event creating a platform to focus on th ...

NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) Medical Director and the Director of Public Health in Sheffield are encouraging those eligible to get their flu vaccination and help minimise the spread of flu this winter.

England will enter a full lockdown on Thursday November 5 if approved by MPs on Wednesday. The measures will be introduced at 00:01 GMT on Thursday and remain in place until Wednesday 2 December.

Sheffield City Council has pledged to support thousands of children and young people with free school meals during the half-term week.

We have written to care homes this week to update them on our current position in relation to Covid-19 and the care homes sector. We have assured them that we will be giving care h ...

Covid-19 has had a major impact on every community in Sheffield. The nine ambitions our Strategy sets out remain the foundations to support a healthy life.

Following the latest Government update, which saw a slight ease of some restrictions, Sheffield City Council has today i ...

Independent visitors is a Sheffield City Council scheme which aims to match volunteers who will build helpful and positi ...

Sheffield City Council has responded to the priorities set out in the January 2019 NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) published by ...

November 20 2019 marks World COPD Day, and ex-smoker and COPD sufferer, Geoff Bunting, 61 from Norwood, is calling for a ...

Following substantial rainfall over recent weeks, Sheffield is continuing to work closely with those in the worst affect ...

Families, schools and services are being asked to have their say on Sheffield’s new Inclusion Strategy.Sheffield City Co ...

Sheffield City Council is one of a number of councils nationally proposing to change the way that care homes are paid.Th ...

We’re going on a bear hunt! We’re going to catch a big one!” Foster toddler found the whole idea of bear hunting very ex ...

Through joint working with NHS partners, Sheffield City Council has become the first standalone local authority in the c ...

Sheffield’s adoptive parents and their families are invited to a coffee and cake morning this weekend, to thank them for ...

Toni Harrison volunteers with Sheffield City Council as an Independent Visitor, as part of a scheme to build helpful and ...

Joining thousands of people across the country taking part in Stoptober, partners are helping smokers to take their firs ...

An AAA is a swelling of the main blood vessel in the body, the aorta, which can weaken and expand and is most common in ...

Each month, more than  5,000 women are  diagnosed with breast cancer, which is one of the most common cancers in the wor ...

The volunteers, known as independent visitors, build helpful and positive relationships with young people who are in car ...