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We are building up a team of bloggers from across the West Midlands to tell their stories of the NHS - both as insiders and as users of its services.

We want to hear from people in all areas of our national health service - consultants, technicians, cleaners and people who have things to say about their own health care.

These blogs are your opportunity to get involved. Read these posts and get talking to managers, doctors, midwives, students, someone with dementia, someone with a gastric band...

Or would you like a blog of your own? Is there a health-related subject about which you feel passsionate enough to write regularly?

Write to us at nhslocal@mavericktv.co.uk and we shall see if we can get you started.

Meanwhile, enjoy the conversation.

Climbing over barriers to exercise

By Paul Mills

Last post: Have ever been told to get some exercise? To get things moving to improve your health?You then go to a gym and they give you a letter for your do Read this entry >

Ballard's money surgery - a financial guidebook for healthcare and medical professionals

By Jeremy Syree

Last post: I recently had a conversation with the practice manager of a large GP practice in the West Midlands. We had recently advised the practice on several d Read this entry >

When two become three - our diary of having our first baby

By Amy and Chris

Last post: A lot of our friends and relatives have already had children, so have got plenty of tips and advice for us.

One pearl of wisdom that Amy Read this entry >

Breaking the silence - speaking out about mental illness

By Linda Jones

Last post: How many times have you read that one in four people in Britain are affected by a mental health condition? Did you know that for some, this Read this entry >

My gastric band and me - life after weightloss surgery

By Susan Poultney

Last post: Thought I would write a few lines down to let you all know how I’m getting on... To be honest with you I have been struggling a bit lately, as you Read this entry >

It could only happen in a soap...or could it?

By Soap Check

Last post: Silent Witnesses’ Dr Nikki Alexander suspects the involvement of a Hungarian Minister in trafficking the children of prostitutes when she discovers Read this entry >

Prayer, syringes and waking at dawn - a pharmacist fasts in Ramadan

By Tazneem Anwar

Last post: As I write this post Ramadan has come and gone and so has the festival of Eid. Eid was on Friday but the preparations began days, if not weeks, Read this entry >

Using personal technology to improve your health

By Telehealth Professionals

Last post: Respiratory specialist nurse Jo Ellerton, has used Florence, the NHS Telehealth system to prevent a hospital admission of a patient, who had Read this entry >

The blog of newly qualified GPs in the West Midlands

By First5

Last post: It can be difficult to obtain support/funding from your local primary care trust (PCT) to support new initiatives like First5. This can especiall Read this entry >

Sorry, do I know you? Musings of a psychiatrist with dementia

By Daphne Wallace

Last post: A little while ago I realised that I could not remember the words of several well known nursery rhymes.This Christmas I realised that the same thing h Read this entry >

Through the looking glass - living with fibromyalgia

By Becky Hodson

Last post: Wow! I swear I only looked away for a moment and three months blew past while I was looking the other way. Big apologies for my absence from my fibrom Read this entry >

From chromosomes to hearing aids and everything in between – the work of healthcare scientists

By Louise Stewart

Last post: Well, it has been a turbulent few weeks, for many different reasons. As of Monday, 21 March I returned to my permanent post as a workforce Read this entry >

It's only dementia, you're discharged - a carer's voice

By Clare Cort

Last post: Caring for dad over the past two years seems to have finally have caught up with me. I have no energy and I am finding it so hard to concentrate on an Read this entry >

Helping you make sense of health stats

By NHS local Data Blog

Last post: We have been working with the acute hospitals and ambulance trusts across the West Midlands to provide real time data from A&E departments.This ha Read this entry >

NHS local community manager

By Carl Plant

Last post: Read this entry >

Views from the newsroom

By NHS local

Last post: Babies, babies, babies. That's what we've been thinking about at NHS local.We've put together a pack of resources on everything from conception Read this entry >

It's really time to do something now

By Dementia Community

Last post: A care home intervention to reduce the ‘chemical cosh’, boosts staff satisfaction, improves quality of life and saves money. Surely not?In the UK Read this entry >

The right pill into the right person at the right time

By Medicines Matter

Last post: I have had the dubious honour of sitting on the back of a waste collection van and witnessing the amount of unused medicines returned by patients coll Read this entry >

Out of the shadows - an insider's view of radiotherapy

By Julie Hall

Last post: Just a quick blog entry to let you all know that episode 4 of Hustle contains footage that was filmed at the Faculty of Health, Birmingham City Univer Read this entry >

So that's how you do it - mentoring in practice

By Mentoring Community

Last post: Across Herefordshire and Worcestershire the delivery and content of mentor training is evolving. Alison Gayton (practice facilitator) and Steve Wild Read this entry >

A midwife's journey

By Jane Duggan

Last post: Last month I went on a coach from Birmingham Women's Hospital to join the march in London. We were taking part in the Unison protest about the c Read this entry >

Love, sweat and tears - running 1,000 miles for MS

By Natalie Onions

Last post: I ran 1,000 miles last year. After all of the injuries, weather woes, tiredness and occasional frustration, my 1,000th mile was completed on Christma Read this entry >

Doctor, doctor - a GP's stories from the consulting room

By Jessica Arrowsmith

Last post: Whilst all doctors should be aware of the need to avoid the use of jargon with patients, the minefield of three letter abbreviations both parties must Read this entry >

Becoming a doctor - diary of a medical student

By Natasha Weston

Last post: I’m half way through my paediatric placement, and I think I’m finally starting to get a feel of what it must be like to work with children every d Read this entry >

The NHS should stop pretending social media will go away

A dementia carer asks: 'What about me?'

Thinking about shrinking - the challenge of exercise with fibromyalgia

My new blog on tax and pension advice for healthcare professionals

What should a GP do when she sees signs of illness in people who are not her patients?

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Reducing antipsychotic prescribing in people with dementia boosts staff moral, improves quality of life and saves money

Dementia Community | 11:11, Friday 20 April 2012

A care home intervention to reduce the ‘chemical cosh’, boosts staff satisfaction, improves qual

New Year, New Challenges: moving on with fibromyalgia

Becky Hodson | 21:05, Sunday 26 February 2012

Wow! I swear I only looked away for a moment and three months blew past while I was looking the othe

Hustle - filmed at Birmingham City University

Julie Hall | 14:56, Friday 03 February 2012

Just a quick blog entry to let you all know that episode 4 of Hustle contains footage that was filme

The ALzheimer’s COoperative Valuation in Europe (ALCOVE)

Dementia Community | 11:13, Thursday 02 February 2012

An opportunity to advance European healthcare policies for people living with dementia and their car

A busy weekend for the Society and College of Radiographers

Julie Hall | 17:11, Tuesday 31 January 2012

Last weekend the annual radiotherapy conference of the Society and College of Radiographers was held

Song without words - singing with dementia

Daphne Wallace | 11:18, Tuesday 17 January 2012

A little while ago I realised that I could not remember the words of several well known nursery rhym

Annual Investment Allowance and the timing of GPs' security systems

Jeremy Syree | 18:01, Thursday 12 January 2012

I recently had a conversation with the practice manager of a large GP practice in the West Midlands.

Have you ever been told to get some exercise?

Paul Mills | 18:44, Friday 23 December 2011

Have ever been told to get some exercise? To get things moving to improve your health?You then

Where did that word come from?

Daphne Wallace | 18:42, Tuesday 20 December 2011

Recently I have noticed something very strange. I will be having a conversation and, as often happen

A good year for radiotherapy, but not so good for Birmingham

Julie Hall | 11:45, Monday 12 December 2011

I started to write this last blog entry for 2011 in quite an upbeat mood so I’ll continue in that

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