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A new countywide, multi-agency strategy tackling violence against women and girls has been launched. The Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which has been signed by all the key partners in Derby City and Derbyshire who work to prevent this type of violence, provides a Derbyshire-centric approach to protecting and supporting those at risk.  It […]

A man has been charged with attempted murder after we were called to reports that a woman had been stabbed in Chesterfield. Officers were alerted by paramedics just before midnight on Sunday 3 July to a woman who had been found outside a property on Meynell Close in Brampton with a number of stab wounds.

Mothers in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire are 50 per cent more likely to be smokers at the time of giving birth despite the potential harm to their babies, according to worrying figures released by the NHS. Joined-Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) is focussing on pregnant smokers in a bid to reduce infant mortality and health problems

A Conservative Derbyshire councillor has refused to explain “historic social media posts”, believed to be of an anti-Semitic nature, which have led to his five-year suspension. Cllr Philip Rose, elected as Conservative county councillor for the Alfreton and Somercotes division in May last year, is believed to have shared controversial  posts online as recently as 2019.

Overworked nurses are ‘tired’ as they struggle to take safe care of patients while making up for a lack of available staff, a hospital chief has revealed. In her report to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, deputy chief nurse Sarah Ward also explained that an assessment of patient need carried out between January

Mandatory face masks have been brought back in Derby, Chesterfield and Burton’s hospitals – just weeks after Covid rules were eased – following a spike in Covid-19 inpatients. On June 20, the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust announced that face masks would no longer be mandatory in non-clinical areas  – such