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File photo dated 28/11/06 of a dentist checking condition of a patient's teeth. Measures introduced last year with the aim of boosting access to NHS dentists appear to have "resulted in worsening the picture", MPs have said. The Dental Recovery Plan has "comprehensively failed", according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), amid warnings that vulnerable patients "continue to suffer the most". Issue date: Friday April 4, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Dentists. Photo credit should read: John Giles/PA Wire

Concern at low access to NHS dentists in Peterborough

The service offers support to people of all ages

New NHS service offers vital mental health support in Peterborough

Walton Community Centre

New plans drawn up to move pharmacy into disused community centre

Joy Cullen gave up her job as her hip pain pre-surgery was too severe

NHS patients choose to travel further for surgeries under scheme

These figures show that demand for ambulance services remains high as the NHS heads into the winter months, when services traditionally face additional pressures

Busiest year ever for East of England Ambulance Service

Breast Cancer Awareness and Fundraising Event

Westminster Life: Why breast cancer awareness still matters

Rough sleepers will be able to receive vital vaccines

Rough sleepers in Peterborough to get vaccinated against winter viruses

Flu jabs are being rolled out ahead of the winter

Vulnerable Peterborough residents and children invited for flu jabs

Clayton Pharmacy.

Opening of pharmacy welcomed after three months of closure

Malcolm Fovargue will be singing at Out Out at the met Lounge on September 26

Time to go Out Out again and help NHS charity

2015- Matron on the phone

Looking Back: It’s a case of Carry On Matron!

New Health offers clinician-led weight management designed to fit around everyday life, without the need for in-person appointments.

What private weight management treatments are available without NHS?

More than 850 of the hardest-to-reach members of communities across the country will be seen onboard

Mobile dental unit to deliver care to rough sleepers

Peterborough Town Hall

Peterborough Town Hall roof and walls in ‘better condition than first feared’

Residents are urged to book their flu jabs

Peterborough residents urged to book flu jab

The oncology day unit in 2015

Looking Back: Another busy day at PCH
In 2015 I photographed the staff hard at work in the very busy PCH oncology day unit.
Chris Porsz

A cataract operation at PCH in 2015

Looking Back: A quick but life-changing op

Operations Manager Nicola McNamee (second left), with senior site manager Matt Cleaver (left), graduate design manager Destiny Maz (second right), and communications manager Sonia Nicholls (far right)

Take a look inside Peterborough’s new Community Diagnostic Centre

PDH in 1982

Looking Back: From uniforms to scrubs!

The GP patient survey has been released

Every Peterborough GP surgery ranked by how helpful receptionists are

Radiographer Steve Littlefare and doctor J Urwin in 1980

Looking Back: X-raying the way it used to be

Peterborough City Hospital

Increase in demand at Peterborough City Hospital during heatwaves

Sam Carling MP visits Hampton Medical Centre

Westminster Life: Improving care closer to home

1984 in the Biochemistry Department at Peterborough District Hospital

Looking Back: How technology has changed

2015- Health Care Assistants at Peterborough City Hospital

Looking Back: A crucial part of the NHS team

An alert has been issued.

Patients may be asked to make own way to hospital as ambulance alert issued

Professor Radim Licenik, Consultant Stroke Physician with North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Stroke patients in Peterborough among first to benefit from new genetic test
Stroke patients in Peterborough are to be among the first to benefit from a new rapid genetic test.
Paul Grinnell

Nearly two in 10 older people avoided going to A&E during winter last year due to these concerns

Six in 10 over 65s worry about catching flu from A&E trips

Most people in Peterborough face around a two minute drive to a dentist - but that doesn't mean its easy to get signed up to an NHS service

The Peterborough neighbourhoods with the best access to dentists

Karen Belson, Maggie Moore, Anita Downs and Jane Kew reunited in 2020

Looking Back: The 'tea break' nurses reunited

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust surgeon Jyoti Shah

NHS surgeon urges men not to ‘bury their head in the sand’ about prostate cancer

This week is National Blood Week

Ad Feature Survey reveals the real reason people don’t give blood

Peterborough City Hospital

Peterborough City Hospital issues advice ahead of doctor strike

Staff with the new scanner

Peterborough NHS patients benefit from UK’s only CT scanner at Hinchingbrooke

The nurses in 2010 at PDH

Looking Back: Changes in nurses' uniforms over the years

Sharpsmart works with hospitals and healthcare providers across the UK to deliver specialist healthcare waste services.

Ad Feature Sharpsmart strengthens waste service resilience and greener logistics

The scheme has helped diagnose more cases of lung cancer early

Hundreds get earlier lung cancer diagnosis thanks to new screening scheme

Co-founders of Predictive Health Intelligence, Tim Jobson and Neil Stevens

Ad Feature New study reveals new way to find serious liver disease earlier

The air ambulance landing in 2015

Looking Back: When the Air Ambulance arrived

Detective Chief Inspector Dave Savill with some of the wristbands

Dementia wristbands help keep vulnerable Peterborough residents safe

The 2011 ECH demolition under way

Looking Back: Goodbye ECH, hello PCH

The Mood Disorders Research Clinic Team (L-R) Aaron Bamford, Senior Administrator, Amy Chapman, Research Nurse, Dr Catherine Hatfield, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinic Co-Lead with Dr Emanuele Osimo, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinic Co-Lead.

New clinic to treat patients with "mood disorders" to open in Peterborough

Demolition work in 2011

Looking Back: Someone happy in their work!

The newly built PCH and soon-to-be demolished ECH in 2010

Looking Back: The new City Hospital in 2010

Peterborough City Hospital

Patients across Peterborough encouraged to share their experiences

The former Edith Cavell Hospital

Looking back: Memories of Edith Cavell Hospital

A patient receives a Covid 19 vaccine.

Potentially "life-saving" Covid jabs being offered to people across Peterborough

The 1982 photo in Bridge Street

Looking Back: NHS disputes are nothing new

Waiting times for ambulances and accident and emergency services in Peterborough and the surrounding area have fallen

Drop in waiting times for ambulances and accident and emergency services

63% of patients who find it easy to get through to this GP practice by phone

The 8 Peterborough GP surgeries that are easiest to contact by phone

Stuart Forster (left), Directory, Oakdene Hollins, Ethar Alali, Director ReallyRecycle

Two Peterborough organisations join forces to tackle Britain’s plastics problem

Patients across Peterborough will be able to get urgent dentist appointments more easily due to an upcoming nationwide overhaul of NHS dentistry

Major changes ahead for NHS dental access in Peterborough

Private MRI scans can now be booked directly online, offering faster results than standard NHS waiting times.

You can now book private health scans from £80 – with results in hours

NHS Blood and Transplant.

Warning over low blood supplies as Cambridgeshire residents are urged to donate

This image shows how the proposed wellbeing garden at Peterborough ambulance station could appear when completed.

£24,000 award will nurture wellbeing garden at Peterborough ambulance station