New plans have been unveiled to improve palliative care and rehabilitation services at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven by merging two wards.
Bosses plan to amalgamate the Ullswater Stroke Unit and Younger Disabled Unit (YDU) to create an all-ages rehabilitation centre. This will allow a dedicated palliative care unit to be developed at the site.
HOSPITALS in East Lancashire have passed an annual health check.
The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs both the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital, was one of the 51 trusts randomly picked for the Healthcare Commission’s annual study.
AFZAL Anwar, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Pendle, has slammed NHS bosses for getting pay hikes while frontline staff take cuts.
Mr Anwar said: “As a result of tight fiscal control, nurses were given just 1.9 per cent – below inflation – even though the NHS Pay Review Body had recommended they receive 2.5 per cent.
PLANS for Cockermouth’s new £14 million community hospital have been revealed.
The new building will be part of a new generation of health villages that will be built in Cumbria and will see services delivered closer to patients homes.
PLANS to invest up to £10million to improve mental health services across Cumbria will be discussed next week.
It follows a four-month consultation over plans to change inpatient services, which ended on September 30, focusing on adults who require a higher level of care.
Investing in Cumbria despite the economic turndown will work towards reducing the health inequality seen in west and east Cumbria, an MP has said.
Copeland MP Jamie Reed said the NHS existed to remove inequalities and it was not right in the 21st century there were still pockets of deprivation with such varying life expectancies.
A Carlisle man will be given the ultimate gift from his sister this week – a kidney which could save his life.
Ian Morrison, 62, of Upperby and his sister Fiona Wood of Pennsylvania, USA, will undergo tandem operations in Newcastle on Wednesday. Ian and Fiona are preparing for the surgery.
PETITIONS to help bring a cancer unit to South Lakeland have been dropping through letterboxes.
They are part of a huge campaign to secure a £15m radiotherapy and chemotherapy unit at Kendal’s Westmorland General Hospital.
VIOLENCE and aggression against ambulance staff nationally costs the NHS £69 million each year.
In 2007-2008 there were 234 reported assaults on staff employed by the North West Ambulance Service which covers Cumbria.
To combat this, a new Stop Abuse campaign has been launched to show the public that attacks on ambulance staff will not be tolerated.
A CULTURE of learning is being served up in a hospital’s catering department. Staff in the kitchens of Furness General Hospital in Barrow have been awarded a range of NVQ qualifications.
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PAIN management clinics in three Cumbrian towns have been scrapped – but bosses say new improved services are already being rolled out.
In April, clinics were launched at health centres in Longtown, Keswick and Whitehaven by the Cumbria primary care trust (PCT).
IN THE past 12 months north Cumbria’s hospital staff have transformed the way they stamp out the spread of infection.
Today we take the National Health Service for granted, but it is only 60 years ago that health care was a luxury not everyone could afford.
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Blackpool Council is to support the Department of Health’s National Keep Well Keep Warm campaign by running a two-day event in the town centre.
The event will be opened by comic Les Dawson’s widow, Tracy, will on Monday and will also take place the following day.
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