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.
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Cockermouth hospital plans revealed - Carlisle News & Star 24th November 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
£10m mental health shake-up discussed - Carlisle News & Star 24th November 2008
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.
‘Invest to reduce health inequality’ says Cumbrian MP Jamie Reed - Carlisle News & Star 24th November 2008
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.
Brother and sister make final preparations for kidney swap - Carlisle News & Star 24th November 2008
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 for cancer unit in S Lakes - Carlisle News & Star 24th November 2008
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.
Stopping attacks on NHS workers - Carlisle News & Star 21st November 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
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.
Kitchens cook up skills for hospital catering - Carlisle News & Star 21st November 2008
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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Clinics to manage pain are scrapped - Carlisle News & Star 21st November 2008
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).
Secret checks show wards have cleaned up their act - Carlisle News & Star 21st November 2008
IN THE past 12 months north Cumbria’s hospital staff have transformed the way they stamp out the spread of infection.
What a naughty Nurse Betty! - Carlisle News & Star 21st November 2008
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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