Last year, attendances at A&E for children went up by 32% in September compared to the previous month. And now, four of the region’s senior health leaders have come together as children across the North West go back to school, to raise awareness of guidance and support available that could help to keep children out […]
Care home residents and staff in the North West have become some of the first in the world to receive the new, variant-tackling jab, as part of the next phase of the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme. The autumn booster rollout started this week, with around 1.6 million of England’s care home residents, staff and people […]
Record numbers of people are getting checked for bowel cancer across the North West as more people become eligible for home screening tests. The latest NHS figures show that awareness raising by the late Dame Deborah James, as well as the latest NHS Help us, Help you campaign, had an immediate impact as lower gastro-intestinal […]
The NHS is reminding the public to continue to use 111 online for health advice ahead of the August bank holiday weekend. Local NHS services experienced a surge in demand over the Jubilee bank holiday weekend – with attendances at A and E departments in the North West having increased by 15 per cent since […]
The NHS in the North West is encouraging people with symptoms such as a long-standing persistent cough, to contact their GP practice for potentially lifesaving checks in its latest campaign to catch lung cancer earlier when it is easier to treat. The launch of the latest Help Us Help You campaign comes after figures suggest people […]
The public across the North West are being urged to order repeat prescriptions in time, ahead of the August bank holiday. The North West’s chief pharmacist is reminding people not to leave it too late to order repeat prescriptions ahead of the bank holiday next week. Last bank holiday – the NHS 111 phone service […]
Thanks to a collaboration between three hospital Trusts across Merseyside, patients struggling with respiratory conditions such as COPD and community-acquired pneumonia may find themselves increasingly able to be treated at home instead of spending weeks or longer in a hospital bed. Services across St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Heart and […]
NHS staff in the North West have been praised for all their hard work to tackle waiting lists exacerbated by the pandemic, by employing initiatives including introducing virtual wards in Cheshire and Merseyside, specialist cataract surgery clinics in Lancashire and South Cumbria and a walk-in, walk-out model of care for children in Greater Manchester. As […]
Midwives and other NHS staff have helped almost 15,000 mums-to-be in England quit smoking during the last four years, according to new analysis by the health service. Latest figures show that the smoking rate for pregnant women at the time of birth in 2021-22 fell to 9.1% from 9.6% in the previous year, which is […]
Two NHS teams working across Cheshire and Merseyside have scooped national prizes, at this years’ NHS Parliamentary Awards. The Surgical Cancer Hub Team at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are the 2022 winner of the Excellence in Healthcare award, which was presented by Daisy Cooper MP. Established during the pandemic, the surgical […]