NHS England is in support of an initiative which is helping people with learning disabilities gain employment. The North Regional Transforming Care team, as part of a National programme, is working towards helping people who have previously had to rely on services to live independently. Part of this involves linking up with voluntary organisations and […]
Landmark buildings in towns and cities across the UK are helping the NHS celebrate as it turns 70 this summer. The big day is July 5 and events are being organised by and for staff, hospital trusts and healthcare organisations to mark the seventieth birthday in style. As part of the celebrations a number of […]
Thousands of people across the north of England are expected to take part in a special parkrun UK event on Saturday 9 June 2018 to celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday. Backed by double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes, parkrun for the NHS is the first event of its type, with at least 85,000 runners across the UK […]
NHS bosses are encouraging people to make sure they have all they need for the bank holiday by picking up repeat prescriptions in order to prevent them from running out of essential medicine and becoming ill. People are also reminded they can get expert medical advice on a range of common illnesses at their pharmacist […]
A Lancashire general practice is transforming care for patients with anxiety and depression after creating a team of mental health nurses. Mount View Practice in Fleetwood invested in nine mental health nurses to provide dedicated local support after finding that half of patients attending appointments had a mental health condition as their main or secondary […]
The NHS in the North has today (Friday 18th May) revealed the ten individuals and teams it has chosen as regional champions in a prestigious competition to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday. The champions – including Victoria’s Voice Youth Forum and Healthier Fleetwood – will now vie with other regional winners from across England for […]
NHS England has confirmed that new and expectant mums in Cheshire and Merseyside will be able to continue to access specialist perinatal mental health services, thanks to a funding boost, following a successful launch in late 2017. Through collaborative working initiated by the mental health programme of the Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership, […]
NHS England has confirmed that new and expectant mums will be able access specialist perinatal mental health community services in every part of the country by April next year. In Lancashire and South Cumbria this will include a community specialist team in addition to an eight bedded Lancashire and Cumbria mother and baby unit in […]
NHS England has confirmed that new and expectant mums will be able to access specialist perinatal mental health community services in every part of the country by April next year. The health service is now spending £23 million rolling out the second wave of community perinatal services to underserved parts of the country and is on course […]
OVER the last two years across Lancashire and South Cumbria, £30 million has been invested to transform primary care to make it more sustainable for the future. These figures are being released on the second anniversary of the General Practice Forward View (GPFV). Launched in April 2016, the GPFV committed an extra £2.4 billion pounds […]