Health

Members of the public in Blackpool are being encouraged to get their liver checked for free at St John’s Square in Church Street, FY1 1DL on Friday 30th September with the arrival of a mobile liver screening roadshow. One in five adults in Blackpool may be walking around with liver disease and be completely unaware […]

Blood pressure checks will be offered at this year’s Westmorland County Show as local nurses encourage visitors and the farming community to ‘Know Your Numbers!’ The Integrated Care Communities team, who cover GP practices across the whole of South Cumbria, will be at the show on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 September. They have delivered […]

A new Transfer of Care Hub has launched today (Monday 5 September) with the aim of ensuring patients living within the Morecambe Bay Place Based Partnership area are discharged from hospital on the right pathways, with the right discharge information, and that they get the right onward care and support. Integrated Transfer of Care Hub […]

Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) will soon be able to take the final steps to becoming a surgical elective hub within University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust – thanks to an additional £7.6m of funding. WGH became a designated ‘Elective Green Surgical Hub’ as defined by NHS England and Improvement (NHSI/E) in 2020. The […]

Ms Sarah Hart, Clinical Lead for I3 and Urology Speciality Doctor at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has been named as the Future Digital Leader of the Year at the national Digital Health Awards. Sarah has been instrumental in a number of key projects at the Trust which use technology and […]

A support group has launched in Kendal to give people living with long-term respiratory conditions better access to advice and support from health care professionals. Breathe Easy Kendal is free and open to anyone who is living with a respiratory condition such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, bronchiectasis and Interstitial Lung Disease. People aged […]

A support group has launched in Kendal to give people living with long-term respiratory conditions better access to advice and support from health care professionals. Breathe Easy Kendal is free and open to anyone who is living with a respiratory condition such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, bronchiectasis and Interstitial Lung Disease. People aged […]

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) is celebrating after its Blackburn East District Nursing Team has won a Cavell Star Award for going above and beyond for their patients. The Cavell Star Awards, launched by The Cavell Nurses’ Trust in 2018, celebrate and honour nurses, midwives, nursing associates and healthcare assistants who show […]

Next phase of the COVID-19 vaccine programme will see staff visiting towns and villages across Morecambe Bay As part of the next phase of the Lancashire and South Cumbria COVID-19 vaccination programme, NHS staff in Morecambe Bay will be travelling around smaller villages and towns, in an effort to increase uptake among the most vulnerable […]

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service is urging people to stay safe in Cumbria’s waters as the weather warms up over the next week. Group Manager Angela Opie, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service’s Prevention Lead, said: “We want people to enjoy spending time in and around water safely. In Cumbria, we carried out more than 200 […]