List of news
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Published on: 23 March 2022
- Hospital services
Environmentally-friendly plans to improve sustainability at UHMBT have been outlined in a new Green Plan.
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Published on: 23 March 2022
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
New rules at the main hospitals run by UHMBT mean members of the public will no longer be allowed to park in staff car parks from 1 April 2022.
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Published on: 21 March 2022
- Working in partnership
Spring booster vaccines will begin in Lancashire and South Cumbria this week as the biggest and fastest vaccination programme in NHS history moves to the next phase.
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Published on: 16 March 2022
- Making improvements
- Hospital services
- Community services
- Working in partnership
After a recruitment process, Dr William Lumb has been appointed as the new Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for UHMBT and Janet Manning has been appointed as Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) for the Trust.
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Published on: 16 March 2022
Lancaster University, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay and Glyconics© win Innovate UK government grant to develop a highly-accurate SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) test that could enable real-time rapid point-of-care (POC) testing that takes seconds.
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Published on: 15 March 2022
- Working in partnership
Forty-eight Year 8 pupils from Furness Academy in Barrow have taken part in a pilot programme to raise awareness of the seriousness of knife crime. The initiative aimed to educate young people about the effects that carrying a knife can have on potential victims, the perpetrator, families, medical staff, peer groups and the wider community.
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Published on: 11 March 2022
- Making improvements
On Monday 7 March 2022, the Trust declared that it was escalating to Operations Pressure Escalation Levels (OPEL) Level 4 - the highest level of internal escalation in the NHS.
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Published on: 11 March 2022
UHMBT is pleased to announce that following a recruitment process, Scott McLean has been appointed as the organisation’s new Chief Operating Officer.
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Published on: 8 March 2022
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