List of news
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10 January 2024
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Campaigns and awareness
The NHS is rolling out an expanded mental health support service for Armed Forces veterans, as a survey found that more than half find it difficult to speak up about mental health issues.
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9 January 2024
- Hospital services
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Ulverston Health Centre
- Community services
- Working in partnership
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Campaigns and awareness
Long-term conditions, or chronic diseases, are conditions that require ongoing care and often are managed by medications and other treatments. Examples include diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, asthma and heart or kidney disease.
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8 January 2024
- Working in partnership
- Campaigns and awareness
An amber cold-health alert has been issued across the whole of the north west from now until midday on Friday 12 January as temperatures drop.
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29 December 2023
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Ulverston Health Centre
- Community services
- Campaigns and awareness
Junior doctors in England are preparing for the longest strike in NHS history next week, and all hospitals in Lancashire and South Cumbria are expecting significant disruption.
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21 December 2023
- Working in partnership
- Campaigns and awareness
Winter conditions can be seriously bad for our health, especially for people aged 65 or older, and people with long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, diabetes or heart or kidney disease.
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21 December 2023
- Working in partnership
- New Hospitals Programme
The national New Hospital Programme would like to invite you to a 90-minute virtual workshop about your experience of using hospital facilities.
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21 December 2023
- Hospital services
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Ulverston Health Centre
- Community services
- Working in partnership
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Campaigns and awareness
Winter conditions can be seriously bad for our health, especially for people aged 65 or older, and people with long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, diabetes or heart or kidney disease.
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19 December 2023
- Making improvements
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
Please be aware that the mobile breast screening unit will be moving from Minerva Health Centre in Preston to Lytham Primary Care Centre at the end of January 2024.
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19 December 2023
- Campaigns and awareness
The Well Communities, a service that primarily aims to help people recover from addiction, utilised the NHS Population Health Investment Funding to help over 200 residents stay well last winter.
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19 December 2023
- Making improvements
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Making the best use of our resources
All are welcome at a special grand opening event for the new Urology Department at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on Wednesday 10 January.