News from 2021/2022
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Published on: 25 March 2022
- Making improvements
A new service from the NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria will offer support and therapy for people who have had a traumatic experience connected to pregnancy.
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Published on: 25 March 2022
- Making improvements
UHMBT will soon be welcoming Heather Gallagher as its new Director of Midwifery following a recruitment process.
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Published on: 25 March 2022
- Working in partnership
Morecambe Bay’s Integrated Musculoskeletal (iMSK) Service has moved its Kendal base from Westmorland General Hospital to Kendal Leisure Centre in the community.
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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.