List of news
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28 October 2021- Quality and safety
Tomorrow (Friday 29 October), the Blackpool Tower will be lit up in recognition of World Stroke Day. As part of the NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria, we will be giving strong support to World Stroke Day – an annual opportunity to highlight the serious nature and high rate of strokes and spread awareness of the risk factors and signs.
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27 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Furness General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
We have made the difficult decision to stop routine visiting at Furness General Hospital due to a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, in order to protect patients and staff.
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27 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Colleague health and wellbeing
- Finance and transformation
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today released a further report following an unannounced inspection of wards located in Medical Unit 2 at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) in August 2021. This report is the last part of the CQC hospital inspection report that was published in August 2021.
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25 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Colleague health and wellbeing
- Finance and transformation
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Ulverston Health Centre
- Community services
- Bay Health and Care Partners
- New Hospitals Programme
The Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM) of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) will be held online via Microsoft ‘Teams’ at 10am on Tuesday 16 November and all are welcome to attend.
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21 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Colleague health and wellbeing
- Finance and transformation
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
Children who need to attend the Accident and Emergency Department at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) now have an attractive new waiting area designed to improve their care, safety and experience while in hospital.
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19 October 2021- Bay Health and Care Partners
Ulverston's vaccination centre, currently located within the sports hall at GSK is moving to nearby Gill Rise over the weekend of 23 and 24 October and will re-open on Monday 25 October.
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19 October 2021- Bay Health and Care Partners
Health and care leaders in Morecambe Bay spoke out today to reassure communities that despite the current high demand on health and social care, services continue to pull together as a partnership to deliver great local care.
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8 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Colleague health and wellbeing
- Finance and transformation
- Bay Health and Care Partners
An online talk about ‘Our Services of the Future’ will be hosted by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).
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8 October 2021- Quality and safety
Visiting restrictions at UHMBT have been lifted in areas where there are no active COVID-19 positive patients.
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6 October 2021- Quality and safety
- Colleague health and wellbeing
- Finance and transformation
- Furness General Hospital
- Royal Lancaster Infirmary
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Millom Hospital
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Ulverston Health Centre
- Community services
- Bay Health and Care Partners
Following a robust recruitment process, teams across University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) will soon be welcoming Richard Sachs to UHMBT as their new Director of Governance.