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Fears for East Lancashire's breast cancer funding
2:46pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
EAST Lancashire hospitals’ latest cash crisis could hit plans to make big improvements in breast cancer care.
Comments (1)East Lancs hospital workers criticise bosses in survey
11:13am Monday 1st December 2008
HOSPITAL workers have given a lukewarm response to surveys designed to boost morale.
999 ambulances to return to Burnley
8:40am Monday 1st December 2008
999 AMBULANCES are set to return to Burnley General Hospital.
£2million bailout to help struggling A&E in East Lancashire
11:13am Monday 1st December 2008
ANOTHER big cash bailout has been promised to East Lancashire’s hospitals, but health chiefs said it was now “not possible” for them to hit their A and E targets.
Prentice backing Colne health centre plans
1:40pm Saturday 29th November 2008
PENDLE MP Gordon Prentice is backing the decision to build a new state-of-the-art health facility in Colne.
East Lancashire hospitals' £2m overspend after bed shortage
6:50am Friday 28th November 2008
HOSPITAL bosses have warned they may have to make cutbacks after attempts to solve bed shortages resulted in a £2million black hole in their accounts.
East Lancashire DVD to combat AIDS and HIV ignorance
12:11pm Friday 28th November 2008
AN AIDS awareness DVD made in East Lancashire is to be shown at schools, youth groups and colleges in the North West.
Residents' joy as Accrington rehab plans scrapped
5:21pm Thursday 27th November 2008
RESIDENTS and councillors have thanked health bosses after they scrapped plans for an addicts' centre near their homes.
East Lancashire hospital chief blasts critical GPs
10:17am Thursday 27th November 2008
EAST Lancashire’s hospital boss has told the GP who criticised her under fire A&E department: You’re bang out of order.
Crackdown on booze culture in Blackburn and Darwen
3:19pm Thursday 27th November 2008
HEALTH and council leaders in Blackburn and Darwen have pledged to crackdown on the borough’s unhealthy drinking culture.
East Lancashire hospitals’ clean bill of health
4:31pm Tuesday 25th November 2008
HOSPITALS in East Lancashire have passed an annual health check.
Prospective Pendle MP slams NHS bosses pay hike
4:30pm Monday 24th November 2008
AFZAL Anwar, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Pendle, has slammed NHS bosses for getting pay hikes while frontline staff take cuts.
East Lancs child death study launched
8:00am Friday 21st November 2008
CHILD deaths throughout East Lancashire are being probed in a bid to find the reasons behind the region’s shocking infant mortality rate.
U-turn over women's ops in cabin on Burnley hospital car park
8:10am Thursday 20th November 2008
HOSPITAL bosses have done a u-turn and scrapped plans to perform gynaecology operations in a portable cabin.
East Lancashire Hospice launches Light Up a Life appeal
3:10pm Thursday 20th November 2008
HOSPICE staff are urging people to “light up a life” this Christmas.
Website for doctor gripes
6:10pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
A NEW website has been created by health watchdogs for patients to make complaints about doctors.
Health trust takes Darwen office
4:10pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
HEALTH workers are set to move into office space in Darwen’s new Arkwright Court development.
Blackburn with Darwen's care providers may merge
2:13pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
BLACKBURN and Darwen’s council and health trust could be set to merge next year, in a bid to improve life for residents.
Inspirational Burnley pathologist dies, aged 94
12:20pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
A DOCTOR who fled Nazi Germany to become one of the UK’s leading pathologists has died at the age of 94.
Gynaecology operations in cabin on Burnley hospital car park
8:50am Tuesday 18th November 2008
GYNAECOLOGY operations will be carried out in a cabin on a hospital car park to tackle bed shortages.
Antibiotics myth campaign
6:20pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
THE Health Protection Agency North West has launched a new campaign to bust the myth that antibiotics are a cure for all ails.
Nominate now for health worker awards
4:20pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
EAST Lancashire residents are being encouraged to put forward health professionals who they think should be honoured with an award for their everyday activity.
Organ donors needed
1:10pm Tuesday 18th November 2008
LANCASHIRE people are being asked to sign up to the organ donor register after a Government plan to introduce a presumed consent system were shelved.
Residents want other sites considered for Accrington rehab centre
11:09am Saturday 15th November 2008
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for a drugs centre in the middle of an Accrington residential area have urged health officials to reconsider.
GP’s dire warning over East Lancashire hospital 'chaos'
1:00pm Friday 14th November 2008
A FAMILY doctor has launched a stinging attack on East Lancashire’s hospital service, warning of ‘third world’ scenes if there was a flu pandemic.
East Lancashire group calls for more help for bowel disorder patients
12:40pm Thursday 13th November 2008
EAST Lancashire patients are calling for more specialist nurses for people with serious bowel disorders.
Daughter not told Rossendale mother, 86, had MRSA in Pendle hospital
11:18am Thursday 13th November 2008
HEALTH chiefs at an under-fire hospital have apologised to the family of an 86-year-old for not telling them she had contracted MRSA while in their care.
Help to shape new Clitheroe hospital
6:09pm Tuesday 11th November 2008
RESIDENTS are being urged to have their say on plans for Clitheroe’s new hospital.
Patients sent 28 miles as Blackburn A&E closed for three hours
8:30pm Tuesday 11th November 2008
EMERGENCY patients were sent to hospitals up to 28 miles away after East Lancashire’s overrun A&E department was forced to close for three hours.
Shocking toll of assaults on East Lancashire health workers
8:00am Monday 10th November 2008
A HEALTH worker is attacked everyday on average in East Lancashire, shock new figures reveal.
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