List of news
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6 June 2024
- Working in partnership
- Campaigns and awareness
More than 115,000 people aged over 17 in Lancashire and South Cumbria are living with diabetes – and the percentage of children estimated to be at risk of diabetes is around nine per cent.
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3 June 2024
- Campaigns and awareness
Local charity, South Cumbria Breastfeeding Support (SCBS) is inviting local mums to show their appreciation of NHS staff who have helped them to breastfeed.
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31 May 2024
- Working in partnership
- Campaigns and awareness
International Children’s Day takes place this weekend (Saturday June 1), celebrating and promoting the well-being of children across the world.
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31 May 2024
Thousands of cancer patients in England are set to gain fast-tracked access to trials of personalised cancer vaccines following the launch of a world-leading NHS trial “matchmaking” service to help find new life-saving treatments.
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31 May 2024
- Community services
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Campaigns and awareness
Today is World No Tobacco Day (Friday 31 May), and marking the occasion Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) is highlighting its Treating Tobacco Dependency services.
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24 May 2024
- Making improvements
- Community services
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Making the best use of our resources
A groundbreaking new approach in providing health tests closer to home is delivering great results for patients from Heysham and surrounding areas.
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17 May 2024
- Working in partnership
Groundwork, a charity that takes practical action to create a fair and green future in which people, places, and nature thrive, utilised the NHS Population Health Investment Funding to help over 200 Barrow residents stay well last winter.
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14 May 2024
- Delivering outstanding care and experience
- Creating the best culture and conditions for colleagues
- Campaigns and awareness
Unsung heroes of the NHS who work in operating theatres across Morecambe Bay are being celebrated as part of Operating Department Practitioners' (ODPs') Day on Tuesday 14 May.
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10 May 2024
- Working in partnership
- Campaigns and awareness
Cumbria Constabulary is adopting a new operating model which will ensure that those in need of specialist support receive the help they need from the agency best placed to provide that support.
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9 May 2024
- Westmorland General Hospital
Due to staffing issues, birth services at Helme Chase will be temporarily suspended from Friday 10 May 2024 for a period of six months.