As NHS services are seeing growing numbers of patients being admitted to hospital, and more of these people are needing treatment in intensive care, hospitals in Lancashire and South Cumbria have benefitted from an additional £12million to expand the number of critical care, specialist respiratory and enhanced care beds.
Local leaders in Barrow have asked Government to impose new COVID -19 restrictions and bring the area in line with measures taken in the North East and Merseyside.
UHMBT has appointed Hannah Chandisingh as its Race Equality Transformation Lead.
Patients attending Outpatient appointments at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) will start to be able to book their own follow up appointment via SMS text message, instead of having an appointment booked for them and sent through the post.
Global renewable energy firm, Orsted, has funded two sets of COVID-19 resuscitation training equipment for Bay Hospitals Charity, which will help to train clinicians at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).
The Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM) of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) will be held ‘virtually’ via Microsoft ‘Teams’ this year and all are welcome to attend.
The integrated home response and falls lifting service was set up in October 2019 to provide a non-emergency visiting response with home responders to help residents in Lancashire who have fallen in their own homes.
The NHS COVID-19 app is part of the NHS large scale coronavirus testing and contact tracing programme.
Kate Maynard has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT).