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Update on Withnell Health Centre – 14 March 2024
Posted: 14th March 2024Professor Craig Harris, chief operating officer for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, said: “The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board’s Primary Care Commissioning Committee has today approved a competitive procedure under the Provider Selection Regime to appoint a long-term provider for Withnell Health Centre.
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Spring events highlight health and wellbeing services in Blackpool
Posted: 11th March 2024The free Spring into Spring event returns to Blackpool next month, promoting all the health and wellbeing services available to local residents.
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Update on Withnell Health Centre – 7 March 2024
Posted: 7th March 2024Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has explored in detail all guidance on the new Provider Selection Regime and how this can and must be applied. This is new guidance, which only came into effect on 1 January 2024, and so it has only been used in a small number of cases nationally which we have reviewed. We have also sought independent legal advice and tested our understanding of the guidance with NHS England so as an NHS organisation we can be confident we make the right choice legally in how to proceed.
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New children’s mental health contracts announced in Lancashire and South Cumbria
Posted: 4th March 2024NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) has awarded new contracts to four providers to deliver children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
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Urgent NHS dental support available to all in Lancashire and South Cumbria
Posted: 28th February 2024Everyone living in Lancashire and South Cumbria has access to urgent NHS dental advice and treatment via a dedicated helpline.
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Industrial action “still having a huge impact” as local NHS prepares for fresh junior doctors’ strike
Posted: 23rd February 2024The NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria is bracing itself for more industrial action, with junior doctors set to strike this weekend.
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Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen residents invited back for ‘lung MOT’
Posted: 21st February 2024People in Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen who took part in a ‘lung MOT’ are being invited to return for a two-year follow-up check.
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People across Lancashire and South Cumbria living with a long-term condition are being urged to take extra precautions this winter
Posted: 8th February 2024Long-term conditions, or chronic diseases, are conditions that require ongoing care and often are managed by medications and other treatments. Examples include diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, asthma and heart or kidney disease.
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Yellow Cold-Health Alert issued across north west
Posted: 6th February 2024A yellow Cold-Health Alert is being issued across the whole of the north west from 6am on Wednesday 7 February until 8pm on Friday 9 February.
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Update on Withnell Health Centre – 5 February 2024
Posted: 5th February 2024Professor Craig Harris, chief operating officer for Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, said: “I want to provide reassurance to the local population that access services at Withnell Health Centre that we have, and continue, to explore in detail all guidance on the new Provider Selection Regime and how this can and must be applied. This is new guidance which only came into effect on 1 January 2023 and is therefore untried and untested.