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Lancashire paramedics hit with novelty sock ban

8:00am Monday 8th February 2010

LANCASHIRE paramedics are to be banned from wearing novelty socks.

Vomiting bug under control say East Lancashire hospitals

1:51pm Monday 8th February 2010

HOSPITALS in East Lancashire believe they have overcome the winter vomiting bug norovirus, with no new cases in the past three weeks.

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Birth of a new era for mums-to-be at Burnley hospital

5:00pm Thursday 4th February 2010

A NEW £32million centre will ensure mums and babies get the ‘very best care,’ health bosses say.

Pregnant East Lancashire mums still smoking

1:06pm Thursday 4th February 2010

PREGNANT women in East Lancashire are ignoring pleas to quit cigarettes and help the health of their unborn babies, health experts say.

East Lancashire NHS chairman takes temporary charge at Bury

2:15pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

THE chairman of NHS East Lancashire has been appointed temporary head of NHS Bury.

Lancashire people told not to make frivolous 999 ambulance calls

9:30pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010

AMBULANCE staff are urging people to ‘Choose Well’ when dialling 999 in the wake of increased call-out times.

East Lancashire ambulance chiefs 'too cautious'

10:00am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

A HEALTH boss fears ambulance chiefs are failing to meet patient targets in East Lancashire because they are ‘too cautious’.

Rishton teenager's life saved by emergency operation

8:30am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

A BOY’S life was saved when a surgeon stepped in to perform the first operation of its kind at Royal Blackburn Hospital.

East Lancashire 999 ambulance response times go up

9:30am Monday 1st February 2010

AMBULANCES are taking more than 20 per cent longer to arrive at emergency calls than two years ago, the Lancashire Telegraph can reveal.

Blackburn father delivers own baby in maternity ward

8:30am Monday 1st February 2010

A FATHER-TO-BE had to deliver his own baby at the Royal Blackburn Hospital after the midwife left the room.

Five East Lancashire hospitals affected by winter vomiting bug

8:30pm Thursday 28th January 2010

MEDICS are on alert after it emerged that five hospitals in East Lancashire have been hit by a winter vomiting bug.

‘No sacred cows’ in £46m East Lancashire health cuts

12:56pm Thursday 28th January 2010

MANAGEMENT jobs and experienced health professionals could be lost as an East Lancashire health trust looks to make cuts of £46million.

'Take exercise to beat most depressing week of year'

12:23pm Thursday 28th January 2010

MENTAL health experts have encouraged people to take some exercise today to help beat 'the most depressing week of the year'.

East Lancashire health bosses to make £46million of cutbacks

9:00pm Tuesday 26th January 2010

HEALTH bosses in East Lancashire are to discuss how to make £46m worth of cutbacks at a meeting tomorrow.

Rossendale twins are midwives on same ward

1:11pm Tuesday 26th January 2010

MUMS-TO-BE on a maternity ward might be forgiven for thinking they are seeing double.

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Mixed picture in East Lancs for screening programme

12:53pm Monday 25th January 2010

A CARDIOVASCULAR screening programme in Blackburn with Darwen has checked more than double the national average number of patients.

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East Lancs hospital background checks ‘will help patients’

10:59am Monday 25th January 2010

PATIENTS at East Lancashire Hospitals are being asked to record their ethnic background to help improve care and ensure everyone is treated fairly.

Heckles for health boss on Clitheroe hospital

3:51pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A HEALTH boss was heckled at a council meeting over the shelving of plans for a new multi-million pound hospital in Clitheroe.

Blackburn mental health plans delayed again

11:06am Friday 22nd January 2010

CONTROVERSIAL plans to convert a hotel into a mental health residential home have been delayed again.

'More donors' call by former Accrington man whose son was shot dead

2:37pm Friday 22nd January 2010

THE FATHER of a seven-year-old boy shot dead in a bungled robbery is campaigning for more organ donations.

Nicholas Green campaign

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East Lancashire's bug-busting team on hygiene mission

4:38pm Friday 22nd January 2010

AN INFECTION control expert has told how her team is tackling superbugs and viruses at East Lancashire's hospitals.

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Blackburn schoolgirl, 14, saves pal choking on a toffee

8:40pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

A QUICK-thinking schoolgirl has been honoured for saving the life of her classmate.

Burnley mental health centre set for closure

5:30pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

TWENTY-ONE jobs could be lost if plans to close Thornleigh mental health rehabilitation centre in Burnley are approved later this month.

Blackburn family highlights heart attack trauma on TV

9:29am Wednesday 20th January 2010

A BLACKBURN woman has revealed the trauma that family members of heart attack victims can suffer in a national TV campaign.

£1.2m for East Lancashire trainee health centre GPs

11:13am Wednesday 20th January 2010

AROUND £1.2million will be used to expand GP teaching facilities at surgeries across East Lancashire.

‘Dishonest’ East Lancashire doctor kept from work

5:01pm Tuesday 19th January 2010

A PSYCHIATRIST who was ferried around for five months in taxis at the taxpayers’ expense, while serving a drink-driving ban, has been further suspended by health bosses.

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East Lancashire radiologist recognised for world-class expertise

7:00pm Saturday 16th January 2010

A GLOBE-TROTTING radiologist from East Lancashire Hospitals has become one of only three people in the country to get a prestigious diploma in musculoskeletal radiology.