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  HOSPITAL staff will today celebrate International Clinical Trials Day with a drive to get more patients involved in research projects.
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  NORTH-WEST Euro MP Paul Nuttall has criticised a health watchdog over plans to introduce tests for pregnant women to see if they are smoking.
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  NHS officials investigating the ‘higher than expected’ death rates at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals will meet with patients in both towns.
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  MANY patients expect too much from the NHS and should be doing more to prevent themselves needing care in the first place, according to a county health chief.
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           <title>See the funny side of heart disease at East Lancashire theatres</title>
           
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           <title>Meetings to support East Lancashire dementia carers</title>
           
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  EAST Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is set to host a series of support meetings as part of Dementia Awareness Week over the next few days.
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  THOUSANDS of residents of Burnley, Blackburn with Darwen, Pendle and Hyndburn enjoy walking to work rather than jumping in the car or using public transport, new figures show.
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           <title>Free care worker training in Blackburn</title>
           
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  A FREE training course is to be held in Blackburn to respond to increasing demand for care workers.
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  BOSSES have paid tribute to the ‘incredible’ work being carried out by 2,000 nurses in Lancashire.
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  A DEPRESSED nurse who pocketed vaccinations at the surgery where she worked and begged a colleague to inject has now been suspended for a year.
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  BREAST cancer awareness campaigners have praised the bravery of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who announced she has undergone an elective double mastectomy.
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  PEOPLE running the NHS now talk about patients before money, according to a Lancashire health chief.
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  ONE in four hospital staff in East Lancashire would ‘not feel safe’ in raising a concern with their bosses, a survey suggested.
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  A PATIENT champion said more beds are needed at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals to help drive down the number of patients being re-admitted within a month of discharged.
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           <title>Billington student's gig to help Christie Hospital</title>
           
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  A 15-YEAR-OLD has organised a concert to raise cash for a chil-dren’s cancer ward.
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  MAJOR improvements to urgent care at the Royal Blackburn Hospital are nearing completion – meaning staff and patients will no longer have to use ‘cramped and unfit’ facilities.
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  PENDLE MP Andrew Stephenson has asked for the closure of Burnley General Hospital’s A&amp;E department to be considered as a factor in an impending investigation into mortality rates.
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