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Excitement is building for the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Health and Care Apprenticeship Awards 2022, the first-ever system-wide celebration of apprentices in the region.

Grandmother from Blackpool urges people to come forward for lung health checks

Health officials in Lancashire and South Cumbria are encouraging people to be prepared for the upcoming Jubilee Bank Holiday

Since April 2021, nearly 2,000 people from Lancashire and South Cumbria have taken part in a programme designed to prevent them from developing Type 2 diabetes.

Members of the public are invited to observe the formal meeting on Wednesday 25 May 2022.

Almost 750 patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria have benefitted from a weekend drive which provided 800 extra appointments for echocardiography (ECHO), a scan used to look at the heart and blood vessels

People living in Lancashire and South Cumbria are urged to #KnowYourSkin during Melanoma Awareness Month.

An innovative ‘sponge on a string’ diagnostic test is set to improve cancer care and ease the pressure on health services in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Sarah O’Brien, who has recently been appointed as designate chief nurse for the new NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), is promoting the role of nurses as part of International Nurses’ Day (12 May).

As the NHS celebrates International Nurses’ Day, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) is delighted to share the fact that a newly-qualified nurse from the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) has been shortlisted for two prestigious Nursing Times Student Awards.

A new health academy has been launched in Lancashire and South Cumbria which will help improve the health and wellbeing of the population and will aim to tackle health inequalities across the region.

People registered at a Blackpool town centre GP practice have been informed their appointments will take place at a temporary site as part of plans to develop a new state-of-the-art health centre.

A contract for the implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) across all NHS pathology services in Lancashire & South Cumbria has been awarded to Citadel Health

People living across Lancashire and South Cumbria have been asked to share their views on access to talking therapies to treat common mental health conditions in adults.

Members of the public are invited to observe the formal meeting of the Strategic Commissioning Committee on Thursday 12 May 2022.