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Wirral doctor's £170 per hour payday - Liverpool Echo 30th December 2009
"WIRRAL Primary Care Trust forked out £170 per hour on paying agency doctors at a time when the government has told them savings need to be made.\n\nMerseyside hospitals are squandering millions on inflated rates for agency workers, the Tories claimed today ."
Liverpool council in talks over offering free school meals to every primary school age child in the city - Liverpool Echo 30th December 2009
"LIVERPOOL council is in fresh talks over offering free school meals to every primary school age child in the city.
Leaders are discussing launching a bid for a pilot scheme aimed at promoting healthy eating and tackling childhood obesity."
Row brewing over £11m budget cuts proposal by Liverpool city council - Liverpool Echo 29th October 2009
"SCRAPPING school uniform grants for needy children, closing children’s respite homes and swimming baths and slashing culture spending are among cuts proposed by cash-strapped city bosses."
Liverpool hospital’s volunteer programme is to be rolled out across the country - Liverpool Echo 29th October 2009
"A LIVERPOOL hospital’s volunteer scheme to help budding nurses into the vocation was rolled out across the country.
The programme at Fazakerley Hospital offers an alternative way into nursing for people of all ages."
Lose A Million campaign won four awards - Liverpool Echo 28th October 2009
"SO FAR the Lose A Million challenge has won four awards.
Earlier this year the campaign was formally recognised at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence awards triumphing in the Public Sector category."
Awards for Sefton's smoking advisers - Liverpool Echo 2nd November 2009
"SEFTON’S stop smoking advisers have been recognised for their accomplishments during the past 10 years.
Four members of NHS Sefton’s SUPPORT stop smoking team, based at Litherland Town Hall Health Centre, received long service certificates at a special event at the House of Commons marking a decade of stop smoking services."
New boss for NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Echo 2nd November 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE health service has appointed a new Finance Director.
Gary Andrews has taken up the role at NHS Liverpool Community Health.
He has more than 15 years experience in the finance and commercial sector, joining from United Utilities"
Campaigner marks 10 years since Alder Hey organ scandal - Liverpool Echo 30th October 2009
"THE founder of an Alder Hey organ scandal support group has marked its 10th anniversary.
Joan Wheeler, 59, of Wallasey, who began the Pity II group, had a commemorative bench installed next to her sons grave in Landican cemetery, Arrowe Park."
University of Liverpool researcher and Warrington Hospital worker John Gough struck off by HPC - Liverpool Echo 30th October 2009
"A HOSPITAL worker who claimed he kept body parts in his freezer has been struck off after lying about his qualifications.
John Gough, who worked at Warrington Hospital and carried out orthopedic research at the University of Liverpool, claimed he had a PhD."
Southport Coronation Street star Ken Cope slams NHS over cancer shock - Liverpool Echo 30th October 2009
"CORONATION Street star Ken Cope has slammed the National Health Service after he was misdiagnosed with cancer.
Liverpool-born Ken, who now lives in Southport, was diagnosed with the condition after visiting a hospital in Oxford with chest pains in 2000"
Ormskirk hospital pioneers £3 cure for snoring - Liverpool Echo 29th October 2009
"MERSEY doctors are pioneering a £3 injection which can cure snoring.
Consultants at Ormskirk hospital are the only team in Britain to offer the procedure– called the snoreplasty– and it is proving an effective alternative to painful surgery."
Liverpool GP practices and care homes to provide hand gels to stop bug spread - Liverpool Echo 29th 2009
"LIVERPOOL patients and visitors will soon have to use hospital-style hand gels in GP practices and care homes to stop the spread of superbugs.
C. Difficile targets are currently being missed in the city, because of a large amount of “community acquired” infections, caught outside hospitals."
Liverpool’s Active Age Centre faces closure - Liverpool Echo 29th October 2009
"A CENTRE, which provides a “vital lifeline” to Liverpool’s older people, will close next month if funding is not found.
Liverpool PCT have not given the Active Age Centre in Clubmoor any cash since April."
Liverpool heart and chest hospital appoints new chairman - Liverpool Echo 27th October 2009
"A LIVERPOOL hospital has appointed a new chairman.
Neil Large has taken the helm at Liverpool heart and chest hospital, in Broadgreen.
Mr Large has been a non executive director of the hospital since October 2007 and acting chairman since July."
Brave Ella Wright loses fight for life after bone marrow transplant - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"LITTLE Ella Wright – who with brother Sam inspired an ECHO campaign for more bone marrow donors – has died.
The eight-year-old passed away after suffering complications from the procedure it was hoped would save her life."
Baby at centre of Wirral child protection concerns - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"A BABY who suffered sickening injuries was today at the centre of serious concerns over child protection.
Baby A, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was three weeks old when he was admitted to hospital on August 9, 2008 with a brain injury, up to 17 fractures to his ribs and upper limb and shoulder fractures."
Liverpool women have to wait longer for smear tests - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"NEARLY half of women having smear tests in Liverpool wait more than six weeks for results.
Around 15,000 patients waited longer than the recommended time in 2008/09, for results of the cervical cancer check in the city."
Building work starts on £15.5m Garston mini hospital - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"BUILDING work has started on a £15.5m mini hospital in south Liverpool.
The NHS Treatment Centre on the site of the Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital site in Garston, will replace the existing facilities which have stood there for 95 years."
More cash to boost health care - Liverpool Echo 26th October 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE hospital NHS trust has been awarded £35,000 which will be used to improve services for patients.
The Aintree Hospitals Trust, which runs the Fazakerley and Walton hospitals sites, received a share of the £500,000 Partnership Fund."
Name change for one of Liverpool’s main health providers - Liverpool Echo 24th October 2009
"ONE of Liverpool’s main health providers is changing its name.
Liverpool PCT Provider Services, which is now known as NHS Liverpool Community Health, looks after people in there own homes and local areas."
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