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Director appointed to NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Daily Post 3rd 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."
Strike threat looms over Liverpool Women’s Hospital - Liverpool Daily Post 29th October 2009
"STRIKE action could hit Liverpool Women’s Hospital, plunging wards into chaos.
Support staff including porters, cleaners, canteen workers and telephone operators have asked their union, Unison, to prepare for a ballot on industrial action if their next pay packet does not contain back pay owed by their employers Sodexo."
£3 cure for Merseyside’s snoring problem - Liverpool Daily Post 29th October 2009
"DOCTORS at a Merseyside hospital are pioneering a £3 injection that could cure the region’s snoring problem.
Consultants at Southport & 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."
£3 snoring treatment has made a big difference to my life - Liverpool Daily Post 29th October 2009
"STUART MacKINNON, 41, from Formby, has gone through the procedure during the last 12 months.
The father-of-two has had a course of three injections to ease the effect snoring was having on his life."
Fast-track service for sexual health in city - Liverpool Daily Post 28th October 2009
"A FAST-TRACK pilot scheme allowing people to access sexual health services in 15 minutes has been launched in Liverpool.\n\nThe Central Abacus clinic, in Dale Street, will run the scheme for six weeks on Tuesdays, between 4pm and 6pm."
Twice as many children take into care in aftermath of Baby Peter case - Liverpool Daily Post 26th October 2009
"Social workers came under fire following the death of Baby Peter. Ben Schofield looks at the knock-on effect in Liverpool
LIVERPOOL is taking almost double the number of children into care compared to five years ago, new figures reveal."
Brave Ella Wright loses fight for life after bone marrow transplant - Liverpool Daily Post 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."
Swine flu vaccines for North West health staff - Liverpool Daily Post 21st October 2009
"HEALTH workers in Merseyside will be vaccinated against swine flu over the next few weeks.
NHS organisations across the North-West will receive batches of the jab, to be given to front-line staff."
Strip health chiefs of powers says Southport MP John Pugh - Liverpool Daily Post 21st October 2009
"LOCAL health chiefs must be stripped of their power to make crucial decisions to end their "gross abuses", a Mersey MP will tell the government today.
Southport MP John Pugh will introduce a backbench Bill that would make unelected primary care trusts (PCTs) answerable to elected local councillors."
Southport MP John Pugh introduces Bill to stop "gross abuses" by local health chiefs - Liverpool Daily Post 21st October 2009
"LOCAL health chiefs must be stripped of their power to make crucial decisions to end their "gross abuses", a Mersey MP will tell the government today.
Southport MP John Pugh will introduce a backbench Bill that would make unelected primary care trusts (PCTs) answerable to elected local councillors."
Liverpool man highlighted in report to address health service racial inequality - Liverpool Daily Post 20th October 2009
"THE death of a Merseyside man has been highlighted in a report tackling racial inequality in the health service.
New guidance has been issued by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to stop ethnic minorities struggling to get the right treatment.
The regulator’s report includes evidence from Michelle Cox, who is head of diversity at Liverpool Primary Care Trust."
Fresh hope for Merseyside asbestos victims - Liverpool Daily Post 19th October 2009
"MERSEY victims of an asbestos-related condition were given fresh hope of compensation – even as the Government was revealed to be in chaos over the issue.
A Bill to overturn a Law Lords ruling denying payouts to sufferers from “pleural plaques” – a scarring of the lungs, that can trigger mesothelioma and lung cancer – cleared the Commons on Friday."
Loose Woman star Denise Welch and husband Tim Healy opens new wing at Wirral hospital - Liverpool Daily Post 19th October 2009
"LOOSE Women presenter Denise Welch and husband Tim Healy, of Auf Wiedersehen Pet fame visited the new Ronald McDonald House at Arrowe Park hospital – as the first families moved in."
Liverpool girls urged to get cancer jab - Liverpool Daily Post 17th October 2009
"LIVERPOOL girls are being encouraged to get the cervical cancer jab on Monday.
The Arm Against Cervical Cancer team will visit St John’s Shopping Centre as part of a nationwide tour to help raise further awareness of the HPV vaccine."
Wirral Arrowe Park hospital’s casualty manager sacked over waiting times scandal - Liverpool Daily Post 15th October 2009
"A CASUALTY manager was sacked after a hospital found her “gross misconduct” resulted in a year of suspect waiting figures.
Maria Jeffery was suspended as part of an internal investigation at Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital, along with the director of nursing and midwifery, Michael Monaghan."
Ashworth Hospital doctor named Psychiatrist of the Year - Liverpool Daily Post 15th October 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE doctor has been named Psychiatrist of the Year.
The first annual Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards saw Dr David Fearnley, 40, pick up the prize."
Merseyside hospitals score well in yearly NHS assesments - Liverpool Daily Post 15th October 2009
"FOUR Merseyside hospitals received top marks in a yearly assessment of how they look after patients and their finances.
Results from the Care Quality Commission’s Annual Health Check, released today, show most of the region’s NHS trusts are performing well."
Pledge to increase cycling levels in Liverpool by 10% over two years - Liverpool Daily Post 14th October 2009
"TRANSPORT leaders pledged to increase bike trips by 10% by April, 2011, as part of a plan to make Liverpool a “cycling city”.
The commitment was made at Merseyside Transport Partnership’s (MTP) third annual conference, at FACT, in Wood Street, yesterday."
Court hears horrific tale of systematic sexual abuse within a Liverpool family - Liverpool Daily Post 9th October 2009
"A HARROWING tale of rape, incest, violence, bullying and cruelty wreaked by parents towards their children in one Liverpool family emerged today.
An Anfield paedophile dad, 56, was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP), with a minimum term of nine-and-a-half years, for systematically sexually abusing his daughters, some as young as four, throughout their childhood."
Laura Fletcher detained indefinitely for drowning daughter Chloe - Liverpool Daily Post 9th October 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE mum who drowned her four-year-old daughter in the bath was today detained in hospital indefinitely.
Laura Fletcher killed her little daughter Chloe at their Wallasey home after becoming increasingly paranoid she was going to be taken from her."
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