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Baths plan given go ahead - Warrington Guardian 2nd November 2009
"WORK can start on demolishing Warrington’s historic baths after plans for a new health centre were passed.
Members of the council’s development control committee agreed on Wednesday night to the radical scheme. "
FGH extension under way - North West Evening Mail 30th October 2009
"WORK is under way on an £160,000 expansion of Furness General Hospital’s oncology unit.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, which runs FGH, has planning permission for two, single-storey extensions at the back of the existing ward, to form a consulting room and complementary therapy room."
Clitheroe Health Centre shut until next Thursday - Lancashire Telegraph 30th October 2009
"CLITHEROE Health Centre is not expected to reopen until next Thursday or Friday after health bosses said damage caused by a fire was worse than they expected.
NHS East Lancashire said repair teams were working 'flat out' and would work over the weekend to restore electricity supplies after the £2m building’s lighting, heating, IT and telephone systems were knocked out by the blaze on Tuesday.
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Anger over new health centre dates - The Bolton News 30th October 2009
"DELAYS to plans to build six new state-of-the-art health centres in Bolton have sparked anger in the areas that will have to wait the longest.
NHS Bolton’s board has approved a revised timetable for the work, which means some centres will not be completed until 2016. "
Accrington hospital to get GP practice - Lancashire Telegraph 28th October 2009
"A NEW GP practice based at The Accrington Victoria Community Hospital will open in November.
The practice, commissioned by NHS East Lancashire, will provide a GP service for patients to register while also working alongside the Minor Injuries Unit already based at the hospital to provide a walk-in service for any patients with minor illnesses. "
Fire shuts Clitheroe Health Centre for a week - Lancashire Telegraph 28th October 2009
"CLITHEROE Health Centre has closed after a fire knocked out all of the £2million building’s lighting, heating, IT and telephone systems.
Staff discovered the fire in the centre’s main electricity meter room when they arrived at work to an alarm ringing around 8.30am yesterday, shortly before the Railway View Avenue site was due to open to the public. "
New health centres put back to 2016 - The Bolton News 29th October 2009
"SIX new health centres planned for Bolton will not be completed until 2016 — three years behind schedule.
NHS Bolton revealed earlier this year that it could not keep to the timescales for its Building Better Health scheme due to its financial situation.
The organisation needs to save £14 million from its £460 million budget this year to balance its books. "
Fire at Clitheroe Health Centre - Lancashire Telegraph 27th October 2009
"TWO GP surgeries and a treatment room at Clitheroe Health Centre have been closed after a fire this morning.
Nobody was injured in the blaze, which started in the main electricity meter room around 8.20am and was discovered by staff after a fire alarm sounded. "
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."
NHS must discuss clinics with public - Lancashire Telegraph 26th October 2009
"FOLLOWING recent letters on the subject of the Little Lever Health Centre, I think it is unlikely that the new centre will ever be built.
NHS Bolton, the Primary Care Trust, is currently struggling to balance the books. It is attempting to save £13 million and, as part of this, is rescheduling the remaining six health centres from completion in 2011 to 2015. "
BBC 'could face prosecution over hospital break-in' - The Sunday Telegraph 25th October 2009
"The BBC could face prosecution for breaking into a derelict hospital to film abandoned buildings awaiting demolition. "
New funding partner boosts hopes for Brampton ‘health campus’ bid - Cumberland News 23rd October 2009
"Brampton Hospital League of Friends has welcomed news of a funding partner to back a health care revamp – but say they must work fast to make up for long delays."
Questions on health centre - The Bolton News 24th October 2009
"THE external condition of the Little Lever Health Centre leaves an awful lot to be desired, I hope that the internal condition does not reflect it, although I’m told it does.
Regardless of priorities and financial merit, this Government has pumped so much money into the NHS, it should not be beyond Bolton PCT to provide a suitable, clean location to treat the ill."
Health officials say voting against any changes to GPs' surgeries is unrealistic - Knutsford Guardian 22nd October 2009
"HEALTH officials have told patients that voting against any change for Knutsford’s GPs’ surgeries was unrealistic.
The Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust said there was no point in residents having ‘a ‘show of hands’ at a public meeting in Mobberley. "
Hospital wins best design award - BBC Health News 23rd October 2009
"A Glasgow hospital has been named as the Best New Building outside London at a design awards ceremony.
Reiach and Hall's design of Stobhill Hospital impressed judges of the Roses Design Awards, who gave it their Grand Prix award. "
NHS plans to bulldoze Warrington baths and build clinic will reap cash - Warrington Guardian 22nd October 2009
"DEMOLISHING Warrington Baths and building a new health centre in its place could net Warrington Borough Council £105,000.
The figure comes from swapping the Legh Street site to NHS Warrington and the council taking ownership of the current Garven Place Clinic based next to the Town Hall. "
Mental health patients could be moved into community if Southport's Sir Thomas More site is sold - Southport Visiter 21st October 2009
"PATIENTS with severe mental health issues could be moved into the community if the site of a former children’s home in Southport is sold off for housing.
North West charity Nugent Care recently announced it was selling the nine-acre former Sir Thomas More site on Liverpool Road, advertising it as viable for an elderly care home or an “exclusive” residential development."
Hospital car park charges - Lancashire Telegraph 20th October 2009
"IT is a bit late for Andy Burnham, Health Secretary, to be talking about abolishing hospital parking charges (October 6). "
Denise Welch and Tim Healy visit new Ronald McDonald House at Arrowe Park in Wirral - Liverpool Echo 19th October 2009
"LOOSE Women presenter Denise Welch and husband Tim Healy visited the new Ronald McDonald House at Arrowe Park hospital – as the first families moved in.
The house – which lets families stay with their ill children – was opened in a refurbished wing of the hospital on Saturday. The couple, who both star in Waterloo Road, stayed at the Alder Hey house when son Louis, 6, was sick."
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."
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