Concern over cancellation of cancer operations in East Lancashire hospitals due to Covid A leading surgeon has raised concerns that cancer operations could be cancelled if the NHS becomes overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. The health service has done its best to maintain cancer operations and other emergency services throughout the pandemic, but now a top surgeon has raised concerns over the possibility of cancer operations being cancelled or postponed. Professor Neil Mortensen, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said that many hopsitals had already stopped lower priority surgeries such as hip and knee replacements. In East Lancashire between March and September last year, a total of 258 operations were cancelled across both Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals, with the figures expected to be much higher when October to December s cancellations are taken into consideration.
Royal Blackburn Hospital EAST Lancashire s health bosses have urged people to think carefully before attending their Blackburn emergency department as they clear beds for a rising tide of coronavirus cases. Critical care provision has had to be increased to cope with the number of Covid-19 positive patients in hospital which has risen by 57 per cent since Christmas Day. Sharon Gilligan, Chief Operating Officer at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: The emergency department is not always the right choice. If you are unwell and unsure of which level of support you need, please call NHS 111 first. In the latest published figures the trust - which runs the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals - had 214 out of 788 beds occupied by coronavirus patients on December 3.
TWO EMPLOYEES from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust have been recognised for their extraordinary achievements from across the UK in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. Chief Nurse/Executive Director of Nursing, Christine Pearson, has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire - MBE - for her service to nursing. Christine said: “I’m delighted and humbled to have been awarded an MBE and feel it is a privilege to work for the NHS. I am very proud of the work I have carried out in the NHS, and in particular at ELHT. The Trust has made some enormous strides over the past years, and I’m very glad to have been part of it. The people I have worked with throughout my career are exceptional. This year, more than any other they have proved just how exceptional they are.”
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image captionJed Mercurio is being honoured for services to television drama
The writer of two of Britain s most-watched television shows - Line of Duty and Bodyguard - has been appointed an OBE in the Queen s New Year Honours.
Jed Mercurio, 54, from Nelson in Lancashire, is being honoured for services to TV drama.
Morecambe s TT motorcycling legend John McGuinness was made an MBE, which he described as the icing on the cake for years of riding round in circles .
A man behind Covid-19 food parcels for those shielding has also become an MBE.
Mercurio, a former hospital doctor, began a career in TV after seeing an advert in the British Medical Journal from a production company interested in developing medical drama Cardiac Arrest.
Labels on the much-loved loaves state the bread is both halal and kosher. The bread has always been halal and has been certified for the last two-and-a-half years. A PRIMARY school finished 2019 on a high note after it was judged to be one of the best in the country. St Barnabas and St Paul’s Church of England Primary School was placed 17th in the top 250 primary schools based on the Key Stage Two national curriculum tests which were taken by Year Six pupils in May 2019. In December 2019, The Lancashire Telegraph reported how the school posted exceptional SATs results, which placed it number two in Blackburn and it was the only school in the borough where children made well above average progress in all three subjects.