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Tuesday, 16th March 2021, 1:58 pm
The target was agreed at a board meeting of the region’s integrated care system (ICS), at which one hospital boss warned that the scale of the task meant “difficult decisions” would have to be made about the services on offer in different localities.
Board members signed up to the savings tally – which amounts to five percent of total NHS expenditure across the patch – after hearing an estimate that the collective deficit of healthcare organisations in the area could be as high as £340m.
The financial issues facing the region long predate the pandemic. In March 2020, just as the full impact of Covid began to be felt, the forecast budget shortfall already stood at £277m – and that was even after planned savings of £163m had been factored in for the year ahead.
Lancashire hospital murder and rape suspect released on bail
A hospital worker who was arrested on suspicion of murder, rape and sexual assault as part of an investigation into a hospital patient s death has been bailed. The unnamed man was arrested during the inquiry into the death of 75-year-old Valerie Kneale at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in November 2018. A post-mortem revealed that Ms Kneale sadly died from a haemorrhage caused by a non medical related internal injury. Following this a separate murder investigation was launched by Lancashire Police. The worker faced accusations of serious sexual assaults against at least two patients and one healthcare professional working in the stroke unit.
NO more coronavirus-related deaths in Lancashire, according to figures THERE have been no more coronavirus related deaths at hospitals in East Lancashire according to latest figures. The statistics are from the past two days for the East Lancashire Hospitals Trust which runs the facilities at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley Hospital. It means that the total number of people who have died from COVID-19 at the Trust facilities since the start of the pandemic is 1,003. Elsewhere, there were also no deaths yesterday in the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust and Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals Trust. In fact, there were only nine deaths in the North West yesterday as part of a total of 90 people nationally, who tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19) have died.