Staff at the bank will support the charity over the next 12 months, via various fundraising initiatives. Baby Beat, which is based at the Sharoe Green Maternity Unit of the Royal Preston Hospital, supports babies and mothers being cared for at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The charity s efforts have, in the past, funded sensory equipment for neonatal babies, resuscitation units and the refurbishment of the Sharoe Green maternity bereavement suite. Sadly, its income has dropped significantly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cathy Skidmore, Baby Beat manager, said: “We are delighted that the team at Nationwide Preston have chosen Baby Beat as their charity of the year.
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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.
Neonatal and maternity charity Baby Beat has been celebrating Mother s Day by donating gifts to the new mums and their babies being cared for at Lancashire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The charity, with the support of local shops and supermarkets, has been distributing gifts to the maternity unit for all new mothers who were in Lancashire Teaching Hospitals on Mother’s Day. The gifts included toiletries, perfumes, chocolate, and special branded Baby Beat Mother’s Day vests for the newborn babies, which were wrapped by the Baby Beat team of volunteers. Baby Beat manager Cathy Skidmore said: “It’s been a tremendously difficult year for families and certainly for families with new babies.
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A centre under construction in Ulverston will be a ‘great help’ for people who travel far and wide to be treated for kidney disease, said mayor Sharon Webster. Ulverston Renal Centre, due to open in July at the former site of Sandside Lodge School, will provide haemodialysis treatment and outpatient clinic facilities. Haemodialysis is a treatment to remove waste products and extra fluid from the blood, and is given to patients whose kidneys have stopped working properly. Patients currently travel to Kendal several times a week for treatment unless it is possible for them to dialyse at home. Improvements are being overseen by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The new centre will allow 94 per cent of patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria to access haemodialysis within the national target of 30 minutes travel time from home. The current figure is 65 per cent.