RECORD numbers of patients are waiting on trolleys in England’s A&E departments, with hospital overcrowding remaining widespread, as highlighted in Warrington, where up to 14-hour waits were reported one weekend in July.
People are being urged to use the right NHS service for their needs as new data show thousands have attended A&E for minor health concerns such as sore throats.
A new cone beam CT (CBCT) scanner has been installed at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals’ (WHH) Radiology Department, helping to cut waiting times and speed up diagnosis for patients who need specialist dental scans.
PATIENTS across Warrington, Cheshire and Merseyside are being asked to plan ahead for the August bank holiday weekend (August 23-25) by ordering any necessary repeat prescriptions, to avoid running out of essential medication.
A patch party hosted by the Orthoptic Department at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals has helped to spread joy to young patients with the sight condition amblyopia.
A group of learners from Walton Lea Partnership on Chester Road, Warrington, got together with Mersey Care NHS Trust on an exciting community project.
SAME day emergency care services are enabling more people in Warrington and across the North West to get the rapid tests and treatment they need to avoid an overnight stay in hospital and helping to manage pressures on NHS services.
NHS patients around the country are now receiving a lifesaving medicine made from the plasma of blood donors in Cheshire.
Hospitals in the North West have been hit by a storm of norovirus infections recently as the number of beds taken up by patients with the virus across England reached a record high last week.
An innovative new clinical trial funded by charitable donations aims to save more cancer patients’ lives by combining an anti-inflammatory drug with immunotherapy treatment to tackle some of the toughest cancers.
