Latest news - Greater Preston — articles for August 2019
Clarifications about the Our Health Our Care programme
The Our Health Our Care programme would like to offer clarifications to remarks made in relation to a Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) report concerning services at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as options for delivering an agreed future model of care for central Lancashire.
Read Clarifications about the Our Health Our Care programme …NHS Diabetes Prevention programme
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS organisations have recently awarded a new contract to continue the NDPP service across the geography.
Read NHS Diabetes Prevention programme…Local GP surgeries and other services joining forces to increase ‘social prescribing’
People living across Preston, Chorley and South Ribble will benefit from a new approach being adopted by local GP surgeries which aims to better support peoples’ non-medical needs.
Read Local GP surgeries and other services joining forces to increase ‘social prescribing’…NHS needs to change say local people
More than nine out of 10 people living across Preston, Chorley and South Ribble believe the NHS needs to change to meet the future needs of the population. Additionally, 78 per cent of people also stated that they would prefer to have more healthcare services closer to home.
Read NHS needs to change say local people…