Latest from the programme

Rebecca Malin, Programme Director on how feedback from patients and the public is being used to improve hospital care across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

How the New Hospitals Programme and Cloverleaf Advocacy are helping adults with autism input into proposals for new hospital facilities in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

How the New Hospitals Programme could help people with Parkinson’s, and their carers, through new and improved hospital facilities in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Claire Rawes has been the Matron for theatres at Royal Lancaster Infirmary for two years, she talks about the challenge of trying to maximise surgical capacity, as well as the constraints of space and flexibility due to the size and layout of the existing hospital.

Interview: Glyn Davies, Head of Estates at UHMBT, explains the challenges and costs involved in maintaining and adapting ageing hospital buildings.

Dr Geoff Jolliffe, GP in Barrow-in-Furness, explains how the New Hospital Programme will help GPs and why new hospital facilities are vital for primary care and local communities.

Learn more about the New Hospitals Programme at Healthwatch Together’s 2021 roadshow. Full schedule of Lancashire and South Cumbria events is available here.

Rebecca Malin, Programme Director on how we created a longlist of proposals for hospital facilities to help deliver improved health and care for NHS patients and staff in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Julie Brown and Donna Wolstenholme on Acute Frailty. How the New Hospitals Programme and Hospital at Home model could improve access to healthcare for elderly and vulnerable members of our community.

Cherish Otoo is one of the first group of nurse apprentices recruited by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.