05Dec
The importance of a conversation: internet safety, suicide and self-harm
When supporting a person experiencing feelings of suicide or self-harm, the role of the internet is frequently overlooked. Proudly supporting the Samaritans’ internet safety guidance for practitioners, we are urging anyone who provides support around suicide and self-harm (across health, social care and the volunteer community) to learn how to have a meaningful conversation about...
05Dec
Mums-to-be given access to online maternity notes app
Expectant parents across Lancashire and South Cumbria now have access to an app that will store all their maternity notes, rather than needing to carry around a bulky paper file. The NHS in Lancashire and South Cumbria has joined Badgernet, a portal for clinical staff, which provides an app for parents called Badger Notes. The...
05Dec
Always Safety First Week
Starting on Monday 5th December, we will be having our Always Safety First Safety week sharing and celebrating your contribution to safety and improvement across the Trust with a focus on Safety Huddles and Safety Pauses. Safety huddles happen across our clinical areas and are a brief, focused, multidisciplinary and structured exchange of information which...
05Dec
Fiona's story on coping with grief
As National Grief Awareness Week continues, here is the story of Fiona Hanrahan, who lost her father Patrick last December. Our Bereavement team got in touch, and, as we approach the first anniversary of his passing, Fiona said: "Having someone to talk to has brought me a great deal of comfort. It's helped a lot."...
02Dec
Nothing beats Preston, says Marian 800 times
Come rain or shine, Marian Orford has been a familiar face at the COVID vaccination centre at St Johns Centre in the middle of Preston The hub, which is due to close on December 23rd, has played a pivotal role in Lancashire's mass vaccination roll-out. Volunteer Marian this week marked her 800th shift as a...
02Dec
Rapid 5 minute Improvement Huddles on Ward 21 making a difference to patients and staff
Chief Executive Kevin McGee witnessed first hand one of Ward 21’s rapid five-minute improvement huddles on Wednesday. Ward 21 have established daily huddles, focused on making improvements for their patients and staff, looking at ward data and agreeing aims and specific objectives. The idea has already seen improvements in missed medications and intentional rounding, and Ward...
01Dec
NHS OpenAthens – unlocking knowledge and evidence
For free, secure access to a range of high-quality digital resources from the extensive, NHS-funded collection including e-books, journals, study aids, clinical decision support tools, databases of clinical management and social policy information and more, you need an NHS OpenAthens account. The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and the national clinical decision support tool, BMJ...
30Nov
Royal College of Nursing confirm the locations of December strikes across the UK
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has confirmed up to 100,000 nursing staff will take part in strikes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland next month. But while members of the union will take action at half of the locations in England where the legal mandate for strikes was secured in November, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS...
