Stephen Powis

NHS call for responsible drinking during ambulance worker strikes Patrick Hollis

Burnley Urgent Care Centre

Omicron and winter pressures impact East Lancashire hospitals Dominic Collis

Frontline healthcare staff in England must be fully vaccinated against Covid by 1 April (Photo: Getty Images)

Healthcare staff face sack without exit payments under Covid jab plans Claire Schofield

Burnley General Hospital

Staff absences from East Lancashire hospitals revealed Dominic Collis

NHS England data shows 1,039 staff at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust were off sick on January 2

Coronavirus behind nearly half of NHS staff absences at East Lancashire Hospital... John Deehan

NHS England data shows 731 staff at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust were off sick on December 26th

Covid to blame for staff absences at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust on Boxing D... Faiza Afzaal

Work on eight hubs is due to begin this week (Photo: Getty Images)

Read This New Covid Nightingale ‘surge hubs’ being set up to manage Omicron wave Claire Schofield

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies Henry Sandercock

The NHS has a target of 15 minutes for ambulance handovers, but only delays longer than half an hour are recorded.

Around 15% of patients face ambulance handover delays at East Lancashire Hospita... John Deehan

Sajid Javid is not implementing Plan B measures for England (Photos: Getty)

Sajid Javid rules out Plan B but hints at mandatory jabs for NHS staff Group Reporter

How to book your Covid booster jab in the UK - and who is eligible to get one Claire Schofield

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ... Carly Roberts

Unvaccinated university students have been urged to get a Covid vaccine in freshers’ week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Unvaccinated students urged to get coronavirus jab during Freshers’ week Helen Johnson

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’ Ethan Shone

More people admitted to hospital due to obesity in Lancashire

Increasing obesity problem hitting Lancashire's hospitals Mike Hill

Around half a million 44-year-olds will receive a text inviting them to get their jab through the national booking service, NHS England said (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Read This 44-year-olds are being offered Covid jabs - why the rollout has been extended by... Alex Nelson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Accrington today

UK's coronavirus alert level lowered David Nowell

The actress has been criticised by an NHS boss over her long Covid treatment regime (Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

An NHS boss says 'serious science' is needed to treat long Covid - and Gwyneth P... Rhona Shennan

The NHS waiting list in England could reach 10 million people by April 2021, according to the Reform think tank (Photo: Shutterstock)

Think tank says NHS has become a ‘National Covid service’ - but medical director... Helen Johnson

50 mass Covid vaccine centres and 2m jabs a week - is England’s plan feasible? Claire Schofield

'We're on track to meet our target': what Matt Hancock said about the vaccine ro... Group Reporter

The Oxford vaccine does not need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures and is much easier to move.

Covid-19: Oxford vaccine rolled out to GP surgeries across Lancashire Sean Gleaves

A small number of people have had allergic reactions to the Covid vaccine - this... Sarah Wilson