Stephen Powis

Junior doctors are set to strike this week

NHS set for “incredibly tough week” during junior doctors strikes

NHS call for responsible drinking during ambulance worker strikes

Burnley Urgent Care Centre

Omicron and winter pressures impact East Lancashire hospitals

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

Burnley General Hospital

Staff absences from East Lancashire hospitals revealed

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...

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...

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

New Covid Nightingale ‘surge hubs’ being set up to manage Omicron wave

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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’

More people admitted to hospital due to obesity in Lancashire

Increasing obesity problem hitting Lancashire's hospitals

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)

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

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Accrington today

UK's coronavirus alert level lowered

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Most people over 80 won't get Covid jab until next year - here's why

Coronavirus cases are growing across the country (Photo: Shutterstock)

More people are currently hospitalised with coronavirus than in March - the late...

NHS England data shows 20,388 occasions when someone in the NHS East Lancashire CCG area logged possible Covid-19 symptoms from March 18th to May 14th

Tens of thousands of reports of coronavirus symptoms made to NHS 111 service in ...

A total of 7,955 A&E attendances were recorded at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust last month.

A&E visits plummet at East Lancashire Hospitals

Medical experts are currently investigating a possible link between coronavirus and an inflammatory disease found among infants (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about Kawasaki disease affecting children - and if ...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of muddling the government's message on social distancing (Getty Images)

These are the lockdown rules for over-70s after the government's conflicting sta...

People in Lancashire have been tempted back into parks despite the continuing lockdown

Revealed: Google shows just where in Lancashire people are heading for lockdown ...

Fishergate, Preston

Lancashire shoppers' habits have changed less during the lockdown than elsewhere...

A team led by UCL, working with Mercedes-Benz, will produce 10,000 new CPAP devices to support patients suffering with Covid-19. (Credit: PA)

Michael Gove reveals thousands of new ventilators will be delivered to NHS next ...

Britain's Business Secretary and Minister for COP26 Alok Sharma arrives at number 10 Downng Street in central London on March 17, 2020, ahead of a meeting of the Cabinet. - Britain stepped up its response to coronavirus, recommending household isolation, home-working and an end to mass gatherings to try to stem an accelerating outbreak. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

More Government measures to help firms 'weather the storm' of coronavirus Covid-...

500,000 people have already volunteered to help the NHS - here’s what they will ...

Tens of thousands of retired doctors, nurses and emergency workers are being ask...