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Staff absences from East Lancashire hospitals revealed

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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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)

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

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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

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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)

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

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

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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)

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