By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire’s emergency health and care system is under huge pressure and a plan is being drawn up to help cope with the coming winter as hospital targets are missed.
And bosses say A&E at hospitals like Leighton are failing to meet ambulance handover times due to lack of community care for patients who could be discharged.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
The number of Covid-19 patients in Cheshire’s hospitals continues to fall, according to the latest NHS England data.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust was caring for 44 coronavirus patients in Leighton Hospital as of Tuesday (March 9).
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Cheshire’S NHS Trusts are treating nearly 70% fewer Covid-19 patients than they were a month ago, new data reveals.
NHS England data shows that, on March 2, 25 patients were being treated in East Cheshire Trust beds, 44 in The Countess of Chester Trust, and 66 in Mid Cheshire Trust facilities.
Parking charges for most patients and visitors to Leighton Hospital will be reinstated this Saturday August 1 following their temporary suspension during the coronavirus pandemic.
A physiotherapy team in Cheshire has helped more than 3,000 patients to continue with rehabilitation during lockdown.
The Clinical Specialist Physiotherapy team at Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) has been using video calling software, telephone and online courses to continue seeing and treating patients.
Patients at Leighton Hospital who have been treated for COVID-19 are playing a vital role in research into the virus.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is involved in five national and international research studies looking into COVID-19 treatments.
By Stephen Topping
An ambulance service has been handed extra funding to provide non-emergency transport for South Cheshire patients – less than a year after it agreed to end its original contract.
South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group will be one of six in Cheshire, Warrington and the Wirral to benefit after a new five-year contract to West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS), which begins on April 1.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Leighton Hospital’s A&E department has coped with the early winter months better in 2018-19 than last year.
Figures presented to the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board show 88% of patients were dealt with within the target four hours in November 2018.
By Stephen Topping
Nurses and therapists are being praised after caring for thousands of housebound patients out of hospital in the first year of a new scheme.
The advanced community practitioner (ACP) rapid response service has been run as an alternative to hospital admission across mid and south Cheshire since October 2017, following a trial in Crewe last summer.
By Stephen Topping
South Cheshire’s best and worst GP surgeries, as rated by patients, have been revealed – and Kiltearn Medical Centre in Nantwich comes bottom of the class.
Patients in England were sent questionnaires to take part in the GP Patient Survey between January and March.
By Stephen Topping
Hundreds of Leighton Hospital patients are still failing to be seen within four hours at A&E as it deals with more people than last summer.
Figures shown at a Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board meeting revealed patients waited to be seen at A&E on 1,473 occasions in June – compared to 437 times in the same month last year.
By Stephen Topping
Thousands of patients were left waiting to be seen for more than four hours at Leighton Hospital’s A&E this winter.
Figures released by the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust board of directors show patients were left waiting for more than four hours on 4,931 occasions in December, January and February.
Patients in Crewe and Nantwich are being seen and treated for suspected cancer faster than the national average, latest NHS figures show.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital, has been named as one of the country’s leading Trusts in the proportion of cancer patients seen and treated in the expected time frames.
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