By Stephen Topping
NHS South Cheshire clinical commissioning group (CCG) faces a ‘massive challenge’ to reduce their £4.9 million overall forecast deficit – and ‘sufficient plans’ are yet to be put in place.
Health chiefs discussed a finance report, as well as the draft financial plan for 2018-19, during a governing body meeting for NHS South Cheshire CCG and NHS Vale Royal CCG at Bevan House in Nantwich.
People interested in working for the NHS are being invited to attend a careers event at Leighton Hospital.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is hosting its annual careers fair on Wednesday March 7.
A Nantwich couple who run the Nantwich Hearing Centre have been fine-tuning their business thanks to a £15,000 makeover.
Now Helen and Alan Jackson plan to expand by helping those waiting months for treatment on the NHS.
Leighton Hospital is one of the top performing in the country, according to a new online tracker.
The BBC’s NHS Tracker ranks Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust number one out of 131 trusts for the percentage of people who receive planned hospital care within the national waiting time target.
The number of EU staff quitting the NHS trust in South Cheshire is on the rise, latest figures show.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT), which runs Leighton Hospital, is among just 29 trusts in the country that have seen both a rise in EU staff leaving and a fall in EU staff joining.
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.
NHS trust staff who run Leighton Hospital have earned a national health and safety award.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT)achieved gold in this year’s RoSPA Health and Safety Awards.
Health bosses at NHS South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group have reassured people who fall ill over Easter they can still access help.
Opening hours for GP practices and pharmacies will be different over the long Easter weekend, with many closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.
A Wybunbury IT specialist has been jailed for 14 months for his part in a scandal over corrupt NHS contract payments.
Richard Moxon, 41, admitted one count of making corrupt payments worth £80,000 to Peter Lewis in exchange for a lucrative £950,000 IT contract.
One-year cancer survival rates have improved in South Cheshire, latest statistics have shown.
A health partnership between the NHS, local authorities and Macmillan Cancer Support has seen major improvements.
Cigarettes and tobacco worth more than £9,000 have been seized in raids by trading standards officers in South Cheshire.
More than 20,000 cigarettes and 5kg of rolling tobacco were uncovered during raids on seven properties in Crewe.
Patients in Crewe and Nantwich can get free checks for potential signs of mouth cancer.
A drop-in session has been organised by community dental teams from East Cheshire NHS Trust.
Green-fingered volunteers across Nantwich and Crewe have helped transform a garden at Leighton Hospital. A team, which included students from Reaseheath College, spent a day weeding, pruning and painting at the coronary care unit garden.
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