Lancashire- Hospitals

Urgent safety action needed at intensive care unit of Yorkhill Sick Childrens Hospital experts war

URGENT action is required to prevent the intensive care unit at one of Scotlands main childrens hospitals from becoming unsafe a report has warned Experts who examined heart surgery services at Glasgows Royal Hospital for Sick Children raised significant concerns about some important areas including poor staffing levels in the paediatric intensive... Read More

Better to transplant smokers lungs than staying on wait list UK study finds

Transplant patients who need new lungs have a better overall chance of survival if they receive donor lungs from smokers than if they remain on wait lists new British research shows The study provides strong evidence there is a net benefit to patients receiving smokers lungs even though recipients of such organs are less likely to live as long... Read More