Health

After five years of controversial changes to children’s services, Lincolnshire’s health trust believes it has reached a turning point at Pilgrim Hospital. The Boston service is the closest for many in the district and has undergone significant transformations in its paediatric services since 2018, aiming to address long-standing issues and provide better care for the community.Andrew Morgan, chief executive of United ...

A new chairman has been chosen to oversee some health services in the area.Malcolm Burch is the acting chairman for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS).LCHS provides community-based health care services across the county to help people live independently at home including urgent care, therapy services, speech and language services, community nursing and services at four community hospitals.Malcolm (pictured) ...

Holbeach Hospital has been rated as ‘requires improvement’ for the third time by the Care Quality Commission. The nursing home was found to be ‘good’ in three key areas, and ‘requires improvement’ in two, along with its overall status.The home, which can support up to 47 people, provides beds for residential care, local GP referrals and reablement beds.“The risks to ...

A Holbeach residential home has been put in special measures after failing an inspection. The Nutten Stoven Residential Home was rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and risks losing its registration.“This inspection was carried out to follow up an action we told the provider to take at the last inspection,” the report says.“The overall rating for this service ...

The cost of living crisis is having an adverse effect on Lincolnshire residents’ mental health, particularly those with long-term health issues and their carers, a charity has said. Healthwatch Lincolnshire said a recent survey carried out saw 81 per cent of residents surveyed in the county agreed that the rising cost of living is causing them to worry or feel ...

Fantastic photos have been flooding in to help brighten-up the walls of Spalding’s Johnson Hospital Tulip Suite. Staff appealed through our paper for photographers to send in their shots of the lovely countryside that surrounds the town and it didn’t take long for pictures to arrive.There were 87 amazing images submitted in total and the top 16 able to be ...

The old Pennygate Surgery is reopening as Beechfield West this weekend. It closed on September 7, 2018 after previous owner of the then standalone practice Dr Nathu retired.Its 3,000 patients were transferred to a specially set up Spalding Surgery at the town’s Johnson Hospital.That was initially temporary, though it was extended for two extra years.Last year it was announced that ...

A Spalding-based home care company is leading a wave of complaints about major changes to NHS contracts in the county. Lincolnshire Internal Care Board (ICB) is now only using one company in South Holland for those funded via Continuing Healthcare. The board has appointed four companies to provide the service for the whole county.“Our intention with the new contract award ...

Changes to the provision of healthcare to vulnerable people at home prompted a demonstration this week. Care companies providing NHS-funded continuing care were told that as from this weekend the contracts in Lincolnshire would be going to just one of four companies.Until the end of this month, up to 70 different providers were being commissioned by the Integrated Care Board ...

Students have helped raise money for a local hospital after creating wooden items to sell. Construction teacher at the University Academy Holbeach, Darren Morris, presented a cheque for £312 to Holbeach Hospital. “The idea was that students got a chance to experience making joinery items for potential clients, while using the knowledge and skills gained in the three months or ...

Volunteers are being sought for the Johnson Hospital in Spalding. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has secured £25,000 of funding from Health Education England to launch a new initiative encouraging volunteering in community hospitals in Lincolnshire.Volunteer to Career is designed by clinicians and aims to inspire volunteers to take up professional NHS roles and equip them with the ...

There’s been calls for action on healthcare in the country by a patients’ group. Healthwatch Lincolnshire says since 2015 there’s been a decline in dental healthcare which ‘is having a negative impact on people’s immediate and future health’. After surveying the county, it also argues that due to the well publicised lack of NHS dentists, many are having to turn ...

Generous donors have raised almost £13,000 to buy defibrillators after a young footballer died during a match at Crowland last month. Mike Palmer, of Holbeach, wants clubs or match officials from across the area to contact him so as many of the life-saving devices as possible can be supplied. His son Michael (23) died while playing on February 25 and ...

Pinchbeck Surgery re-opened its doors yesterday (Wednesday). The Church Walk building, which has been closed since the COVID 19 lockdowns, has been taken over as a new branch of Munro Medical Centre. A benefactor, who wished to remain anonymous, has funded an extensive refurbishment of the building. A spokesman for Munro said: “Pinchbeck residents will remember that there has been ...

A Spalding man whose prostate cancer was operated on by a robot has urged others to get checked out. Neil Periam (56), from Spalding, is one of 270 people this year to be treated by the semi-robotic surgery at Lincoln County Hospital installed last year. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust invested more than £3.2m into the state-of-the-art service which, it ...

Plans to create a new Holbeach Health Hub have been unveiled. South Holland District Council says its working with the Primary Care Network and NHS Lincolnshire on creating a new and expanded town centre building for the Holbeach Medical Practice. It’s part of the town centre improvement plans. A statement released by the council on Tuesday includes no firm details ...

The community in Holbeach is rallying around the family of a local footballer who died aged 34 at the weekend. Adam Jackson was well known particularly for spells with Holbeach United and Spalding United, where he was part of title-winning sides for both. He’s thought to have taken his own life. He leaves behind wife Emma, whom he married last ...

Data shows Lincolnshire is in the bottom quarter for the number of GPs to patients, but the county’s NHS integrated Care Board is confident recent investments will address recruitment challenges. The NHS Digital Data figures, collated by procurement contract database Tracker, showed that at the end of last year Lincolnshire was ranked 26th out of 106 Integrated Care Boards (ICB) in ...

East Midlands Ambulance Service will not be penalised if it fails to improve upon national performance metrics as it takes over the contract for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services later this year. Instead NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, which will oversee the contract, will look at how satisfied patients and hospitals are with the service, Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee ...

More than 8,000 people had been waiting longer than 52 weeks for assessment and treatment at Lincolnshire’s hospitals at the end of 2022. Figures shown to Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday, showed that by the end of December, 8,204 patients were waiting 52 weeks or longer. Of those, 965 had waited longer than 78 weeks, write local ...