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Glasgow Times
16-07-2025
- Health
- Glasgow Times
NHS Lanarkshire named finalist for UK-wide health award
The health board is shortlisted in the Maternity and Midwifery Services Initiative of the Year category at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Awards 2025. It has been recognised for its project, From Conception to Birth: A QI Journey Towards Holistic Antenatal Care. Read more: 'We're excited to roll this out': NHS health board launching at-home diabetes tests The HSJ Patient Safety Awards celebrate individuals and teams who go above and beyond to protect patients from harm and promote a culture of safety across UK healthcare. NHS Lanarkshire is the only Scottish health board to reach this year's finals, earning recognition for its work to improve patient safety and promote innovation in maternity care. Dr Evelyn Ferguson, clinical director for obstetrics at NHS Lanarkshire, said: "We are delighted that our project has been recognised on a national platform. "This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our multidisciplinary teams who have worked tirelessly to enhance antenatal care and embed a culture of continuous improvement for women and families across Lanarkshire." The shortlist follows a rigorous judging process led by healthcare leaders and patient safety experts, who praised the board's commitment to delivering safer, more holistic care. Leah Noble, head of midwifery at NHS Lanarkshire, said: "Being shortlisted for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards is a proud moment for our services. "Our initiative demonstrates how quality improvement can make a real difference in supporting safer, more holistic care from the earliest stages of pregnancy. "This recognition reflects the passion and professionalism of our midwifery, obstetrics, and wider teams." Read more: Glasgow community group wins national recognition for food poverty campaign Lorna Lennox, a former NHS Lanarkshire midwife and current improvement advisor at NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said: "It's inspiring to see the lasting impact of quality improvement work we began in Lanarkshire being recognised nationally. "This nomination reflects not only the dedication of local teams, but the strength of a learning culture that places women and families at the heart of maternity care." The awards ceremony will take place on September 15 at Manchester Central.
The Irish Sun
16-05-2025
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Ireland's squander gang at it again frittering billions on hospital they won't even own – but it's us who pay the price
5 THE squander gang is at it again. Blowing smoke up your arse while frittering away money at a rate the most die-hard gambler in Vegas couldn't manage. Six months in office and they've done damn all except show how capable they are at pouring cash down the drain. 5 The State plans to spend more than TEN TIMES what was originally budgeted to build a new National Maternity Hospital Credit: handout The last lot in power had a CV packed with prodigious puffery: the €335,000 bike shed; the €1.4m Let's take a breath. But there's more . . . The €720m bailout of the flip-floppers at Read more in News And of course, the cherry on top, the We thought with all that waste, those at the top would cop themselves on this time and get a grip on the profligacy. Get out of that. Wishful thinking is an art form in Ireland. The waste carries on as normal. Plus ca change . . . Most read in The Irish Sun We learned this week, not because the Government chose to reveal it, but because of digging by a diligent member of the Opposition, that the State plans to spend more than TEN TIMES what was originally budgeted to build a new National Maternity Should have cost €150m (and would have cost that had it been built on time when first proposed TEN YEARS AGO), the new estimate is a staggering €2 BILLION. New footage reveals progress on national children's hospital site Not only that, but the state is considering spending the eye-watering sum on building a hospital on land it doesn't even own. Once finished (probably in 2075) the whole shooting match, at the Whoever thinks it's a good idea to go ahead with this utterly foolish project needs to dunk their head in a bucket of ice/s***e (insert as appropriate) and get a grip. We may need to replace Holles Street as the country's premier maternity hospital, it's old and no longer fit for purpose, but not at any price, and certainly not on a site that the state doesn't even own. A publicly built hospital should be on public lands and run by the public sector in the public interest. Full stop. If the government doesn't want to do that, they should ring the Japanese and get them to build it and run it for us. They'd have it up and functioning at a fraction of the cost and in jig time. HUGE PRICE We are paying a huge price for government indolence. Lazy inefficiency is at the heart of every publicly funded project you can conjure in Ireland. We're no engineers. We're no builders of things. We are the great navel gazers, procrastinators, wasters. We had all the money in the world over the last five to ten years and we squandered the opportunity to build, baby, build, and secure the future. SYSTEM IS RIDDLED The entire system is riddled with the cancer of incompetence and nobody seems willing to perform the emergency surgery to get things working the way they should (and do in most developed nations). The state continues to play softball with the planning authorities, who have shown themselves utterly incapable of meeting the task of building a modern Ireland. The new Planning Act, a 900-page soup of convolutions, was signed into law by President Higgins in October 2024 But guess what folks? Eight months on and it has yet to be implemented. LAND OF THE SNAIL Ireland, the land of the snail. Why isn't it in force, you may ask? Well, they don't want to step on any toes, or upset the apple cart, as Bertie Ahern might mangalise. They say they need to birth the new regime on a phased basis to ensure 'a smooth transition from the previous planning system'. So, for the foreseeable future the old planning regime will continue to chug along, choking like a clapped-out motor. KICK NEEDED Those in power need a kick up the pants. An overnight revolution in planning was required. The guillotine should have been wheeled out to put the old system out of its misery. It's what the country so desperately needed. Building stuff quickly and efficiently, it's of the hour. But the clots in government haven't the wit to see what's in front of their noses, or the will to upset what needs upsetting. The clock ticks slowly in Leinster House. Urgency is a foreign land. They'll shuffle sideways as they always have. And we'll all continue to pay the price, as we always do. EMMY EUROVISION PERFORMANCE IRELAND'S song at the Bless. Last night our entry She wrote it to move away from the 'really traumatising' story of the pooch, who jetted into orbit in 1957 – but died hours later. The 'I wanted to create a scenario where she gets to be happy and alive instead.' What is it with young people? The dog died, get over it. SCANDAL OF DIRE DRIVERS THE Dad-of-two Kevin's death, as he worked overtime on a speed check, was the 60th this year. 5 Garda Kevin Flatley died after he was knocked down by a speeding motorcycle last weekend Credit: X Speeding has become endemic, people driving with phones in their hands ubiquitous, drink and drug driving, sadly, still prevalent. Cars are bigger and heavier than they've ever been. Many souped-up motorbikes that are better suited to track racing zoom on ordinary roads. But the real heart of the problem – largely ignored by the authorities – is that we are a nation of poor drivers. I had the misfortune to use I rarely use the car nowadays. I get the bus or the train. I have the luxury of being able to. Many don't. I don't envy those who use our roads daily and drive correctly. You're surrounded by morons on wheels. AN OSCAR WINNER CHAPEAU to Ireland's brainiest lad, Oscar Despard who captained his team, Christ's College, Cambridge, to the University Challenge crown on Monday night. His team trailed Warwick Uni for most of the contest, nudging ahead in the final minutes to win by the narrowest margin possible, squeaking it 175 to 170. 5 Oscar Despard won the BT Young Scientist competition in 2020 Credit: Grab Oscar was always destined to be a brainbox extraordinaire. He won the BT Young Scientist competition in 2020. A year later he was one of just two Leaving Cert students in Ireland to achieve nine H1s. He is now studying for a PhD in molecular biology at Christ's College, A top achievement for a top lad. Come back and run Ireland when you can, buddy. WORLD'S A WORRY ON his first day in office, Foreigners, bad. 5 Trump has allowed white South Africans apply for asylum and US citizenship Credit: Reuters Until this week that is. The first plane carrying white South Africans granted asylum and The first batch of 59 Afrikaners – out of 8,000 who expressed an interest in claiming refugee status in the States – included farmers who said they were discriminated against, denied job opportunities and subjected to violence because of their race. Welcoming the new arrivals, Trump told reporters: 'White farmers are being brutally killed and the land is being confiscated in South Africa.' In February, Trump suspended foreign aid to South Africa and announced his administration would work to resettle 'Afrikaner refugees' because of the South African government's actions that 'racially disfavoured landowners'. How the world has been turned upside down. NEW GAA RULES The Ulster final in Clones between The Wee county winning for the first time since 1957 vindicated the decision to transform how the game is played. Bravery is always rewarded. NO SHORT SOLUTION NINETY years ago, those in authority were exercised by girls wearing shorts too. Here's a small piece that was published in the Southern Star newspaper in 1935: 'In the course of a powerful sermon at 12 o'clock mass in Dunmanway on Sunday, Reverend C Creed said he noticed young girls wearing shorts while cycling through the town. 'Such girls were a disgrace to their sex and ought to be ashamed of themselves. 'Parents are bound to exercise better supervision of their Not much has changed for some people, has it? Let the girls wear shorts, lads.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Highland Hospital gala boosts funds for Maternity Center remodel
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Hosting its largest fundraising event of the year, Highland Hospital kicked off its annual gala at the ballroom at Carey Lake. More than 500 guests participated in both silent and live auctions and heard impactful stories from patients under the hospital's care. In 2025, the money raised is benefitting the Family Maternity Center — helping create a more comfortable and welcoming environment for expectant families. 'And of course the maternity center is the best in the class,' Gala Chairmans Andy and Laurie Meloni said. 'Very compassionate, very caring, and very experienced professionals that work in that environment. So, we're very proud to help raise some money to make some renovations and enhance the Family Maternity Center.' The evening concluded with lively music from DJ Naps, and a fireworks display. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘Maternity desert': Program targets missing care for pregnancies in Pahrump
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Statistics tell the risks for pregnant women in Nye County — a 'maternity care desert' with limited access to care. In 2023, Pahrump recorded 344 live births with a preterm birth rate of 13.4% (national average: 10.4%), scoring an F on the March of Dimes Preterm Birth report card. The infant mortality rate is 8.22%, compared to the national average of 5.8%. Maternal and prenatal care can become a life-and-death situation. In 2022, a 24-year-old Pahrump woman died of complications from septic abortion after traveling to the Las Vegas valley for care. Now the medical community is stepping up, initiating a Medical Maternity Home Program to meet growing needs in Pahrump, a community of 49,000 people and home to 8,000 women of reproductive age (15 to 50 years old). The effort is a collaboration involving SilverSummit Healthplan, Nevada Health Centers, High Risk Pregnancy Center and Hera Women's Health. Funding for the program comes from the Centene Foundation, which will allocate $1 million over three years. An additional $100,000 will be provided by SilverSummit Healthplan, according to a news release. It's an important step that takes resources available in Las Vegas to set up coordinated patient care and outreach in Pahrump. Services will include maternal-fetal medicine, obstetrician-gynecologists, advanced practitioners, behavioral health providers and community health workers to reach affected pregnant women in Nye County. In addition telehealth services and services for women, infants and children are part of the program. Officials announced the program last week and said it is expected to start seeing patients in late 2025. 'Nye County is a maternity care desert, meaning that there are an insufficient number of maternity care providers,' Dr. Steven Evans, chief medical officer for SilverSummit Healthplan, said in a news release. 'This scarcity in maternity providers results in pregnant women needing to travel long distances to receive prenatal and postpartum care, which contributes to poor birth outcomes such as pre-term birth and low birth weight.' Dr. Brian Iriye, president of Hera Women's Health, spoke with 8 News Now about the program. 'Our goal with the Medical Maternity Home Program is to bring together a multidisciplinary team of specialists to ensure every mother and baby in rural Nevada has access to the high-quality care they deserve,' Iriye said. 'By fostering partnerships and utilizing innovative solutions, we aim to overcome the challenges faced by underserved communities and improve maternal and neonatal outcomes across the region.' He said the distance is just part of understanding the problem. 'Maybe for a lot of people it doesn't seem like much of a challenge. But I think there's a lot of people struggling out there with transportation, financial security, food security. And Pahrump does seem to have a little more of that possibly,' he said. The program is all about improving access to care. 'Access ends up solving a lot of the problems,' he said. A 60-minute drive when you're in labor is a big deal, Iriye said. 'What if somebody's in pre-term labor? That 60-minute drive probably seems like two to three hours,' he said. 'Whenever you can get care to somebody, it needs to be several things, right? It needs to be right care, right place, right time. It's so important that we get that done,' Iriye said. 'So overall, fantastic program I think we're getting done. But I think more importantly, fantastic program for the area,' Iriye said on Friday. The program was announced on Thursday, National Maternal Health Awareness Day. The Medical Maternity Health Program will: Provide prenatal care and monitor pre-term birth rates. Implement protocols to enhance quality and ensure proper maternal-fetal medicine referrals by following national guidelines and protocols. It will also use SilverSummit Healthplan's Project Guardian, which tackles the provider shortage by enabling remote health monitoring statewide. Provide on-site consistent maternal care and obstetrical services at least two days a month. Provide maternal-fetal medicine consultation (in-person and or via telemedicine), high level fetal ultrasound, behavioral health (telemedicine), and treatment for opioid use disorder (telemedicine). Provide professional education (obstetrical emergencies) to family practice physicians and clinical support staff. Iriye said officials are looking at other parts of the state that would benefit from services if the pilot program succeeds. He said Elko, Winnemucca and areas around Lake Tahoe could be candidates. And beyond that, there are regional needs much closer to Las Vegas in fast-growing communities of northwest Arizona. Mobile services could provide an answer for some communities. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
