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Local health and care leaders can provide assurance that the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department will be kept at Macclesfield Hospital. Following recent articles in local media and significant public interest in the future of health care services in Eastern Cheshire, local health leaders and commissioners have moved to provide clarity on the future of the existing A&E department. Neil Goodwin, independent chair of […]

One of Caring Together’s priorities is to provide joined-up services that help people with long-term conditions to live independently at home when it is safe to do so. Thus includes caring for the needs of an ageing population. Health and social care partners are invited to an event being held by Cheshire End of Life […]

East Cheshire Hospice has joined the Cheshire Care Record, helping achieve the Caring Together ambition of integrated care. The Macclesfield-based care provider has announced that it is the latest healthcare organisation to start using the Cheshire Care Record, an online database that gives care providers a shared, up-to-date view of information that patients have agreed to […]

In an example of how joined-up care puts patients first, a community matron from East Cheshire NHS Trust and a paramedic from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) joined forces for three days last month to pilot a new way of integrated working to support vulnerable patients at home and reduce demand for emergency services. In […]