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Lake Macquarie Council planning for climate change
August 5, 2021
Lake Macquarie Council is planning ahead for the impacts of climate change.
Council’s draft Local Adaptation Plan (LAP) outlines a raft of actions to help residents in Pelican, Blacksmiths, Caves Beach, Swansea and surrounding areas plan for the possible impacts of climate change and sea level rise.
Manager Environmental Systems Karen Partington said detailed studies of the low-lying suburbs had identified them as vulnerable to projected impacts of sea level rise.
“These impacts range from damage to houses and public infrastructure to changes to our coastal environment and lifestyle,” she said.
By Paul Faulkner
Chief executive of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and, as of later this year, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The new boss of the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals has been unveiled – and he already knows all about the challenges of running major NHS facilities in Lancashire. Kevin McGee, who is currently chief executive of the organisations that operate Blackpool Victoria and the Royal Blackburn hospitals, is now preparing to take on the top job at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTH). His appointment follows the announcement back in January that Karen Partington, who has held the role for a decade, will retire at the end of the year after more than 40 years in the NHS.
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Tuesday, 16th March 2021, 1:58 pm
The target was agreed at a board meeting of the region’s integrated care system (ICS), at which one hospital boss warned that the scale of the task meant “difficult decisions” would have to be made about the services on offer in different localities.
Board members signed up to the savings tally – which amounts to five percent of total NHS expenditure across the patch – after hearing an estimate that the collective deficit of healthcare organisations in the area could be as high as £340m.
The financial issues facing the region long predate the pandemic. In March 2020, just as the full impact of Covid began to be felt, the forecast budget shortfall already stood at £277m – and that was even after planned savings of £163m had been factored in for the year ahead.
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While the problem is hardly exclusive to Preston and Chorley, with hospital hotspots up and down the country highlighted in a report two months ago by safety investigators, around 29.5 per cent of their Covid cases were caught on the wards from August 1 to November 29, NHS England stats showed, making the trust one of the worst in the country.
Ms Partington, the trust s chief executive, said a special board meeting was held last week to discuss the problem - and said bosses talked about how difficult it is to get the right balance .