Former Burnley FC defender Clarke Carlisle has thanked local NHS workers, with a special mention to those working in mental health services. The former professional footballer, who attempted to take his life in 2014, thanked the NHS from the bottom of his heart as Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust launched their Thank You Week - which coincides with Mental Health Awareness Week and International Nurses’ Day. Clarke said: “I know people are acknowledging what you’re doing now, it’s almost as though they think you’ve just started to work hard, but you have been synonymous with my journey from 2017 and I know that you’ve been working incredibly hard for decades.
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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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Joan McDermott was 16 and fresh out of boarding school when she met her boyfriend Tony, a medical student, in their rural hometown in County Cork, Ireland. Together for about a year, they had sex twice. She fell pregnant.
âI honestly didnât know that was how you got a baby,â says Joan, now 73 and living in the small coastal town of Cobh in Cork. âWhen I told my mother I was three monthsâ pregnant, she said to go upstairs and pack a small bag; Iâd be going away. Then she stood in the hallway while I rang my boyfriend. His family ran a well-known local business; he said he was sorry but that he could do nothing for me.â