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A potentially life-saving diagnostic test has cleared backlogs of patients waiting for endoscopy services in Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and South Cumbria.

A national initiative to protect pre-term babies from brain injury and cerebral palsy has been hailed as a success in Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and South Cumbria.

BBC TV’s North West Tonight presenter Roger Johnson will host the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards.

A Runcorn woman who has worked in local hospitals and NHS offices for 45 years was showered with tributes as she retired from the health service.

Innovative healthcare companies in the North West Coast can bid for a slice of a £5m fund to help prevent fatal drug overdoses.

A new opportunity will increase access to fast and accurate asthma testing in primary care and reduce health inequality.

Videos and a podcast produced by the Innovation Agency to promote ways of using advanced asthma therapies have been released.

The project was conducted to publicise a high-risk asthma case finding programme offered by the Liverpool Severe Asthma Service (LSAS) from Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust.

We were delighted to open the new Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre as a major step forward in addressing the backlog of surgery caused by the pandemic.

The search is on for the region’s most successful researchers and innovators, with the launch of the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2023. The awards are organised by the Innovation Agency; NIHR Clinical Research Network: North West Coast (CRN:NWC) and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration: North West Coast (ARC:NWC).

More patients are set to benefit from faster and more accurate testing for asthma thanks to a new collaboration between the AHSN Network and NIOX®.