Morecambe Bay Hospital

Morecambe Bay Hospitals in conjunction with Scarborough Health Community and North Cumbria Acute Hospitals held a free one-day event for people across the service to disseminate learning to trusts facing similar challenges.

The event, held on the 22nd January, was targeted at other trusts finding the 2009 requirement challenging due to the geographically isolated position in which they are situated. Over 50 people were present on the day including project managers and several key clinicians.

Each of the three key trusts gave presentations on their current work streams. The presentations gave ‘hands on’ advice and were accompanied by a lively question and answer session that took place in the afternoon.

Presentations from the day and webcasts of key presentations are available at www.healthcareworkforce.nhs.uk/wtd

As part of the commitment to disseminate key lessons, problems encountered and possible solutions to WTD 2009, Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team is supporting all of the WTD pilot sites to hold local events in the coming months. Morecambe Bay Hospital’s event was the first of its kind followed by The Countess of Chester Hospitals Dissemination Day which was held on the 13th June. All of the presentations from this event are also available on the portal.