Tuesday 5th March

Today was spent at a meeting with Cuedoc in Penrith working on our project to deliver video links between the minor injuries unit at Alston Hospital and Penrith hospital.
The service will reduce the number of visits that patients have to make to Penrith and Carlisle, reducing the cost of treating them as well.
We are fortunate to have a great team in the community hospital in Alston and we are doing what we can to make sure that the hospital has a good future.
After getting back to Alston, I had to put together a report on our Business with Altitude project which supports social enterprises in Alston. Finally I met with a colleague to go through issues on the funding of the project. This is a tortuous process and has been going on since last June, trying to sort out what is eligible expenditure for the European Commission.