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On Thursday, the first day of Volunteers Week, Macmillan Cancer Support held their Thanks to You Awards, with Calum Reid, from the Trust’s Macmillan Centre, one of 36 finalists across six categories. Calum was nominated for the With Ambition category, and while that ultimately went to Bridport’s Jo Millar, founder of The Living Tree,...

This April we marked the 10th anniversary of the Macmillan Information Centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which supports patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria with a range of issues including financial advice and emotional support. On the occasion, colleagues and patients joined together at the hub in the Rosemere Centre at Royal Preston Hospital to...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first centre in the UK – and the third in Europe – to utilise the cutting-edge LungVision Bronchoscopic Navigation System at Royal Preston Hospital. The technology has been available for little over a year, with the Trust’s Consultant Respiratory Physician and Interventional Pulmonologist, Professor Mohammed Munavvar, monitoring...

Our fabulous Baby Beat volunteers were named the UCLan Community Team of the Year 2023 in May, at the Community Leadership & Volunteering Awards ceremony at the University’s Foster Building in Preston. Organized by the UCLan Centre for Volunteering and Leadership, the annual awards highlighted the efforts of those who donate their time to make a...

My name is Chris and I have been volunteering at Royal Preston Hospital now for over a decade and still find it fulfilling. I retired from an engineering role at BAe Systems in 2011. After about 6 months getting under my wife’s feet, she reminded me that I’d told everyone I was going to start...

This year marks the 39th year of Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), when Lancashire Teaching Hospitals will join thousands of charities and voluntary organisations recognising the contribution volunteers make across the UK. With this year’s theme of ‘Celebrate and Inspire’, we hope to encourage people to be the change that we want to see and...

We want to improve the standard of care we offer so that all patients have equal access to the same high-quality care, no matter where they live in Lancashire and South Cumbria. We want to ensure that services are as close to people’s homes as possible, whenever they can be. We also want to...

Members of NHS Property Services volunteered their time to help prepare for the grand opening of the new Age UK Lancashire Charity Shop in Burnley. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trusts have come together with Age UK Lancashire to help promote Healthy Living and a new Winter Preparedness Programme. The...