October 2024
08Oct
Patient garden receives makeover thanks to charitable funds
A Critical Care patient garden at Royal Preston Hospital has been transformed into a more relaxing space to aid patients in their rehabilitation pathway, with the help of funding from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity. Following the expansion of the Critical Care unit, which was completed in 2021, there was a small patient garden which was often...
02Oct
Kayla’s remarkable story is highlight of Trust’s Upper GI Study Day
The remarkable story of patient Kayla Pennington was one of the highlights of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ 16th Upper GI Study Day at Barton Manor, organised by the Rosemere Cancer Education Hub and Trust Upper GI surgeons. In late 2022, Kayla, store manager of Bispham Tesco Express, began getting chronic hiccups whenever she ate, which only subsided...
01Oct
Global first operation celebrates key milestone at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
A global-first operation, performed for the last five years exclusively by three Lancashire Teaching Hospitals surgeons, has celebrated a key milestone. Consultant colorectal surgeons Tarek Hany, Alka Jadav and Arnab Bhowmick performed the 100th case of extra-peritoneal colorectal surgery (EXPERTS) – a novel operation “designed and performed with a view of the future in mind”. To...