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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating after both Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital were named as a National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider, after successfully completing a national programme of local data audits. The NJR monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement procedures...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust celebrated RCN Nursing Support Workers’ Day for the first time last month, recognising the fantastic work this set of colleagues do to support excellent patient care. Nursing Support Workers are the bedrock of our wards, clinics and community teams, and encompass hundreds of different job titles and roles, including...

A Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Consultant was last week formally announced as President-elect of the Intensive Care Society, whose role is to ensure delivery of the highest quality of critical care to patients across the UK. Shondipon Laha, who works as a Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist at the Trust, was delighted to be...

A Consultant Nurse at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised for her work in growing the British Indian Nurses Association (BINA) at the recent RCN awards, helping to provide pastoral support for international nurses.  Anu Thomas, Consultant Nurse and Clinical Lead for Stroke at the Trust, celebrated the remarkable growth of the...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Organ Donation team have been honoured for their dedication to organ donation and transplantation after being recognised in the annual Rosie Neath Award. The team were named as ‘Highly Commended Runner-Up’ in the Rosie Neath Award for Outstanding Achievement in Organ Donation at the North West Organ Donation...

Viewers of Channel 5’s Cause of Death series, which gives an insight into coronial investigations and the work of the mortuary team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, alongside Lancashire Police and the Coroner’s Office, will have witnessed in last night’s episode how Jack Emmett, with the support of his family, was able to give...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust held a special ceremony last week to celebrate the work that takes place in medical education, recognising outstanding work from both teachers and students. The Undergraduate Medical Teaching Awards 2022/23 were held in the Lecture Theatre at Royal Preston Hospital and saw colleagues across the Trust be awarded for their...

The cold weather couldn’t put a stop to the annual Scooter Selection Box Run for Children’s Services at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Every year, Norman Hunter and members of several Scooter Clubs across the area come together to take part in what is now a well-established tradition, collecting hundreds of selection boxes, and toys...