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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Thomas as Chair of the Trust Board from 1 January 2025. Mike, who is currently Chair of University Hospitals of Morecombe Bay Trust and has played a pivotal role in their improvement journey, is also the Chair of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative Board,...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ plastic surgery department has opened the first service in the region – and one of only a small number nationwide - offering the ‘gold-standard’ Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Plastic Surgical Reconstruction for NHS skin cancer patients. Based at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, the service offers patients with high-risk skin cancers in high-risk...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Manchester Metropolitan University are collaborating to research the impact of, and help to unlock access to, hydrotherapy for boys and young men with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).     Having secured funding from Duchenne UK, the Trust – whose Paediatric Neuromuscular Service recently received a prestigious Centre of Excellence award from Muscular Dystrophy UK –...

A Gold STAR celebration event was held on Thursday 24 October in Education Centre 1, awarding teams who raise quality standards across the Trust, and are dedicated to improving staff and patient experience. At the event gold stars were awarded to four teams, making 87 gold areas within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The awards celebrate teams who continue to...

On 30 October 2024, during the Chancellor’s budget statement, a brief reference was made to the continuing work of the New Hospital Programme. On 29 July 2024 the Chancellor announced a review of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) to ensure it had a ‘thorough, realistic and costed timetable for delivery’. Both the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...

There were wedding bells on the Ribblesdale Ward at Royal Preston Hospital on Wednesday October 16, as the happy couple, Emily and Jamie Cross, tied the knot following Emily’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Emily, 43, originally from Shropshire, and Jamie, 44, from Liverpool, have been together for over five years and live together in Preston with baby Mikey,...

While many know “Hakuna Matata” from Disney’s The Lion King, for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ Neurology Specialist Nurse Bethany McGeorge, the Swahili phrase was one of many she became familiar with during a life-changing experience volunteering in Tanzania. Bethany spent three weeks at Mawenzi Hospital in Moshi, Kimimanjaro, where she immersed herself in the local...

Eileen Burbridge, Theatre Manager at Royal Preston Hospital, admits being a nurse was all she ever wanted to do - and after a half century in the NHS, she has decided to take a well-earned retirement. Eileen, a typically forthright and proud Yorkshirewoman who hails from near Barnsley, reached her milestone last month. Back in...