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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...

National Patient Survey results released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have highlighted areas of progress and opportunities for elevating patient care within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The findings of the survey, conducted among adult inpatients at the Trust between July and November 2023, showed LTH has made significant strides in key areas central to our commitment...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals – the regional cancer centre - has again excelled in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, maintaining an overall Patient Experience score of 9/10 for the third year running, with no scores below the national average. This year’s findings continue the sequence of the most positive results the Trust have had in this...

A midwife at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals was announced as the proud winner of a prestigious award from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) last week, for the standard of personalised care she provides to bereaved families after a pregnancy loss. Claire Braithwaite, Lead Bereavement Midwife at the Trust, described as “an angel in human form”,...

Victoria Atkinson, Matron for Community and Specialist Services for Children and Young People at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, has been awarded the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queens Nursing Institute (QNI). The award is an prestigious and historic title given to nurses who deliver and lead outstanding care, andcare and is open to...

From Monday 21st October 2024, the ‘urgent’ GP / community blood tests currently provided at Royal Preston Hospital’s blood test clinic will be moving to Healthport Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), Vicarage Lane, Fulwood. The clinic will run from 8.30am – 12.30pm, Monday to Friday. We ask that patients attend before 12noon to ensure they are seen as...

By day, Mike Barnes plays a pivotal role in patients accessing hospital appointments with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and beyond, as a volunteer driver for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).  In his spare time, the 72-year-old retired former headteacher runs marathons to help raise money for Rosemere Cancer Foundation, Bowel Cancer UK and the Christie,...