25Jun
Happy first birthday Stella - our youngest premature baby to ever be discharged from Royal Preston Hospital
Everyone at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals would like to wish a happy first birthday to a very inspirational little girl, Stella. Stella was our youngest ever premature baby to have been discharged from Royal Preston Hospital having been born 18 weeks early weighing just 480g on the Trust’s Neonetal Intensive Care Unit. Born at just 22 weeks...
25Jun
Dr Munavvar COVID-19 Update
Dr Munavvar COVID-19 Update - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals on Vimeo.
25Jun
Drop in Covid vaccination sites in Leyland and Preston
*Pfizer first and second doses and AstraZeneca first and second doses* Date: Saturday 26 June Times: 8am – 8pm Venue: Jubilee House, Lancashire Enterprise Business Park, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 6TR *Pfizer first and second doses only* Date: Wednesday 30 June – Saturday 3 July Times: 8am -7pm (please note the clinic will be closed between 1pm – 2pm) Venue: Jubilee...
24Jun
Closure of Sharoe Green Main Entrance 28th June - 3rd July between hours of 10pm – 6am
To undertake some urgent maintenance work at Royal Preston Hospital, we will be closing our Sharoe Green Unit (SGU) main entrance between the hours 10pm – 6am from Monday 28th June - Saturday 3rd July 2021. For patients requiring access to the wards within the SGU between these hours, entry will be via the Ante Natal Clinic...
17Jun
Heartfelt Appeal
As we have had to temporarily suspend adult inpatient visiting, we are in urgent need of more hearts. Knitted, crocheted or sewn, we send one to the patient and one to their relative as a way of staying connected whilst they cannot visit. They provide comfort and a connection between those parted due to hospitalisation...
16Jun
The Sound of Love
Being Outdoors is good for us, we all know that and mountain air is edifying. However, for one woman, a mountain climb resulted in meeting her partner and a surprise engagement again up a mountain 5 years later. The lonely goat who stood high on the hill in 2006 was Dennis Gaspar. Well actually according to Carolyn...
15Jun
Development begins at site of new Burnley kidney disease centre
Building work is under way at the site of a new centre in Burnley for people being treated for kidney disease, due to open in September. The new facility, at Briercliffe Shopping Centre, will provide haemodialysis treatment and outpatient clinic facilities for patients from across the region. Haemodialysis is a treatment to remove waste products...
15Jun
Lancashire Professor awarded MBE for services to pathology during the Covid-19 pandemic
One of Lancashire’s leading Consultant immunologists, Professor Anthony Rowbottom, has been awarded an MBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2021 in recognition of his services to Pathology during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Rowbottom is Professor of Clinical Immunology and Laboratory Director for Immunology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. He is also the Clinical Director for...
