13Jun
Learning Disabilities Awareness Week – Join us for ‘Our Health Day’ event on 20 June
A specialist Health Day event for people living with learning disabilities or autism has been set up at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, giving patients the opportunity to feel more comfortable ahead of their appointments. ‘Our Health Day’, which has been set up by the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Learning Disabilities team, has been developed to...
13Jun
NHS will prioritise emergency and life-saving care during three-day junior doctors strike
Health services in Lancashire and South Cumbria will prioritise emergency and life-saving care during the latest round of industrial action. The local NHS is expecting to be under significant pressure this week and people living in the area have been warned that routine care will face disruption. The three-day strike is due to take place...
08Jun
Upcoming strike action – everything you need to know
The British Medical Association (BMA), British Dental Association (BDA) and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) have announced 72 hours of continuous junior doctors’ strikes from 06:59 on Wednesday 14 June until 06:59 on Saturday 17 June. Junior doctors make up around half of all doctors in the NHS. Junior doctors are qualified doctors who have anywhere up to eight...
06Jun
Volunteers' Week Day 6 - Calum nominated for award
On Thursday, the first day of Volunteers Week, Macmillan Cancer Support held their Thanks to You Awards, with Calum Reid, from the Trust’s Macmillan Centre, one of 36 finalists across six categories. Calum was nominated for the With Ambition category, and while that ultimately went to Bridport’s Jo Millar, founder of The Living Tree,...
05Jun
Macmillan Information Centre celebrates a decade at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals - Volunteers' Week Day 5
This April we marked the 10th anniversary of the Macmillan Information Centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which supports patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria with a range of issues including financial advice and emotional support. On the occasion, colleagues and patients joined together at the hub in the Rosemere Centre at Royal Preston Hospital to...
05Jun
UK-first for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as charity raises funds for cutting-edge LungVision Bronchoscopic Navigation System
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first centre in the UK – and the third in Europe – to utilise the cutting-edge LungVision Bronchoscopic Navigation System at Royal Preston Hospital. The technology has been available for little over a year, with the Trust’s Consultant Respiratory Physician and Interventional Pulmonologist, Professor Mohammed Munavvar, monitoring...
04Jun
Baby Beat Volunteers are Team of the Year! Volunteers' Week Day 4
Our fabulous Baby Beat volunteers were named the UCLan Community Team of the Year 2023 in May, at the Community Leadership & Volunteering Awards ceremony at the University’s Foster Building in Preston. Organized by the UCLan Centre for Volunteering and Leadership, the annual awards highlighted the efforts of those who donate their time to make a...
02Jun
A Volunteer’s story, at the Royal Preston Hospital - Volunteers' Week Day 3
My name is Chris and I have been volunteering at Royal Preston Hospital now for over a decade and still find it fulfilling. I retired from an engineering role at BAe Systems in 2011. After about 6 months getting under my wife’s feet, she reminded me that I’d told everyone I was going to start...
