04Nov
Four Lancashire Teaching Hospitals teams awarded Gold STARs
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...
01Nov
Statement on behalf of the Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme
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...
01Nov
Wedding bells on Ribblesdale Ward at Royal Preston Hospital!
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,...
31Oct
Hakuna Matata for Trust Neurology Specialist Nurse Bethany during profound volunteering experience in Tanzania
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...
29Oct
Trust Theatre Manager Eileen takes well-deserved retirement after 50 years in the NHS
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...
25Oct
National Inpatient Survey Results highlight areas of progress and opportunities to elevate care
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...
25Oct
Trust excels again in National Cancer Patient Experience Survey
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...
23Oct
Midwife from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals wins prestigious award for bereavement care
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”,...
