21May
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals confirm Kevin McGee as new Chief Executive
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals today announced the appointment of Kevin McGee as its new Chief Executive. The appointment comes after a rigorous recruitment process involving multiple stakeholders, representing a range of voices from across the Trust and the wider health and care system at both local and regional level. Kevin will succeed incumbent Chief Executive, Karen...
20May
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity provides guest beds for families of patients receiving end-of-life-care
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched its Caring Campaign which will provide additional support to patients who are receiving end-of-life care and for their family members. As part of the new campaign, 18 fold-out guest beds have been provided to the Trust by Lancashire Teaching Hospital’s Charity, which helps to raise funds for...
20May
Technicians at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals praised for producing PPE during height of coronavirus pandemic using 3D printing
The Health Academy at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recently invested in a 3D printer that has helped enable the supply of PPE alongside the creation and development of research prototypes. The Ultimaker S5 3D printer was first loaned to The Health Academy just before the pandemic for education purposes, by Create Education; a...
20May
We’ve come a long long way together
On Wednesday May 11th 2021, Martin Myers was awarded the 2020 NHS Healthcare Science Lifetime Achievement Award. This is a prestigious award, with one recipient a year, honouring a lifetime of dedication and service to Healthcare Science in the NHS. Martin is Consultant Clinical Biochemist here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. He has devoted his life to developing...
17May
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) was created in 2004 to draw attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, and sex characteristics. The date of May 17th was specifically chosen to commemorate the World...
17May
Charity’s £1 million appeal to make hospital less scary for children
Thousands of children could soon be benefitting from a £1 million overhaul of wards and other treatment areas at the Royal Preston Hospital. Today (Monday, May 17, 2021), Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity launches it’s first-ever Children’s Appeal. It will be spent on a whole shopping list of items that will completely re-invent children’s out-patients and...
17May
When hospital is also home – Afiyah’s story
For all but six short weeks of her life, little Afiyah Master’s home has been a hospital ward. Afiyah was born in November 2019 but even before she came into the world, parents civil servant Asif Master and primary school teacher Khadijah Munshi were told all was not well with their third daughter and it...
17May
Doctor Beat - Revolutionary new app dispenses music to soothe the soul
Dr Jacqueline Twamley, Academic Research and Innovation Manager at the Centre for Health Research & Innovation at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust administering MediMusic to Nurse Sheleen Armstrong at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital Patients around the world will soon be prescribed soothing music chosen by artificial intelligence to ease their anxiety and pain, thanks...
