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A new memorial garden at Royal Preston Hospital was officially launched with a public opening yesterday, which was created by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity to honour organ donors and those who lost their lives in the Covid-19 pandemic. The project was made possible thanks to a generous £100,000 grant from NHS Charities Together, which helped fund...

Peter White has been appointed as Chair of the Trust Board and will be taking up his new position with effect from 1 August 2023.  Peter brings with him a breadth of experience having held senior roles with Lancashire Police during a career spanning over thirty years culminating in his role as Assistant Chief Constable before he...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted in two categories in this year’s BIBA Awards, Lancashire’s most prestigious and longest running business awards programme. The BIBAs celebrate Lancashire’s success stories, in the form of some of the most exciting companies and entrepreneurs in the county and are run by the...

A former International Society of Nephrology (ISN) fellow, Aimun Ahmed – a Consultant Nephrologist with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals – has been helping to educate and train on kidney disease in developing countries across the world, in his role as an ISN Renal Ambassador. One of the ISN’s aims is to promote nephrology and kidney disease in...

The BMA and BDA have announced that consultant doctors and dentists will be taking strike action for 48 hours from 07:00 on Thursday 20 July until 07:00 on Saturday 22 July. The action by consultants follows on from the longest period of industrial action in NHS history by junior doctors (five consecutive days), which started last Thursday and ended on...

Talented pupils from local primary schools in Lancashire have paid a special visit to the Royal Preston Hospital after winning Lancashire Teaching Hospital’s sustainability art competition. Pupils from Euxton CE, Penwortham, Lea Endowed, Sherwood and Kingsfold Primary schools came to the hospital to meet Chief Medical Officer, Gerry Skailes and receive a certificate and...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been awarded the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award, recognising the quality and delivery of pastoral care for internationally educated nurses and midwives.  Launched in March 2022, the award scheme is also an opportunity for Trusts to recognise their work in international recruitment and demonstrate their commitment to staff wellbeing...

Kevin McGee, Chief Executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, has today announced that he is to retire from the NHS following 38 years of service.   He has had held numerous leadership roles within the NHS many of which have been in the Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) health system and has played a key role in the...