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Gregg Stevenson hopes to bring his remarkable story full circle by medalling at the Paralympics in Paris with rowing partner Lauren Rowles in the in PR2 mixed double sculls. The former Royal Engineer Commando worked for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ Specialist Mobility Rehabilitation Centre (SMRC) as lead physical training instructor and mental health practitioner, having been...

A dedicated clinic for the management of pregnant and newly birthed women and birthing people with hypertension, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia will open this month as part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ maternal medicine centre.  The Lancashire Antenatal Pre-eclampsia and Hypertension Clinic, or LeAPH for short, has been developed by Dr Emma Ingram, lead Obstetric Consultant for...

This week we are marking World Breastfeeding Week and some women who have birthed at Lancashire Teching Hospitals have kindly shared their stories of how breastfeeding looked to them and how they overcame challenges. You can take a read of them below. Lauren and Xander "As a midwife myself, I was aware of all the...

The Department of Anaesthesia at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised for providing the highest quality care to patients, after formally being reaccredited with the Anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation (ACSA) by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. A benchmark in quality, the Trust received the prestigious award as a result of a painstaking...

This week (1-7 August 2024) the Trust is marking World Breastfeeding Week, a global campaign to raise awareness on themes related to breastfeeding. This year the theme is ‘Closing the gap – breastfeeding for all’. It is important that we recognise breastfeeding and its success is not the sole responsibility of the mother, but that she receives...