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”,...
22Oct
Broadoaks Matron receives prestigious Queen’s Nurse title
Victoria Atkinson, Matron for Community and Specialist Services for Children and Young People at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, has been awarded the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queens Nursing Institute (QNI). The award is an prestigious and historic title given to nurses who deliver and lead outstanding care, andcare and is open to...
18Oct
Changes to Urgent GP Blood requests at Royal Preston Hospital
From Monday 21st October 2024, the ‘urgent’ GP / community blood tests currently provided at Royal Preston Hospital’s blood test clinic will be moving to Healthport Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), Vicarage Lane, Fulwood. The clinic will run from 8.30am – 12.30pm, Monday to Friday. We ask that patients attend before 12noon to ensure they are seen as...
18Oct
Marathon man Mike nominated for Pride of Britain award
By day, Mike Barnes plays a pivotal role in patients accessing hospital appointments with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and beyond, as a volunteer driver for the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS). In his spare time, the 72-year-old retired former headteacher runs marathons to help raise money for Rosemere Cancer Foundation, Bowel Cancer UK and the Christie,...
08Oct
Patient garden receives makeover thanks to charitable funds
A Critical Care patient garden at Royal Preston Hospital has been transformed into a more relaxing space to aid patients in their rehabilitation pathway, with the help of funding from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity. Following the expansion of the Critical Care unit, which was completed in 2021, there was a small patient garden which was often...
02Oct
Kayla’s remarkable story is highlight of Trust’s Upper GI Study Day
The remarkable story of patient Kayla Pennington was one of the highlights of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ 16th Upper GI Study Day at Barton Manor, organised by the Rosemere Cancer Education Hub and Trust Upper GI surgeons. In late 2022, Kayla, store manager of Bispham Tesco Express, began getting chronic hiccups whenever she ate, which only subsided...
01Oct
Global first operation celebrates key milestone at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
A global-first operation, performed for the last five years exclusively by three Lancashire Teaching Hospitals surgeons, has celebrated a key milestone. Consultant colorectal surgeons Tarek Hany, Alka Jadav and Arnab Bhowmick performed the 100th case of extra-peritoneal colorectal surgery (EXPERTS) – a novel operation “designed and performed with a view of the future in mind”. To...
30Sep
Trust’s Finney House Community Healthcare Hub hosts Gibraltar Health Authority
The Finney House Community Healthcare Hub in Preston recently hosted visitors from the Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) as a model of best practice. The GHA delivers primary, secondary and mental health care for its population of just over 30,000 using a model similar to the British National Health Service and is directed by former Lancashire Teaching...
