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12Nov

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Manchester Metropolitan University are collaborating to research the impact of, and help to unlock access to, hydrotherapy for boys and young men with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).     Having secured funding from Duchenne UK, the Trust – whose Paediatric Neuromuscular Service recently received a prestigious Centre of Excellence award from Muscular Dystrophy UK –...

04Nov

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

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

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

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

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 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

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...

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