06Nov
Nelson company pays more than lip service when it comes to helping NHS frontline staff
A Nelson company has brought a smile to the lips of doctors, nurses and other clinical staff working at Rosemere Cancer Centre, Lancashire and South Cumbria’s regional specialist cancer treatment and radiotherapy centre. Concept Plastics Group Ltd, which is based at Barnfield Business Centre off Brunswick Street, has donated approximately 1,000 twin packs of its...
04Nov
Clinic at Royal Preston Hospital supports mums-to-be who have previously lost babies
A clinic set up at Royal Preston Hospital’s Sharoe Green Maternity Unit is helping pregnant women who have suffered loss in a previous pregnancy. The Rainbow Clinic was set up with the aim of providing antenatal care to women who have suffered a late miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death previously. The clinic, which is...
04Nov
Rainbow Run a colourful success for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity
The Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity has received nearly £4000 in donations following their successful Rainbow Run. The virtual event ran from 5th-25th October, and supporters were encouraged to raise funds by setting their own challenge, choosing their own distance, location and form of exercise, be it running walking or cycling. The Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity...
03Nov
Local woman completes incredible challenge to help Royal Preston Hospital discover new treatments through ground-breaking research
Running enthusiast and local woman Helen Witter has completed the famous Land’s End to John O’Groats challenge to support Royal Preston Hospital’s Research team. Raising more than £500 so far, Inglewhite resident Helen took on the mammoth challenge after a number of marathons and half marathons she had entered and trained for were...
27Oct
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals team wins national award for their efforts to support colleagues during pandemic
A team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals has won a national award for their work in supporting colleagues and volunteers during the coronavirus pandemic. The Clinical Applications Training & Support Department won the Best Covid-19 Training Solution category in the prestigious Health Tech Digital Awards 2020 for their work to develop online training resources as social distancing measures...
23Oct
Message to all our Staff from the Council of Governors
At the quarterly LTHTR Council of Governors meeting on 22 October the Trust’s governors discussed how we were inspired by the amazing levels of skill, personal commitment, compassion, flexibility and resilience of all Lancashire Teaching Hospitals staff displayed through these unprecedented times during the Covid-19 pandemic. Governors are continuously kept informed of the pressures and...
22Oct
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals staff were shortlisted in the Intensive Care Society Awards!
We are delighted to announce that several members of our staff were nominated for the ICS (Intensive Care Society) Awards, held virtually on Tuesday 20th October. The ICS Awards aim to recognise, celebrate and share the exceptional achievements of the whole multi-professional critical care team. The ICS invited applications for a team(s), colleague(s)...
20Oct
Baby Mae says thank you with £600 donation to Preston Neo Natal Unit
The family of a little girl whose life was saved by staff at the Neonatal Unit at Royal Preston Hospital have raised more than £600 for the unit from donations received for her first birthday. Mae McGowan-Etheridge was seriously ill when she was born on October 8 last year and is making the donation through Baby Beat,...
