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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the United Kingdom's NHS Foundation Trusts. It provides healthcare for people in the Preston area and surrounding area in northwest England. The trust runs Royal Preston Hospital on the northern outskirts of the city in the Fulwood area and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust responded to the report stating that the COVID-19 backlog was responsible for a number of their ratings falling below the previous levels. [8] [9] A new extension to the hospital was also announced in the same month, to provide additional services for Day-of-Surgery Admissions patients. [10]
The hospital had its origins in a House of Recovery constructed between 1829 and 1833. [1] It was extended by James Hibbert between 1866 and 1870 [3] to create the Preston and County of Lancaster Royal Infirmary; this facility became the Preston and County of Lancaster Queen Victoria Royal Infirmary in 1929. [4]
Ormskirk District General Hospital – Lancashire [4] Pendle Community Hospital, Lancashire; Prestwich Hospital – Bury, Greater Manchester; Queen Victoria Hospital – Morecambe; Rochdale Infirmary; Royal Albert Edward Infirmary – Wigan; Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital – Blackburn; Royal Bolton Hospital – Farnworth, near Bolton
Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust merged into Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in 2002; Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust merged into Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in 2004; Priority Health Care, Wearside NHS Trust merged into South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust in 2002
In 2013/14 the trust sent 251 patients to private hospitals at a cost of £3.6m, an increase from 2012/13 when there were 136 referrals at a cost of £2.1m. The trust said a reduction in social care provision, an increase in mental health presentations and increased complexity of care requirements were to blame.
The trust was formed on 1 July 2023, following regulatory approval of a merger between Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The trusts had already been working in close partnership after an agreement between the two trusts was signed in September 2021, meaning that the trusts would ...
Healthcare in Lancashire in 2015 was the responsibility of seven clinical commissioning groups covering Blackpool, Chorley and South Ribble, East Lancashire, Fylde and Wyre, Greater Preston, Lancaster North and West Lancashire.