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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.
The trust became part of Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 July 2023. It ran two major hospitals: Whiston Hospital - the primary site and trust headquarters providing emergency and acute inpatient services, alongside a maternity unit and the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit.
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 ...
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.
In November 2023 the hospital was inspected by the Care Quality Commission which graded the hospital as "Requires improvement" in two out of five categories. [9] 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 ...
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS hospital trust in Lancashire, England. It was established on 1 September 2002, [2] as the result of a locally controversial, cost saving merger of Blackburn Hyndburn & Ribble Valley NHS Trust and Burnley Health Care NHS Trust, first announced in September 1999. [3] Shazad Sarwar was appointed chair ...
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust providing health services in North Lancashire, England.It runs Blackpool Victoria Hospital which is a large busy acute hospital; two smaller community hospitals - Clifton Hospital and Fleetwood Hospital; the National Artificial Eye Service; Blenheim House Child Development Centre and community health services for ...
Hospitals in England Southport and Formby District General Hospital is an acute hospital at Kew in Southport , Merseyside . It is managed by the Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust .