Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Royal Preston Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |
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  Shown in Preston | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Fulwood, Preston, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | District General |
| Affiliated university | University of Central Lancashire University of Manchester University of St Andrews University of Cumbria |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Regional Major Trauma Centre |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 June 1983[citation needed] |
| Links | |
| Website | Royal Preston NHS |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
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 District General Hospital.
The Royal Preston Hospital had its grand opening on 1 June 1983, when Princess Diana officially opened the hospital. It replaced the former Preston Royal Infirmary that was located in Stanleyfield Road near the town centre.
Trust
Besides being a major healthcare services provider to over 350,000 people the Foundation Trust also provides clinical education for medical students from the University of Manchester and University of St Andrews. Both Chorley and Preston Hospitals also provide training for student nurses from the University of Central Lancashire. In January 2015 the Trust started an arrangement to train 50 nurses a year at the University of Bolton who will be guaranteed jobs at the Trust. Their studies will be funded by Student loans.[1]
The Trust uses the Single Transferable Vote voting system to elect its Members' Council.[2]
Some Medical Imaging students from the University of Cumbria are based at this trust.[clarification needed]
The trust expects to finish 2015-16 with a deficit of more than £45 million as a result of changes to the NHS tariff.[3]
Royal Preston Hospital
The hospital consists of the following:
- Accident and Emergency Department and Ward
- Critical Care Unit
- Coronary Care Unit
- 6 Medical Wards
- 2 Orthopaedic Ward
- 3 Rehabilitation Wards
- 4 Neurology Wards
- 4 Paediatric Wards
- 1 Oncology Ward
- 5 Surgical Wards and Burns and Plastics Unit
- Helipad
The Avondale Unit closed in late 2010 which offered Mental Health Services to the area, which has since moved to the sister hospital at Chorley. The hospital boasts the Cancer Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria (Rosemere Unit), network neurosurgical services, a Renal Dialysis Unit, Cardiac Catheter Suite, X-ray, CT, PET CT and MRI Scanners, with extensive outpatient departments and day case clinics. The Hospital also hosts the Sharoe Green Maternity and Gynaecology Unit which was moved from the former Sharoe Green Hospital, the Neurology Rehabilitation services were the last services to move from Sharoe Green to the Royal Preston site in 2013.
The hospital hosts several specialised services which include renal services, neurology, neurosurgery, allergy, cancer services, plastic surgery and immunology.
The trust consider themselves to be the leading provider of prostatectomies within the region, but the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust challenged this in June 2015 by installing a da Vinci Surgical System at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.[4]
Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital
In March 2016 the trust decided to downgraded the Accident and Emergency department in Chorley to the status of an urgent care centre, open from 8am to 8pm with an out of hours GP service overnight, because they were unable to attract sufficient medical staff. An ambulance will be stationed in Chorley so that patients can be rapidly transported to Preston. This is said to be a temporary move. [5]
See also
References
- ^ "New self-funded nursing course aims to address recruitment shortfall". Nursing Standard. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ NHS Foundation Trusts using STV - STV Action. Accessed 26 July 2009
- ^ "Rollover tariff trusts expect massive deficits". Health Service Journal. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ "Robot wars in Lancashire as trusts compete to be specialist site". Health Service Journal. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ "NHS hospital forced to shut down A&E department due to staff shortages". Independent. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.