Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Preston Hospital
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Shown in Preston
Geography
Location Fulwood, Preston, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 53°47′31″N 2°42′22″W / 53.792°N 2.706°W / 53.792; -2.706Coordinates: 53°47′31″N 2°42′22″W / 53.792°N 2.706°W / 53.792; -2.706
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type Teaching Hospital
Affiliated university University of Central Lancashire
University of Manchester
University of St Andrews
University of Cumbria
Services
Emergency department Yes, and Major Trauma Centre
History
Founded 1 June 1983
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 Trust Staff and external delegates under the brand of "The Health Academy" in addition to teaching 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.

Performance

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]

In March 2018 it was the third worst performer in England in A&E, with only 53.3% of patients seen within 4 hours.[4]

Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

Nursing staff at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital A&E department complained of having to work shifts of up to 17 hours and threatened to start finishing their shifts on schedule if the situation is not resolved. A&E consultants at Royal Preston Hospital wrote to the Board raised concerns over unsafe staffing and dangerous levels of overcrowding in the A&E department. The operations director and three divisional directors resigned in April 2018. [5]

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.[6]

Notable patients

Those reported to have died at the hospital include the 6th Duke of Westminster who died on 9 August 2016, after suffering a heart attack at his Abbeystead estate.[7][8]

Actor Thomas Gardner underwent emergency surgery at the hospital on the morning of February 9, 2016 after suffering from a perforated duodenal ulcer.

Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital

In March 2016 the trust decided to downgrade the 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.[9] In January 2017 the trust reinstated the ED at Chorley on a part-time 12 hour basis with the UCC operating 24/7 run by GTD healthcare.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New self-funded nursing course aims to address recruitment shortfall". Nursing Standard. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ NHS Foundation Trusts using STV - STV Action. Accessed 26 July 2009
  3. ↑ "Rollover tariff trusts expect massive deficits". Health Service Journal. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "Trusts' A&E performance goes sub 50 per cent as NHS hits new low". Health Service Journal. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Four senior resignations at struggling hospital trust". Health Service Journal. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Robot wars in Lancashire as trusts compete to be specialist site". Health Service Journal. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Billionaire landowner Duke of Westminster dies". 10 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "Duke of Westminster died of heart attack, coroner's office confirms". The Telegraph. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "NHS hospital forced to shut down A&E department due to staff shortages". Independent. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
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