Latest news stories from ELHT

Find out what’s been going on recently at the Trust. 

Posted: 13 May 2021
Accelerating care across Lancashire and South Cumbria

We are delighted to be working together with Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS FT, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT to make some very big inroads in our collective waiting lists over the next three months.

Posted: 12 May 2021
"I go home every day knowing I've made someone happy"

This International Nurses Day, we spoke to Ayesha Shah, a Junior Sister at Pendle Community Hospital, about what it means for her to be able to give back to the community she grew up in.

Posted: 10 May 2021
Congratulations to Laura Moores, ELHT’s employee of the month

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust’s Employee of the Month accolade for April has been awarded to Laura Moores.

Posted: 7 May 2021
Maple Team is another branch to community midwifery services

Parents-to-be across East Lancashire with pre-existing diabetes, or diabetes developed during pregnancy, are now benefitting from a new specialist community team run by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Posted: 28 April 2021
Trust’s ‘Emergency Care Village’ dream moves closer

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is delighted to have completed the latest phase of work towards realising an ambitious vision of developing an ‘Emergency Care Village’ to provide a more streamlined service for patients.

Posted: 28 April 2021
ELHT staff well-being initiative influences national CQC and NHS England safeguarding policy

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is proud to be leading the way on workforce wellbeing and safeguarding after being asked to showcase one of their initiatives to the National Care Quality Commission (CQC) Safeguarding Board.

Posted: 24 April 2021
Mobile monitor donation to benefit East Lancashire parents in labour

Two mobile telemetry monitors have been donated to Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre through ELHT&Me.