Services

Patients are sent to the AMU from the Emergency Department for additional tests and treatment following the decision that they will need to be admitted.

This well established department operating from modern, high quality facilities provides hearing and balance care for the local population. We provide services for testing your hearing and fitting digital hearing aids, including aural rehabilitation where appropriate.

The unit accommodates patients that are able to walk and have not been assessed as being at any risk of harm. The patients in the department will have on-going clinical supervision and will receive relevant treatment to help them return home more quickly.

The Department of Anaesthesia provides anaesthesia to allow patients to undergo operations and procedures in comfort and safety. This may be a local anaesthetic where the patient remains awake, a local anaesthetic with sedation to make the patient drowsy or a full general anaesthetic where the patient will be asleep.

The Paediatric Audiology Service is delivered by a team of professionals with specialist training in assessing hearing and managing hearing loss in children. The service also has a newborn hearing screening team which screens babies at birth for hearing loss.

The End of Life and Bereavement Team offers support to the relatives and friends of people who have died in hospital. We wish to offer our sincere sympathy to you, your family and friends in your bereavement.

Formerly called the Continence Service, the Bladder and Bowel Service provides a specialist nursing assessment, treatment and management service for those individuals experiencing bladder and bowel incontinence and chronic bladder and bowel conditions from the age of 4 years old.

Screening means looking for early signs of a disease in healthy people who do not have symptoms. Bowel cancer screening aims to detect bowel cancer at an early stage when treatment is more likely to work.

Provide Breast Imaging for both the National Breast Screening Programme and the Symptomatic Breast Service

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has an established Breast Service. There are four consultant surgeons, three consultant radiologists and a consultant mammographer who are all specialists in breast diseases.

A list of the breast surgery and treatments that we provide

If you are concerned about a noticeable change or deterioration in a patient’s condition, this helpline will provide support

The Trust’s Cancer Service delivers cancer care, including out-patient clinics, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up services across all tumour sites.

The overall aim of the cardiac rehabilitation service is to provide all patients who fulfill the referral criteria with a patient-centred service which optimises their health and well-being and minimises the risk of recurrent cardiac events.

The Cardiology Department provides a comprehensive cardiac service treating all aspects of adult acute and chronic heart disease. Cardiology is a branch of medicine which deals with the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. Cardiology includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology.

What is a cardiopulmonary exercise test?

The Chaplains are available to speak with you whether you are a person of faith or not. The hopes and fears, worries and aspirations of every human person means each individual has spiritual and pastoral needs. Sometimes it helps to have someone alongside to think things through - someone with the time to listen.

The Chemotherapy Unit at Royal Blackburn Hospital provides treatment for both oncology and haematology patients, who live within the East Lancashire area.

The Chemotherapy Unit at Burnley General Teaching Hospital provides treatment for both oncology and haematology patients, who live within the East Lancashire area.

The Children and Young People's Team provide a family centred service, meeting the health care needs of children, young people and their families both in the hospital and within the community.

There are three main disciplines within Clinical Laboratory Medicine (Pathology). 1) Blood Sciences - which has sections covering Biochemistry, Haematology and Blood Transfusion. 2) Microbiology - the study of disease causing micro-organisms – bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. 3) Cellular Pathology - which has sections covering Histology, Cytology and Andrology.

Our six outpatient departments provide facilities to accommodate patients who are attending for initial consultations and follow-on care or undergoing diagnostic, therapeutic and minor surgical procedures

Colonoscopy is one of the numerous investigative procedures carried out by the Endoscopy Team.

Colorectal surgery deals with repairing damaged bowels caused by disorders within the rectum, anus and colon. The overall treatment may also involve a wider team including specialist nurses, dieticians and consultants.

We are a small team of specialist nurses providing expert care to patients with a diagnosis of Heart failure confirmed by echocardiogram.

The Community Rehabilitation team works within the community to support patients that have deteriorated in their ability to manage at home because of a change in their health.

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust we are committed to delivering high quality and efficient services which provide patients, their family and carers with the best possible experience.

The CCU is a purpose built 10 bedded unit that patients are admitted to for diagnosis and treatment of acute heart problems.

We look after critically ill patients whose conditions can be life-threatening and who need constant, close monitoring and organ support from highly trained staff, equipment and medication.

People living with Dementia and those affected by the condition access all of our services and it is a priority in the Trust for care to be designed, developed and continually improved to be suitable for patients living with Dementia and their carers. 

The Dermatology Service at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) provides a service for those in East Lancashire with severe or complex skin disease and skin cancer.

As the result of a year- long service redesign programme, health experts across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen have come together to improve the way diabetes care is delivered.

Dietetics is the professional application of the science of nutrition in health and disease to all groups of people.

The District Nurses provide complex clinical care to patients living in their own homes. Working together the aim is to work with patients to empower them to self manage long term conditions and prevent avoidable hospital admission.

We provide Patient Services including a cleaning service across all Trust properties 365 days per year

Our DVT Service is an innovate collaboration between primary care and secondary care.

We provide a comprehensive list of treatments related to general ENT problems including treatment in the fields of complex rhinology (nose and sinus problems), otology (complex ear problems) and head, neck and thyroid cancers

Supports patients and families with neurological conditions to prevent or reduce hospital admissions and to reduce consultant and GP visits.

The Lancashire Elective Centre is located on Level 0 Area 6 of the Burnley General Teaching Hospital.

Staff in the Emergency Department assess and treat people with serious injuries and those in need of emergency treatment (blue light emergencies).

The End of Life and Bereavement Team offers support to the relatives and friends of people who have died in hospital.

Here at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust we offer a range of endoscopic procedures of the gastrointestinal tract. This includes diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of the upper GI tract (gastroscopy), colon (colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy).

The Integrated Eye Service provides an extensive range of eye services for both adults and children.

Many falls can be prevented and by making some small changes, you can keep safe from falling. STEADY On! is a proven approach to help reduce your risk of falls and injury and to keep you independent, safe and steady.

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust we are committed to delivering high quality and efficient services which provide patients, their family and carers with the best possible experience. Tell us how we are doing, good or bad.

Part of the Trauma and Orthopaedic service, the fracture clinic is based at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.

We would appreciate two minutes of your time to fill out a very short survey called the Friends and Family Test where you will be asked if you would recommend our services to a friend or relative.

The General Office provides a number of administrative services.

Gynaecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system (uterus, vagina and ovaries). It can also be called Women's Health Services.

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The Paediatric Audiology Service is delivered by a team of professionals with specialist training in assessing hearing and managing hearing loss in children. The service also has a newborn hearing screening team which screens babies at birth for hearing loss.

The Heart Failure Nursing Team review patients referred by consultants or GPs from a hospital setting, or as an outpatient or via your GP.

The Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary (HPB) service in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has an expert multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that provides the latest treatments for all conditions, including cancers, affecting the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas.

Hepatology is the branch of medicine that looks at prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases that affect the liver, gall bladder, bile ducts and pancreas.

We provide the transportation of goods and services within the East Lancashire area and beyond, covering all hospitals sites, GP practices, and NHS clinics.

See also 'Maternity and Newborn services'

The Infection Prevention and Control team work hard to ensure that patients receive the very highest standard of healthcare. Although the risk of getting an infection whilst in hospital is low, careful attention to infection prevention and control is a crucial part of keeping our patients safe.

The infusion suite is a nurse-led unit which delivers a wide variety of infusions, injections and clinics.

The Integrated Eye Service provides an extensive range of eye services for both adults and children.

We are often known as MSK (Musculoskeletal) or Physio (Physiotherapy). A musculoskeletal problem may relate to a variety of symptoms or conditions arising from muscles, bones, joints, nerves, tendons or ligaments. Common conditions treated are neck and back pain, osteoarthritis and sports injuries.

A team of clinical staff will assess, investigate, support and help you avoid any unnecessary hospital admissions or to help you to return home from hospital where possible.

Lancashire and South Cumbria ODN is working locally towards implementing NHS England’s goal of eliminating hepatitis C in the UK ahead of the WHO global target of 2030. In doing so we aim to provide a safe, personal, and effective service with compassion to our patients and our partner organisations in order to support our patients through treatment.

The Lancashire Vision Screening Service, commissioned by Lancashire County Council and run by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the first of its kind to be introduced in the country. The orthoptic-led service has been ‘highly commended’ by the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS), with support from leading eye health experts as a ‘model service’ that should be implemented across the country.

A laundry has existed on what is now the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital site for at least 100 years.

If you (or someone you care for) are coming to hospital, for any reason, let us know and we can help and support you.

The Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary (HPB) service in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has an expert multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that provides the latest treatments for all conditions, including cancers, affecting the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas.

The Lower Limb Vascular Team provides care and treatment on most aspects of leg care.

The Lymphodema service specialises in the management of lymphodema (a long term swelling of one part of the body ) and provides numerous treatments to aid towards a supported care plan.

The Macmillan Cancer Information Service at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital provides a confidential drop-in service for anyone affected by cancer.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a safe painless test that uses magnetic field and radio waves to produce detailed pictures of the body organs and structures, and has no known harmful effects.

Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital is a (Major) Trauma Unit within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Major Trauma Network.

Our maternity services are available to help you through your pregnancy, birth and early parenthood to ensure your baby has the best start in life.

The ME service is an independent review system, developed following a number of high-profile investigations into patient deaths to provide greater safeguarding to the public around certification of death.

The Medicines Support Team provide support for people in their home and operates as part of ELHT Pharmacy Services.

The department provides a mortuary service to ELHT hospital sites.

We are part of the Integrated Musculoskeletal, Pain and Rheumatology Service.

See also 'Maternity and Newborn Services'

Nuclear medicine investigations are commonly used to investigate physiological changes and/or different disease processes.

The aim of Occupational Therapy is to help people who are temporarily or permanently limited in their ability to carry out these everyday activities, because of an operation, accident or illness, to be as independent as possible in these daily activities.

We provide a comprehensive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery service for our local population of approximately 530,000. We are a six consultant led service across two hospitals.

Orthodontics is the part of dentistry that is involved with monitoring the development of the teeth and jaws and then treating any associated abnormalities.

Orthoptists see patients with a wide range of conditions affecting their vision. Patients may be directly experiencing symptoms such as blurred, oscillating or double vision, or they may exhibit outward signs, such as misalignment or uncontrolled movement of the eyes or abnormal head positions.

The Orthotic department provides a wide range of orthoses for all parts of the body. An orthosis is an external device that is used to correct, accommodate or maintain good positioning of bones and joints by helping to rest, protect or support you.

The Department of Health has placed a legal responsibility on every NHS Trust to identify and charge all Overseas Visitors using our services.

The Paediatric Physiotherapy team at East Lancashire Hospitals provides a service to children and young people living in Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, the Ribble Valley and Blackburn with Darwen who have a registered GP within this area.

We offer a wide range of health services for children across East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

The Pain Management Service is a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of clinicians who specialise in the treatment and management of patients with varying degrees of persistent and problematic pain.

Palliative Care is provided to patients who have progressive, incurable conditions and people who are approaching the end of their life.

The Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary (HPB) service in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has an expert multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that provides the latest treatments for all conditions, including cancers, affecting the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas.

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust we are committed to delivering high quality and efficient services which provide patients, their family and carers with the best possible experience. Tell us how we are doing, good or bad.

The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) is now managing the Patient Transport Service in Lancashire.

The Pharmacy Department provides a wide range of pharmaceutical services to a number of users, including all wards, clinics and departments, local hospices and community hospitals.

The homecare service helps organise the provision, delivery and administration of medications for treatment within a patient’s home.

Part of the Integrated Musculoskeletal, Pain and Rheumatology Service, Phyiotherapy provides inpatient and outpatient services Physiotherapy to help restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability.

The POG Physiotherapy Service provides outpatient physiotherapy assessment and intervention for people with a range of bladder and bowel problems as well as pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.

The Podiatry Service provides assessment, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions affecting the feet and lower limbs.

Porters carry out a variety of tasks around the Trust such as transporting patients in beds or wheelchairs inside the hospital, maintaining entrances and exits, transporting specimens or medicines, collecting and delivering internal post and providing medical gases.

The perioperative medicine and anaesthetic departments work together....

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a course designed to help patients who have long-term lung conditions. This could be COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), bronchiectasis or pulmonary fibrosis.

Radiology provides diagnostic and therapeutic imaging services for ELHT. Images are obtained using a wide variety of specialist equipment and techniques, operated by a skilled team of radiographers, radiologists and assistant practitioners.

The Neurorehabilitation Service is a specialised interdisciplinary pathway for patients with disabling neurological conditions.

Refer-to-Pharmacy is the world’s first fully integrated hospital to community pharmacy referral system. It allows the hospital pharmacy team to work with community pharmacists to help our patients get the best from their medicines and to stay healthy at home.

Our researchers design and carry out clinical research studies, and work with patient and public representatives, and our university and industry partners, to help develop the treatments of the future.

The Integrated Respiratory Service is a highly specialised respiratory nurse and exercise team providing respiratory services to patients who live in the Pennine Lancashire area.

As part of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in East Lancashire the service provides specialist level dental/oral assessment, diagnosis, advice and rehabilitation management for patients.

The service provides specialist level dental and oral assessments, diagnosis, advice and rehabilitation management for patients

Rheumatology is part of an integrated model for managing musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, rheumatology and pain services.

Rheumatology Physiotherapists help to restore movement and function when it is affected by their rheumatological diagnosis.

The free hospital shuttle bus service has now ceased with new arrangements in place from April 1, 2025.

Speech and Language Therapy is provided to adults across Pennine Lancashire in their own homes, in hospital and out patient clinics. Services are delivered by qualified and registered Speech and Language Therapists.

STEADY On! is a proven approach to help reduce your risk of falls and injury and to keep you independent, safe and steady.

The Acute Stroke Unit is on level 2 at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and is a dedicated ward for those patients who have had or are suspected of having had a stroke.

SAECU is an emergency surgical clinic covering six specialities:General Surgery, Urology, Vascular, Maxillo-Facial, ENT and Trauma & Orthopaedics

The switchboard is a 24 hour service, handling all calls to the main hospital numbers: 01254 263555 or 01282 425071

The East Lancashire TB Service provide specialist nursing care to support patients and their families in the community and promote compliance with TB treatment

We are a holistic service based at Burnley General Teaching Hospital for women stressed by an unwanted pregnancy who wish to discuss their options.

The therapy teams are health care professionals that include physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and dietitians.

The Tissue Viability Nurses and Dietitians are experienced in preventing and healing wounds.

The Tobacco Inpatient Service are a team of Specialist Tobacco Dependency Advisors who are on hand to support patients during their stay in hospital to help keep them comfortable from nicotine withdrawal.

Orthopaedics is the branch of medicine which focuses on treating the musculoskeletal system. This includes muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, and tendons.

The East Lancashire Treatment Room Service provides face to face and a direct point of access for patients requiring specific treatments.

Ensuring that all patients referred to gastroscopy and are suitable for nurse-led care receive a telephone safety assessment with suitable investigations arranged in an appropriate time frame

We offer a specialist service for women with problems with urinary incontinence (leaking urine from the bladder) and pelvic floor problems (prolapse) and problems after childbirth. We understand how these problems can affect every part of day to day life and our aim is to help improve your quality of life.

The urology service provides high quality care to a local population of 530,000 along with tertiary care to a population of 1.6 million in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The aim of the Urology Prostate Rapid Diagnostic Service (RDS) is to support patients with a suspected prostate cancer diagnosis. The service has been set up to ensure that all patients referred by a GP to a nurse-led service, which assesses patients and suitable investigations are arranged in an appropriate time frame, with prompt and appropriate communication of the results.

Ward B14 at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital is for people undergoing and recovering from urology surgery.

The Emergency Surgical Unit (ESU) is the admission point for all urgent surgical patients. The unit cares for short stay surgical patients both pre and post-operatively.

An X-ray is a quick and painless procedure commonly used to produce images of the inside of the body, much like a photograph. X-rays are a type of radiation that can pass through the body. They can't be seen by the naked eye and you can't feel them.