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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 ...
The original hospital on the site was established as an infirmary for the local workhouse in February 1864. [1] Additions included a medical wing in 1903, a children's wing in 1925 and a 74-bed annexe in 1926. [1]
The original hospital on the site was established as an infirmary for the local workhouse in March 1876. [1] A new infirmary was built on the site, slightly north of the old one, in 1895. [1]
East Lancashire PCT was a large local NHS organisation. [ 1 ] The primary care trust commissioned (purchased) services as well as provides health services and was part of the strategic health authority for the North West (of England ).
Out-of-hours services are provided by East Lancashire Medical Services Limited, [7] OWLS CIC Ltd [8] (West Lancashire), Chorley Medics [9] and Bay Urgent Care. Virgin Care won a five-year contract for services previously provided by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in West Lancashire in 2016. [10]
The Pendle Community Hospital was established to replace the Reedyford Hospital which had been created by the conversion of a 19th century private house into a war memorial hospital in 1914.
The hospital has its origins in an infirmary established to support Haslingden Workhouse in 1912. [1] This infirmary was initially known as the Moorlands Infirmary and, after it had taken over the old workhouse, it became Moorlands Public Assistance Infirmary in 1945. [2]
The facility became known as the Blackburn and East Lancashire Royal Infirmary from 1914. [2] A War Memorial Wing, built to commemorate soldiers who died in the First World War, would not have been completed but for a large donation from Elma Yerburgh, Chairman of Thwaites Brewery: the wing opened in June 1928. [2]