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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]
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 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]
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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 Hospital.
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 ).
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland .