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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 ...
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.
The Trust employs 2,900 people and has 400 volunteers. Each year the Trust treats 25,000 inpatients, 26,000 non-elective patients and 150,000 outpatients.
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 ] It became known as Primrose Bank Hospital in the 1930s and as Burnley General Hospital on the formation of the National Health Service in 1948.
The proposed locations for two new hospitals in Lancashire have been announced. A replacement for Lancashire's Royal Lancaster Infirmary will be at Bailrigg East near Lancaster University while ...
The trust said a reduction in social care provision, an increase in mental health presentations and increased complexity of care requirements were to blame. The majority of spending with private hospitals was with the Priory Group Hospital in Preston (£4 million) and £1.2 million with Cygnet Health Care. [2]
[14] [15] The new hospital facility will be on a different site to the existing location. [16] As of December 2023 the trust is still selecting a site, all shortlisted locations are in South Ribble. [17] [18] The new hospital is being built in response to the trust's chief executive claiming many parts of the existing hospital are "not fit for ...
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