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In 1929 it became known as the Queen's Park Institution, a name which evolved to become the Queen's Park Hospital. [1] A new hospital, to be known as the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2003 to replace the Queen's Park Hospital and the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. [2]
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.
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital – Blackburn; Royal Bolton Hospital – Farnworth, near Bolton; Royal Lancaster Infirmary – Lancaster;
Patients have been warned to expect waits of up to 15 hours at one hospital. The Royal Blackburn Hospital had 127 patients in its emergency department earlier, including what it said was a "high ...
It became a teaching PCT in 2007, having survived a series of mergers intact. [ 4 ] Between 1982 and 1994 the local healthcare fundholders for this area was known as the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley District Health Authority , which came under the Lancashire Area Health Authority (which has now been replaced by the North West Region SHA).
As part of a plan to rationalise acute and tertiary healthcare in the local area, most of the services transferred to the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in July 2006, and the infirmary site was sold to Barratt Developments. [2] The War Memorial Wing was demolished in February 2015. [4]
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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.