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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 ...
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 ]
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 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.
Sharon Gilligan, the deputy chief executive at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, said: "I want to start by saying how sorry we are to everyone who finds themselves or their family waiting for long ...
[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 ...
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 ]
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