About Us

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides district general hospital services to around 450,000 people in Preston, South Ribble and Chorley and specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Our mission is to always provide excellent care with compassion which we do from four facilities:

As well as providing healthcare for our local patients, we are proud to be the provider for a range of regional specialist services. These services include:

Major Trauma
Cancer (including radiotherapy, drug therapies and cancer surgery)
Disablement services such as artificial limbs and wheelchairs
Neurosciences including neurosurgery and neurology
Specialist vascular surgery
Renal services

When we were established in 2005, we were the first trust in the county to be awarded ‘teaching hospitals’ status. We believe that developing the workforce of the future is central to delivering high quality healthcare into the future. We know we are a regional leader in respect of our education, training and research and as the only NIHR clinical research facility in the region and a leading provider of undergraduate education, we will continue to drive forward the ambitions described in our education and research strategies.

Find out more about what we do here: https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/what-we-do-at-lancashire-teaching-hospitals

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Our Board

Our board of directors is a unitary board and has a wide range of skills with a number of directors having a medical, nursing or other health professional background. The non-executive directors have wide-ranging expertise and experience, with backgrounds in finance, audit, estates, property, business development, primary care, organisational development, and research. The board believes that it is balanced and complete in its composition, and appropriate to the requirements of the organisation. The board has overall responsibility for the implementation of our strategy, policy and performance.

Public board meetings are held bi-monthly and agenda papers are published in advance, which you can view here.

Each director has a unique and interesting background. If you would like to find out more about the members of board, please click here.

Our Governors

Governors are elected by patients, public and staff, or nominated by some of our partner organisations. Elections to the Council of Governors take place at the beginning of each year, and governors generally serve a three-year term of office, beginning and ending in April.

Governors attend meetings of the Council of Governors, representing their local communities, and working together to advise and influence how we develop and deliver services. This means discussing topics such as major new service developments, the annual report and accounts, and how members are being recruited and kept informed.

The Council of Governors holds four formal meetings each year and they are open to the public. The agenda papers are published in advance and are available for the current year and previous years. Regular workshops are arranged to support Governors to keep up to date about the NHS, the healthcare needs of the local community, and our strategy and performance. All members of the Council of Governors have a responsibility to declare relevant interests as defined in Sections 11.39 to 11.43 of our Constitution.

To find out more about our current public and staff governors, click here.

Our Big Plan

Our Big Plan is our strategy which defines our direction of travel and sets out what we need to do to be successful, both now and for the future. This sets out goals for the next three years to achieve our Ambitions (see below).

To turn this into reality, every year our divisional teams produce business plans, which identify what they will do to contribute to the goals set out in Our Big Plan.

Our divisional leaders engage their teams in the development of the business plans, so that each team understands what they need to do to deliver the goals, such as: changing how the service is delivered, improving processes, or implementing new quality standards.

To make all of this a reality for you, your personal objectives should link directly to the team’s priorities which in turn should be linked to Our Big Plan.

By creating this ‘golden thread’ from corporate goals, through divisional plans, team priorities and personal objectives, we are bringing together everyone’s efforts, so that we all work with a common purpose, to deliver excellent care with compassion, together.

Our Big Plan is founded on the following four Ambitions:

You can read Our Big Plan Strategy 2021-2024 here.