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Royal Preston Sharoe Green Hospitals
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Description
Royal Preston Hospital is part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals which was successful in becoming the first Foundation Trust in the county It provides a range of acute services to local residents serving an area of around 390000 It also provides specialist services such as plastic surgery renal cancer and brain surgery to 15 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals which runs the hospital has an annual turnover of pound300 million and offers a wide range of services to 390000 local people including 24 hour accident and emergency facilities Intensive high dependency and coronary care units General medicine including elderly care General surgery and urology Child health Ear nose and throat surgery Orthopaedics Maternity services such as gynaecology Anaesthetics Oral and maxillofacial surgery Ophthalmology and support services for diagnosis and treatment such as pathology xray physiotherapy occupational therapy and specialist nurses The Trust also serves around 1frac12 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria with specialist services Neurosurgery and neurology Oncology and complex cancer surgery Renal Burns and plastic surgery and Disablement services such as artificial limbs and wheelchairs
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