We provide district general services at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District General Hospital for 370,000 local people, and are a specialist regional centre for trauma, cancer, neurosciences, renal, plastics and specialist mobility and rehabilitation for 1.5m people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. As a teaching hospital we work with academic partners to educate medical and nursing students, and we participate in national and international research programmes and clinical trials. We aim to provide excellent care with compassion, to every patient, every time.