About Our Trust | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About Our Trust

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was established on December 1, 2007 under the National Health Service (NHS) Act 2006. In October 2010, the Trust was awarded Teaching Hospitals status and changed its named to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in recognition of this. On April 1, 2012, the Trust merged with the community health services of the former NHS Blackpool and NHS North Lancashire. On October 31, 2018, Lancashire Community Health Services transferred to the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.On March 20, 2017, the Trust’s subsidiary company BFW Management Limited (Atlas) began trading to provide the Trust’s estates services.

The Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and operates within a regional health economy catchment area that spans Lancashire and South Cumbria, supporting a population of 1.6 million. The Trust is a provider of specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services across this region. The Trust does not operate outside of the United Kingdom.

The Trust provides a range of acute services to the 352,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 18 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool. Since April 1, 2012, the Trust also provides a wide range of community health services to the 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and North Lancashire.

The Trust also hosts the National Artificial Eye Service, which provides services across England.

The Trust services are provided from the following main sites:
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Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Clifton Hospital
Fleetwood Hospital
Whitegate Health Centre
Lytham Road Primary Care Centre
South Shore Primary Care Centre
Fleetwood Primary Care Centre
Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre
National Artificial Eye Service

We work with NHS 111, local pharmacies and GP surgeries

Quality Improvement Strategy

The Quality Improvement Strategy sets out our ambition that over the next three years we will reduce our mortality rate to one that is below the national average, saving over 900 lives across the Fylde coast. The strategy sets out our three key aims: reducing preventable deaths, reducing avoidable harm and improving the last 1,000 days of life. This will be done through embedding a Quality Improvement (QI) approach across the whole organisation and committing, as a Board, to overseeing and supporting the programme.