Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the United Kingdom's thirty-two NHS Foundation Trusts. It provides healthcare for people in the Preston area and surrounding area in northwest England. The trust itself consists of Royal Preston Hospital on the northern outskirts of the city in the Fulwood area and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital, it is distinguished as being the only trust in the North West to offer some neurology services, and Royal Preston hospital is the only hospital in the United Kingdom to possess some advanced cancer scanning units, thanks to the Rosemere cancer foundation, a local charity. Besides being a major healthcare services provider to over 350,000 people the Foundation Trust also provides clinical education for medical students from the University of Manchester and University of St Andrews. The Trust uses the Single Transferable Vote voting system to elect its Members' Council.