East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

What East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust does

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a publicly funded NHS Trust operating a multi-site network of acute and community hospitals across East Lancashire, headquartered at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital. Founded in 2003 and employing 5,001–10,000 staff, the Trust provides emergency, elective, maternity, diagnostic, cancer, rehabilitation, and community healthcare services to a local population of approximately 530,000 and tertiary services (notably urology, robotic surgery, and hepatobiliary care) to roughly 1.6 million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Major sites include Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (a major trauma unit, NICU, and stroke centre), Burnley General Teaching Hospital (Lancashire Elective Centre), and community hospitals in Accrington, Clitheroe, and Pendle.

The Trust operates on a public funding model: services are commissioned by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board and provided free at the point of use to UK residents under the NHS Constitution. Revenue is not commercially disclosed. Digital health capability includes electronic patient records, the Attend Anywhere video consultation platform, a patient engagement portal, and the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) programme co-developed with Lancaster University, ELAROS 24/7 Ltd, SameYou, and Health Innovation North West Coast, which has supported more than 1,000 neurological patients and is positioned for national NHS adoption. Enterprise imaging runs on a GBP 27.5 million Sectra One Cloud contract, and Community Diagnostics Centres use Canon Medical Systems CT and ultrasound equipment.

ELHT holds teaching hospital status, was the first Lancashire Trust to establish Da Vinci robotic surgery, and operates the world's first fully integrated hospital-to-community pharmacy referral system. The Trust is governed by a public Trust Board under NHS England accountability, with the ELHT&Me charity supporting patient services. Customer segments are NHS patient populations geographically defined within commissioning catchment; named strategic partners include Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Lancashire Vision Screening Service), Lancashire County Council, and the academic and industry consortium behind NROL.

Name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Legal name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Website

https://elht.nhs.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a publicly funded multi-site NHS Trust operating acute and community hospitals across East Lancashire, serving 530,000 local residents and 1.6 million tertiary patients through Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Teaching Hospitals and community sites.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute and Community Hospital Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (6221), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (622110), Hospitals (622)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Community & Regional General Hospitals (HLAFAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hospital-at-Home & Virtual Ward IoT (HLACAPAC)

Keywords

• Acute hospital services
• Community healthcare
• Emergency care
• Diagnostic imaging
• Digital rehabilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Blackburn

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust operates a multi-site network of acute and community hospitals delivering NHS-funded healthcare services across East Lancashire and parts of Lancashire and South Cumbria. Its portfolio spans emergency and urgent care, maternity, cancer, major trauma, robotic surgery, specialist tertiary services (urology, hepatobiliary), diagnostic imaging, pathology, and community-based rehabilitation. The Trust also delivers digital health services including Electronic Patient Records, video consultations, and the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) remote rehabilitation programme.

Product overview

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides comprehensive NHS acute and community-based healthcare services across East Lancashire and parts of Lancashire and South Cumbria. The trust operates a multi-site hospital network including Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, Burnley General Teaching Hospital, and several community hospitals. The trust offers a broad portfolio of digital health services including the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) programme for remote neurological rehabilitation, video consultations via Attend Anywhere, electronic patient records, and patient engagement portals. Clinical services span emergency and urgent care, major trauma, cancer services, robotic surgery using Da Vinci technology, maternity services, diagnostic imaging (X-ray, MRI, CT, ultrasound, nuclear medicine), endoscopy, laboratory medicine, rehabilitation services (cardiac, pulmonary, neuro, community), and specialist services including urology, urogynaecology, and stroke care. The trust partners with external technology providers including Sectra for enterprise imaging, Canon Medical Systems for diagnostic equipment, and Lancaster University for research and innovation programmes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ELHT&ME: The official charity of East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, supporting hospital services and patient care.

Products and services

• Emergency and Urgent Care Services 24/7 Emergency Department at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Urgent Treatment Centres at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital, providing assessment and treatment for serious injuries and non-life-threatening emergencies.
• Maternity and Newborn Services Comprehensive maternity services including the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre, with a Maternity Triage pathway supporting patients through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
• Cancer Services Comprehensive cancer care including out-patient clinics, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up across all tumour sites, with chemotherapy units at both main hospitals.
• Robotic Surgery (Da Vinci) State-of-the-art robotic surgical procedures using the Da Vinci system, including robotic radical prostatectomy and other minimally invasive procedures. East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was the first Trust in Lancashire to establish robotic surgery.
• Major Trauma Unit Specialised trauma unit at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Major Trauma Network.
• Stroke Unit Dedicated ward at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital for patients who have had or are suspected of having had a stroke.
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Intensive care unit for newborn babies requiring specialised medical attention and support.
• Critical Care Unit Intensive care unit for critically ill patients requiring constant monitoring and organ support from highly trained staff.
• Diagnostic Imaging Services Diagnostic and therapeutic imaging including X-ray, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, Radiology and Community Diagnostics Centres equipped with advanced CT and ultrasound technology from Canon Medical Systems.
• Endoscopy Range of endoscopic procedures of the gastrointestinal tract including diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and flexible sigmoidoscopy.
• Clinical Laboratory Medicine (Pathology) Laboratory services including Blood Sciences (Biochemistry, Haematology, Blood Transfusion), Microbiology, and Cellular Pathology.
• Lancashire Elective Centre Elective surgery centre located at Burnley General Teaching Hospital for planned surgical procedures.
• Community Heart Failure Nursing Service Specialist nursing service providing expert care to patients with diagnosed heart failure, confirmed by echocardiogram.
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Service Patient-centred service optimising health and wellbeing and minimising risk of recurrent cardiac events for eligible patients.
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Course designed to help patients with long-term lung conditions such as COPD, bronchiectasis or pulmonary fibrosis.
• Neuro Rehabilitation

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Lancaster UniversityflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Partnership with Lancaster University to develop the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) digital rehabilitation programme, which delivers multidisciplinary rehabilitation remotely to patients with neurological conditions. The programme won the Advancing Healthcare Award 2026 for best collaboration across clinical, academia and industry.
• ELAROS 24/7 LtdcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Co-development partner in the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) programme, working alongside the NHS Trust and academic partners to deliver digital rehabilitation services.
• SameYoucoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Co-development partner in the NeuroRehabilitation OnLine (NROL) programme, contributing to digital neurorehabilitation service delivery for patients with neurological conditions.
• Health Innovation North West CoastcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Health Innovation Network partner supporting the NROL digital rehabilitation programme, positioned for wider national adoption as an NHS-commissioned service.
• Lancashire County CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioning partner for the Lancashire Vision Screening Service (LaVSS), a first-of-its-kind orthoptic-led vision screening service run jointly with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint operating partner with East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust for the Lancashire Vision Screening Service (LaVSS), recognised as a model service by the British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Another acute NHS trust in Lancashire operating Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley District Hospital, sharing the same ICS, similar teaching status, and a directly overlapping tertiary catchment in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Neighbouring acute NHS trust on the Lancashire coast, co-operates with ELHT on the Lancashire Vision Screening Service and shares the Lancashire & South Cumbria ICS footprint.
• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: Large NHS foundation trust formed from Salford Royal and Pennine Acute, operating multiple acute and community hospitals across Greater Manchester with a comparable integrated multi-site teaching model.
• Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust: Multi-site acute NHS trust of similar size and teaching status in West Yorkshire, providing a directly comparable model of integrated acute, elective and community services.
• United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Multi-site acute NHS trust covering a similarly large, semi-rural catchment with comparable workforce scale and digital health adoption profile.
• Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: West Yorkshire acute NHS foundation trust of comparable scale and teaching status, providing a useful benchmark for elective centre configuration and digital patient engagement.

Broad incumbents

• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust: The largest NHS trust in the UK by turnover, operating major teaching hospitals across Greater Manchester; competes with ELHT for tertiary referrals from the North West and shares digital rehabilitation and major trauma pathways.

Regional players

• Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: Combined acute and community NHS trust in Greater Manchester, similar size band and integrated care model, serving an adjacent North West population.

Others

• ELAROS 24/7 Ltd: Co-development partner on the NROL digital rehabilitation programme; a digital health SME whose platform underpins ELHT's flagship neurorehabilitation product and is a natural adjacent peer in the rehab-tech ecosystem.
• Health Innovation North West Coast: Regional Academic Health Science Network partner supporting the diffusion of NROL; not a competing provider but a comparable NHS-aligned innovation intermediary shaping ELHT's adoption pathway.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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