News & Events

25-06-2024 | Latest News

WWL Appoints New Chief Operating Officer

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Brennan as the Trust’s new permanent Chief Operating Officer. A pharmacist...

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25-06-2024 | Latest News

Junior Doctors at Wigan Borough Hospitals Set to Strike Again

Services at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) are braced for another round of industrial action this week, with junior doctors set to strike for the...

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18-06-2024 | Latest News

Trust Opens Applications for Engineering Apprenticeships

Ahead of National Estates and Facilities Day (19th June) Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to announce the first recruitment of Trade/Engineering Apprenticeships for...

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14-06-2024 | Latest News

WWL Appoints New Chief Nursing Officer

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Trust’s new permanent Chief Nursing Officer. Kevin Parker-Evans, who has held...

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03-06-2024 | Latest News

WWL celebrates 40th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) will join hospitals, charities and voluntary sector organisations throughout the UK to celebrate and thank their volunteers during National Volunteers’...

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29-05-2024 | Latest News

Martha’s Rule Pilot Scheme Set to Commence at WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is delighted to have been chosen by NHS England (NHSE) as one of the 143 NHS Trusts in England for a...

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28-05-2024 | Latest News

Trust’s Diabetes Colleagues Named as Finalists For Prestigious National Award

A specialist nurse and community team from Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) have been shortlisted as finalists at the Diabetes Nursing Awards 2024. Demonstrating outstanding commitment,...

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23-05-2024 | Latest News

Furry Friends Pay a Very Special Visit to Leigh Infirmary Patients

Patients at a Leigh Infirmary Reablement Unit were visited by some furry friends to support their rehabilitation and wellbeing. Marmalade and Double Decker, two alpacas from Poppywood Alpacas, Horwich, arrived...

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22-05-2024 | Latest News

Improving Patient Experience With The Help from Local Students

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s (WWL) Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit (Frailty SDEC), together with Wigan and Leigh College, is providing innovative engagement sessions...

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14-05-2024 | Latest News

Special Event to Celebrate WWL Nursing, Midwifery and ODP Staff

Nurses, Midwives and Operating Department Practitioners (ODP) were thanked and recognised for their hard work at a special event held in their honour by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals...

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07-05-2024 | Latest News

WWL’s Capital Estates Team Nominated For Prestigious National Award

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is pleased to announce that its Capital Estates Team has been nominated for the Team of the Year Award at...

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18-04-2024 | Latest News

Further update: Important message for patients attending appointments at the Thomas Linacre Centre

We can confirm that we have now reinstated power at the Thomas Linacre Centre and the site is operational.  We are advising patients who have appointments this afternoon to please...

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