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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...