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Hospital services

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) is the acute trust that serves one of the largest geographical areas in England, Lincolnshire, with a population of around 768,364, and a workforce of circa 8,531. Services are delivered by four core clinical divisions: Medicine, Surgery, Family Health, and Clinical Support, with support from our corporate services.

The Trust provides a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services, primarily operating across four hospital sites; Lincoln, Boston, Grantham and Louth.

In addition there are a number of community hospitals providing additional capacity, closer to patients’ homes; John Coupland Hospital in Gainsborough, Johnson Community Hospital in Spalding, Skegness and District Hospital and our newly established Community Diagnostic Centres at Grantham, Skegness and Lincoln.

Non-emergency patient transport services

EMAS currently provides non-emergency patient transport services (NEPTS) in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire for eligible patients who need medical or clinical support to get to and from their healthcare appointments.

Our aim is to provide a safe and reliable service to eligible patients, which gives the reassurance that they will get to their vital scheduled appointments on time. We reduce the potential anxiety that our patients may have otherwise faced in figuring out the logistics of using alternative modes of transportation which would not be able to meet their specific medical needs throughout their journey.

Find out more about the booking information and eligibility criteria from the latest NEPTS patient information leaflet.

Key achievements include:

  • Investing £15m capital into Lincoln Emergency Department to improve flow
  • A reduction of 18% in people waiting over 12 hours in our Emergency Departments
  • Developed therapy services at the front door to enable earlier access to treatment for patients
  • Developed a Group model with LCHS and established LCHG
  • Invested £2.4m in medical education facilities at Boston Pilgrim and Lincoln County Hospitals
  • Invested £41m in three community diagnostics centres across
  • Worked with Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust to improve virtual ward utilisation
  • Developed a new £5.6m Resuscitation department in the Emergency Department at Lincoln

Further information about services at ULTH can be found in our Annual Report which is here Annual reports and plans – United Lincolnshire Hospitals.

Partners

We work with a range of other organisations both within Lincolnshire and across the wider system and other Acute Trusts.