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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool Teaching hospital provides services across the Fylde coast, Lancashire and south Cumbria, area that is home to 1.6 million people.  A range of hospital services is provided to the 352,000 people living on the Fylde coast and the estimated 18 million visitors who visit each year. The Trust offers community health services to 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and north Lancashire. We also provide specialist regional care for cardiac and haematology patients.  

Our values "Caring, Safe and Respectful" help to represent the culture of the Trust and to communicate who we are and how we do things.  

More information on Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust can be found here: Blackpool teaching Hospitals - Google Search.

At Blackpool, the Medical Education team prides itself on the friendly and supporting learning environment they create as well as the first rate quality of teaching they provide. 

Welcome to Blackpool

Placement opportunities

  • Varied teaching programme.
  • Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre.
  • One of the busiest emergency departments in the country.
  • Tertiary Cardiac Centre.
  • Varied SAMP Placements. 

Clinical skills provision

  • Purpose built clinical skills and simulation centre.
  • Offers open access Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm to its learning zone, which also has Zappa App forms available. 
  • Provides a dedicated simulation program for fourth year medical students focusing on A to E, managing an unwell/deteriorating patient and human factors, and provides all necessary clinical skills, training and revision sessions for all our students. 
  • Provides a bespoke simulation programme for fifth year students designed to prepare students for their foundation year.

What's unique?

  • Accommodation situated close to the hospital.  
  • High student to consultant ratio.
  • Excellent facilities, including 24/7 library and an education centre.
  • Clinical Fellows in Education supporting the Undergraduate Programme. 
  • Outstanding Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre.
  • Excellent pastoral support for students.
  • Coffee and Cake Sessions. 
  • Out of hours teaching programme.
  • Foundation year bedside teaching programme.