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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

NHS trust · ODS code RW5

About this trust

Type: NHS acute trust
Hospitals: 2 on the CQC register
Website: www.lscft.nhs.uk

Care Quality Commission rating

Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: 2024-01-31.

Good 3 of 4 CQC bands (most recent published rating)

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.

Research output

Papers published by researchers affiliated with this trust, indexed by OpenAlex.

42 papers in 2026

2022: 61 · 2023: 109 · 2024: 114 · 2025: 100 · 2026: 42

Top subject areas:

Schizophrenia research and treatmentMental Health Treatment and AccessChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentMental Health and Patient InvolvementHealthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

See the paper list on OpenAlex →

OpenAlex, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Counts by publication year, not by when a paper's affiliation record was last updated - a recent year's count can still rise as OpenAlex indexes more of that year's output.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment. Median wait is for the latest published month; the trend covers every month since we began keeping the series.
Specialty	Median wait	Within 18 weeks	Patients waiting	Trend
All specialties	6 wks	90%	4,222	1 week longer since Jan 2026
Rheumatology	7 wks	88%	432	no change since Jan 2026
Trauma and orthopaedics	6 wks	91%	3,790	1 week longer since Jan 2026