Trust runners raise thousands for charities

Local runners taking part in last week’s Great North Run collectively raised more than £10,000 for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s charity family of Rosemere Cancer Foundation, mums and babies charity Baby Beat and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity (LTHC).

- Julie Frankiland

The trust's clinical director of critical care services, critical care and anaesthesia consultant Dr Sudhindra Kulkarni was among 22 Rosemere Cancer Foundation runners.

Dr Kulkarni had previously cycled from Manchester to Blackpool to raise funds for the charity in tribute to late former colleague Dr Andy Gosling, who had also worked as a trust critical care and anaesthesia consultant and who lost his life to pancreatic cancer in February 2024.

Among other Rosemere runners were Dr Jessica Lane, who works at the Royal Preston Hospital, and Preston's Matt Bessent, who is director of Off Piste Digital Marketing, and Ray Cotgrave, who are both also hoping to run next year’s London Marathon for the charity, and Ilyas Patel, who trains with Blackburn Road Runners and raised more than £500.