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Staff from Royal Preston Hospital joined supporters to raise £6,444 for Lancashire and South Cumbria’s motor neurone disease (MND) Care and Research Centre.
The team joined patients’ families and friends to walk a 21-mile route around the Guild Wheel.
The donation raised is being shared by the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity for the Centre and the Motor Neurone Disease Association for research towards a cure for the illness.
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It was the 10th anniversary of the annual walk, organised by MND nurse and specialist Julie Sala.
She said: “A massive thank you to everyone who walked or supported the walk in any way. We had the weather on our side and the walk was a resounding success. It went great.
“The funds raised from this milestone event will go towards specialist equipment that can help our patients maintain their independence for as long as possible, as well as groundbreaking local and national research.”
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The Lancashire and South Cumbria MND Care and Research Centre, which is one of the country’s 23 national centres, provides holistic and multidisciplinary care to patients.
It also participates in several research studies, including drug trials. It is also an ENCALS (European Network to Cure ALS) and TRICALS (the largest European research initiative to find a cure for MND) centre.
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