A team responsible for rolling out new staffing software to the Trust’s clinical nursing wards has been presented with a Going The Extra Mile Award. Jed Walton-Pollard, the Trust’s Deputy Director of Nursing, was nominated with his team by colleague Natalie Hill for their work on implementing and rolling out Safecare. Safecare is used to […]
A new unit helping care for cancer patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital is receiving praise after opening during the pandemic to already support almost 300 patients, 80 per cent of whom would have otherwise ended up attending the hospital’s Emergency Department (ED). The new Acute Oncology Triage Unit, within the Oncology and Haematology Unit, is […]
Doctors at a leading cardiac centre are urging Fylde coast residents to recognise the signs of a heart attack so they don’t miss out on potentially life saving treatment. Dr Billal Patel, consultant cardiologist at the Lancashire Cardiac Centre based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital believes a significant number of heart attack cases are going untreated as patients […]
Clifton Hospital has welcomed a new member to the team who will be supporting staff training across the Lytham St Annes site. Donna Hargreaves, Clifton’s first Practice Development (PD) Nurse, is now on hand to provide the same quality training and education opportunities as colleagues across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Donna has been […]
A specialist Nurse Consultant with a background advising on cutting-edge international health programmes has joined the team at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s Haematology department. Mylene Freires steps up from a role where she spent three years as the first Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to be recruited to the hospital’s Haematology department. Prior to that she was […]
Nursing staff on Ward 34 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital have received a Going The Extra Mile award for their ‘outstanding care and attention.’ The staff have been nominated by colleagues in the Acute Response Team who praised them for their care and compassion. Sister Elizabeth Walsh of the Ward 34 nursing team, said: “It was […]
Anyone aged 65 to 69 who has not been vaccinated is now being urged to respond to their recent invite to get their life-saving coronavirus vaccine at one of the more than seven vaccination centres and nine pharmacy-led sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Due to the continued success of the programme and the availability […]
A BLACKPOOL man who spent 84 days in hospital with Covid has praised the “world class’’ NHS teams who helped him return home. For Mr Tushar Das, the opportunity to continue his rehabilitation at home after falling ill with Covid-19 was a welcome return. Tushar had spent almost three months in Blackpool Victoria Hospital, including […]
Neil Berrigan, Clinical Skills Facilitator at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, has won a Going The Extra Mile Award after being nominated by his colleagues. Neil, based in the Skills and Simulation team on the second floor of Blackpool Victoria Hospital, helps facilitate the rolling programme of training for clinical staff. Staff from across the Trust access […]
PATIENTS recovering from Covid are being helped by a small group of specialist therapists at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Ella Vickers, a Speech and Language therapist in the Trust’s Speech and Language Therapy team, is helping Intensive Care patients, including those with Covid-19, to be able to swallow food and drink once they […]