The group involved in the #DareToBeGreat project arranged by Fable Arts and Ludus Dance enjoyed some #dementia awareness training yesterday with Clifton Ward 1 Manager Linda and her team. Fable Arts, together with Ludus Dance and staff at Clifton, invited 12 young people from across Fylde aged between 16 and 25 to work together to… Continue Reading Dancers learn about dementia as part of exciting arts project
Blackpool Victoria Hospital Chaplaincy Department is calling on members of the public, staff, patients and volunteers to get knitting or crocheting Red Poppies for Remembrance Week, 2018. Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust hopes to receive at least 30,000 handmade poppies which will be used for an innovative art installation at the hospital to mark… Continue Reading Blackpool Victoria Hospital seeks 30,000 knitted Poppies for 2018
Students from Liverpool University have just completed their Liverpool Objective Clinical Assessment System (LOCAS) examinations. The Trust hosted a group of Year 4 medical students from the University of Liverpool to complete their LOCAS exams which are held at the end of the fourth year of a student’s study in medicine. LOCAS exams are carried out… Continue Reading Trust plays host to students’ exams
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has teamed up with Camerados to create a meeting place known as a “Public Living Room’’ inside the main entrance of Blackpool Victoria Hospital from next week. The place, which is somewhere where staff and visitors can meet, will be a space where we can all look out for… Continue Reading Trust teams up with Camerados movement for exciting event
BLACKPOOL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been certified as a provider of high quality health care information after achieving a national quality standard award. The Trust has been awarded the Information Standard quality mark which can be displayed on literature and the Trust website to demonstrate to the public that their information is safe… Continue Reading Trust receives national patient information quality mark
A ST Annes pensioner has donated £1,000 to charity to thank the Fylde coast surgeon who saved his life. Brian Alder underwent a nine hour operation last year performed by Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon, Mr Nidal Bittar, at the Lancashire Cardiac Centre based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. He was so grateful that he wanted to give… Continue Reading Pensioner hands over £1000 to surgeon who saved his life
People living in the Kirkham and Wesham areas are being asked to have their say on proposals for a state-of-the-art new health centre. Local NHS bosses have worked with doctors in the area to come up with proposals for the new health facility. The proposal would see part of the administration offices at Wesham Park… Continue Reading Plans unveiled for state-of-the-art health centre in Wesham
Monday, June 26, 2017 MEDIA RELEASE Blue Badge Car Parking Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to introduce car parking charges for blue badge holders at Blackpool Victoria Hospital from July 3, 2017. A spokesperson for the Trust said: “The decision to introduce parking charges for blue badge holders was an extremely difficult one… Continue Reading Blue Badge Car Parking
Blue Skies Month is running throughout June. It is a time not only to raise awareness and funds for a much loved charity but also to go out and enjoy yourself whilst doing something for others. It’s the opportunity to get friends, families, colleagues and neighbours together to do something fun or that you’ve always… Continue Reading Last day for Blue Skies’ Memory Matters scheme. Don’t miss out.
Health staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital are urging patients to get up, get dressed and get moving to end ‘PJ paralysis’. And they are appealing to relatives, friends and carers of patients to support them by bringing in a daily supply of fresh clothing to help people get out of bed. Patients in hospital normally… Continue Reading Don’t be a victim of PJ paralysis