The Blackpool Teaching Hospitals School Nurse team is working with health practitioners across Lancashire and South Cumbria as part of the ‘Asthma Friendly School’ (AFS) project and to support schools to achieve the Asthma Friendly Accreditation. The programme aims to enhance effective partnership working across health, education, and local authorities to support children and young… Continue Reading The ‘Asthma Friendly School’ project
Health services in Lancashire and South Cumbria will prioritise emergency and life-saving care during the latest round of industrial action. The local NHS is expecting to be under significant pressure this week and people living in the area have been warned that routine care will face disruption. The three-day strike is due to… Continue Reading NHS will prioritise emergency and life-saving care during three-day junior doctors strike
Michelle Knighton is a nurse who doesn’t know the meaning of “it’s not my job” … because she’s done every job, rising from ward domestic to clinical matron for Orthopaedics. That’s the verdict of her proud daughter Ruth Podesta as Michelle retires after 36 years from a job she never planned to do. All she… Continue Reading From ward domestic to matron: the nurse who wanted to be a hairdresser
A nurse who returned from maternity leave to lead a new department was named this year’s Rising Star at Blackpool hospitals’ annual Celebrating Success staff awards. Nominating ward manager Maxine Rossall, colleagues described her as “an incredible nurse” who was “inspiring” as well as “encouraging, supportive and approachable”. Another said “we feel blessed to have… Continue Reading Sparkling nomination for Rising Star Maxine
Board members at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals spent the week seeing and experiencing the work of some of our 265 active volunteers. Chief Executive Trish Armstrong-Child, who went for a walk with Frankie, one of our Pets As Therapy dogs, said: “During my 30-year career in the NHS, there has not been a role I have… Continue Reading Board members see benefits of becoming a hospital volunteer
Today, we can reveal the winners of our NHS75 children’s art competition. We asked children to tell us in pictures what they love about the NHS to mark the service’s 75th birthday on 5 July. George Henry Haddow, aged 7, was the winner of the category for under eights. “I drew the rainbow because during… Continue Reading NHS75 children’s art competition winners revealed
Patients may experience some disruption to the services provided by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals next week when planned industrial action takes place. Junior doctors will begin a strike starting at 7am on Wednesday 14 June and ending on 7am on Saturday 17 June. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals provides services across a range of settings including Blackpool Victoria… Continue Reading Industrial action: attend your appointment unless told otherwise
A League of Friends became a familiar sight at hospitals in the years following the creation of the NHS in July 1948. And it was at the former Lytham Hospital in Fylde where one of the first of them led the way before of the establishment of a national Friends movement in 1949. Friends groups… Continue Reading Clifton ‘Friends’ follow in footsteps of first NHS hospital volunteers
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is reinstating its walking aid reuse scheme, allowing people to return walking aids no longer needed so that may be refurbished and given to support other patients. Now residents across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre who have walking frames, elbow crutches or aluminium walking sticks, issued by an NHS service, can easily return… Continue Reading Drop off points now available for walking aids to be returned to the NHS.
Two episodes of bowel surgery inspired Steve Dyson to become a volunteer at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and “give something back”. “Volunteering has changed my life for the better,” he said. “I’ve made so many new friends. It’s given me so much confidence. It’s given me a new lease of life really.” Steve’s volunteering as a… Continue Reading ‘Giving something back’ wins Steve volunteer award