Patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital are to benefit from a new £408,000 outpatients area. Work starts this week on the development, which was given the green light after £200,000 was donated to the scheme by the hospital charity Blue Skies Hospitals Fund. The scheme will modernise the current outpatients area at the hospital with a… Continue Reading Patients to benefit from £408,000 outpatients area
Staff on Ward 6 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital came up with a novel way of marking International Nurses Day. Sister Sarah Evans said she had been inspired by her six-year-old daughter Lily to make retro nurses’ hats. Sarah explained: “I was telling Lily about what nurses used to wear. “I looked on You Tube to… Continue Reading Hospital staff go back to the old school to mark International Nurses Day
COMEDIAN Mick Miller is set to open Clifton Hospital’s Dementia Carer’s Day. Often referred to as “The bald guy with the long hair”, Mick will open the special awareness day at the hospital in Lytham which run from 10am to 3pm on Thursday, May 19, and is open to anyone, including the public, who… Continue Reading Comedian saves the day to open Clifton’s dementia event
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Yet as a nation, we seem to know far more about what happens with taxes than what happens when we die. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust opened its doors to the department that few people see and dispels a… Continue Reading Trust dispels myths about the mortuary
Fantastic raffle prizes are on offer in order to raise money for our Blue Skies Hospitals Fund’s Peace of Mind Appeal in aid of dementia. Prizes include: 2x tickets to each night of the Lytham Festival with Bryan Adams, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, 80s v 90s, West End Proms… Continue Reading Fantastic prizes to be won in aid of Peace of Mind Appeal
A national Palliative Care Team of the Year Award has been won by a team from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Beating off tough competition from around the UK, the Trust’s End of Life and Palliative Care Team won the British Medical Journal (BMJ) award for the way in which it has transformed end… Continue Reading Trust wins national Palliative Care Team of the Year Award
An amazing 12,500 patients have taken part in clinical trials at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust is thanking participants as it prepares to mark International Clinical Trials Day on May 20 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Michelle Stephens, Head of the Research and Development Department at the Trust, said: “Every month we record… Continue Reading Research team recruits 12,500 patients to clinical trials
A surgeon who ran the Blackpool Marathon is hoping to reach his £2,000 target and present the money to the Blue Skies Hospitals Fund. Paul Hans, who works as a Consultant Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgeon for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, raised an impressive £1,926 for the Trust charity in April… Continue Reading Surgeon seeks help to smash fundraising target
BLACKPOOL Teaching hospital’s nurses and cousins Francesca Hall and Dina Bowey, have planned their second Blackpool Memory Walk to raise money for dementia care. Together with cousin Maddalena Vettese, the girls have organised the event in memory of their uncle Eugenio Luigi Chiappe and Maddalena’s ‘nonna’ Luigina Vettese. Dina and Fran are also Dementia Champions… Continue Reading Trust nurses host dementia Memory Walk for second year
Organisers of a Morecambe & Wise 75th Anniversary Show, featuring the NHS Choir, will donate some of the funds raised on the night to enhance care for bowel cancer patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The NHS Choir will appear in the show at Blackpool Opera House on Saturday, July 2. And the choir has just… Continue Reading NHS Choir and Morecambe & Wise tribute help raise hospital funds