The Trust was delighted to host a delegation from NHS England last Thursday as we officially opened the Same Day Emergency Care Unit with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. As well as celebrating the successes and fantastic work of all those involved with the clinical teams the visit was also an opportunity to share learning and as… Continue Reading SDEC receives NHS England visit
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals are to share in a £59.1million award to translate its scientific discoveries into new treatments, diagnostic tests and medical technologies to improve patients’ lives over the next five years. The award to the National Institute for Health (NIHR) and Care Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) will increase the coverage of early-stage… Continue Reading Blackpool hospitals share in £59m research funding to tackle health inequalities
A Digital Training team within Blackpool Teaching Hospitals has been awarded Gold Status Accreditation for the quality of its work. The Health Informatics Digital Education directorate comprises three main services – Digital Training, Digital Learning Design and Health Informatics Workforce Development. These services provide flexible and accessible training and learning opportunities to all staff through… Continue Reading Health Informatics’ Digital Training Department wins ‘gold’ accreditation
Clinical teams at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals have celebrated a year of improvement projects at the Trust with a special graduation ceremony at the Village Hotel. As part of the Clinical Quality Academy ten teams from across all areas of the hospital and community spent 12 months learning the key principles of improvement science from improvement… Continue Reading Trust celebrates CQA graduates
Work has started on a new gastroenterology facility which will ensure endoscopy patients at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals have a shorter waiting time for procedures. The new modular unit is being installed at Blackpool Sports Centre in Stanley Park, the next phase of a partnership between the local hospital Trust and Remedy Healthcare Solutions, which will… Continue Reading Construction work begins on innovative endoscopy unit
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals team purchases new demonstration doll to prevent harm to new babies. Families will be taught about the dangers of shaking a baby thanks to a new scheme from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. The Trust’s Family Nursing team recently purchased their first ‘Shaken Baby Demonstration Models’, to accompany them on visits with new families… Continue Reading New demonstration doll to prevent harm to new babies.
A new app is helping to transform the care patients receive from the Trust’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service. Working within the wider Respiratory speciality at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team is a community service for adults with chronic respiratory conditions. With more than 70% of referrals coming from Primary Care, the team plays a… Continue Reading App transforms Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service’s care
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust are pleased to welcome three new non-executive directors (NEDs) to the board. The newly appointed NEDs are Fergus Singleton, Robby Ryan and Carl Fitzsimons. Fergus joins the Trust from the defence industry where has worked at British Aerospace having joined as an apprentice in the 1980s. He has a wealth of… Continue Reading Trust appoints three new NEDs
The Trust’s all-new Same Day Emergency Care unit opened its doors at the beginning of September and has already had a positive impact on healthcare in the region. The unit, which opened on Monday 5 September as part of the Emergency Village development at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, benefits both patients and the wider healthcare system… Continue Reading SDEC showing early signs of success
Stoptober is back, calling on smokers in England to join more than 2.5 million others who have made a quit attempt with the campaign since it launched a decade ago in 2012. Nearly 6 million adults in England still smoke, and it remains the single biggest behavioural cause of preventable death, with 64,000 deaths a… Continue Reading Smokers encouraged to join Stoptober