A specialist team based in the Cardiac Centre at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals are celebrating being recognised as a centre of excellence following an accreditation. The TAVI team (transcatheter aortic valve implementation) successfully completed the Edwards Benchmark Program on transcatheter valve care pathway. The Edwards Benchmark Program is a systematic, evidence-based approach to optimizing In order… Continue Reading Benchmarking success for TAVI team
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals has appointed a new Cure Leukaemia Research Nurse who will play a key role in helping to develop new treatments for blood cancers. Research Nurses help connect patients to potentially lifesaving medicine and their role in administering trials is vital to developing effective new treatments for blood cancers. Denise Bennett has been… Continue Reading Trust appoints specialist blood cancer research nurse
ED volunteer Charlotte Wright may only have been with us since the summer but she’s already set her sights on a medical career. Charlotte starts a paramedic training course next month and sees her shifts at the hospital as a great way to gain experience for the course. As a young mum with a toddler… Continue Reading Flexibility helps ED volunteer Charlotte manage her career aspirations
Dr Nicola Cable, Head of Paediatrics at Blackpool’s Blenheim House Child Development Centre has been named Best Doctor in the popular Who Cares Wins awards. During the awards night, hosted by Davina McCall, the audience heard about the care Dr Cable provided to baby Evie and her Mum Kelly. After Kerry Coles gave birth, her… Continue Reading Blackpool Teaching Hospital consultant named best doctor at national Who Cares Wins awards
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals has been recognised for its work to improve patient care, winning top categories at the recent HSJ Patient Safety Awards. The Trust won two awards and was highly commended in a third category. It won the award for Improving Care for Children and Young People Initiative of the Year, for its ED… Continue Reading Trust wins HSJ Patient Safety awards
To mark Organ Donation Week, one of our colleagues at the Trust, Helen Rogerson, has kindly shared her story about the challenges she has faced in living with kidney disease. Helen who is a clerical worker in Central Neighbourhood at Whitegate Drive Health Centre, has chronic kidney disease. She had managed this condition for many… Continue Reading Organ Donation Week: Helen’s story
Significant disruption to NHS services is expected as junior doctors and consultants are striking for the first time together. This is the tenth month of industrial action across the NHS and this upcoming period by hospital consultants and junior doctors will be the most challenging yet as it will include a 24-hour period when both… Continue Reading Junior doctors and consultants both set to strike
The family of the late John Lewington-Ashfield are remembering him by way of a beautiful waterfall mural which can be seen in the Windmill Unit at Victoria Hospital. After John, who was treated here for prostate cancer, passed away in 2019, his family raised money for the mural at his funeral and commissioned local artist… Continue Reading John’s legacy creates an uplifting scene for Windmill Unit patients
Young People can get smart about asthma this #AskAboutAsthma week Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) is one of the first in the country to launch the asthma Digital Health Passport app this week, marking Ask About Asthma week (11-17 September). The asthma Digital Health Passport is a new digital app to… Continue Reading Marking Ask About Asthma week (11-17 September)
The team behind a project to prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is now in the running for two national awards. Needlessly lengthy hospital stays, increased disease burden, and even death is linked to HAP and cases at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals were nearly three times the national average. The project team, led by a multi-disciplinary team of… Continue Reading Life-saving quality improvement project in running for two national awards