STAFF at Blackpool Victoria Hospital cooked up a tasty plan to celebrate Dignity Action Day. Ward 34 staff members baked a collection of cakes and treats to raise awareness of the national Dignity Day and raise money to help improve life for patients in their area. Sister Alison Ahmed, one of the organisers of the… Continue Reading Staff cook up a treat for Dignity Day
BLACKPOOL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been praised for its healthy catering provision by a national magazine. Health Business magazine has published its first Top 10 list of 2018 and its focus on hospital food highlights Blackpool as an area “excelling in healthy catering.’’ The article focused on 10 NHS sites that it… Continue Reading Blackpool hospital praised for “leading the push on healthy catering’
Did you hear us on BBC Radio Lancashire with Gilly and Nish last Friday, January 26? We were talking about #TheGreatBTHKnit which is aiming to get 30,000 knitted and crocheted poppies for a special art installation to commemorate the World War One Centenary later this year. YOU can get involved by sponsoring a poppy for… Continue Reading Our Knit and Natter goes on tour to BBC Radio Lancashire!
He’s well used to taking on epic cycling charities in aid of charity, but cardiac surgeon Nidal Bittar has swapped his wheels for running shoes as he prepares for this year’s London Marathon. Mr Bittar, who has cycled across the desert, biked from the Tower of London to the Eifel Tower and ridden from coast… Continue Reading Heart surgeon takes on new charity challenge
The Trust’s practice education team hosted a successful education day for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs). The team worked in partnership with local universities who assisted in running the event for AHP staff who are involved in educating students at university who are on placement at Blackpool. Those taking part included Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists and… Continue Reading Trust hosts training event for health professionals
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced that Chairman, Ian Johnson, is to leave the organisation to take over as Chairman of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust. Ian, who took over the role from Beverly Lester in April 2012, has overseen many significant achievements in his time including the transfer of community… Continue Reading New role for Trust’s Chairman
EXPERTS at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have played a major role in helping health and care organisations develop systems protecting their IT infrastructure against cyber threats. NHS Digital, the national information and technology partner of the health and care system, has entered a new deal with Microsoft to increase protection against cyber attacks.… Continue Reading Fylde coast experts help protect health and care organisations against cyber attacks
On July 5, 1948, health secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS at Park Hospital in Manchester (today known as Trafford General Hospital). It was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all. For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists are brought together under one umbrella… Continue Reading We need YOU to help celebrate NHS70
FIGURES recently revealed that more UK nurses are leaving the NHS than are joining. But there are plenty of nurses employed by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that have been nursing since they were teenagers and have no intention of stopping. Val Gulwell, a sister on Ward 1 at Clifton Hospital, is now in… Continue Reading The Clifton Hospital sister in her 41st year of nursing
We are currently looking for people who use services, and their carers and advocates (usually referred to as ‘lay members’ at NICE) to join the committee developing a guideline on rehabilitation in people with severe and enduring mental illness. We would welcome an application from those who have recent experience or knowledge of this rehabilitation… Continue Reading Would you like to join a NICE committee?