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
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
A care home resident was saved a trip to hospital thanks to being cared for on a “virtual ward”. The woman at Fleetwood Hall Care Home was suffering a chest infection. The paramedic who examined her identified that she required close monitoring which could be delivered by the virtual ward meaning she could stay and… Continue Reading Care Home uses Virtual Ward to prevent a resident’s hospital admission.
Heart valve disease is one of Britain’s biggest killers. Heart valve disease affects one in every 45 people – 1.5 million Brits – and tens of thousands have the condition without knowing it. While the trend to virtual appointments was an inevitable consequence of the pandemic, heart valve disease is more likely to be missed… Continue Reading All aboard for healthy hearts in Blackpool
When Darren Cadwell started work as a trainee in the kitchen at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s, he couldn’t even peel an onion “I really couldn’t, I had to be shown!” he says – but it didn’t stop him rising through the ranks. “I did so well in the kitchen that I came off the training scheme… Continue Reading Darren finds recipe for success in hospital kitchen
It’s our 75th birthday on 5 July and we want your pictures of what you love about the NHS. The competition is open to all children aged up to 14 living in Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. Winning artwork will be displayed at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and all the other entries will be distributed as a… Continue Reading NHS75 children’s birthday art competition
Cancer care has changed radically since the NHS was founded in 1948 when few treatments beyond surgery and primitive radiation therapy existed. But former Trust clerical officer Beverley Beaumont has seen for herself the big improvements since then. Husband John, who was an electrician for 13 years at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, was diagnosed this year… Continue Reading Improved NHS cancer care saved husband’s life, says former clerical officer
Colleagues across the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) have started to work together to move patient records online into one seamless system. The four acute providers including Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, East Lancashire Hospitals, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay currently have hundreds of different ways of recording and accessing… Continue Reading NEW APPROACH TO DIGITAL RECORDS BEGINS
As part of the Trust’s commitment to helping smokers quit and providing smokefree environments that support them, senior executives at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals are re-signing the NHS Smokefree Pledge. Chief Executive Trish Armstrong-Child, re-signed the pledge today to demonstrate her responsibility in reducing the health disparities related to smoking in our community and its overall… Continue Reading Chief Executive signs NHS Smokefree Pledge