Here we are at Eliminating Pressure Ulcer Breakthrough Series Collaborative, Learning Session 2. Ten teams have come together with a commitment to eliminate pressure ulcers for our patients both in hospital and in the community. Associate Director of Quality Improvement, Katharine Goldthorpe, welcomes everyone to the Teams meeting. This is the second learning session in […]
A holiday maker has returned to thank staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital following a promise she made after a life-threatening incident on her 59th birthday. Last year, Julie Pigott, from St Helens, suffered an unsuspecting heart attack while on holiday in Blackpool. She told cardiac staff that she would return on her 60th birthday with […]
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s has bid farewell to one of its valued nurses after 44 years of service. Joy Swarbrick 62, from St Annes works as a practice educator and children’s community outreach sister. She is retiring after starting her career as a student nurse at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 1976. Joy said: […]
The Acute Stroke and Rehab Unit has made some extensive changes to care for those in need during the Coronavirus pandemic. Clare Fisher, a sister on the unit, said: “I am so proud of the staff and how we have all come together to ensure the patients are well looked after and that their relatives […]
STAFF on a ward at Blackpool Victoria Hospital have donated goods to a Fylde coast food bank as a way of thanking the community for their support NHS staff have received so many kind donations of members of the public who are so grateful for their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic and have been sending […]
New patient visiting restrictions during COVID-19 outbreak Due to the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 (Coronavirus), and in line with the Prime Minister’s instructions to ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, and save lives’, it has become necessary to temporarily suspend visiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We have not undertaken this lightly […]
New patient visiting restrictions during COVID-19 outbreak, as of April 10, 2020 Due to the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 (Coronavirus), and in line with the Prime Minister’s instructions to ‘stay at home, protect the NHS, and save lives’, it has become necessary to temporarily suspend visiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We […]
A patient who was critically ill in Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been describing his ordeal and determination to make a full recovery. Eddie Haigh, 49, from Staining, suffered life threatening organ failure through sepsis following admission from a flu-related chest infection. The father of three ended up being put into an induced coma in February […]
Support is available in Lancashire over the New Year period to listen and talk to people who are feeling low, worried about their mental health or concerned about someone they care about. For most people, Christmas and New Year is a happy time of year often spent celebrating at parties with loved ones. For others, […]
Andrea Bradley enjoys some reflexology from therapist Audrey DicksonHard working NHS staff at a St Annes hospital have been treated to some relaxing holistic therapies. AB Complementary Therapies, based at Therapy House, St Annes, treated staff at Clifton Hospital, Pershore Road, to a day of pamper treatments to help them relax and boost their sense […]