This week is National Apprenticeship Week 2022 – the 15th annual celebration of apprenticeships. The Trust is heavily invested in its Apprenticeship programme and is currently supporting hundreds of new and existing colleagues both clinical and non-clinical gain the skills, knowledge and behaviours to thrive in their job roles and meet their career ambitions. The… Continue Reading Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022
Abi Ososanya, the Trust’s latest Chief Registrar, is no stranger to the NHS in the north west having spent a number of years working for Trusts in Greater Manchester and Wigan. With her new role at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Abi is determined to take advantage of the Royal College of Physicians programme and gain a… Continue Reading Abi aims to learn from Chief Registrar role
NHS staff answered the highest number of 999 calls for any November on record, an average of around one every three seconds, new figures revealed today. Last month was also the second busiest November on record for A&E with more than two million patients seen at emergency departments and urgent treatment centres. That was up… Continue Reading Busiest November on record for NHS staff
In an era when respiratory illnesses are gaining plenty of negative coverage across global and national media outlets, the burgeoning Cystic Fibrosis team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is celebrating a major success in its treatment of patients. Led by Dr Tarek Saba, the CF team at the Trust has made significant improvements to patient’s lives… Continue Reading Success for game changing cystic fibrosis therapy
As Blackpool Teaching Hospitals see continuing unprecedented pressures across all of our services, Dr Sam Guest, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, has explained some of the difficult choices which have been made to deal with demand. “I think winter has started early for us this year, we’ve had increasing numbers of attendances but also the people… Continue Reading ‘Winter has started early’ says Emergency Medicine Consultant
The roofing works are now well underway and today’s crane has been assisting with the installation of the new plantroom roof.
One of Blackpool Teaching Hospital’s leading respiratory consultants, Dr Tarek Saba, has warned of a difficult winter ahead, but offered hope that the communities and healthcare system can work together to keep everyone safe under increasing pressure. Dr Saba has been at the frontline of Covid and other respiratory-related illnesses over the last 18 months… Continue Reading It is all about prevention this winter says Trust’s Respiratory Consultant
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals took a significant step towards change and improvement last week as the Clinical Quality Academy saw its first sessions of improvement science take place. More than 50 participants, across ten separate QI projects began what will be a ten-month journey, looking at the fundamentals of how to make improvements to services and… Continue Reading Maureen ignites culture for change
The opening three days of the Clinical Quality Academy are complete, and the participants have had time to reflect on the intense and sometimes exhausting first sessions. Our colleagues heard from the Chairman, Chief Executive, Medical Director and Director of Nursing as well as listening and engaging with brilliant sessions from the lead faculty –… Continue Reading CQA colleagues reflect on inspiring first week
During the week of 7th October 2021 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals participated in the #TeamFyldeCoast improvement week in collaboration with health and care partners across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The exercise built on what has been learned responding to the pandemic, tested new ways of working and ensured people have the best possible experience of health… Continue Reading TeamFyldeCoast Improvement Week