Always demonstrating we care.
Throughout February our Trust is focusing on the ‘Enabling’ work programme currently being implemented as part of our Five Year Together we Care Strategy. The work stream focuses on six key enablers that support the Trust’s strategic aims, namely: Clinical Leadership, Workforce, Information, Estates, Information Technology and Communications and Engagement. It is vital that we… Continue Reading Together we Can… watch our Enabling Video
World Cancer Day was marked with a special event on the mezzanine at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Patients, staff and the public visited information stands and made pledges to fight cancer at the awareness event on Friday, February 3. More than 100 people made a pledge and £450 was raised to be used to enhance cancer… Continue Reading Scores of people make pledges at Trust’s World Cancer Day event
Cancer patients and people who are recovering from the disease are being invited to attend special health and wellbeing events in Blackpool. Organised by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, the events at the Urban Village Hotel (De Vere) are part of the Trust’s ‘Living With and Beyond Cancer’ (LWBC) programme. There will be four events this year… Continue Reading Special events offer useful information for cancer patients
Members of the Colorectal Cancer Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust say they are proud to be backing World Cancer Day. The team members will be taking part in an awareness event for patients, staff and the public on the mezzanine at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Friday, February 3, from 11am to 3pm.… Continue Reading Team will be on hand at Blackpool hospital’s World Cancer Day 2017 event
Leaders of a health trust’s Cancer Services are backing World Cancer Day by pledging to continue providing the best possible care and treatment for patients. Clinical Lead for Cancer Services, Mr Ian Arthur, and Lead Cancer Nurse, Deborah Loftus, from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, say patients on the Fylde coast can be assured… Continue Reading Health trust provides excellence in cancer care and treatment
The star of a quirky hospital flu awareness video who once worked at Funny Girls in Blackpool, is swapping his high heels for walking boots to raise money for charity. Luke Sumner, who now works as a charge nurse at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and his colleague, senior staff nurse Amy Mutch,… Continue Reading Stilettos swapped for walking boots in aid of hospital charity
Being told by your GP that you are to be referred to hospital for tests to either dismiss or confirm cancer can be a very worrying time. At Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, we understand this and want to take this opportunity, on World Cancer Day 2017, to provide an insight into the work that goes on… Continue Reading Meet the Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Coordinators at our Trust
A pioneering Health Academy set up by St Mary’s Catholic College and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will offer Fylde coast A level students an incredible opportunity to pursue a career in healthcare. The initiative, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the North West, also has the potential… Continue Reading Health Academy offers amazing opportunities to young people on Fylde coast
Staff and patients across the Fylde coast are set to make pledges to take action against cancer as part of a worldwide awareness event. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is backing World Cancer Day in February which aims to encourage everyone to do their bit to reduce the global burden of cancer. Approximately 2,030… Continue Reading Health Trust backs World Cancer Day with special pledges
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is working with The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) to improve the support available for midwives and maternity colleagues. The Trust’s maternity services have signed the RCM’s Caring for You Charter, which aims to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of midwives. This supports and enables them to continue… Continue Reading Blackpool maternity service invests in staff to provide better care for all