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People were invited to a health and wellbeing event featuring information on how to live well after cancer. The aim of the pilot event was to offer better access to information and support to enable individuals from the Fylde coast to live well while recovering from the disease. Researchers have found that more and… Continue Reading Cancer wellbeing event for patients hailed a success
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is teaming up with the Salvation Army and Co-op stores to help local vulnerable people this Christmas. The Trust is asking staff and the public donate food at two special events at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in December. In addition, the Co-op are making provision for food to be donated… Continue Reading Trust teams up with local partners for annual food drive
Singer and dementia ambassador Anne Nolan is set to spread some Christmas cheer at Clifton Hospital this December as she hands out presents to patients. Arranged by charity Just Good Friends, of which Anne is patron, she will be handing out gifts on December 15. This is the fourth year that the event will take… Continue Reading Mrs Claus is Anne Nolan’s latest role at Clifton Hospital
Golden stars of the health service were honoured in the 10th annual Celebrating Success Awards organised by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This year’s event broke all records with more than 450 entries including 150 in The Gazette’s Patients’ Award category which sees people who have received treatment nominate both clinical and non-clinical staff.… Continue Reading Health Trust staff Go for Gold in awards scheme
A cake sale and raffle in aid of a 10-year-old boy called Charlie who has a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer (DIPG), will be held in the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) reception area at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Tuesday, December 13, from 11am to 1.30pm. Funds raised will be used for research into… Continue Reading Cake sale, raffle and walk to help raise funds for boy with rare brain cancer
Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s Neonatal unit has received new equipment thanks to a grateful mum. Sarah Schofield raised £7,000 with the help of Rock FM’s charity Cash for Kids in order to buy six NeoFlow machines and a portable monitor that provides breathing support for preterm babies. Sarah was admitted to the Neonatal unit in March… Continue Reading Neonatal unit receives donation in memory of baby Ethan
Underprivileged children in the UK and abroad will receive shoeboxes filled with Christmas gifts from staff at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. Nearly 70 shoeboxes have been donated as part of the Samaritans’ Purse ‘Operation Christmas Child’ appeal which is being coordinated by Danielle Perrett, a switchboard operator at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Danielle’s switchboard colleagues, including Telecoms… Continue Reading Children set for happy Christmas thanks to Blackpool hospital staff
Blue Skies Hospitals Fund and the Chaplaincy Team at Blackpool Victoria Hospital are inviting people to a special memorial evening which will help raise money for local bereavement care. For many families Christmas is a very sad time of year when the loss of a loved one is particularly painful at what otherwise would have… Continue Reading Tree of Lights service will honour lost loved ones
A charity evening successfully fluttered by as hundreds of people attended a Butterfly Ball in aid of Blue Skies Hospitals Fund. The ball, which was inspired by the Butterfly Scheme – a national initiative to identify patients living with dementia in a sensitive and discreet way – was held at the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, on… Continue Reading Butterfly Ball helps raise funds for dementia care
An off-duty health practitioner who saved a security guard’s life with the aid of his smartphone has won a top newspaper award. Peter Mowbray, an Operating Department Practitioner from Blackpool Victoria Hospital, instinctively made a change from his usual role and used techniques he’d seen in hospital to give the security guard a chance of… Continue Reading Fab Change Day – Off duty medic wins award for changing security guard’s chances of survival