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A senior midwife has been praised for her support for students on placement at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. A graduation ceremony for the medical students at Lancaster University was held recently and Carol Park, Practice Development Midwife, was invited to attend the event due to the support and teaching she provided to students who had been… Continue Reading Proud Trust midwife invited to Lancaster students’ graduation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has welcomed its new Foundation Year trainee doctors. The junior doctors, who have just graduated from medical school, are starting their Foundation Programme at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The trainee doctors begin their period of mandatory shadowing on July 31, which gives them the opportunity to shadow the current Foundation… Continue Reading Trust welcomes new junior doctors
Junior doctors and consultants are honing their surgical skills on new Samsung Galaxy tablets thanks a health trust’s charity. The electronic tablets, which are used when medics are working on their hand-eye coordination skills, have been supplied by the Blue Skies Hospitals Fund – the charity of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Mark Hatch,… Continue Reading Trust charity’s Samsung tablet donations help with surgery skills
Patients referred to new community based, neighbourhood care teams operating across Blackpool are benefiting from the input of a new and unique staff role. Now, thanks to a new Health and Wellbeing Support Worker role created within these neighbourhood teams, patients across Blackpool are benefiting from increased social and wellbeing support alongside care for their… Continue Reading Patients are reaping benefits of new staff role
A play specialist has been praised by young patients and families for helping to make operations less stressful. Gemma Probin from Thornton and her colleagues on the Children’s Ward at Blackpool Victoria Hospital often receive special thank you messages from families. One recent message was from Giseffemae Hackney, whose son needed an operation. Giseffemae… Continue Reading Operations are child’s play thanks to Gemma
A research study with the potential to save the lives of lung cancer patients is being conducted at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Clinical Research Centre. Members of staff at the research centre are keen to promote this pioneering study as it could mean fewer patients will develop lung cancer in the future. The… Continue Reading Lung cancer patients given new hope thanks to Blackpool Trust’s research team
BLACKPOOL Victoria Hospital’s Unison Learning Representatives have been celebrating national recognition. Jane Eyre and Beverley Herring, who run staff learning sessions and events, have won the Union Learning Representatives (ULR) award for numeracy. Last year, the duo, in partnership with the National Numeracy charity, asked all staff to undertake an attitudinal survey and staff on… Continue Reading UNISON Learning Reps are celebrating national award
LOCAL youngster Maia Stewart-Gee has been praised by social movement Camerados. Instead of playing at lunchtime, the seven year-old has been befriending and helping pupils at her school and recruiting them to the kindly cause. Camerados, who currently have a tepee in the foyer of Blackpool Victoria Hospital, started with a belief in a simple… Continue Reading Young helper gets praise from social movement, Camerados
With more than 500 nominations our judges had a difficult task selecting their shortlist for this year’s Trust recognition awards, Celebrating Success. The panel members were impressed with the outstanding quality of entries which made selecting a top three in each category exceedingly difficult. The Patients’ Award attracted the largest number of entries with 200… Continue Reading Shortlist announced for Trust’s Celebrating Success Awards
And they’re off! The judging for the Trust’s Celebrating Success Awards is underway. It’s going to be an enormously difficult task for the judges as the entries are of such a high standard and we’ve had a record-breaking number of nominations. More than 500 entries have been received with more than 200 nominations from… Continue Reading Trust’s Celebrating Success Awards judges have massive task in bumper year for nominations