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People living on the Fylde Coast have been asked to give their views on what is good and what could be improved about where they live. Healthier Fylde Coast – a partnership of local organisations working together to improve health and wellbeing – has launched the ‘Your Community Neighbourhood Plan’ survey to better understand people’s… Continue Reading Help improve your community
DECEMBER sees the return of an annual service to remember loved ones that have passed away. The Tree of Lights Appeal and associated service, is organised each year by Blue Skies Hospitals Fund, the charity for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the Trust’s Chaplaincy Department. This year, the event will take place on… Continue Reading Public invited to hospital service to remember loved ones
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is offering FREE and CONFIDENTIAL HIV tests from November 19 as part of #HIVTestWeek. The finger prick test will be conducted in a private room and the results revealed in only 60 seconds. Clinical Care Coordinator, Shane Faulkner, who is part of the team arranging the event, said: “The… Continue Reading Get your FREE and CONFIDENTIAL HIV as part of #HIVTestingWeek
Little Hope Ward is an inspiration. Born with Down Syndrome, transient leukaemia, a hole in the heart, joint hypermobility, reduced vision and hearing and having to be fed through a feeding tube, it would have been easy for her family to despair. Fourteen months ago, Hope’s mum, Michelle, was having a normal pregnancy and birth.… Continue Reading Why Hope is an inspiration
The EPICC-ID study needs you! We have successfully recruited 45 families to date but are still recruiting! If your child is aged over 2.5 years and under 5 years, has additional needs and displays behaviour that is challenging. Please contact the study for more information.
Nurses at Blackpool’s neonatal ward are pulling out all the stops to celebrate their little heroes. As part of World Prematurity Day, staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital are putting on a party to honour the babies who have been cared for on the Neonatal Unit in the last 10 years. Neonatal Lead Nurse, Catherine Nash,… Continue Reading Nurses honour their little heroes
Today is the first day of Mouth Cancer Action Month 2018 – a campaign dedicated to raising awareness of mouth cancer. To kick-off the campaign, we have just launched the United Kingdom’s first comprehensive review into mouth cancer. The State of Mouth Cancer UK Report 2018/2019 looks at the very latest statistics for the disease. This includes… Continue Reading UK’s first report into mouth cancer reveals huge gamble the nation is taking with its health
A BLACKPOOL firm has donated a prime advertising spot to highlight a Remembrance campaign. Express Linen, situated on Brunel Way, offered their pre-booked advertising time on a digi-vehicle, to feature a slide show of the Cloak of Poppies memorial based in the main entrance of Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The firm, owned by the Bruce family… Continue Reading Sponsors donate digital advertising for Remembrance campaign
YOUNGSTERS from across the Fylde coast have been given a unique insight into life as an NHS professional. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust held its latest Youth Health Leaders event at Blackpool Victoria Hospital with pupils from three local schools meeting a host of local healthcare experts. Topics for discussion included smoking cessation, alcohol… Continue Reading Pupils benefit from innovative NHS Youth Leaders Programme
MEMBERS of the public are invited to a free seminar by a leading Fylde coast consultant looking at antibiotics and their use. The session is the latest health seminar for members of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Dr Ruth Palmer, a Consultant Microbiologist at the Trust, will host the seminar which is entitled “Antibiotic… Continue Reading Invitation to attend a free health seminar on Antibiotics at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals