Chief Executive Kevin McGee issues a weekly blog to discuss his thoughts on what has been happening within the Trust and also how national or international events affect patients and staff here at BTH.
Welcome from the Chairman
For those of you I have not been able to meet or speak to you yet, my name is Steve Fogg and I am Chair of the Trust Board here at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. Firstly, I want to tell you...
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A new structure for the Trust
Over the past few weeks, the Trust has implemented a new structure designed to provide more capacity, more capability and better outcomes across all our services for patients and their families. We began a review last summer to look at...
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Improving provisions across the Fylde Coast
One of the Trust’s major aims has been to further develop its emergency department and critical care facilities. I am delighted to say, this week we have taken a major step forward as our £13million business case to develop our...
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Putting thanks and admiration on record
This week I was delighted to see the fantastic news that more than 30 million people have been vaccinated, representing more than half of all adults in the UK who have now had their first dose. Here at Blackpool Teaching...
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Getting better each and every day
Regular readers of the blog will remember I have previously shared the initial feedback I received from colleagues at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an unannounced visit by their inspection team to Blackpool Victoria Hospital in January. You can...
Read MoreSharing reflections of the last year
This week I have joined colleagues from across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals to reflect and remember everything we have been through over the past year. It is almost 12 months to the day since we admitted our first patient with Covid-19....
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Finding time and space to say thank you
The results from the national staff survey run independently each year across the entire NHS nationally were published yesterday and, as always, provide valuable insight into how it really feels to work in healthcare in the UK. This feedback from...
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A time to be open and provide assurance
It would be entirely remiss of me not to focus this week’s blog with an update following the well-publicised development in a long-running Police investigation focused on the stroke unit at Blackpool Victoria. Lancashire Police yesterday announced the investigating team...
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Take the opportunity to be vaccinated
I don’t know about you, but I found the announcement from Government this week outlining the plan for emerging safely from lockdown has given me a lift. The idea that we could be completely free of social distancing measures by...
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“Great people are doing great things…”
Everyone at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals continues to focus a great deal of time and effort on making improvements to services and ensuring that the quality of everything we do makes a tangible, positive difference to the lives of local people....
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