Professor Matthew Cramp has won the Excellence in Transplantation Award as part of the 2021 UK Awards for Excellence in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation.
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On Thursday 11 February, Patient Services Manager, Claire Jukes received a phone call from the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness, Prince William spoke one-on-one with Claire about the work she and the Patient Experience team have been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hospital staff mark LGBT+ History Month with a positive message of inclusive healthcare, through the NHS Rainbow Badge.
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We apologise to anyone who had to queue at Home Park today. We have deployed more staff to vaccinate and whilst the queue is constantly moving we have staff going through the queue identifying people who are more frail and bringing them to the front.
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Our long-standing Deputy Chief Executive, Nick Thomas, will retire from April 2021. Nick has been with the NHS since 1984 and part of the #1BigTeam at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust since 1995. He was nominated Deputy Chief Executive in 2015.
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A nurse has shared her experience to warn of the risk of passing on coronavirus to somebody who is shielding because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.
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Thousands of patients at Derriford Hospital have used video consultations for their healthcare appointments instead of having to attend in person and rate their experience very highly.
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27-year-old Jonathon was a recent patient on one of our Covid wards. A keen runner and mountain biker, he never thought he would end up being hospitalised when he tested positive for Covid.
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We continue the series with updates about the Trust and pleas from our staff on Intensive Care, and in the COVID Red and Amber wards.
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A spokesperson for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said:
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