Our Future Hospital News

A pioneering initiative designed to tackle social exclusion and open doors to careers in construction launched today on 19 January as part of the social value commitment from Willmott Dixon during the construction of Derriford Hospital’s new Emergency Care Building.

Clinical leads from University Hospitals Plymouth have taken their first look at the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Colin Campbell Court. Teams from Phlebotomy, Audiology, Imaging, and Physiological Measurement visited the site to review their future workspaces at the state-of-the-art development which has reached the major milestone of becoming watertight.

Photography students from the Arts University Plymouth Sixth Form have won a competition to have their photos displayed in the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Colin Campbell Court in Plymouth City Centre.

Patients in the Paediatric Children’s Emergency Department will benefit from the donation of two Buzzy Devices. A Buzzy, is a bee-shaped tool that uses vibration and cold to distract children and reduce needle pain, helping to make medical procedures less distressing for young patients.

As part of the New Hospital Programe, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is delighted that plans to expand Derriford Hospital’s urgent and emergency care pathways began today as we marked the beginning of construction of the new Emergency Care Building.

Today we celebrated the official opening of the Dartmoor Building at Derriford Hospital. The Dartmoor Building, which houses the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), will soon also become home to other key hospital services such as the Fracture Clinic, Main Outpatients and Pre-operative assessment. The new, state-of-the-art building was officially opened today by Fred Thomas MP and UHP colleagues, Sally Fletcher, Linda Fulford, Roly Cawaing and Helen Anderson.