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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has been awarded £1.2m towards energy efficiency projects and renewable energy.

Starting Wednesday 2 April 2025, pedestrian walk-ins to the Children's Emergency Department (ED) will need to enter the building via the Main Entrance at the front of Derriford Hospital. This is due to the construction work taking place outside the Emergency Department.

We want to remind people about the closure of the single lane previously open to public vehicles outside the front of Derriford Hospital. In this video, Future Hospital Programme Planning Manager Bryonie Deeming explains the Trust’s decision behind the road closure, and alternative ways to access the hospital and its main entrance.

Emergency Department staff at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) are volunteering to ensure young people have vital life-saving skills thanks to the CPR in school training programme.

The West Devon and East Cornwall Breast Screening service has announced the opening date of its new additional site at Merchant House, Notte Street, Plymouth, PL1 2AH. On a direct bus route and easily accessible for all, the new location will be operating from 17 February 2025.

Following the announcement from the Secretary of State that University Hospitals Plymouth will be part of the first wave of Trusts to receive funding under the New Hospital Programme, the construction of our new Emergency Care Building is now moving at pace.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has worked with AccessAble to create Detailed Access Guides of all its locations. These guides share valuable information for our disabled community, who can now see online all details about the building they’ll visit for their healthcare appointment.

Back in October, UHP teamed up with The Primrose Foundation to host an event at Plymouth’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, dedicated to hearing and learning from experiences of patients who have undergone abdominal free flap breast reconstruction.

Since opening its doors to patients last year, the Chestnut Urological Investigation Unit has reduced waiting times and improved the experience for patients.