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Update on Major Incident in Plymouth: Please only attend our ED for life-threatening conditions

The NHS in Devon is taking standard precautionary measures to ensure capacity is available to support the multi-agency response to the unexploded bomb in Plymouth. In order to support the ongoing preparedness agencies take during a major incident, we need to preserve the Emergency Department at University Hospitals Plymouth for life threatening conditions only today.

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Professor Sir Stephen Powis Visit

Professor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS England National Medical Director

We were delighted to welcome Professor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS England National Medical Director, Dr David Hargroves (National Clinical Director for Stroke Medicine), Dr Nigel Acheson (Devon ICB Medical Director), Dr Michael Marsh and members of the South West Regional Medical Directorate to visit UHP today to look at the Stroke Care we provide for the people of Plymouth and the Peninsula in the first of a number of national visits.

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University Hospitals Plymouth plans for new Urgent Treatment Centre

University Hospitals Plymouth is pleased to announce plans to build a new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) and Fracture Clinic.

The new UTC will be in addition to the Cumberland Centre located in Devonport, Plymouth and the Tavistock and Kingsbridge Minor Injury Units and will help to reduce footfall and take the pressure off the main Derriford Emergency Department, improving the care delivered to patients.

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UHP Doctor selected to represent UK at the 2024 European Winter School of Internal Medicine

Mustafa in a suit

Dr Mustafa Hussein Ajlan Al-Jarshawi, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Medicine at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP), has been selected by the Royal College of Physicians to represent UK trainee doctors in stage 1 and stage 2 internal medicine specialty training programmes in the 2024 European School of Internal Medicine (ESIM), organised by the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM).

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From Board to Ward – February 2024

It’s been a busy start to 2024 and here we bring you some highlights including what we’re doing about waits for patients needing emergency care.

Every month our Board leaders meet in public to assess how we’re doing for the patients and communities we serve, how we’re doing for our staff, our achievements, our challenges with a big focus on what we’re doing to address them and what our plans are for the future. Who are our Board?

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