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We are delighted to share the news that Dr Anjula Mehta will be joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust as our new Joint Chief Medical Officer from June 2025.

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.

The Research and Development team at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) worked with research nurses from Devon to deliver a study aiming to help e-cigarette users quit vaping using a new mouth spray.

A new machine learning server will help researchers at UHP analyse clinical research data on site with the aim of improving patient care and service delivery.

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.

From Wednesday 26  March 2025, patients over the age of 16 using the NHS app will now be to view their upcoming outpatient appointments at UHP.  

Agencies across Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly are joining forces with UK-wide charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation on a campaign to stop online child sexual abuse.  

Louise Lane, a Maternity Support Worker based in the Central Delivery Suite at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has won the Intermediate Health Apprentice of the Year award from City College Plymouth.

Plymouth Hospitals Charity is celebrating a new phase, as the team moves into a public facing ‘shop front’, thanks to a social value initiative from Willmott Dixon.