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Neighbouring Plymouth Marjon University and University Hospitals Plymouth have launched a collaboration aimed at boosting the training and wellbeing of NHS staff and access to healthcare in the city.

This is our summary of 3 highlights from our July Board meeting

Industrial action has been announced by the British Medical Association (BMA) for Resident Doctors from 7am on Friday 25 July to 7am on Wednesday 30 July. 

Our AGM is a wonderful moment to come together, celebrate our achievements of the past year and reflect on the journey we as individuals and a community have been on.

We were grateful to be joined by so many colleagues to celebrate and acknowledge the success and challenges of the past year.

University Hospitals Plymouth has treated its first patient using a new cryoablation technique for kidney cancer, and in doing so has become the first NHS Trust in the South West to offer the service.

It’s an exciting time at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, with a number of large building projects starting work and some nearing completion. With so much going on, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is happening and where, so here’s a helpful update.

Chief Executive Mark Hackett said: “We welcome the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, published today. We would like to thank all those people – our staff, volunteers, patients, carers and the public – who engaged with us around the shaping of the national plan. We worked with partners across Devon and heard many moving, personal experiences, interesting insights, people’s hopes and fears for the NHS and we gathered and fed all these in to help form this national plan.  We are also using that insight to help us shape local plans for the future.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is pleased to announce the receipt of over £1.8 million in grant funding from the Department of Health and Social Care. This investment is designated for essential ventilation system enhancements in two key areas: the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Postbridge Ward.

A recent study of air pollution levels in and around Derriford Hospital has contributed towards University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust’s objective of an ‘excellent’ score in the Clean Air Hospital Framework, as set out in its Green Plan.