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Some people who contract COVID can experience long term, persistent symptoms. If these symptoms last for more than 12 weeks, they can be considered sufferers of ‘long-COVID’.

Olivia Pike is a long-COVID sufferer who was admitted into the Trust after contracting COVID and, after having those prolonged symptoms, entered the long COVID rehabilitation pilot. The pilot is run in partnership between the Trust and Plymouth Marjon University.

Staff and volunteers at the Home Park vaccination centre are pulling out all the stops to make sure no-one misses out on their booster vaccination.

In this latest video, 41-year-old Chris from Cornwall, shares his story. 

Every year University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust celebrates staff who have gone above and beyond to support people with a learning disability in the hospital, in the Learning Disability Champion Awards.

University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) and Livewell Southwest (LSW) are getting ready to mark one year since the COVID vaccination programme launched. To date, we have delivered almost half a million vaccinations (453,283 to be exact).

When Joanna Cavill was feeling fatigued, a walk to the shops took an hour instead of her usual twenty minutes. She was also falling asleep during online meetings, but later learned that she was, in fact, passing out.  

Next week on Tuesday 7 December, Home Park will be offering late night appointments from 10pm – 2am. You will need to book an appointment using the National Booking Service: https://bit.ly/NBS-CV19

Molly is a six year old from Plymouth with an extraordinary story. Molly, or ‘Mo’ to her family is very a happy, almost seven year old who has been through more in six short years than most people go through in a lifetime. Now her Dad, Giles, is taking on England’s longest zip-wire over the Eden Project to raise money for Derriford Children’s Wards to say thank you for the care they provided.

NHS Charities Together has granted Plymouth Hospitals Charity funding to support a new project, ‘UHP Wellbeing for All’. The initiative was designed by a multidisciplinary team including Occupational Health, Psychologists, HR and OD colleagues and the Director of People.

The Immunology Home Therapy Service at University Hospitals Plymouth has not only benefitted patients in a number of ways for over 20 years, but it is now also helping to combat an international shortage of antibody treatments. The service, run by the Immunology Specialist Nursing team at the Trust, is seeing greater numbers from Devon and Cornwall than ever before, and now includes other specialties such as haematology and neurology.