University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has received a prestigious Centre of Excellence award from leading national charity Muscular Dystrophy UK.
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The Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has supported a study which has found that a pioneering care programme through which people with Parkinson’s are supported in managing and monitoring their condition at home has benefits for patients and care teams.
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Life-saving lung health checks with an iconic South West backdrop are set to be offered to thousands of smokers and ex-smokers from Plymouth and surrounding areas.
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A specialist nurse at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has received a national bravery award for providing emergency care to a member of the public in 2022.
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We recently caught up with Lisa Matthews, a former patient of the Rehabilitation Unit at Mount Gould…
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NHS England, the national team for Urological Services and the South West Urology Network visited the new Chestnut Urological Investigation Unit at University Hospitals Plymouth on Friday.
The teams celebrated the new unit which has capacity for patients to have a scan, biopsy and see a consultant for diagnosis on the same day. There are only two other units in the country with these capabilities.
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Patients who would previously have to stay in hospital are now able to go home earlier, thanks to technology being used by Derriford Hospital's Virtual Ward.
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I wanted to thank you - our local community - for your support during the period Industrial Action and Critical Incident.
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Dr. Suresh Damodharan is an Endocrinology and General Medicine Consultant who currently works in a Sri Ramakrishna Hospital in Coimbatore, India. For the last eleven years, Dr. Damodharan has been working over the Christmas period at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) and has been coined ‘the Christmas fairy’ by staff.
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