The Myeloma Team at UHP are delighted to have been accredited and receive national recognition for the service and its commitment to patients living with incurable blood cancer.
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Industrial action has been announced by the British Medical Association (BMA) for Resident Doctors from 7am on Friday 14 November to 7am on Wednesday 19 November.
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If you visit our Emergency Department (ED), you may notice a few changes. Since our new, on-site Urgent Treatment Centre at the Dartmoor Building opened two months ago, we have seen around 40–50 patients come to the ED with conditions that could be safely treated at UTC Dartmoor.
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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) and Plymouth Active Leisure (PAL) have joined forces to bring care closer to the community with a five-week prehabilitation hip and knee physiotherapy programme at Plymouth Life Centre.
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There has been some change at UHP over the last month – we’ve welcomed new colleagues and said goodbye to others at board level, more patients are attending our new Urgent Treatment Centre on-site in the Dartmoor Building, and we’ve been recognised nationally for some advancements to patient care.
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Patients in the Paediatric Children’s Emergency Department will benefit from the donation of two Buzzy Devices. A Buzzy, is a bee-shaped tool that uses vibration and cold to distract children and reduce needle pain, helping to make medical procedures less distressing for young patients.
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Lachlan, Chair of our Young Persons Patient Council, reflects on the 1st birthday.
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As part of the New Hospital Programe, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is delighted that plans to expand Derriford Hospital’s urgent and emergency care pathways began today as we marked the beginning of construction of the new Emergency Care Building.
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Today we celebrated the official opening of the Dartmoor Building at Derriford Hospital. The Dartmoor Building, which houses the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), will soon also become home to other key hospital services such as the Fracture Clinic, Main Outpatients and Pre-operative assessment. The new, state-of-the-art building was officially opened today by Fred Thomas MP and UHP colleagues, Sally Fletcher, Linda Fulford, Roly Cawaing and Helen Anderson.
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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to treat patients with a new technology for vascular disease.
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