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About the Wirral Chronic Pain Service

Last updated on Friday, October 24, 2025

How does this service help patients manage pain?          This service takes a holistic view of you and your pain using the biopsychosocial model. This means we look at how biological factors (e.g. sleep, diet, injury, medicine, other health conditions), psychological factors (emotions, th...

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Safe staffing

Last updated on Thursday, July 18, 2024

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released a safe staffing guideline (2014) making recommendations on safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals.From June 2014, all hospitals are required to publish monthly information about the number of nursi...

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CQC inspection finds areas of good practice

Last updated on Friday, October 24, 2025

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection of Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust found areas of good practice in Medical Care, and Urgent and Emergency Care services at Arrowe Park Hospital. Medical Care has been rated as ‘Good’ by inspectors in the ‘Effective’, ‘Caring’ and ‘Well-led’ do...

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Supportive and Palliative Care

Last updated on Tuesday, February 10, 2026

What is Supportive and Palliative Care? Supportive and Palliative Care focuses on assessing the needs of patients and those close to them, to make sure what matters most to them is our priority too. The aim of palliative care is to maximise a person’s quality of life by treating and relieving sy...

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Cough and deep breathing

Last updated on Thursday, February 21, 2019

A physiotherapist is going to show you some deep breathing exercises.  Please pay attention and practice these 3 times a day before your operation.  Participating in these exercises will reduce the chances of you getting a chest infection.  After your operation you will have physiotherapy.  Pleas...

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What is Orthotics?

Last updated on Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Orthotics is a service that provides devices called orthoses (also called braces and splints). These are given to help to prevent, correct or accommodate a deformity and/or improve function. This can be as a result of an injury, disorder or due to the way our bodies alter as we get older. Orthos...

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Will you need more than one visit?

Last updated on Wednesday, February 19, 2020

You may need multiple visits.  For example, if the orthosis needs to be ordered then you will need to attend a second appointment to have the item fitted.  Sometimes the ordered orthosis will need to be trial fitted and sent back to be completed so you may not receive your finished orthosis until...

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