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What is a COPD exacerbation?

Last updated on Wednesday, April 18, 2018

An exacerbation is a flare up of COPD symptoms.  The signs can include: Increased breathlessness (more than usual) Reduced walking distance Increase in coughing Changes in the amount/colour/thickness of phlegm Chest feeling tight New or increased wheeze If there two or more of these sy...

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Tag:   COPD (7)     Chronic (2)     disease (4)     lung disease (3)     oxygen (9)     breathing (5)    

Myeloid Leukaemia

Last updated on Wednesday, December 4, 2024

PROPEL   What is the study about? Treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic syndrome with excess blasts (MDS-EB2) is extremely challenging and patients often feel very tired (fatigued) have low mood, poor nutrition and be unable to do any exercise. Programmes that help pa...

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When to see sexual health services

Last updated on Thursday, November 21, 2019

Sexual health services are free and available to everyone, regardless of sex, age, ethnic origin and sexual orientation. If you have a disability and have special requirements, or if English is not your first language, you should make arrangements in advance. Who offers sexual health services a...

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Tag:   GUM (2)     Sex (1)     Contraception (1)     STD (2)     STI (1)     Genital (2)     penis (2)     vagina (4)     family planning (1)    

We mark two-years since we became the UK’s first COVID-19 quarantine site

Last updated on Monday, January 31, 2022

Wirral University Teaching Hospital is marking two-years since it became the UK’s first quarantine site since 1978 at the start of the country’s COVID-19 journey. The Trust’s Chief Executive, Janelle Holmes, has paid tribute to the tremendous efforts of staff that has continued since those very...

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Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support (ALS) course was launched 1993. It is a standardised national course teaching evidence-based resuscitation guidelines and skills to healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom. The ALS course has also been adopted by the European Resuscitati...

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Tag:   ALS (1)     ERC (1)     Resuscitation (5)     CPR (2)     cardiac (3)    

Trust Structure

Last updated on Friday, September 2, 2022

We are one of the largest and busiest acute trusts in the North West of England. NHS Foundation Trust status was given to us on July 1st 2007. This enables us to: Provide and develop healthcare according to the core NHS principles of free care based on need and not ability to pay Have greate...

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Tag:   trust (4)     structure (4)     diagnostic (3)     medicine (5)     clinical (8)     executive (4)     surgery (6)     women (4)     children's (5)     support (24)    

Christine McGuinness officially opens Sensory Suite at Arrowe Park Hospital

Last updated on Friday, March 17, 2023

A new sensory suite to help adults with autism who are undergoing elective surgery has been officially opened at Arrowe Park Hospital by campaigner Christine McGuinness. The unit is the first of its kind in the North West of England that has been set up specifically for adult patients with autis...

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Wirral landmark buildings bathed in pink for breast cancer awareness

Last updated on Wednesday, October 30, 2024

In a powerful display of solidarity, iconic buildings across Wirral have been bathed in pink throughout October to raise awareness around breast screening for early detection of breast cancer.              Clockwise: Michelle Leatherbarrow outside Arrowe Park Hospital; Victoria Monument, Hami...

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