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Wirral University Teaching Hospital Celebrates Young Patient Bobby Harry’s Triumph Over Illness as he qualifies for the Junior Golf World Championships

Last updated on Tuesday, November 19, 2024

A child golf prodigy with juvenile arthritis who received life-changing care at Wirral University Teaching Hospital opened the Trust’s fundraising Charity Golf Day. Seven-year-old Bobby Harry, from Bebbington, who made a miraculous recovery with help from staff at Arrowe Park Hospital, set off...

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When to visit a pharmacy

Last updated on Thursday, November 21, 2019

Pharmacists and chemists play a key role in providing quality healthcare to patients. Working in the community, primary care and hospitals, pharmacists use their clinical expertise together with their practical knowledge to ensure the safe supply and use of medicines by patients and members of th...

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Tag:   pharmacy (5)     chemist (3)     over the counter (1)     painkiller (1)     prescription (2)     filled (1)     advice (8)     support (24)     confidential (1)     contraception (2)     needle (2)     pregnancy test (1)     medicine (5)     weight (1)     diabetes (11)    

When to visit A&E

Last updated on Thursday, November 21, 2019

The Accident and Emergency (A&E) department or Emergency Department at hospital is for major, life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Major A&E departments offer access 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, although not every hospital has an A&E department. A&E departments assess and...

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Tag:   A&E (6)     emergency (12)     accident (5)     injury (6)     life threatening (1)     bleeding (2)     breathing difficulties (1)     chest pain (3)     unconsciousness (1)    

Acute Medicine

Last updated on Thursday, June 14, 2018

This department, based at Arrowe Park Hospital, assesses, evaluates and treats of a broad range of patients with acute medical problems and conditions. It is staffed by a team of Acute Physicians working closely with General Practitioners and a dedicated nursing and administration workforce. It...

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Tag:   acute (6)     ambulance (2)     specialist (5)     assessment (7)     ambulatory (1)     internal medicine (1)     emergencies (2)     diagnosis (2)    

Colposcopy

Last updated on Thursday, June 13, 2024

Colposcopy is a detailed examination of the cervix using a special microscope called a colposcope. It is required as part of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme to investigate women who have had abnormal cervical smears and to help decide if treatment is needed.  Most women who have an abnorm...

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Tag:   Colposcopy (2)     abnormal (2)     cervix (2)     vagina (4)     vulva (2)     smear (5)     abnormality (1)    

Friends and Family Test

Last updated on Thursday, June 21, 2018

To measure patient experience we use a Recommend Rate and Not Recommend Rate. The idea is simple: if you like using a certain product or doing business with a particular company you like to share this experience with others. From the answers given 3 groups of people can be distinguished: Detracto...

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Planning to get you home

Last updated on Thursday, February 22, 2024

We know that patients recover best at home, so that’s why we start planning for your return home as soon as you arrive in hospital. If you come in to stay overnight with us, we'll issue you with a ‘Ticket Home’ which details all the conversations that you’ll have while you're with us, that will...

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Tag:   going home (1)     discharge (9)     hospital (3)     checking out (1)     Estimated Date of Discharge (2)     EDD (1)    

Sedation

Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Intravenous sedation is the most common form of sedation and is the use of drugs through a cannula in a vein (a drip) to make you feel less anxious and it will often make you drowsy or sleepy. The drugs may actually make you sleep and the drugs can make you forget what has happened. Other ways of...

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