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Interstitial Cystitis Clinics

Last updated on Monday, February 10, 2025

What is Interstitial cystitis? Interstitial cystitis is a poorly understood bladder condition that causes long-term pelvic pain and problems with urination. It's also known as "painful bladder syndrome" or "bladder pain syndrome". The condition tends to first affect people in their 30s and 40s...

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Tag:   cystitis (3)     Interstitial (2)     bladder (6)     urology (4)     testing (4)     burning (1)     urination (1)     frequent (2)    

Emma James recognised with prestigious RCN Foundation Impact Award

Last updated on Thursday, April 17, 2025

A cancer care support worker at Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has been honoured with a prestigious RCN Foundation Impact Award, recognising her outstanding contribution to patient care and professional excellence. Emma James, a colorectal cancer care coordinator at WUTH, received th...

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Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Clinic

Last updated on Tuesday, October 3, 2023

We offer a comprehensive service for women of all ages who suffer with bladder and bowel incontinence and prolapse of the genital organs. This service works in tandem with the Wirral Integrated Continence Service. In addition to providing a specialist service for women with recurrent prolapse, w...

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Tag:   Urogynaecology (1)     Pelvic Floor (1)     Pelvic (1)     Floor (1)     bladder (6)     urinary (2)     UTI (2)     keyhole (2)     incontinence (3)     Cystoscopy (1)     botox (2)    

Our Vision and Values

Last updated on Monday, July 1, 2019

As one of the North West’s biggest and busiest hospitals our Vision and Values are important to embracing a positive future for our organisation. To develop our Vision and Values, we spoke to over 2,500 staff and members of the public. If you took part in this engagement, we’d like to say a very...

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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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Meet the Teams

Last updated on Tuesday, June 11, 2024

There are currently 12 Cancer Specialities at WUTH which are spread between three divisions within the organisation. Each team has a Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and some teams have Cancer Care Co-ordinators (CCC). Although roles vary across the Trust, all teams aim to provide a quality...

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Tag:   cancer (21)     oncology (4)     spcialisms (1)     tumour (4)     lump (4)     breast (9)     prostate (2)     bowel (6)     skin (8)     lung (10)     chemotherapy (3)     hospice (2)     radiation (1)     x-ray (13)     MRI (3)     scan (10)