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Tuberculosis (TB) Service
Last updated on Friday, June 6, 2025
What we do The Wirral TB Service provides a community-based service to patients with a diagnosis of TB to facilitate self-management and minimise the need for hospital admission. We care for the majority of our patients in the community with home visits and support. The Service also provides e...
read moreWhat will i learn at the PR sessions?
Last updated on Saturday, February 24, 2018
The education part of the programme is very important. It will help you to understand how to manage your condition so that you can live a more active and fulfilling life. The talks are given by physiotherapists, nurses, dieticians and other members of staff linked to the NHS. The topics covered...
read moreState-of-the-art Catheter Lab opens at Arrowe Park following £1.2m refurbishment
Last updated on Friday, March 12, 2021
Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has a unveiled a new state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheter Lab for heart patients following a £1.2 million refurbishment. Around 1000 procedures, such as implantation of pacemakers, are carried out in the Cardiac Catheter Lab at Arrowe Park Hospital each ye...
read moreSurvivor Thanks ED Team After Life-Saving Surgery
Last updated on Friday, February 14, 2025
A man whose life was saved by the emergency team at Arrowe Park Hospital has returned to personally thank the staff who carried out a rare and complex procedure to save him. Peter Murdoch visited the Emergency Department (ED) to express his heartfelt gratitude after surviving a life-threatening...
read moreCOPD
Last updated on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a term for a group of lung conditions (for example, chronic bronchitis and emphysema) and can lead to damaged, 'obstructed', airways. The symptoms are usually a combination of: Increased breathlessness, especially when moving around Persistent c...
read moreHow is TB contracted
Last updated on Wednesday, April 18, 2018
People get TB when they breathe in the TB bacteria, which are spread through the air. But most people won’t get ill because: TB bacteria are only in the air after someone with infectious TB coughs or sneezes. You need to spend many hours close to a person with infectious TB to breathe in enou...
read moreChronic lung disease in pre-term babies
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
What is the study about? Whether the use of a mouth spray vs a placebo (dummy medicine spray) could potentially reduce the occurrence of chest conditions in babies who are discharged from the neonatal unit for the first year. Who can take part? Babies born very preterm below 30 weeks, wh...
read moreHayley Kendall, Chief Operating Officer and Interim Deputy Chief Executive
Last updated on Tuesday, October 28, 2025
New WUTH Chief Operating Officer (COO) Hayley Kendall joined from the beginning of January 2022 from her previous COO role at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LHCH). Hayley is coming back to WUTH after six years away from the Trust. Prior to the COO role at LHCH, Hayley was Divisional Head of...
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