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FAQs

Last updated on Wednesday, June 11, 2025

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)   What is the Pre-Operative Assessment (POA) Questionnaire? It’s a digital pre-operative questionnaire available in the patient portal, designed to help gather important health information ahead of your surgery.  Why should I complete it?  Co...

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Statement on Critical Incident

Last updated on Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Statement on Critical Incident - posted at 14:50 am on 29th October  “Wirral University Teaching Hospital remains in a Critical Incident due to an issue in our Sterile Services Department affecting surgical instruments. “We are very sorry that this situation has caused concern for some of our p...

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Year 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool)

Last updated on Monday, November 24, 2025

Year 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool) In the University of Liverpool's MBChB Year 4 curriculum, students experience more specialized and challenging clinical placements, including mental health, neurology, and specialized areas of paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and oncology. They also und...

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Lauren Horne, Staff Nurse and Research Champion

Last updated on Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Lauren Horne is a Research Champion in Critical Care. She told us how being a Research Champion makes her feel like she’s having a positive impact on future care. How did you become aware of research in the department? We have a dedicated Research Nurse who’s based in the Critical Care. She giv...

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Changes for patients attending the Emergency Department in Wirral

Last updated on Wednesday, October 20, 2021

A pilot is being launched from Monday 25th October which will see a change to the way patients who attend A&E at Arrowe Park Hospital are cared for, potentially enabling them to be treated faster and closer to home. Any patient attending A&E who needs emergency treatment will receive it,...

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Children's Occupational Therapy Service

Last updated on Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Information about the Children’s Occupational Therapy (OT) teams here at WUTH is located below. Find out what the team do, how to contact them and much more. As Occupational Therapists, we provide advice and intervention where needed, for children who have functional difficulties with self-care,...

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Alcohol intake

Last updated on Thursday, February 21, 2019

Drinking alcohol affects your body’s ability to fight infection, stop bleeding and heal wounds/ prevent wound breakdown.  It is therefore very important to cut down or stop drinking before surgery.  Stopping for just 2 weeks pre-operatively will improve your body’s response to surgery.  Stopping...

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Anaemia

Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020

Anaemia happens when the number of healthy red blood cells in your body is too low. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all of the body’s tissues, so a low red blood cell count indicates that the amount of oxygen in your blood is lower than it should be.  Anaemia can be due to many causes but a commo...

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