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COPD

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...

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Tag:   COPD (7)     PR (8)     Pulmonary (10)     oxygen (9)     physiotherapists (3)     bronchitis (1)     emphysema (1)     smoking (3)    

Letter from Buckingham Palace to mark Arrowe Park's 40th anniversary

Last updated on Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Wirral University Teaching Hospital has received a letter on behalf of HM the Queen to mark the 40th anniversary celebrations of Arrowe Park Hospital. The Queen officially opened Arrowe Park Hospital on 4th May 1982 and there will be a history display in the foyer of the hospital on Wednesday, 4...

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Arrowe Park Acute Stroke Unit

Last updated on Friday, January 12, 2018

Each year, an estimated 700 people in the Wirral and Cheshire area will suffer a stroke and be admitted to hospital. Our Stroke patients are brought in through our Emergency Department at Arrowe Park Hospital as emergency cases and are directly admitted to the Acute Stroke Unit on Ward 23. Ward...

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Tag:   stroke (9)     acute (6)     unit (2)     thrombolysis (1)     blood (10)     clot (2)     brain (4)    

Health care associated infections (HCAIs)

Last updated on Friday, April 20, 2018

HCAIs are infections acquired as a result of healthcare interventions. Infections caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) and Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have previously been considered to be the most common, however great results have been achieved in red...

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Tag:   HCAI (1)     MRSA (3)     cDiff (2)     c.difficile (1)     lungs (4)     skin (8)     blood poisoning (1)    

UK first for new technology at WUTH

Last updated on Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) is the first Trust in the UK to use an innovative system to aid the diagnosis for patients with potential prostate cancer. The state-of-the-art ExactVu ultrasound system is more likely to give a decisive result from the patient’s initial biopsy procedur...

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Jenny Williams, Biomedical Scientist Dissector

Last updated on Tuesday, February 11, 2025

I was in my mid 20s and working in retail. I’d always been interested in anatomy, from a forensic science perspective, but I never thought it could be a career. I decided to take a degree in physiology and later I joined the cytology department and worked on the cervical screening programme wher...

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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)