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New Breast Pain Clinic opens in Wallasey

Last updated on Wednesday, August 27, 2025

A dedicated Breast Pain Clinic has opened at Victoria Health Centre, Wallasey, offering a new, patient-centred pathway for women experiencing breast pain as their only symptom. The Breast Pain Clinic aims to significantly improve patient care and reduce anxiety for patients who would previously...

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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 (25)     confidential (1)     contraception (2)     needle (2)     pregnancy test (1)     medicine (5)     weight (1)     diabetes (14)    

Cardiology (Heart)

Last updated on Thursday, June 13, 2024

What we do If you are a patient of our Cardiology Service, you may have been referred to us by your GP or you may have come through our Emergency Department Common heart problems include angina, myocardial infarction, heart failure and arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation or bradycardia. We...

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Tag:   heart (3)     cardiology (2)     bypass (1)     attack (1)     diagnostic (3)     echo (1)     echocardiogram (1)     cardiac (3)     coronary (1)     atrial (1)     Angiography (1)     angina (1)     transthoracic (1)     chest pain (3)    

Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Clinic

Last updated on Friday, June 6, 2025

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)    

Changes to National Core Content as of 1st July 2025

Last updated on Monday, June 9, 2025

The National Knowledge and Library Services team at NHS England funds subscriptions to a collection of digital knowledge resources that is free at the point of use for all staff and learners across the NHS in England. This collection includes databases (such as Medline, CINAHL and Embase), e-jour...

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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)    

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)