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Surgery School
Last updated on Monday, November 30, 2020
Surgery School is a programme that can be attended before surgery. Currently it is only available to those patients having joint surgery or colorectal surgery. It involves a face to face group programme where you will be taught all about the steps to take before and after your surgery to help y...
read morePeople urged to use 111 - ahead of Junior Doctor industrial action
Last updated on Friday, December 29, 2023
People across Cheshire and Merseyside are being urged to use NHS 111 for all non-emergency healthcare needs ahead of industrial action by junior doctors early in the New Year. As previously announced by unions, junior doctors will take six days of industrial action from 7am on Wednesday 3 Janua...
read moreMammography
Last updated on Monday, February 10, 2025
What we do The majority of mammography examinations will take place at our dedicated Breast Centre at Clatterbridge Hospital. Although we do run a satellite service at St Catherine’s Health Centre in Birkenhead. Patients may attend this unit through the National Breast Screening Programme or sy...
read moreFeeding in babies who are born premature.
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
The research study is looking at whether routinely measuring gastric residual volumes (checking what is in the stomach before feeding) helps babies safely get to full feeds quickly. Who can take part? All babies who are born 6 or more weeks early who need tube feeding will be included i...
read moreRegional Anaesthesia
Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Local anaesthetic or regional anaesthesia does not put you to sleep but works by blocking the signals that pass along your nerves to your brain. We can block the nerves at different levels to numb a certain area, for example we can block just a finger or a whole region like an arm, a leg or w...
read more“He didn’t just die, he gave life”: A wife’s powerful tribute during Organ Donation Week
Last updated on Thursday, September 25, 2025
A widow and member of the Organ Donation Committee at Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) talked about the many lives saved thanks to her late husband’s organ donation. Joanne Caswell, 54, from Bromborough, lost her husband Karl in 2010 at the age of 46 after he suffered a fatal brain hae...
read moreBreakthrough research using umbilical cord donations at Wirral maternity unit
Last updated on Monday, July 21, 2025
Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has joined forces with laboratory specialist BioGrad to support an exciting new research project that could help transform the future of regenerative medicine and cancer care across the UK. The initiative, now available through WUTH’s maternity service,...
read moreMedication
Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020
Continue to take your regular medications with a sip of water unless specifically told not to. If you are diabetic or taking anti-coagulants (blood thinners) you will receive additional information about these. Information is available on the document at the foot of this page. Please bring an...
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