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Autism ‘experts by experience’ deliver neurodiversity training to hospital staff during Autism Acceptance Month
Last updated on Friday, May 2, 2025
Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has teamed up with local charities to provide training sessions on autism and other neurodivergent conditions to its staff. The training workshops have been launched during World Autism Acceptance Month which raises awareness and acceptance of autism,...
read moreMental health support available at NHS 111
Last updated on Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Millions of patients experiencing a mental health crisis can now benefit from support through 111, the NHS has announced today. The change means the NHS in England is one of the first countries in the world to offer access to a 24/7 full package of mental health crisis support through one single...
read moreMotor Neurone Disease (MND)
Last updated on Wednesday, June 25, 2025
This page is currently under development What is Motor Neurone Disease (MND)? MND is a fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It attacks the nerves that control movement so muscles no longer work. It does not usually affect the senses such as sight, sound...
read moreStress reduction techniques to help you manage pain
Last updated on Friday, June 6, 2025
Stress reduction techniques to help you manage pain Living with persistent pain can be very stressful at times. Stress is also one of the many things that can impact chronic pain. Often people report that their pain condition flares up or is made worse at a time of acute stress. This is normal a...
read moreGeneral Anaesthesia
Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018
If you are having a general anaesthetic, it will be given to you by an anaesthetist, either as a liquid that is injected into your veins through a cannula (a thin, plastic tube that feeds into a vein, usually on the back of your hand) or gas that you breathe in through a mask.Your anaesthetist wi...
read moreCQC Surveys
Last updated on Sunday, March 17, 2024
The CQC (Care Quality Commission) are an independent regulator (the people who check) of hospitals, care homes and other health services are good enough. They do regular checks and surveys to make sure these places are safe and treating people properly. One of their surveys is called the Nationa...
read moreEquality Analysis
Last updated on Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Wirral University Teaching Hospital is committed to ensuring that it provides fair and equal treatment to all, whether this is in the provision of services or in relation to employment matters. As a public authority, we are also required to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination,...
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...
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