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Clinical Education and Development

Last updated on Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The Clinical Education and Development Team are based in Arrowe Park Hospital which is located on the Wirral, Merseyside in the North West of England. We run a variety of education and training programmes ranging from clinical skills to nationally accredited resuscitation courses and training in...

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Education Centre

Last updated on Friday, January 10, 2020

The Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Education Centre at Arrowe Park Hospital site was officially opened by the Rt Hon Lord Owen on the 20th May 2005. At Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust we encourage a wide range of general and professional train...

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Tag:   education (8)     library (3)     learning (7)     development (8)     courses (2)     teaching (1)     skill (1)    

Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)

Last updated on Tuesday, August 26, 2025

What is "Drop Everything And Read?" The below video is 53 seconds long. Why read for 30 minutes? The Reading Agency has made extensive research on the topic of reading. The 2015 report on the benefits of reading and the 2024 state of the nation can be downloaded at the bottom of this page....

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General Gynaecology

Last updated on Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Women’s department is based in the Wirral Women and Children’s Hospital building on the Arrowe Park Site where it provides full outpatient and inpatient services. The unit was completely refurbished in 2011 and has its own theatre, inpatient wards, day case unit and outpatient treatment cen...

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Sedation

Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Intravenous sedation is the most common form of sedation and is the use of drugs through a cannula in a vein (a drip) to make you feel less anxious and it will often make you drowsy or sleepy. The drugs may actually make you sleep and the drugs can make you forget what has happened. Other ways of...

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Meet the Teams

Last updated on Tuesday, June 11, 2024

There are currently 12 Cancer Specialities at WUTH which are spread between three divisions within the organisation. Each team has a Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and some teams have Cancer Care Co-ordinators (CCC). Although roles vary across the Trust, all teams aim to provide a quality...

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Tag:   cancer (26)     oncology (4)     spcialisms (1)     tumour (4)     lump (4)     breast (11)     prostate (3)     bowel (6)     skin (9)     lung (10)     chemotherapy (5)     hospice (2)     radiation (1)     x-ray (11)     MRI (3)     scan (10)    

Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP)

Last updated on Monday, August 18, 2025

Click here to find your nearest screening site We invite anyone who is living with or who has ever had diabetes aged 12+ to a free NHS diabetic eye screening every 1 or 2 years (or more often if the eye disease is detected). If you have gestational diabetes, which is often a temporary conditi...

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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 (14)     clot (2)     brain (4)