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Vitamin D for dialysis patients
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
What is the study about? This study will test whether “natural” vitamin D (called colecalciferol, and made by the body when sunlight falls on the skin) improves the health of patients on dialysis treatment. Who can take part? Patients who are undergoing dialysis at the hospital. What...
read moreVisiting suspended at Wirral University Teaching Hospital
Last updated on Friday, June 11, 2021
Wirral University Teaching Hospital has taken the difficult decision to suspend visiting at its hospitals. In recent weeks a pilot was underway to ease visiting restrictions on certain wards at Arrowe Park Hospital. However due to an increase in prevalence of COVID-19 in the Wirral community and...
read moreBarbara Sananowicz, Staff Nurse and Research Champion
Last updated on Friday, August 30, 2024
Barbara Sananowicz told us about how she became one of the Trust’s first Research Champions. What is your job role?I’m a staff nurse on WUTH’s Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU). I joined the unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, so I’ve been here five years now. What sparked your interest in becomi...
read moreLocal Anaesthetic
Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A local anaesthetic is a type of painkilling medication that is used to numb areas of the body during some surgical procedures. You stay awake when you have a local anaesthetic but in some cases the local anaesthetic can be combined with sedation. How does local anaesthetic work? Local anae...
read moreBowel (Colorectal) Cancer
Last updated on Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The Colorectal Cancer team consists of seven Colorectal Surgeons based at Arrowe Park Hospital (with clinic capacity at Clatterbridge Hospital and Victoria Central Hospital). They are supported by a team of Macmillan Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs), Care Co-Ordinators, a Nurse Consultant...
read moreAdvanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course
Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Learning Outcomes After attending this course, you should be able to: Demonstrate the core principles of primary and secondary patient assessment Rapidly establish priorities in trauma patients Deliver care during the primary and secondary surveys Confidently practice a wide range of skill...
read moreDiabetic 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...
read moreControlling phosphate levels on dialysis
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
What is the study about? Based on current evidence, it is unclear if lowering blood phosphate towards a normallevel is always a good option for patients receiving dialysis. The PHOSPHATE trial istrying to find out if controlling blood phosphate levels results in a longer life and a betterquali...
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