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Clinical Biochemistry

Last updated on Wednesday, January 15, 2025

This service tests body fluids such as blood and urine. These fluids are examined for the presence of various compounds such as hormones, proteins, enzymes and drugs. This helps in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases such as diabetes, liver disease and heart problems.We offer a wi...

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Tag:   Clinical Biochemistry (1)     biochemistry (1)     blood (14)     urine (4)     cholesterol (1)     diabetes (15)     liver (4)     hormones (3)    

Where can I find out about learning to lip read?

Last updated on Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Lipreading classes are often known as ‘Managing Hearing Loss’ or ‘Speech reading’ classes. They are run either by Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA)-trained tutors, or by people not formally qualified but with a great deal of valuable lipreading and teaching experience. Clic...

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Tag:   lip read (1)     sign language (2)     hearing (14)     hearing loss (9)     sound (9)     impairment (3)    

Orthotics

Last updated on Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The Orthotic Service at the Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides both in-patient and out-patient orthotic care across Arrowe Park Hospital and Clatterbridge Hospital sites including the Wirral Limb Centre.  We are an in-house service directly employing our own NHS HC...

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Tag:   surgical (4)     appliances (1)     fracture (4)     Orthotic (2)     brace (1)     support (27)     trauma (6)    

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Last updated on Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a painless and harmless examination. This type of scan uses a powerful magnetic field and radio-frequencies. An MRI scan does not use x-rays. MRI allows us to view very detailed cross-sectional images of the body part being examined. This helps in the diagnos...

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Tag:   MRI (3)     scan (10)     scanner (2)     test (9)    

Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme

Last updated on Thursday, August 29, 2019

The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme is a world-first. It is the first national programme of its kind aimed at making improvements to the lives of people with learning disabilities. Reviews are being carried out with a view to improve the standard and quality of care for p...

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Personalised care planning

Last updated on Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Every patient with dementia has a dementia care bundle, this means they receive personalised nursing care to ensure that all appropriate assessments and care is given.  The symbol at the top of this page is known as the Dementia Forget Me Not symbol, and is used on the patient information board o...

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Tag:   dementia (4)     mind (3)     carer (7)     staff (9)     emergency (12)     forget (3)     brain (4)    

CT Scans - Computerised Tomography

Last updated on Friday, June 22, 2018

A CT scan is carried out using a special x-ray machine. It produces a cross-section (or slice) of the body. The scanner consists of a ‘doughnut-shaped’ structure which you pass through. This is called a gantry. A narrow beam of x-rays is produced from the gantry which passes through the body. Im...

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Tag:   CT (3)     scan (10)     x-ray (11)     x ray (6)     xray (7)     scanner (2)     tomography (2)     abdomen (2)     cardiac (3)     heart (3)     head (2)     neck (4)     chest (5)     paediatric (6)     vascular (1)     colonoscopy (2)