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FAQs

Last updated on Wednesday, June 11, 2025

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)   What is the Pre-Operative Assessment (POA) Questionnaire? It’s a digital pre-operative questionnaire available in the patient portal, designed to help gather important health information ahead of your surgery.  Why should I complete it?  Co...

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Statement on Critical Incident

Last updated on Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Statement on Critical Incident - posted at 14:50 am on 29th October  “Wirral University Teaching Hospital remains in a Critical Incident due to an issue in our Sterile Services Department affecting surgical instruments. “We are very sorry that this situation has caused concern for some of our p...

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Year 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool)

Last updated on Monday, November 24, 2025

Year 4 Student Doctors (Liverpool) In the University of Liverpool's MBChB Year 4 curriculum, students experience more specialized and challenging clinical placements, including mental health, neurology, and specialized areas of paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and oncology. They also und...

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Admissions to Clatterbridge Hospital

Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020

Your day will start in either the Leverhulme Day Surgery unit, Ward M2 Surgery or M2 Orthopaedics. Your admission letter will state what time you should arrive and where to go. After you have registered you will wait in the reception area and you will be taken into the unit/ward. You will be see...

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Alcohol intake

Last updated on Thursday, February 21, 2019

Drinking alcohol affects your body’s ability to fight infection, stop bleeding and heal wounds/ prevent wound breakdown.  It is therefore very important to cut down or stop drinking before surgery.  Stopping for just 2 weeks pre-operatively will improve your body’s response to surgery.  Stopping...

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Anaemia

Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020

Anaemia happens when the number of healthy red blood cells in your body is too low. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all of the body’s tissues, so a low red blood cell count indicates that the amount of oxygen in your blood is lower than it should be.  Anaemia can be due to many causes but a commo...

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Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre has opened at Clatterbridge Hospital

Last updated on Friday, November 25, 2022

A multi-million pound elective surgical hub, Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre, has opened its doors at Clatterbridge Hospital. The centre, which has two brand new theatres, has started treating patients from across the region. It has been developed to treat solely patients awaiting electi...

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Endometriosis

Last updated on Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Our Women and Children’s Hospital provides a specialist Endometriosis Service.  Endometriosis is a condition where cells similar to those that line the womb grow elsewhere in the body, which can lead to inflammation and a complex set of symptoms, most commonly but not limited to pelvic pain. End...

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