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The difference between chronic and acute pain

Last updated on Wednesday, January 8, 2025

What is the difference between chronic / persistent pain and acute pain?  Acute pain describes pain that comes for a short while and then clears up (normally around 3 months) once the injury is healed. It is a warning sign that our nervous system generates in response to a perceived threat (e.g....

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General 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...

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Visiting

Last updated on Sunday, September 29, 2024

Information about visiting is shown below.  Visiting on wards is from 2pm to 7pm, with the exception of Ward 32 and Critical Care. Critical Care Unit is strictly two visitors for one hour per day which needs to pre-booked with the unit (please see the Critical Care section of this website for...

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Library Nursing Journals

Last updated on Thursday, April 19, 2018

The Library and Knowledge Service is delighted to announce that nurses, midwives and allied health professionals have access to a new collection of nursing and midwifery journals from the Mark Allen Group (MAG online).  Our journals collection will help to keep you up to date with practice, suppo...

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Board Meetings

Last updated on Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) and Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust (WCHC) are coming together to improve healthcare services for people in our communities. As part of this programme of integration and for the foreseeable future WUTH and WC...

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Personalised Care

Last updated on Friday, May 24, 2024

The Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) work across 12 specialties and three divisions within the organisation. All CNSs are line managed by the matrons within the divisions and supported by the LCN in a professional capacity. The CNSs play a key role in the patient journey and patient satisfaction...

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Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP)

Last updated on Thursday, May 22, 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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Modern Slavery Act

Last updated on Monday, June 12, 2023

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Act 2015 Annual Statement – 2023 Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires all organisations to set out the steps it has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of its supply chains, and...

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