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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...
read moreThank you!
Last updated on Friday, August 2, 2019
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Your nomination has now been put forward.
read moreOur Vision and Values
Last updated on Monday, July 1, 2019
As one of the North West’s biggest and busiest hospitals our Vision and Values are important to embracing a positive future for our organisation. To develop our Vision and Values, we spoke to over 2,500 staff and members of the public. If you took part in this engagement, we’d like to say a very...
read moreTheatre staff add historical mementos to time capsule at £25m surgical centre
Last updated on Tuesday, October 17, 2023
A time capsule has been installed at Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre at Clatterbridge Hospital during phase two of the project. The metal capsule contains items especially chosen by staff at the centre to mark this year, including mementoes, pictures, newspapers and personal messages....
read moreRCN Industrial Action 6th and 7th February
Last updated on Friday, February 3, 2023
There will be national industrial action carried out by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on Monday 6th February and Tuesday, 7th February for 12 hours. This will involve strike action by RCN members at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. Patients and visitors may notice activity on our sites...
read moreGeneral 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...
read moreCome and meet some of our apprentices
Last updated on Wednesday, February 13, 2019
NAME: Ethan BriscoeROLE: Apprentice Laboratory Technician DEPT: Microbiology COURSE: Laboratory & Science Technicians What made you apply for this apprenticeship? I wanted a job as soon as I had left school as I wanted to earn money whilst gaining qualifications and my sister introduc...
read moreMaternity Services at Trust rated 'Good' by CQC with areas of 'Outstanding' practice
Last updated on Friday, August 11, 2023
CQC rates Maternity Services as ‘Good’ and praises ‘Outstanding’ work at Arrowe Park Hospital and Seacombe Birth Centre. Janelle Holmes, CEO at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, said: “This is a fantastic achievement and great news for patients and staff." Doctors, nurses, midwives and su...
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