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A Children’s Emergency Department Consultant from UHDB is urging parents and carers to use the ‘appropriate’ urgent care services for their children.

In the last few weeks, our Children’s Emergency Department Team have reported a ‘real increase’ in patients visiting the department at Royal Derby Hospital, averaging at 139 patients per day in comparison to June 2020, where an average of 59 patients were attending per day.

As part of continued improvement to the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton website, we’d like to ask you for your feedback.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has today (Wednesday 16 June 2021) welcomed a Care Quality Commission report into infection control measures at our hospitals.

My name is Chris and I am the Team Leader of Pathology Stores. We package stock for GP surgeries, remove clinical waste and serve housekeepers, during the first and second wave of covid I was helping every afternoon of my shifts in the Mortuary.

Today, staff at Queen’s Hospital Burton celebrate ward 801’s first birthday to commemorate their hard work and achievements since its opening in June 2020.

I’m a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner here at UHDB, I’m quite new in my role having only started in April after being a Charge Nurse on the Coronary Care Unit.

A community midwife whose intervention “potentially saved the life” of a patient who was 35 weeks pregnant has been presented with UHDB’s Monthly Making a Difference Award for May.

The Government is seeking your views to help inform the development of the Women’s Health Strategy.

From 14 – 18 June we will profile the positive impact of the work undertaken by our own NHS knowledge and library specialists as part of NHS Knowledge and Library Services Awareness Week.

People who have accessed maternity services in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are invited to share their experiences and views at an online event on 16 July 2021.

A teenager who recovered from being critically ill has sat her A-level exams one year early while recovering in a ward at Royal Derby Hospital. Tejal Paliya, a 17-year-old student at Littleover Community School, contracted a bacterial infection which left her fighting for her life in intensive care.

UHDB colleagues have shared their experiences of being assaulted and threatened while at work – to help us spread the message that there is absolutely no excuse to behave like this in our hospitals.

Despite their heroic efforts throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we have sadly still seen a sharp rise of UHDB staff experiencing physical violence, aggression and abuse from patients and hospital visitors over the last year. 

A beautiful mural is being created in the ‘Forget Me Not Gardens’, located to the left of the main entrance at Royal Derby Hospital (next to the the Discharge Assessment Unit). This is a space to commemorate the staff that have passed away from the UHDB hospitals. 

Nominations for our Annual Making a Difference Awards are now closed.

Surgeons at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are the first in the UK to use a new image system during bariatric surgery. The team are using Indocyanine green fluorescence (ICG) technology to perform gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy to improve patient safety during surgery.

Pride month is a time for our UHDB LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate the progress made to attain the rights we currently enjoy and remember those who fought over the years to win these rights.

Pride is usually celebrated with lots of parades and marches but with coronavirus and social distancing still in place, things will be a little different this year.

Colleagues who have reignited their NHS careers through UHDB’s Return to Practice (RTP) scheme have praised the “exciting, stimulating” buzz of returning to work.

A member of Team UHDB is raising funds to help their fellow healthcare workers in India as the Covid-19 crisis continues.

A new life-saving form of radiotherapy treatment is now being offered for the very first time at UHDB to patients with lung cancer. UHDB is now able to offer Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) treatment at Royal Derby Hospital and last week began treating our first patient with lung cancer using the advanced technique. SABR allows for tumours to be targeted with very high doses of radiation over fewer sessions, using state-of-the-art image guidance technology, with this high level of precision especially important when treating cancer of the lung, due to there being a moving target as the patient breathes in and out.

A year on from the law around organ donation changing in England, NHS Blood and Transplant and UHDB are urging people to talk to their families about organ donation to increase the number of people whose lives can be saved or transformed by an organ transplant.

International Clinical Trials Day is an annual event acknowledged around the world to commemorate what is thought to be ‘the first ever’ clinical trial which was conducted in 1747 by Naval Surgeon, James Lind aboard HMS Salisbury.

We would like our patients and their friends and family to get involved in a new project aimed at improving communication in our Royal Derby Hospital Emergency Department.

A 37-year-old patient has reiterated the danger Covid-19 presents after spending almost two months in hospital fighting for his life after contracting the virus.

All Trust Members will be able to cast their vote for who they'd like to represent them as one of our UHDB Governors from tomorrow. 

Dan Walton-Ashmore is a Trainee Nursing Associate in our Accident and Emergency Department at Royal Derby Hospital. Dan is also the Chair of our UHDB LGBTQIA+ Network and has bravely shared his experience of homophobia whilst working.

Today (14 May) marks National ODP Day – a day on which we celebrate the work of all our wonderful Operating Department Practitioners!

Three members of the theatres team at Queen’s Hospital Burton have worked their way up from the role of Healthcare Assistant (HCA) to Assistant Theatre Practitioners (ATP) after passing their foundation degree.

Claire Beighton, Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, has shared her thoughts on what end of life care means to her in her role on the Nightingale Macmillan Unit at Royal Derby Hospital.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton is today celebrating International Day of the Nurse, recognising the exceptional care our Nurses provide to our patients.