Eight colleagues from the Nightingale Macmillan Unit at the Royal Derby Hospital are taking on the challenge of growing their moustaches for Movember in aid of a cause very close to all of their hearts.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton is now operating a pharmacy home delivery service from Royal Derby Hospital.
A Royal Derby Hospital nurse has become the first NHS staff member in the UK to progress from a nursing associate to a registered nurse.
A Queen’s Hospital Burton nurse and her family have met the Prime Minister after a video showing her teenage daughter’s reaction to some life-changing news about her condition went viral.
A new specialist rehabilitation unit has opened at London Road Community Hospital, bringing together 10 specialist services to provide multi-disciplinary support for patients.
A student from Royal School for the Deaf Derby has thanked our Restaurant Team for helping him reach his goals of working in the catering industry.
A student who moved to Derby from war-torn Syria has been accepted to study Medicine at Cambridge University – one year on from completing work experience at UHDB.
On Friday, 18 October, Team UHDB showed their support and helped Show Racism The Red Card.
Our fantastic Derbyshire Children’s Hospital Youth Service have seen their commitment to supporting our young patients recognised with a prestigious national award.
Access to Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital is set to be restricted for up to two weeks.
Monica Hugh, Lung Cancer Nurse at Queen’s Hospital Burton, is now working with the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme to support a national review into services for lung cancer patients.
A new mum has thanked the UHDB staff who helped her through an “emotional rollercoaster” of a year that saw her lose her first baby and then later give birth again.
We were absolutely delighted to see how many of you loved The Big Hospital Experiment, which aired throughout September on BBC Two.
Staff and families came together for the first bulb planting ceremony at the Royal Derby Hospital’s Healing Garden this weekend (Saturday 28 September).
UHDB has appointed our first ever Medical Examiners to look further into the causes of patients’ deaths across our hospitals and identify any improvements that could be made to the care we provide going forward.
Today it’s World Pharmacist Day and at UHDB there are more than 300 people within the pharmacy team working hard across our five sites.
More than 300 members of #TeamUHDB gathered together for a night of celebration at Burton’s Pirelli Stadium last week for the first annual UHDB Annual Making a Difference Awards.
After receiving almost 500 entries, we are delighted to announce the winners of our 'Pop Up Bedroom' photo competition!
An interactive wall has been unveiled at the Royal Derby Hospital that patients and visitors can scan with their phones to find out more about some of UHDB’s “unsung heroes”.
A dedicated staff member has raised more than £22,000 to help fund a specialist garden for patients on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Royal Derby Hospital.
In response to recent reports, we would like to provide reassurance to all of our patients who have been referred into the Breast service at our hospitals.
If you see a pink fire engine and fire car driving around Burton over the next two years, this is why!
Two new mums who developed diabetes during their pregnancies have thanked a “fantastic” Royal Derby Hospital midwife and her team for helping them bring their babies into the world safely.
More patients are being discharged earlier from two wards at Queen’s Hospital Burton thanks to work from the recent Discharge Cell as part of the UHDB’s Improvement Practice initiative.
Patients who are frail who are admitted to A&E at the Royal Derby Hospital have seen waiting times for CT scans reduced by up to 65 per cent following UHDB’s latest Improvement Practice Cell Improvement Event.
UHDB’s commitment to encouraging staff to come forward and express any concerns they have has resulted in the Trust being shortlisted for a prestigious national award.
BBC Two documentary follows a team of young volunteers, with no clinical experience, as they deal with life on the hospital frontline.
A new BBC documentary will follow a group of volunteers as they take part in a social experiment, designed to test whether young people with no clinical experience can make a positive difference to patient care.
We are delighted to announce the recruitment of our 300th patient to Inflammatory Bowel Disease BioResource study.
The refurbishment of a Queen’s Hospital Burton building has taken the Trust on a trip down memory lane to more than 125 years ago.
