Funding for new equipment will reduce trips to hospital
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals are to receive over £200,000 from the Department of Health and Social Care to improve access to Pathology testing this winter.
Trust Improvement
National Award for Team Teyluva
Congratulations to midwives Amy Keates and Jessica Parker who won an Integration Innovation award at this year’s national Black and Minority Ethnic Health & Care Awards for their work with the Kernow Maternity Voices Partnership and TravellerSpace Charity to set up a midwifery service tailored for the traveller community in St Day.
Carers and family members of people with dementia are invited to attend the Supporting Ahead Programme
Do you or a family member care for someone who has a formal diagnosis of dementia?
National win for Inventory Management Team
Brilliant news for our Inventory Management team who won the Supply Chain Excellence Award for Sourcing and Procurement this week.
Survey reveals Urgent Treatment Centre team is good at allaying patients’ fears
Feedback from patients in the latest survey of emergency and urgent care services shows our team at West Cornwall Hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre is doing well when it comes to allaying patient’s fears and anxieties.
Lifeboat links celebrated in Penlee Unit’s new name
The newly named Penlee Unit has been unveiled at West Cornwall Hospital at an event where staff were joined by current and former Penlee Lifeboat crew…
‘BUTTERFLY CORNWALL’ MAKING GOOD MEMORIES AT THE END OF LIFE
Cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust are working together to ensure better care for end of life patients and their families with ‘Butterfly Cornwall’.
Royal Cornwall Hospital set to receive share of £1.8 billion investment in the NHS
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals is one of 20 Trusts across England set to benefit from a £1.8 billion cash boost announced by the Government today. The £100 million coming to the Royal Cornwall Hospital will be the biggest ever single investment Cornwall has seen in local health services.
Royal recognition as HRH The Princess Royal visits maternity services at Royal Cornwall Hospital
HRH The Princess Royal who is a patron of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) met with midwives, maternity support workers (MSWs), student midwives and other members of staff at The Princess Alexandra Maternity Wing on Friday (26th July), for royal recognition of the work carried out to improve the unit.
Royal College of Midwives Chief Executive welcomes improvements in maternity care
Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, Gill Walton, has made a three-day visit to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly this week, finding out about the progress the Royal Cornwall Hospital’s midwifery team has been making to ensure its services are brilliant for families and for staff.
