Wye Valley NHS Trust

Felicity has worked at Wye Valley NHS Trust for over 25 years, thoroughly enjoying her chosen career in nursing and feels proud. Felicity Archer, Matron, Medical division Matron – Felicity Archer has worked at WVT since 1992, where she started working on Intensive Care.  After many enjoyable years in ITU including opportunity for career development and progression Felicity was ward sister for a cardiac and respiratory ward and has now progressed further to Matron of the medical division.  Felicity who is in charge of around 40 nurses and healthcare assistants says: "I absolutely love my job. I work with a…

Our Education Directorate has been launched with the vision of promoting truly multi-professional education supported by one integrated team. We endeavour to make education accessible to all staff, from our most junior students to our most experienced leaders. We support a wide range of programmes for formal academic training as well as career development opportunities including management and leadership programmes. We have a shared governance system, a shared meeting structure and a shared financial management system across medical and non-medical learners covering both undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities. We work collaboratively with key partners and stakeholders regionally to ensure WVT employees…

Defence Medical Welfare Service

At Wye Valley NHS Trust we are able to support staff whose friends or family members would like to undertake a placement with us and are willing to arrange this independently. This option is available for work experience learners aged 14 years old plus, and it is the only option available for students aged 14 to 16 years old. In order to enable this work experience placement to take place the member of internal staff will need to complete the process and checklist available from the work experience team. Please email workexperience@wvt.nhs.uk Please note that some areas have age restrictions in…

Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) producing Organism information for patients This information will be given to patients in hospital if they have a positive result for this organism.

Hand hygiene – information for patients Hand hygiene is the most effective infection prevention measure to be undertaken.

We aim to provide a quality of care we would want for ourselves, our family and friends, and every year we receive more than 5000 compliments about our staff and services.  We hope that you will tell us when we have got things right for you and also when things did not go so well. It is very important to us that we hear from you so that we can continually improve our services.  How to contact us Website  Please feedback any questions, queries, compliments, comments or complaints to Wye Valley NHS Trust using our feedback form. A member of the…

Women’s Health Department Patient information leaflet – Post-Menopausal Bleeding (PMB)   What is Post-menopausal bleeding? Any bleeding from the vagina after menopause. This can be light spotting, a change in discharge colour or heaver bleeding. What causes post-menopausal bleeding? There can be many different causes, including: The walls of the vagina become thinner. Small skin-tag growths (polyps) in the vagina, cervix or uterus. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) making the womb lining thicker.   Most of the time, the cause of post-menopausal bleeding is not serious, but sometimes it can be a sign of cancer of the cervix, vagina or endometrium…

Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) patient information leaflet. MRSA is a micro-organism or germ that may be harmlessly carried by many people on their skin and in their noses where it usually causes no problem. If it gets into an area such as sputum, urine or a wound it may cause an infection, particularly in people who are already unwell.

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