Wye Valley NHS Trust

Mission Wye Valley NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, both as service users and visitors to Trust premises. Wye Valley NHS Trust also acknowledges the importance of working with partner agencies to ensure that children have safe, healthy and happy childhoods, with the necessary support which will help them to prepare for adult life. The Trust recognises that safeguarding children is everybody’s business. Expectations Children, Young people and their families receive high quality services, responsive to needs, in a timely and safe manner whether in hospital, the community or within the…

Nicki Lloyd - Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) My name is Nicki Lloyd and I am a Health Care Support Worker on Lugg Ward at Hereford County Hospital. My job role involves assisting the nurses with the care of patients on the ward. This can involve personal care, changing beds, taking clinical observations, testing blood sugar levels, emptying catheters, taking ECGs and taking blood samples. I decided to become a HCSW with Wye Valley Trust as I had been working in Adult Social Care in a variety of rolls for about 16 years, and wanted to gain new skills which…

The respiratory physiology service at Wye Valley NHS Trust provides a service in respiratory, exercise and sleep physiology, for inpatients and outpatients from the Trust. The department provides a comprehensive range of investigations in order to: Aid diagnosis Give an objective assessment of how a condition affects the patient’s functionally Display and define the contribution of any secondary condition Monitor improvement with treatment or deterioration with time  Investigations are performed on patients with various types of lung disease, cardiac and oesophageal conditions and, on occasions, patients being considered for non-thoracic surgery when their cardio-pulmonary state gives cause for concern. Patients…

In December 2017, Wye Valley NHS Trust embarked on a fundraising appeal to improve the maternity bereavement facilities, services and aftercare support provided at Hereford County Hospital. A project group was formed to oversee the project. This included patient representatives to look at existing practices and procedures to ensure the new facility offered meets the needs of bereaved families and continually developed, reviewed and improved. The vision was set out in three stages. The first stage was to provide a separate counselling room (to be situated at the end of the second floor corridor) to allow families a separate space…

  Access to the unit - the unit has an intercom system to enter the unit.   Parents and visitors will be asked to confirm your identity by a member of staff, and visitors will be asked who they have come to see.   Please do not allow others to follow you through the door. Infection prevention - Parents and visitors will be asked to wash their hands and apply hand gel on entering the nursery. All outside clothing, such as coats, should be removed and there is a clothes rail to hang these on located in the sitting area, this is to…

  Pain toolkit Pain Management PlanA Great practical book about living with long term pain. Buy it from Amazon or the publisher’s site. Also available from the pain self-management service where you can work through it with support from a clinician. Pain Concern A UK based charity to help people with persistent pain. Good magazine, Pain Matters   Phone: 0300 123 0789 Wonderful online radio programme about pain "Airing Pain" Let’s Talk    Local courses and one-to-one help for depression, anxiety, insomnia etc. 6-week Manage Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue course. Refer yourself online or by phone. Phone: 0800 0732200 Samaritans   …

Back to Cardiac Services The Heart Function team are experienced nurses who have undertaken extended training in managing heart function problems. They work closely with the consultant cardiologists and other health care teams.  We aim to help you and your family and/or carer to: Access education and ongoing support and monitoring Benefit from evidence-based medications, procedures & rehabilitation Improve your confidence Improve your quality of life Avoid hospital admissions Shorten any stays in hospital Who can benefit from a consultation with a Heart Function Nurse? You can benefit if you have been told by a doctor that you have Left Ventricular…

The Intensive Therapy Unit has six beds and provides both High Dependency (level 2) and Intensive Care (Level 3). We are able to provide all forms of multi-organ support for critically ill patients. We provide an Outreach service, staffed by experienced critical care nurses. This allows early intervention in critically ill patients, ward staff education and ITU patient follow-up. We are part of the Birmingham and Black Country Critical Network and submit data to the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC). This ensures that we regularly review the outcome of our patients and ensures the provision of a…

Systemic-Anti Cancer Pre-Treatment information and video for patients

About the Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) team The Upper GI (Gastrointestinal) Service at Hereford County Hospital is made up of a skilled and supportive team, including surgeons, specialist nurses, gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, and oncologists. Together, we assess and treat conditions affecting the upper part of your digestive system, including your oesophagus (gullet), stomach, gallbladder, bile ducts, and liver. We provide care for a wide range of non-cancerous (benign) conditions, such as gallstones, acid reflux, and hernias. If a more serious (cancerous) condition is suspected, we will arrange the appropriate investigations and refer you to our specialist cancer team (Upper GI Cancer…