Wye Valley NHS Trust

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The maternity ward is located on the second floor at Hereford County Hospital. If you are not wishing for an early discharge from Delivery Suite or if you and your baby need some additional monitoring or support with feeding then you will be transferred to Maternity Ward shortly after birth. When you arrive a midwife will be assigned to care for you and they will come and introduce themselves. There are also Maternity Support Workers and Healthcare Assistants on the ward who can support you and help you with baby cares. Below is some useful information about how the ward…

What we do Children’s Physiotherapy is a specialist community physiotherapy service for babies, children and young people living in Herefordshire.  Children’s physiotherapists have additional knowledge and experience of child development and childhood disabilities.  Children’s physiotherapists are responsible for the assessment and physical rehabilitation of children and young people who are identified as having difficulties with the development of gross motor skills and mobility as a result of accident, injury, disease or disability.  They also see children with specific conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, gait anomalies and life-limiting conditions.  Children’s’ physiotherapists use a variety of…

Applying for a post Once you have searched our current vacancies and found a job you would like to apply for, you will need to complete an online application. You have the option to click ‘apply online now’ on all of our advertised vacancies to be taken to an application form. At WVT, making sure that our staff feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We’re looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients who come to us for treatment every year.…

This accessibility statement applies to www.wyevalley.nhs.uk This website is run by Wye Valley NHS Trust. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to: change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver) We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier…

Due to national guidelines for dentistry the service is operating in a different way: At present we are providing dental pain relief if required for urgent treatment. You can contact our clinics (see details on right of this page) for urgent advice. We also provide weekday evening advice clinics, Monday to Thursday, 5.30pm to 8pm.  If you require urgent dental advice outside the hours listed please telephone 111. Please note at peak times patients will be triaged in line with their clinical need and the most urgent cases will be given priority; patients are therefore advised to telephone at the…

We’re delighted to launch our volunteer led Talk Community information Hub at Hereford County Hospital in partnership with Herefordshire Council.

Trust Board Statement: Counter fraud and bribery Fraud and bribery in the NHS costs the taxpayer millions of pounds every year. We are accountable to the public for the provision of services in an open and honest manner and any failure to do so brings the service into disrepute and threatens the respect afforded to the whole organisation. The Trust is committed to applying the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity and every employee and individual acting on the Trust’s behalf is responsible for maintaining the organisation’s reputation and for conducting Trust business honesty and professionally.  Fraud The Trust…

At Wye Valley NHS Trust we provide the following diagnostic tests: 1. Multi-night overnight oximetry – This involves wearing a watch-like monitor on a finger during sleep and is done at home. It is collected from the sleep clinic, worn overnight over a minimum of two consecutive nights and then returned for a recording of your night's sleep to be downloaded. 2. Limited Channel Sleep study – This is a slightly more in-depth test. It involves attending the sleep clinic for a ‘fitting’ session and then the equipment. This is worn overnight at home and returned the next day. It…

Obstetric cholestasis (OC) or Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, affects around 0.7% of pregnancies in a multi-cultural society.  If you have been diagnosed with this condition, it may have started with itchy skin, which may have been worse on your hands and feet, but can be anywhere on your body. It is caused when the bile that flows through your liver slows down or even stops.  This leads to bile acids building up in your liver, which then leak out into your bloodstream and cause itching.  Some women find that the itching is worse at night, affects their sleep and can…