Wye Valley NHS Trust

The County Hospital children's ward has been transformed into a colourful magical wonderland thanks to a local artist. Nurses on the children's ward, inspired by the work of local artist, Tom Roberts, fundraised for the design of a mural, to create a welcoming, familiar, and colourful environment for the children they care for. The beautiful mural meanders through the corridors, playroom, treatment rooms and patient bays and gives a brighter outlook for the children, parents and staff. The mural gives the children a focal point to help distract them when having procedures, and helps aid their recovery by creating a…

Back to Rapid Cardiology The two carotid arteries are the main vessels that supply blood to the brain. They originate from the main arteries of the body (the aorta and brachiocephalic artery) in the chest and travel up through the neck and into the skull. Atherosclerosis of the right or left carotid artery is the most common cause of a stroke. A carotid duplex scan is a technique to take a picture of these arteries using sound waves (ultrasound). A sound-wave transducer is placed gently on the neck. The walls and interior of the artery are visualised and the velocity…

Stroke education

This programme will give you an overview of quality and service improvement and support you to participate in improvement projects. You will leave the programme with an understanding of improvement methodology that you can use within your own area or with your team. Whilst this course is not accredited, it will provide you with the foundations needed to get started on personal service redesign and will give you a suitable introduction if you wish to get a feel for QSIR before signing up for either of our other programmes. The course will be delivered face to face as well as…

You will also receive support specific to your role and there will always be somebody to ask for help if you are at all unsure.

Refer yourself here for maternity care If you are newly pregnant, you can now enter your details on a secure website (see link below) that will send a referral straight to our community midwifery team. You don’t need to contact your GP or make an appointment with them – we will tell them about your pregnancy. However, if you have any urgent concerns about your health during early pregnancy, please do contact your GP for advice. The best time to fill in the online form is when you are 6 to 7 weeks pregnant. We will then phone you to arrange…

We have introduced a new maternity electronic patient record system.  This means that we no longer use paper forms for recording information about your maternity care. It only applies to the maternity service, which is from your first point of contact with one of our midwives through to when you are discharged from the care of your midwife to a health visitor.  Our midwifery team now record this information on the new electronic system online on a computer or iPad.   This means that we can access information about your maternity care in one place, safely and securely at all…

Resources Adult referral criteria and guidance Adult Speech and Language Therapy referral form Non Attendance policy Every Child a Talker Monitoring Tool Referral form for pre-school children Referral form for school age children Children’s Team Referral Criteria Referral for feeding assessment Referral for paediatric Tracheostomy  School referral for feeding assessment Childrens Team Discharge Criteria If you need help to understand a document, or would like it in another format or language, please call 01432 363975 or email salt.hereford@nhs.net Adobe offer a free Reader to view these files which can be downloaded from their website Adobe also offer a number of Adobe…

The first step is to get in touch with the Voluntary Services team. We will chat to you about volunteering and the areas you may be interested in supporting.

  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   …