Liverpool news

Innovative HIV Testing Expanded in Liverpool

08 Jan 2025

HIV testing is set to increase across Liverpool’s hospitals, with “Opt-Out” testing for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C.

Unique pain programme helps elderly get back on their feet

19 Dec 2024

There have been a number of points in Sheila Longo’s life where Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) has reared its painful head. From severely damaging her wrist and lower arm in a canoeing accident in California in 1998, to seriously injuring her leg and ankle in Italy in 2015, CRPS has added delay and more pain to her recovery.

NHS University Hospitals Liverpool Group named as one of 20 UK Commercial Research Delivery Centres

13 Dec 2024

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) has been named as host for an NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre, which will bring cutting-edge commercial research to communities in Cheshire and Merseyside.

State-of-the-art camera will improve patient experience

12 Dec 2024

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the first hospital in the North West to become home to a new state-of-the-art nuclear medicine camera, which will improve the way we scan our patients.

Liverpool City Council awards transformational public health service contracts

06 Dec 2024

Liverpool City Council has today formally awarded two public health contracts that will support some of the city’s most vulnerable groups.

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital successfully implants world’s first leadless dual chamber pacemaker

21 Nov 2024

The world's first dual chamber leadless pacing technology is being introduced in hospitals across the UK, with staff based at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital among the first to roll-out the groundbreaking technology to treat complex cases of abnormal or slow heart rhythms.

Clatterbridge cancer vaccine research enters new phase in UK first

15 Nov 2024

The second phase of a ground-breaking cancer vaccine clinical trial is underway at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre with its recruitment of the first two patients in the UK into the next stage of the research study.

£1.1m funding boost for research in Liverpool given to Alder Hey

13 Nov 2024

Alder Hey has been awarded £1.1m from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to improve the delivery of research across Liverpool.

Still time to share views on Liverpool’s hospital maternity and gynaecology services

11 Nov 2024

The NHS is currently holding a six-week public engagement (15 October – 26 November 2024), giving people an opportunity to comment on the issues facing hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.

Hospitals agree to join a Group model to develop long-term strategy for healthcare services in Liverpool

29 Oct 2024

NHS Adult Acute and Specialist Providers agree to join a Group model to develop a long-term strategy for health care services in Liverpool

Attend a listening event on hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool

24 Oct 2024

The NHS is holding a six-week public engagement between 15 October and 26 November 2024, giving people an opportunity to comment on the issues facing hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.

Innovative trial aims to improve experience for patients with dementia

21 Oct 2024

Liverpool University Hospitals Melo app trial

NHS asks for views on hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool

15 Oct 2024

A six-week public engagement has launched today (15 October 2024), giving people an opportunity to comment on the issues facing hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.

Health Secretary Announces Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing

09 Oct 2024

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Attended Event During Visit to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Nick Woosey pictured with his wife following recovery

Heart attack patient back to running again after cardiac health physical activity trial

07 Oct 2024

KiActiv fitness digital service

Liverpool University Hospitals urology team in NHS first

03 Oct 2024

Patients being treated for prostate cancer at LUHFT have become the first in the NHS to receive their surgery using the latest da Vinci robotic surgical system, the Single Port (SP).

NHS sets out challenges for hospital gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool

01 Oct 2024

The NHS has published a case for change setting out the key risks facing hospital-based gynaecology and maternity services in Liverpool.

Clinical Oncologist Dr Mona Chopra using the auto-contouring tool

NHS cancer centre co-develops the world’s first AI-based tool for specialist cervical cancer treatment

30 Sept 2024

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool has partnered with Canadian software company Limbus AI* to trial and co-develop the world’s first commercial AI-based auto-contouring tool for a specialist cervical cancer treatment known as brachytherapy.

Improved access to reproductive healthcare for Liverpool women

25 Sept 2024

Thousands of women in Liverpool can now access more women’s health services in the community and closer to home.

Liverpool launches £900k Community Champions Public Health programme

19 Sept 2024

Liverpool City Council is proud to announce the funding of ten community organisations over the next three years as part of its new Community Champions programme.

Best for Baby Too film premiere

17 Sept 2024

A moving film which captured maternity experiences of six women in the asylum system received a rapturous ovation when it was showcased in Liverpool

Mat Cullinane and Rob Brothwood, operating department practitioners at LUHFT, with a member of the Italian Air Ambulance Service in Tuscany, who are currently trialling the LEAFix device as part of their service

The power of an idea: How two Liverpool University Hospitals staff members are standardising surgical care across the world

13 Sept 2024

The LEAFix airway securing device

New NHS facility to support adults with additional needs who require surgery

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