Emergency department news stories

The team at Royal Derby Hospital’s Emergency Department have been presented with a Monthly Making a Difference Award after glowing feedback after caring for a patient who had suffered a fall. The nomination, which stated the team “deserve a medal, each and every one of you”, praised the ED Team for the care and compassion the patient received when attending the department after what they described as “a bad fall”.

Today, a Healthcare Assistant in the Children’s Emergency Department (CED) at Royal Derby Hospital, Jake McCandless, is eagerly awaiting his A Level Results as he continues his NHS career and dreams of becoming a paediatric consultant. 

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are proud that an emergency department (ED) team and an ED sister have been recognised in two categories in this year’s Nursing Times Award.

The High Intensity User Service has been shortlisted for the Emergency and Critical Care category and emergency department sister Charlotte Malcolm-Davies (Charlie) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Nurse of the Year Award for her work as part of the High Intensity User Service, alongside her role in nursing ED.

In what is thought to be one of the first scheme of its kind in the country, UHDB and the Ministry of Defence have joined together to provide real-world experience and training a first cohort of Combat Military Technicians at Royal Derby Hospital.

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UHDB is extremely proud to have seen the assistance offered to our patients with hearing impairments at the Royal Derby Hospital highlighted as an area of good practice by the CQC.  

Three-and-a-half-year-old Ruby Richards has been reunited with the doctor that spotted an undiagnosed cancer in her kidney that saved her life – shortly after celebrating a year cancer-free. 

A TV weatherman who fought for his life at Queen’s Hospital Burton has returned to thank some of the heroes that helped save him.