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An innovative new device which can help reduce the time patients need to spend receiving oxygen therapy is currently being evaluated at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB).

The device, named 'O2matic PRO 100', provides automated, safer, and more comfortable oxygen delivery to patients and will be used by colleagues at Queen's Hospital Burton for six months to analyse its benefits and effectiveness in a real-world setting. If the 'real world evaluation' (RWE) is successful, the machines could be rolled out more widely across the NHS. 

In May 2022, UHDB implemented a new role to specifically help provide patients who have undergone a tracheostomy or laryngectomy with tailored, specialised care and advice. 

Respiratory teams at Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton have been presented with their trophies and certificates after winning one of our Outstanding Contribution Awards at this year’s Annual Making a Difference Awards.

The lengths that UHDB teams have gone to during the pandemic to limit the spread of Covid-19 and to provide outstanding care to patients with other respiratory conditions has been recognised on a national scale. UHDB has been shortlisted for two awards at the Nursing Times Awards –  for two separate projects that have helped reduce the spread of Covid-19 in our hospitals and allowed some patients with pneumonia to go home sooner than before. 

More than 100 respiratory patients have now benefitted from care packages delivered by a virtual ward which provides ongoing care and support to patients in the community throughout the pandemic.

A husband and wife who have been married for 36 years were treated side by side after being admitted to Royal Derby Hospital with Covid-19 within the space of 24 hours of each other.

A respiratory service that has provided vital support to patients throughout Covid-19 has been shortlisted for a national HSJ Award – just a couple of months after winning another national award.

UHDB’s Respiratory Infection team has been crowned the Respiratory Team of the Year at the 2020 British Medical Journal (BMJ) Awards.

The team has been recognised for their outstanding work in improving the quality of care for patients admitted to hospital with pneumonia, as well as both reducing the length of time patients remain in hospital with the condition and improving support during their recovery.

A UHDB respiratory service that has provided vital support to patients throughout Covid-19 has received national recognition.

ImpACT+ (Improving Adult Respiratory Care Together) has helped patients with lung conditions by bringing different services together to offer comprehensive support to patients throughout all points in their care pathway, both at hospital and in their own homes.

Hundreds of colleagues lined the corridors to celebrate the discharge of a Royal Derby Hospital worker who has been discharged after spending 61 days fighting COVID. Cipriansel ‘Ansel’ Vicencio, a Clinical Support Worker in Phlebotomy at Royal Derby Hospital, received rapturous applause and cheers as he was leaving hospital for the for the first time since he tested positive for Coronavirus and was admitted to A&E on 15 May after his symptoms worsened.