UHDB receives national recognition for promoting culture of openness
UHDB’s commitment to encouraging staff to come forward and express any concerns they have has resulted in the Trust being shortlisted for a prestigious national award.
UHDB’s commitment to encouraging staff to come forward and express any concerns they have has resulted in the Trust being shortlisted for a prestigious national award.
BBC Two documentary follows a team of young volunteers, with no clinical experience, as they deal with life on the hospital frontline.
A new BBC documentary will follow a group of volunteers as they take part in a social experiment, designed to test whether young people with no clinical experience can make a positive difference to patient care.
We are delighted to announce the recruitment of our 300th patient to Inflammatory Bowel Disease BioResource study.
The refurbishment of a Queen’s Hospital Burton building has taken the Trust on a trip down memory lane to more than 125 years ago.
UHDB Executive Director of Workforce and Organisational Development Dr Neil Pease is to join Nottingham University Hospitals as People Director later this year.
The End of Life Care Team at UHDB is calling on budding photographers from the local area to help them in designing four new scenes for their ‘Pop Up Bedrooms’ scheme.
A member of Team UHDB's Diabetes Team has been named as the Diabetes UK Clinical Champion for the Midlands region.
Patients in Burton and the surrounding areas are now benefitting from receiving cardiac care closer to home, another example of the benefits being provided to patients one year on from the creation of UHDB on 1 July 2018.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton is delighted to be able to showcase our support for the Rainbow Badges scheme.
A member of Team UHDB has recently been rewarded with a place on a prestigious scheme which aims to strengthen the research voice and influence of nurses and midwives across the NHS.
UHDB has developed a unified Breast Service across our hospitals that is ensuring our patients with all breast conditions receive quality, equitable care.
An acute knee clinic has been providing patients at Queen’s Hospital Burton with specialist care closer to home, providing further evidence of the benefits to patients one year on from the creation of UHDB on 1 July 2018.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Nottingham are leading a £2.5 million clinical trial looking into new types of psychological and behavioural treatment for people with diabetes.
Respiratory Consultants at UHDB traded the consultation room for the gym as they took in a Pulmonary Rehabilitation session at London Road Community Hospital.
Two clinicians who run a voluntary prostate cancer health check programme in their free time have recently checked their 2,000th patient.
Our team in our A&E Department at the Royal Derby Hospital have recently introduced their Dementia Trolley.
An Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Emergency Medicine in the Birthday 2019 Honours List.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, which was formed on 1 July 2018, has been rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following its first inspection.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton is now offering patients an innovative, non-surgical option for the treatment of benign prostatic enlargement.
Three dedicated Queen’s Hospital Burton nurses with a fear of heights and flying are preparing to take on the ultimate challenge for a cause they are passionate about.
A nationally-recognised artist from Derby has presented 60 prints of his work to Ward 102 at the Royal Derby Hospital.
Two members of staff from UHDB recently presented at an international Sepsis forum in Brazil, following their brilliant work with other healthcare providers in Derbyshire to improve the pathways for patients with Sepsis
UHDB has recognised the outstanding contributions of some of the volunteers that help out at our hospitals in Burton, Lichfield and Tamworth.
Staff from UHDB are once more lacing up their walking boots to tackle a charity walkathon to raise awareness and funds about continence issues.
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 heart scanner worth £73,000 that can detect undiagnosed congenital heart defects in premature and new-born babies has been donated to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Derby Hospital.
Your chance to speak to research staff and ask “What’s going on in research?”
UHBD and the University of Derby are hosting a full-day conference to launch the 2019 national Dying Matters campaign in Derbyshire.
A former Royal Derby Hospital patient who faced the prospect of never being able to walk again is set to run a half marathon to thank those that helped him get back on his feet again.
UHDB staff have showcased their outstanding commitment to keeping our patients safe by helping reduce the spread of infections across our hospitals.