2006 Media Releases
Smoke Free set to go live
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Smoke Free campaign is set to go live in just three days - Monday 1 January 2007. Read More...
New CEO announced
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that Mr Nik Patten has been appointed as the Trust’s new Chief Executive. Read More...
Interim Chief Executive appointed
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that former medical director, Alan Turner, is returning to the Trust as interim Chief Executive. Read More...
New delivery choice for mums-to-be
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is set to launch a new maternity service for mums-to-be in the New Year. Read More...
Team win national award
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation’s Trust’s Service Improvement Team has won a major national public services competition. Read More...
Savings plan continues
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to start work on the next wave of its Fit for the Future savings plan. Read More...
Help your hospital to go Smoke Free
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is stubbing out smoking by 1 January 2007 and is asking local communities to help encourage smokers to get into the habit of not lighting up on, or near, its hospital sites. Read More...
Trust team reaches national final
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation’s Trust’s Service Improvement Team has been named as one of only six finalists in a national public services competition. Read More...
Annual Health Check results
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted by the results of the Healthcare Commission’s first Annual Health Check. Read More...
Excellent rating for Trust in national report
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Television cameras will be rolling in Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Accident & Emergency department this coming Bank Holiday weekend.
Hospital playscheme welcomes OFSTED report
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted with the outcome of the recent OFSTED (The Office for Standards in Education) visit to its onsite playscheme, Kids’ Kingdom.
Read More...Travel Options project receives second award
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to have received another Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Work Place Travel Award for its Travel Options scheme.
Read More...Trust shortlisted for award
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s glaucoma community screening service has been short-listed for a Health Service Journal national award. Read More...
CEO departs for new PCT
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s chief executive, Chris Banks, is to become the chief executive of the newly created Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust (PCT). Read More...
Radiography Badge and Certificate Award Ceremony
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Radiology department is holding a special ceremony for their first ever set of students qualifying as Radiographers and Assistant Practitioners. Read More...
19 July is ‘Bring a Pound to Work Day’
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Peterborough Evening Telegraph and Lite FM have announced the launch of Bring a Pound to Work Day 2006. Read More...
Trust takes part in Physiotherapy Week
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s physiotherapy team is taking part in National Physiotherapy Week between 19 – 23 June. Read More...
Stamford Hospital Development Advisory Committee
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce the first meeting of the Stamford Hospital Development Advisory Committee has taken place. Read More...
Healthcare Commission – medicines management
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has welcomed the latest report from the Healthcare Commission that looked at medicines management in hospital trusts. Read More...
Wheelchair appeal
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is appealing for people to return wheelchairs back to the district and Edith Cavell hospitals - with no questions asked. Read More...
Patients to benefit from new clinics
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that work is underway on the creation of a new Dermatology clinic and a new GUM clinic (Genito-Urinary Medicine) at the Edith Cavell Hospital. Read More...
Bonjour to Delimarché
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Patients, visitors and members of staff will soon be able to enjoy a new café experience at the Edith Cavell and District hospitals following a summer makeover. Read More...
Mobile MRI scanner is back
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Around 380 patients will be given an MRI scan ahead of schedule during the next two weeks as part of the government’s on-going fast-tracking initiative. Read More...
Peterborough Sports and Social club
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is continuing with its plan to close the Peterborough sports and social club on the District Hospital site. Read More...
Key performance indicators – yearly round up
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that, at the end of the previous financial year (1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006), it was beating or meeting virtually all of the key national performance indicator targets for hospital trusts. Read More...
Trust appoints non-executive director
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Mr Andy Burroughs as a new non-executive director following the resignation in March of Dr Sarah Raper who left to become chief executive of Telford First. Read More...
Friends to purchase equipment
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Following its recent committee meeting, the Friends of Peterborough Hospitals charity has agreed to purchase several pieces of clinical and training equipment for the Trust. Read More...
New scooter service set to be launched
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative pilot scheme to increase the mobility of patients or their friends and family at one of its hospitals. Read More...
Preparatory work to begin on new PFI hospital
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that some initial preparatory work for the proposed new ‘super’ hospital scheme is about to start. Read More...
MRSA surveillance figures announced
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has welcomed the latest Department of Health national report on MRSA bacteraemia figures. Read More...
New community centre at Stamford Hospital
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that following discussions that have taken place in recent weeks a way forward has been agreed regarding the future of Stamford Social Club. Read More...
Military personnel overseas deployment
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is saying a temporary farewell to around 30 of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) personnel that currently work in clinical departments in the Trust’s hospitals. Read More...
Local businesses needed for charity event
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Nurses at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are organising a masked ball to raise money for charity and are calling on local businesses to donate items - that can be raffled on the night - or to sponsor the event. Read More...
Radiography Badge and Certificate Award Ceremony
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Radiology department is holding a special ceremony for their first ever set of students qualifying as Radiographers and Assistant Practitioners. Read More...
From the X-ray room to the Himalayas
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A radiographer from Edith Cavell Hospital is embarking on a trek through the Himalayas in a bid to raise money for the special school her daughter attends. Read More...
Savings Plan Announced
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Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced an update to the financial savings plan it started last year.
Read More...A different ‘999’ attends Accident & Emergency
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Television cameras will be rolling in Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Accident & Emergency department this coming Bank Holiday weekend.
Travel Options initiative going live
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Categrories 2006 Media Release
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is set to launch the next phases of its award-winning Travel Options initiative during the summer.
The first of the new phases, to be rolled out during the next two years, will go live in August and will see the introduction of a patient and visitor-only parking zone and the creation of additional staff parking at the District Hospital. The changes are to allow easier parking for patients and visitors during peak hours and to alleviate the high demand for staff parking by offering more spaces.
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