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Last Seen Profiles
Our amazing staff lined the corridors this weekend to say farewell to Dave, who has been discharged from Royal Albert Edward Infirmary’s Winstanley Ward and is on his way home. We wish him, and everyone battling COVID-19, the very best in their continued recovery.
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It is with great sadness to announce the loss of a valued member of our WWL Family. Linda Clarke worked in our Maternity service for 30 years, bringing many new lives into our borough and will be greatly missed by so many. Our thoughts and sympathies are with her family.
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Tonight we light up our hospital in honour of our colleagues and friends. For those we have lost and those we stand beside 💙
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FREE PARKING: Car Parking charges for staff ,patients and visitors has now been suspended across WWL sites until further notice.
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🎈It's been exactly 147 years since Wigan Infirmary was opened and today its main entrance had a colourful new feature. With an arch and two hearts made of rainbow balloons this Thursday we extend a huge thank you to all of our staff🌈
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After spending over a month in ICU and requiring a ventilator Carol has been discharged.
We are so pleased for her and her family and everyone at WWL wishes her the very best for her recovery 💕
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🏉 What an amazing gesture from
@LiamMarshall20
and his
@WiganWarriorsRL
team mates ❤️
A lovely get well soon gift for 85-year-old Edith, one of our patients on Astley Ward, who is a huge Warriors supporter!
📰
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Following the minute silence that took place at 11am this morning, staff and patients at Leigh Infirmary broke out into an applause to commemorate our colleagues💝
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Our amazing, dedicated staff making this happen✨ We hope Caroline is safe and well now💙
She was given just 50-50 chance of surviving Covid 19 but nurse Caroline Atherton was clapped out of Wigan Infirmary by her colleagues who saved her life
@WWLNHS
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Today is an end of an era, our CEO
@andrewkfoster
is retiring from WWL👋
After 13 years in the top job, he said goodbye and thank you to all the staff and collegaues within the NHS🏥
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🥰🥰 Meet our new Chief Nurse 👋
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One of our Consultants, James Rowland, at WWL has kindly donated an electric kids car to Rainbow Ward, to help children's journey to theatre a little better🚘🌈
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@LaticsOfficial
have kindly donated lots of toys to our Rainbow Ward, this Christmas period!🎄 Our staff from the ward were greeted by
@GwionEdwards
, Gavin Massey and
@TheloAasgaard
as they handed over the wonderful presents!
Thank you all so much👏⚽
@TalalAlHammad32
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In a few moments, WWL will come together in a minute of silence to remember our friends and colleagues we have lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and loved ones of those who have passed away. They will always be remembered❤️
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WWL is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Parker-Evans as Chief Nurse.
“I look forward to supporting the development of our Nursing, Midwifery & AHP Strategy, helping become a flagship organisation for the delivery of excellent care"
📰👉
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⚠️ Due to the immense pressure on our services, the Trust has declared a critical incident at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan.
Our A&E is full. Do not attend, unless you have a life or limb-threatening emergency.
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Following an extraordinary week, WWL CEO, Silas Nicholls, has a message of thanks for our staff, supporters and local community...
#NHS
#ThankYouNHS
💙
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💡Our Tree of Hope is shining bright over Wigan Infirmary this week, in red, white and blue❤️🤍💙
#RemembranceDay2021
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A big thank you to everyone who continues to support our WWL family and to all our amazing staff for all your hard work, dedication and care
#ClapForOurCarers
💙👏
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Today we wish our Chief Nurse, Pauline Law, a very happy retirement and wish her all the best in the future🎊❤️️
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🎈 Happy Birthday to Royal Albert Edward Infirmary. The hospital is 150 years old today, this is an incredible milestone!
It is a day to remember and an amazing occasion to celebrate the hospital care that has been provided to the public of Wigan!
Photograph credit: Wigan Today
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Sweet treats were dished out to our hard working staff on the
#hottestdayoftheyear
☀️ The Mr Super Whippy vans visited most of our sites today and will be back out and about tomorrow🍦
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MEET THE TEAM: Our Porters make sure that our patients are at the right place, at the right time. Here is a handful of our hardworking Porters🖤
"We transfer everyone along the arteries of the hospital"
Meet Dave, Shaun, Tony, Bernard, James, Ray, Joe, Jordan, Ian and Frank🏥
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Thank you to the Mr John Novak, manager of the Hovis distribution depot at Stonecross Park, Lowton who donated packs of hot cross buns, enjoyed by staff at our Thomas Linacre Centre 💙 🍞
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Thank you to
@LaticsOfficial
who paid a visit to our Rainbow Ward this afternoon, handing out gifts to all the children and spreading some Christmas cheer
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🌟 The winner of the Hidden Gem Award is:
🏆
@BekkerPetro
⭐️
Presented by WWL’s Director of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement,
@annemarie_mcg
.
#WWLSTARAwards
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A massive thank you to
@WiganCouncil
,
@wiganleighcol
,
@winstanleycoll
, Nice-Pak International Ltd, GMP &
@StockportNHS
for helping us with our PPE challenge, today you were all our heroes!
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⚠️ Important thread - please share ⚠️
Thanks to the incredible dedication and teamwork of the Trust’s staff and partner organisations across the Wigan Borough and Greater Manchester, progress is being made and WWL is no longer in a critical incident.
➡️
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Our Maternity Team have babies Lucas, Jacob, Rosie and Patel all waiting for Father Christmas’ arrival these evening
#NHS
#ChristmasBabies
#maternity
#ThankYouMidwives
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🎉Today we are celebrating the 73rd birthday of the NHS and some of our local familiar faces wanted to spread the birthday cheer with their own special messages💙
#NHSBirthday
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🗣️ Today on
#InternationalWomensDay
, WWL is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Fleming as our new Chief Executive.
“I remain as passionate about the NHS today as the day I first started."
📰 You can read more about Mary's appointment here:
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💉Today marks a huge milestone for us, as we delivered our 10,000th Covid-19 vaccine to Melissa, a local Clinical Nurse Manager at Marie Curie.
Thank you to Glam My Party for the wonderful balloons🎈
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Happy Friday everyone😍 Here is a special message from born and bred 'Wiganer',
@HackerTDog
, thanking our wonderful staff for everything they do🐾
We have also lit up our Tree of Hope in red as requested by Hacker himself💖
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🎂 Royal Albert Edward Infirmary (Wigan Hospital) was officially opened on the 4th June 1873, making this year it’s 150th birthday.
We have celebrated lots of milestones over the years but to us, this is huge!
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In these challenging times, it’s those small acts of kindness and events like
#ClapForOurCarers
that show how valued our health service is, and how grateful we are to those who work in it. 👏
#ThankYouNHS
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⭐️ Congratulations on an outstanding career, Dr Nayyar Naqvi OBE, founder of the cardiology service here at WWL 👏
ℹ️ Find out more about Dr Naqvi's extraordinary career 👇
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👏Thank you to CDS Events, who helped us light up our Christopher Home Building at Wigan Infirmary last night, in honour of our friends and colleagues💙
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Thank you to one of our Health Care Assistants, Jennifer Watson, for writing a very heartfelt poem dedicated to our hardworking staff at WWL. ✏️
“The Soliders of the Silent War”
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We're thrilled to announce that WWL has been named as the cleanest Acute Trust in the country in the latest round of Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) assessments 🫧🧼🧹
📰 You can read more about our fantastic scores here:
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👏 We are so proud to congratulate Professor S Raj Murali, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at
@wrightington16
, who has been awarded an MBE for Services to International Doctors working in the NHS!
Find out more here:
#QueensBirthdayHonours
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🌟Today's hidden heroes are our brilliant mask fit testers. They have been out in all weathers to ensure that our frontline staff can be protected whilst caring for our patients🏥
We're all pieces in the jigsaw that makes up the WWL Family💙
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Thanks to all our dedicated staff for their hard work following difficult circumstances. Our thoughts go to the families of all affected.
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Visibly Vulnerable, a Moment of Reflection by Paediatrician Consultant,
@martinfarrier
🌈
#NationalDayOfReflection
📸 by
@BekkerPetro
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👏 Congratulations to WWL Consultant Respiratory Physician & Divisional Medical Director, Medicine,
@AshishAbdul
, on his appointment as
@NIHRCRN_gman
Theme Lead for Exceptional Experience.
📰
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In these challenging times, it’s those small acts of kindness and events like
#ClapForOurCarers
that show how valued our health service is, and how grateful we are to those who work in it 👏
#ThankYouNHS
💙
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Players and staff from
@LaticsOfficial
and
@WiganWarriorsRL
paid a visit to Rainbow Ward to spread some festive cheer in the run up to Christmas🎄
The clubs teamed up to visit the children & staff on the Ward, spending time with the patients & handing out a variety of gifts 🎁
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With Bryn Ward officially open and ready to care for patients we wanted to share this video showing its construction from start to finish 🏗️
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WWL would like to thank all patients and staff members for supporting the Trust throughout this exceptionally busy period. Staff are working hard to limit delays and care for very sick patients. Call 01942 482848 to see a GP today or call NHS 111 for urgent help and advice.
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Our favourite International Day of the Midwife story - Barbara, who has worked at WWL for 52 years, was surprised to find out she had actually been working alongside one baby she delivered 41 years ago! Read more here
#IDM2018
#WWLFamily
#NHS
#NHS70
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Orthopaedic Consultant, Tim Board, completed the first day-case hip surgery at WWL. His interview with patient, Charlotte, went down so well on social media, we decided to award him a comms star. Well done Tim🌟
#WWLCommsstar
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✨The
#DayOfReflection
will be a difficult day for many.
We would personally like to thank all our staff at WWL for working extremely hard through the pandemic. We thank you for your commitment and dedication to the NHS and our Trust🌈
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Today's WWL Hidden Heroes are the staff within our Mortuary and Bereavement teams.
The teams continue to care for our deceased patients, ensure necessary paperwork is completed quickly and support families every day, especially through this difficult time.
#WWLHeroes
💙
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This is amazing news!
@wrightington16
named as one of the top, specialised hospitals in the WORLD, for 2020!!
#WWLFamily
💙
Wrightington Hospital has been named as one of the top, specialised hospitals in the WORLD, for 2020!🌎
Read more here on
@Newsweek
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We're almost ready for the main lift of the modular units on our COVID-19 contingency ward.
Everyone's working hard to get the ward ready as soon as possible, see what changes have been made to the site since Friday...
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WWL's CEO
@andrewkfoster
was pleased to be one of the first Trusts to welcome the new NHS Chief People Officer,
@Prerana_Issar
and Baroness
@didoharding
Chair of NHS Improvement, today to showcase the fantastic work of our staff
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In recognition of the work carried out by key workers, a special ‘Tree of Hope’ has been installed at Wigan RAEI, donated by
@festivelights
🌈
Read more here➡️
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The units for our COVID-19 contingency ward are on the way.
The build is progressing well. If this changes and additional support/volunteers required, we will post via our comms channels.
Thanks for all offers of support.
#StayHome
#StaySafe
#StayTwoMetresApart
#SaveLives
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We're very proud of WWL physio and yoga instructor, Sarah Shone, who was interviewed by TV legend Angela Rippon, about the benefits of yoga. You can see them both on 'Health: Truth or Scare' on BBC1 tomorrow (Fri) at 9.15am
#BBC
#NHSstaff
#WWLFamily
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Our sincere condolences go out to the gentleman's loved ones and also to Lucy, who's selfless action is another incredible example of the heroic spirit shown by our NHS staff.
#NHSheroes
Pensioner suspected to have coronavirus dies after being rescued by hero Wigan nurse
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🙋♂️🙋♀️We're looking for a number of roles to come &help us - both fixed term opportunities and unpaid volunteering - to start within the next two weeks, or sooner where possible. If you would like to join us, please visit for further information
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WWL has been working with Rugby League legend
@RLBarrieMc10
to create a series of videos highlighting his patient journey throughout a complete shoulder replacement. Here, in the first of the videos, Barrie speaks to the team shortly after surgery
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Christmas has come early for WWL's Rainbow Ward after a family from Wigan made a kind donation to say thank you for looking after their four day old daughter
#christmaseve
#NHS
#playinhospitals
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We’d like to say a huge thank you to Lee and Mark Stuart, of
@StuartEnergyLtd
who have donated 1,000 masks through our
@ThreeWishesWWL
Healthcare Heroes Fund after our staff took care of their dad, who's now recovering at home after fighting COVID-19.
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We're very proud of Dr Naqvi at WWL , so well deserved
#WWLFamily
.
@WWLNHS
's Dr Nayyar Naqvi joined Wigan Infirmary in 1979. Since then he has worked to revolutionise the way heart problems are treated
@NHSEnglandNorth
's winner of the Lifetime Achievement award in the
#NHS70
Parliamentary Awards nominated by
@lisanandy
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MEET THE TEAM: Meet a small bunch of our Domestics, who help keep the hospitals spick and span for all our patients, visitors and staff.
Meet our Leigh Domestics: Susan, Daisy, Tracey, Linda, Deborah, Victoria, Lawrence, Helen and Denise❤️
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Happy Nurses Day to all our wonderful nurses and care providers. Thank you for your care, compassion and understanding.
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Our Emergency Department is extremely busy.
If your condition is not a medical emergency you will wait longer to be seen. Think
#111First
- they will help you get the right care, whether that’s a GP, nurse or an appointment at A&E if necessary.
Dr Sanjay Arya, Medical Director🎥
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👏We are proud to welcome Mark Oakley into his new role as WWL's Lead Admiral Nurse.
Admiral Nurses are continually supported and developed by
@DementiaUK
and they provide life-changing support for families affected by all forms of dementia💙
@MarkOakley20
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🎨We're looking for local artists of all ages to help us to decorate our wards. Your artwork will be certain to cheer up our patients & staff.
Send your artwork (no larger than A4 size) to either Winstanley or Ince Ward, RAEI, Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NN😄
#GetCreative
#TeamWWL
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Radiographer, Lindsay Walker, has been very pro-active on
@WWL_Radiology
twitter page. We thank Lindsay for showcasing her department and her profession in such a postive and engaging way🏥
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⭐️ Our final award of the evening is the Board of Directors Award, presented by WWL Chair, Mark Jones.
The winner is..
🏆 Emergency Care Village ⭐️
#WWLSTARAwards
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🌟 The winner of the award for Leader of the Year is:
🏆 Dr Alison Quinn (
@alymakin
) ⭐️
Presented by WWL’s Deputy Chief Executive,
@maluki_f
and received on Alison's behalf by Vicky Bateson.
#WWLSTARAwards
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Our nurses and midwives came out in force today planting new trees and rose bushes in celebration of International Nurses Day and the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
These blossoming symbols are a thank you for your care 💙
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Today WWL said goodbye to Diane Lee, Head of Nursing for Unschedule Care. Diane has worked for the Trust for over 40 years and we will certainly miss her😢 Enjoy your retirement Diane🏥❤️️
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A massive Thank you to everyone who has donated or bought Easter eggs for WWL this Easter.
@WiganWarriorsRL
came in to hand out some Easter eggs on Saturday to the patients on Rainbow Ward. We hope that everyone has had a lovely Easter weekend😄🐰☀️
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WWL said goodbye to its Head of Nursing for Surgery, Jean Prescott, today, who is leaving the Trust after 10 years. Jean has worked for the NHS for a staggering 40 years and will truly be missed by all of her WWL colleagues. Enjoy retirement Jean!
#WWLFamily
#NHS
#WeLoveTheNHS
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Have you met the newest member of the
#WWLfamily
? Meet Eddie, part of the National Elf Service! He’ll be visiting WWL’s various departments to spread some festive cheer across our Trust and to help out before Christmas arrives
#elfontheshelf
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Our new COVID-19 ward in Wigan is taking shape and will be named the Bryn Ward when it becomes operational in May. Our video shows units arriving, all of which will be in place this weekend for
@darwingroup_ltd
to continue the next phase of construction.
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🎧After raising over £1,500 on her walking challenge for
@CriticalCareWWL
, Andrea Baker, who’s Dad Joe is a patient on ICU, has kindly donated: 4 tvs, 3 iPads and stands, 3 sets of headphones and some treats for members of the team.
She even celebrated with this amazing cake!🍰
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Latest figures show that WWL has been rated number one in the country for cancer care referrals
#wigan
#cancercare
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We’re proud to be introducing NHS rainbow badges across our Trust. Here’s our CEO
@Andrewkfoster
talking about our commitment and why we’re wearing the badges with
#pride
#wiganpride
#rainbowbadges
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We're celebrating as our maternity services have been re-accredited with the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative Award for the third time! Well done to all staff involved, the re-accreditation is testament to your hard work
#maternity
#UNICEF
#babyfriendly
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Rainbow Ward had a very special visitor today. It was lovely to meet
@therapypugalfie
who spent time with all of our patients
#PIHW
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We have officially launched the
@WeCanTalkCYPMH
campaign within our Trust👏🏽🐘
Thanks to Sean, Oliver and Willie from
@WiganWarriorsRL
for attending the launch, as well as National Director at
#WeCanTalk
, Christine!
We are very proud as a Trust to be supporting this campaign!💙
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Thank you
@McDonaldsUK
for the free hot drinks☕️ This is definitely helping boost staff moral😃
**HUGE** THANK YOU from the MAU team
@WWLNHS
@wwl_staffeng
to our friends at
@McDonaldsUK
. We’re ensuring we are maintaining our nutrition and hydration at this critical time!
@BBCNews
@GranadaReports
@guardian
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We're so proud of our Hospital Independent Domestic Violence Adviser Service Team who won the award for Patient Safety Improvement at last night's
@NursingTimes
Awards. Well Done to everyone involved!
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WWL wants to wish Mrs Patricia Harris a happy 75th Birthday🎊
Patricia, who was actually born on VE Day, was a staff nurse for the NHS in Wigan & Leigh all her working life. She helped to raise thousands of pounds for WWL throughout the years!
Have a lovely birthday Patricia💙
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We had our first collection yesterday from our inpatient wards here at WWL for our
#EndPJparalysis
campaign. In our first week, 355 of our patients have been up and dressed in day clothes before midday and we have mobilised 298 of them – that’s 84%! A strong start everyone!
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Did you see our Rainbow Ward visitors on
@BBCNWT
last night? Thank you to KL Pony Therapy for bringing Poppy and Mr P to see our patients and staff, they certainly made an impression!
#NHS
#WWLfamily
Patients on the children's ward at Wigan Infirmary had some unusual therapy this week - a visit from two miniature ponies.
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Wigan Warriors Captain, Sean O'Loughlin, was joined by team mates Oliver Gildart, Bevan French and Joe Greenwood on our Rainbow Ward yesterday🌈 Thank you
@WiganWarriorsRL
for coming in and spreading some christmas cheer🏈🎄
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Today is International Nurses Day so to celebrate we'll be sharing photos of some of our wonderful nurses and their colleagues throughout the day.
#ThankYouNurses
#IND2019
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