Open Day Saturday 28 September 2013 Derriford Hospital 10am -2pm #openDerriford
Full programme
Opening Our Doors Welcome along to our Open Day. We hope you enjoy looking around the open areas and getting involved in some of the activities we have laid on.
Did you know that? Derriford Hospital is the largest hospital in the south west peninsula, covering almost 200,000 sq m, spread over 12 levels.
Today, we are opening up some of the areas which we think may be of most interest. We appreciate that this is a big hospital so we have prepared a colour-coded map in the centre of this guide, which shows where the different areas can be found and what is available to see and do in each.
Of course, we continue to care for patients in wards and clinical areas and we would ask you to please respect their privacy and dignity and visit the areas highlighted. We have lots of staff and volunteers on hand to help direct you.
We hope you enjoy finding out more and letting us know what you think about the services that we offer.
If you want to meet myself and my colleagues on the Board, which runs this hospital and other services as part of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, please do come along to the Post-Graduate Medical Centre (at the back of the hospital) at 2pm where we will be holding our Annual General Meeting. This will be followed by a Question Time event, at which you can put your question to the Board.
Whatever you do, enjoy your day and please fill in a feedback form and let us know what you think at the end. Ann James, Chief Executive
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Main Entrance
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Zone A - Level 6
Visit our Blue Light area where the Police and Ambulance service will be present with their vehicles.
Pick up a Children’s Quiz which will take you round the site – there will be a small prize on completion.
Take part in our Children’s Planting Competition. We are asking children to create a planting scheme for a flower bed outside the main entrance. The winner will be planted as a bed.
Sign up for a tour of the site and see the bits behind the scenes that keep the hospital running. Tours, lasting 45 minutes, will run at 11am and 12noon and 1pm. Maximum of 10 per group, first-come, first served.
Sign up for a guided Bircham Valley Nature Walk taking place at 11.30am. Please note this is weather-dependent.
Sign up to take part in our fun research trial. Using chocolate, we will demonstrate how a (clinical) trial is conducted.
What do you think great care looks like? Work with our artists to help bring your view to life on our mural.
Find out how we support patients with a learning disability and their carers.
Dementia affects 1 in 20 people over 65. Find out how we work to support patients and carers affected by dementia. 3
Main Entrance
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Zone A - Level 6
Comfortably numb: find out where your nerves are with our anaesthetists. It won’t be painful, just fun!
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Find out more about iLiveiGive, organ donation & transplantation.
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Serco: Try a taste of hospital food between 12noon and 1pm and learn more about how the hospital is cleaned.
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Talk to our pastoral care team about how they support patients and staff. Find out about our GU Medicine services.
Give your feedback about our services to our Patient Services Team, Patient Association or to Healthwatch Plymouth.
Our retailers are joining in the fun: Lloyds Pharmacy are running games & giveaways. The League of Friends shop is running a fund raising raffle. The Bodyshop is giving away sample packs & goody bags.
Outside the Emergency Department • Step inside our Decontamination Tent.
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Zone A - Level 6 Children’s Theatres - next to the main entrance
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Bring your teddy to our Teddy Bear Hospital.
Play a life-size operation game.
Face painting and balloon modelling.
Find out more about life inside a children’s operating theatre and meet our Simulation Manikin.
Watch a real-time simulation of a grommet operation at 11am and 1pm.
Meet the many paediatric specialist staff who care for children across our hospital and beyond into the community
In Fracture Clinic – take the first left inside main entrance • Find out all you ever wanted to know about bones, plastercasts, splints and appliances.
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Blood, glorious blood. All you ever wanted to know about donating blood, transfusions, alternatives and what happens to the blood you donate.
Try your hand at taking blood with our model arm and learn more about diagnostics with our Pathology team. 5
Zone A - Level 6: Main reception/marquee Emergency Department Courtyard Plym Children’s Theatres Fracture Clinic Zone A - Level 7 Physiotherapy Department Zone A - Level 4 Main Theatres Zone B - Level 3: Royal Eye Infirmary Zone B Macmillan Mustard Tree Centre Zone B - level 2 external entrance Oncology, Healthy Bones and Radiation Physics Zone C - Level 5, Terence Lewis Building Lind Research Centre Discovery Library Careers and Recruitment Love your liver? Clinical Skills Infection Control Meet the Emergency Department Staff Zone D - Level 5: Maternity Unit Derriford Health and Leisure Centre - back of hospital Military Health and Leisure Centre & Zumbathon Renal Happy Days Play Area for Under-5s
Physiotherapy Gym
Zone A - Level 7
Find out all about the therapies here
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An hourly rolling programme of all aspects of physiotherapy intervention. You can join in. Try out the treadmill test.
Have a tour of our hydrotherapy pool @11am and 1pm. This is viewing only as classes will be taking place.
Find out the real age of your body with our dietetics team and their Tanita scales.
Demonstration of the aids used to help people with communication difficulties by the Speech and Language Department.
See our huge plate of food by the Dietetic Team and find out how we support patients with eating and drinking.
Have a look inside your own ear!
Find out how we carry out newborn hearing screening & see the Bluetooth compatible hearing aids - NHS supplied.
“Optimising independence” by the Occupational Therapy Team. Moving you safely: our manual handling team show you how.
Zone B
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See in 3D with our binocular tests.
Feeling a bit sporty? Try out our Orthoptist’s game.
Find out more about how we test children’s vision.
Eye-patchwork posters for children – come and decorate your own posters.
Macmillan Mustard Tree Centre - external entrance • Our Macmillan Mustard Tree Centre – a haven for those affected by cancer – is open to pop into and talk to the team there.
Oncology, Healthy Bones & Radiation Physics- external entrance • Find out about Healthy Bones in the Oncology Courtyard. Take the one-minute bone-health self- assessment and get more information.
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See our new LINAC scanner and find out how it works.
Find out about the uses and risks of radiation with our Radiation Physics team.
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Zone C - Terence Lewis Building You will find the Terence Lewis building round the back of the hospital or you can access it through maternity or by heading towards maternity from the main entrance. Head for Level 5 of this building.
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Discover our beautiful Discovery Library and see the Historic Collection of the Plymouth Medical Society which includes books dating from the late 1600s.
Visit our Careers and Recruitment Fair in the library and find out how we support the wellbeing of our staff.
Find out how we manage the personal information of our patients in the library.
Now head for the Lind Research Centre for: • Love your liver? Have it checked to see how healthy it is.
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Try a hands-on demo in the Clinical Skills unit with the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
The Lind Research Centre: we are one of the leading centres for Research and Development. Come and visit us, meet our nurses and find out what’s involved and why Plymouth is leading the way. Meet our Infection Control team and try our the glowbox.
Meet our Emergency Department staff and learn how ultrasound is used in emergency medicine and find out about our strong link with the Antarctic Survey Medical Unit.
Zone D - Maternity Unit
You can access maternity by an external entrance, where the Fire Service will be, or through the hospital
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Watch our new virtual tour of the unit.
Join in our Great Expectations antenatal taster sessions at 12noon and 1pm. Open to everyone, no bump required.
See a low risk and high risk birthing room ‘set up’ and spot the differences. Find out more about homebirth with our Jubilee Team.
Learn about how we care for the most premature babies.
Have a cuppa and a chat with one of the Supervisors of Midwives about your experiences of maternity care.
Derriford Maternity unit is a fully accredited UNICEF baby friendly facility. We provide the highest standard of maternity care, helping new parents to explore feeding choices and offer on-going support. Pop in and have a chat about feeding choices for your baby, and who will be there for you after your baby arrives.
Meet our midwives of tomorrow and find out whether a career in midwifery is for you.
Ever wondered how far we go? Find out about our community midwifery services and more besides ….
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Derriford Health and Leisure Centre
You will find the Derriford Health and Leisure Centre at the back of the hospital, just down from the Royal Eye Infirmary, near Car Park C Get your heart pumping with our fun half-hour Family Fun Zumbathon sessions, running at 11.45am or again at 12.45pm.
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Children's Entertainer Emazdad will be doing balloon modelling between 10.30am - 11.30am.
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How fit are you? Take a fitness test with one of our instructors or join in with our fitness competitions.
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Kidney care: meet our renal team
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Play area for children under 5 provided by Happy Days.
Meet the military We have around 200 military colleagues working here. Watch them: • Stage a casualty simulation including make-up of wounds in children. • Learn about the Queen Alexandra Royal Navy Nursing Service. • See different equipment used by the military medics in the field. • Watch the Care Under fire demonstration including how to move a casualty. • • •
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In need of refreshment? Why not visit: The Lounge in the Derriford Health and Leisure Centre. The Restaurant on Level 7. One of the Tarazze Coffee shops: Maternity Level 5, Oncology Level 2 and Terence Lewis Building Level 3 and Level 5. The newly refurbished Warrens Bakery in the main entrance.
Please note we are a No Smoking Site and an accredited Baby Friendly facility. We welcome mothers breastfeeding in any of our public areas or in designated feeding areas.