We provide specialist, emergency and complex care across NW England from sites in Liverpool, Aintree and Broadgreen. Monitored weekdays 9am-5pm (except BH) 🏥
#TeamLUHFT
was delighted to welcome Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales to officially open our new Royal Liverpool Hospital 🏥
The Prince and Princess visited our Critical Care Unit and spoke with colleagues from across our hospital 🥰
@KensingtonRoyal
Thanks to
@LFC
who are bringing the
#PremierLeague
trophy 🏆 to our hospitals this week as a thank you to our staff for their hard work during the
#COVID19
pandemic ❤️
On behalf of all the Reds in our hospitals, congratulations on your historic win. It was worth the wait! 👏🏻🥳
Yesterday we received this beautiful poem from Robert, 90. We called him to thank him and he told us to throw it away if we wanted; not a chance. We assured him that this simple ode will make the day of many of the special people that are
#NHS
staff 💙
#FridayFeeling
@NHSMillion
🎥 ROYAL VISIT REACTION
A visit from The Prince and Princess of Wales put huge smiles on the faces of patients & staff at our Royal Hospital 😊
They spoke with
#TeamLUHFT
about the move to the new building, their roles and working during COVID-19 🎬
Staff loved every second ❤️
This time last week
#TeamLUHFT
welcomed The Prince and Princess of Wales to officially open The Royal Liverpool University Hospital
#Tbt
🤩🏥
To learn more about their visit, please click the link below ⬇️
A day we will never forget
@KensingtonRoyal
❤️
Here’s the last
#COVID19
patient remaining in Aintree Hospital’s critical care unit, John, being discharged 💕🥳
Help us keep critical care COVID-free by following social distancing guidelines, maintaining good hand hygiene and wearing a face covering when advised to 👍🏻
Over at Aintree University Hospital staff were also met by brilliant applause 👏🏻
Standing with fellow nurses and staff was our Chief Nurse, Dianne Brown, who clapped in thanks for our brilliant workforce in tonight’s
#ClapForOurCarers
👏🏻
Once again a big thank you to all who participated in this week’s
#ClapForOurCarers
.
We thank all of those who are on the frontline throughout this crisis.
Our CEO Steve Warburton paid tribute to our amazing staff, joining them outside of the Royal for tonight’s clap 👏🏻
Shortly after, hundreds of people gathered to watch Their Royal Highnesses unveil a plaque in the hospitals main atrium.
Volunteer, Marjorie Jenkins, presented a posy of flowers to The Princess of Wales.
Ahead of tonight's
#ClapForOurCarers
, we wanted to share this special message to our staff from
@Everton
player
@aftgomes
, who received care for his broken ankle at Aintree University Hospital 🏥⚽️
Thank you Andre for your kind words about our fantastic staff! ☺️👏
A HUGE ✨ thank you ✨ to
@MDALGLISHAPPEAL
for their £75,000 donation to
@LivHeadandNeck
which funded an additional ultrasound machine ❤️
Patients with head and neck cancer are being diagnosed more quickly as a result ✅
▶️ Read more here
TV’s
@DrAmirKhanGP
sent us this lovely message of thanks for our staff this week, praising their work during the
#COVID19
pandemic.
He may be a familiar face to some of you as he completed his medical training in our hospitals! 🏥
Thanks Dr Khan 👏
Our Critical Care teams recently had a surprise video call from The Duke of Cambridge
@KensingtonRoyal
🥰
He praised their work during the
#COVID19
pandemic, saying: “You are doing a fantastic job and the country is so grateful.”
We couldn’t be more proud of them! ❤️
BIG NEWS! We are so happy and relieved to announce that subject to legal agreements being reached, we could see construction restart as early as November on the
#newRoyal
. If this is the case, we'd expect the hospital to be completed in 2020! 🎉🎉🎉😊😊🏥
Thank you for tuning in to
#Hospital
. It's been another powerful night.
Everything we do is for one reason: our patients ❤️
No matter if you have already seen us or need us tomorrow, we will always take care of you ✅
Thank you for your kind words & love ☺️
#LoveYourNHS
Our Chief Executive, James Sumner, said: “It was an honour to welcome Their Royal Highnesses. To be able to showcase the incredible work our staff do for their patients every day was a privilege."
Click on the link below to find out more on their visit:
It’s official!
@Laing_ORourke
are working with us to restart construction on our beautiful
#NewRoyal
for an expected completion date of 2020. If that isn't a
#FridayFeeling
for
#Liverpool
, we don't know what is! We cannot wait 🙌🙌🙌
Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining us for
#Hospital
! It’s been another emotional night and we’re glad you could see the amazing work we do at the
#RoyalLiverpool
#Broadgreen
and
#AintreeHospital
. Tune in, same time next week! 📺
Liverpool will lead on a major trial that could see local people living with bowel cancer benefit from potentially life-changing technology - personalised tumour vaccines👏
LUHFT surgeon Robert Jones has been appointed the trial's UK Chief Investigator 👉
Big love to the our brothers and sisters
@WaltonCentre
tonight and always. Astonishing, human care by top people offering the best of their profession and themselves; the very definition of our NHS.
THIS is how we do it in
#Liverpool
. 💙
#Hospital
🏥
Aaima's father on
#Hospital
is incredibly understanding. Imagine it being your little girl waiting on the operation. He knows what great work the guys
@AlderHey
are doing for those who need it that little bit sooner.
Congrats to
#TeamLUHFT
who earlier this month performed an amazing 5 life-saving kidney transplants in one weekend 👏
Our multi-disciplinary team transformed the lives of patients on long-term dialysis, thanks to those who selflessly chose to donate and their families 💙
"On my 65th birthday I went in to surgery and gave my left kidney to a stranger. About 5 months later I got a thank you card out of the blue. It’s an amazing thing to think about; for my three nights in hospital, someone else’s life was changed."
- Paul Dixon
@NHSOrganDonor
NEWS: LUHFT is bringing 670 cleaning, portering and catering staff in-house at the end of our current contract, improving employment terms and conditions and reflecting our commitment to supporting people to live healthier, happier, fairer lives ❤️
▶️
If you go out, you can spread it. People will die. Please
#StayHomeSaveLives
and only leave the house if it is essential.
We go to work for you, so please stay at home for us ❤️🏥
An older gent walked into our foyer and handed our receptionist a letter. He said very little else other than it was meant for each and every person working here at the Trust. With that, he smiled, turned around and left.
The Merseyside public are just amazing.
#Liverpool
❤️
A big thank you to Tillie Ratcliffe, a
@LiverpoolBCS
student who this week decided to do all she could to help her mum, infectious diseases consultant, Dr Libbe Ratcliffe, by starting to assemble around 1,000 reusable visors for our staff in the Royal and Aintree! Thank you 👏🤩
We were treated to a special delivery today from
@LFC
! They donated sweet treats to all our sites, as well as our fellow
#Liverpool
trusts. Thank you for your generous gift 🍫
Club captain
@JHenderson
, +
@andrewrobertso5
and
@trentaa98
sent us this lovely message to our staff ❤️
Apparently...we're going to be on the tele 📺...in 1️⃣week! 🎉🎉🎉
Tune in to
@BBC
Two on Thurs 10th January at 9pm for the first episode of Hospital.
@RoyalLpoolHosps
,
@AlderHey
and
#Liverpool
is going to look fabulous on the big screen 😊 Please RT!
We have around 450 patients on dialysis, many waiting for transplant. The price of dialysis is approx £40,000 per year, as opposed to £28,000 for a transplant. 6,000 people in the UK are on the waiting list. We rely on organ donation - a gift that is freely given ❤️
#hospital
This time last year
#TeamLUHFT
welcomed the Prince and Princess of Wales to officially open our Royal Liverpool University Hospital 👑
Here are just a few of our favourite snaps from the day 🤩
Read more about their visit here:
It’s 4 years since the Duke of Cambridge opened the £35m Urgent Care & Trauma Centre at Aintree 😊
He also visited the helipad 🚁, which has seen more than 400 air ambulances landing, helping us treat our most seriously injured patients as quickly as possible
@KensingtonRoyal
Please only go outside if it essential. By staying home, you are helping us in the fight against
#coronavirus
.
We stay here for you, please stay home for us 🏡💙
#StayHomeSaveLives
#Liverpool
is a sociable city. Meeting friends, going to the pub and watching the football are important to many of us. But now we must all make sacrifices in order to protect our loved ones.
Our Deputy Medical Director, Dr Paul Fitzsimmons, explains why this is so important👇
Thanks to the quick actions of student nurse Demi Murphy, it means John McKeown will be enjoying Christmas with his partner & 3 children this year 🎅💙
John became unconscious at the wheel of his car & Demi who works at the Royal, jumped into action providing life-saving CPR 🚑💙
Patients in Cheshire and Merseyside have become the first in Europe to be offered pioneering robotic-assisted surgery for head and neck cancers, thanks to a £1m donation from
@MDALGLISHAPPEAL
toward the new Intuitive da Vinci Single Port 💙
Read more:
AMAZING 🥳🥳🥳
79 year-old Marjorie Starkey is our first inpatient to be moved to the new Royal Liverpool Hospital
Marjorie's one of 100s heading to our new & improved home in the next 2 weeks
Keep up the great work
#TeamLUHFT
!
More on our moves:
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive
@jamessumnerNHS
. James has more than 20 years’ experience in the NHS and will be joining us from Mid Cheshire Hospitals
Welcome to
#TeamLUHFT
James 😊
More info ➡️
If you’re watching
#Hospital
, you’ll have seen our own Dr Mark Lord, our consultant in cellular pathology, doing the biopsy of that HUGE cyst. He also does post-mortems in his spare time!
#TheRoyalTreatment
One of our fantastic nurses, Abdoulie, from Broadgreen Hospital, features in tonight's
#TogetheratChristmas
carol service, hosted by
@KensingtonRoyal
HRH the Duchess of Cambridge🎄
Abdoulie will be talking about what
#Christmas
means to him 💙
Tune into
@ITV
at 7.30pm to watch!
Back in 2020
@drsumitachawla
, Consultant Radiologist from Aintree Hospital 🏥 filmed with
@DrAmirKhanGP
for a documentary looking at how addictive sugar is 🍭 and, in particular, the effect it can have on the brain 🧠
▶️ See how they got on tonight at 7pm on
@channel5_tv
📺
We’re blown away by the care given by our
#physiotherapist
Verity at Aintree
#Hospital
in helping get Stephen home.
We ❤️ our physios!
We are looking for Senior Physiotherapists! Interested? Learn more and apply:
Evening all! Are you ready to watch us and the rest of the amazing hospitals around
#Liverpool
on
#Hospital
🏥 tonight? We thought so! Get it on the telly 📺 at 9pm 🕘 on BBC2. We’ll be doing some live tweeting so stick with us throughout the evening 😃
We are treating a patient with Coronavirus
#COVID
-19 in the Royal Liverpool Hospital's Infectious Diseases Unit. There is no risk to other patients or visitors. All of our services are operating as usual. If you have a hospital appointment then you should attend as planned.
Today we welcomed Sir Kenny and Lady Marina Dalglish to Broadgreen Hospital to thank them for the
@MDALGLISHAPPEAL
's generous £1.25m donation to fund the latest da Vinci XI robot. Read more here: or watch at 6pm on
@GranadaReports
! ❤️
#thankyou
Congratulations to Edna Panambo, Senior A&E Sister at the Royal
#Hospital
winner of
@theRCN
Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Health and Social Care Award 🏆👏
Full details on Edna's incredible work➡️ 🌟
📢 NEWS | It’s official!
@MetroMayorSteve
has cut the ribbon ✂️ - Aintree's new entrance is open! 🎉
This £15m investment is just the beginning, with further improvements soon to be made to the hospital's Emergency Department 😊
Exciting times ahead!
Colleagues from Aintree observing the one minute silence remembering Liz, Barbara and colleagues internationally who have lost their lives at work.
#InternationalWorkersMemorialDay
Our new Family Liaison Service is here to help you keep in touch 😊
Angela and the rest of the team can update you on what’s going on in our hospitals and share messages between you and your loved ones 🥰 They can also arrange for you to receive updates on how your loved one is.
"The night-time nurse, she leaned into me + said 'Elaine you're going to get through this, you're going to be fine'. It was like having my mum with me."💙
Some lovely words from
@Mersey_Care
nurse Elaine Ferrigan who recovered from Coronavirus at Aintree:
We're delighted to announce the appointment of our new Medical Director, Dr Jim Gardner 😊
Dr Gardner brings extensive experience of health service delivery, leadership + governance, joining us from
@BlackpoolHosp
Welcome to
#TeamLUHFT
@jimgardner63
➡️
🎈 Happy 92nd birthday Audrey! 🎈
Audrey has worked for the
#NHS
in Liverpool for 74 years and was one of the first on the NHS payroll in 1947!
She is an inspiration to us all - thank you 💙
#TeamLUHFT
AND THE WINNER OF THE INNOVATION AWARD IS…🥁
DR RAJIV SANKARANARAYANAN AND THE HEART FAILURE SERVICE
Very worthy winners and a crucial part of
#TeamLUHFT
👏👏👏
On this day in 1910, Florence Nightingale died. As well as her contributions to nursing she influenced the designs of the old Royal Infirmary including the circular wards. She also contributed to the very first district nursing service in the country, here in
#Liverpool
. Amazing!
Earlier this afternoon, staff from across all our sites joined the rest of the nation in holding a minute's silence to pay their respects to those we have lost during
#COVID19
❤️
It goes without saying that we love our staff but want to emphasise that. Recently a member of the public was convicted of racially abusing a member of our staff. This isn't acceptable behaviour. They do great work and must do this without fear or intimidation. Thank you all 💙
WATCH: Our Medical Director, Dr Tristan Cope, explains how we can all protect our communities and reduce the spread of
#COVID19
in
#Merseyside
by taking these simple precautions:
- Wash your hands regularly 🧼
- Wear a face mask 😷
- Keep your distance from others ↔️
#TeamLUHFT
went beyond their daily care duties to take Lewis Powel, 21, one of our ventilation patients, to watch
@LFC
at Anfield ⚽️🥰
Lewis has been in our care since April 22 and has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder causing progressive muscle degeneration
(1/4)
The
#urology
team at Broadgreen is truly astounding...But in November, after being awarded team of the month, they used the proceeds from their own prize to throw an afternoon tea party to thank patients for their donations using the proceeds they received!
#Hospital
The story of Sophie on
#Hospital
is literally a silent heartbreaker 💔 But our friends at
@WaltonCentre
really put the humanity into caring for such special conditions 🏥
Happy Father’s Day! ❤
Lee McNeil, who works at the Royal, experienced a Father’s Day surprise he will never forget thanks to his 5-year-old daughter, Thea and
@NIVEAMENUK
.
She helped to arrange a video chat with
@LFC
midfielder,
@Thiago6
!⚽️
Read more:
This may not be your usual Bank Holiday Monday, but we hope you’re all keeping safe indoors. By staying at home, you’re helping to save lives 🏡💙
#StayHomeSaveLives
Congratulations & good luck to the 8 nurses from our Aintree, Royal & Broadgreen sites, who've secured a Chief Nurse Scholarship to study a Master’s Degree in Nursing at
@Livuni
🥳
Claire, Tasmin, Shaheen, Carol, Tessa, Laura, Elizabeth & Finela begin their studies 📚 this week.
Congratulations to Sarah Hatton, Speech and Language Therapist, a very worthy winner of the virtual
#AHPBakeOff
! 🥳 🥳 🥳
Well done to all that entered 👏
#AHPsTakeover
#AHPsDay
Dr Neil Sahgal, consultant anaesthetist at Aintree, created a new device with
@ONFAB
which protects staff from infectious respiratory droplets during intubation.
The Patient Airway Isolation Dome went through development, testing and approval in 8 days!
For consultants across our two A&Es - like Dr Terry McLouglin - the most important thing is to talk, both in terms of patients and to our fellow staff 🥰
Like anything, there are good days and bad but understanding is as important as treatment.
#Hospital
If you've been struck down with the flu or norovirus this weekend, go to a pharmacy or ring 111 for advice before heading to A&E. We are very busy and you'd more than likely be better off warm at home than waiting in A&E as people with more serious conditions will be seen first.
Aintree staff have donated an astounding 350 pairs of pyjamas in a bid to ensure no child or teenager in Liverpool goes without a new set of PJs on Christmas Eve.
Our staff would give Santa’s elves a good run for their money! Well done to all involved – truly amazing!
The Royal’s Critical Care team thank a grateful patient and his family, who've donated gifts including radios, Nespresso machines, toiletries and TVs: “We're overwhelmed. They've donated these gifts so that other patients can benefit, plus a little treat for staff. Thank you!" ❤️
Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect on tomorrow night's
#Hospital
on
@bbctwo
at 9pm! 🏥🤩
Our renal transplant team will be showcasing their skills as they work to carry out three kidney transplants in one day ❤️
#organdonation
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Chief Nurse, David Melia 🥳
David will be joining us from
@MidYorkshireNHS
🏥 in July ✅
Welcome to
#TeamLUHFT
@davidfmelia
🙌
▶️ For more information visit
The impact of knife crime is something our colleagues deal with all too often. That's why we're backing the
#NoMoreKnives
#StandByMe
campaign. 🔪🚫
Some of our staff gathered today to help share the important message ❤️
We now nominate
@LFC
,
@Everton
and
@MerseyPolice
...
Look at those smiles! 💕
Thank you to everyone who has donated Easter eggs for our staff – as you can see, it really means a lot 🥰
Have a safe, happy
#Easter
and remember to
#StayHomeSaveLives
this
#BankHoliday
🐰🐣
Here's a feel good story to make your weekend less dreary 🌞Our volunteer Paul Dixon (in the pink below) has signed up 13,000+ people to the
@NHSOrganDonor
register 😮On top of that he has now bought NINE wheelchairs for the Royal Liverpool Hospital. A truly amazing man 💙💙💙