The TOR Team are very much looking forward to the #NHS70Plymouth Open Day on Saturday 16 June, as it will be our first time at the Open Day and what a momentous milestone to celebrate.

TOR stands for Trauma, Orthopaedics and Rheumatology, a large department with over 30 specialist surgeons/consultants which keeps us extremely busy.

Below are some of the amazing things which we will be demonstrating to help celebrate this exciting day:

• Allowing visitors to try their hand at ‘plastering’, under the supervision of our fully trained Plastering Technicians.
• We are bringing a full size model of a skeleton, which we invite you to test your knowledge by ‘pinning’ the names of the bones onto the skeleton.
• Try your knowledge on our Orthopaedic Quiz and win a prize.
• See sample ‘joints’ and ‘metalwork’ which we use in Orthopaedic operations in years gone-by. You’ll be amazed how heavy they feel; also we have obtained some joints from the 50s (see how very little they have changed).
• Look at plastic joints to see how our joints work and rotate.
• We will have a couch where you can have a go at applying traction to someone’s leg. This is where you apply a strip of fabric to the outer side of a leg then bandage the leg and apply a weight to the end. Then experience how it feels to be ‘confined’ to a bed.
• Booklets and information will be available on common Orthopaedic and Rheumatology diseases and conditions (supplied by https://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/).

We are at Stand 8 (bottom left hand corner of the Main Hall) so please come and join in our activities and have fun with the team, we would love to meet you all.

Julia Smith

Trauma, Orthopaedics and Rheumatology

See our programme for full details

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp*.

*We are experiencing some issues with the app appearing on the Apple Store – you can view a pdf version here – if you would like to book onto any sessions, email communications.phnt@nhs.net.

The Perioperative Theatre Central team invite you to see the past, present and future of anaesthetics and surgery that has occurred over the last 70 years.

Come along and visit us in Plym Children’s Theatres, where along with the Teddy Bear’s Hospital you will have opportunity to meet the perioperative team, who are keen to showcase the variety of surgical services that we provide to the population of the South West.

There will be opportunity to meet and talk to staff from a wide variety of clinical areas and will be available to talk about their roles within the perioperative environment. Also we will have demonstrations and equipment available to view from the past, present and innovations for the future.

We look forward to meeting you on Saturday 16 June 2018 to celebrate with us the 70^th NHS Anniversary.

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp*.

Michelle Smith

Matron for Satellite Theatres

*We are experiencing some issues with the app appearing on the Apple Store – you can view a pdf version here – if you would like to book onto any sessions, email communications.phnt@nhs.net.

Guinea Pigs?

Lab Rats?

Drug trials?

Common misconceptions, which the Research Development & Innovation (RD&I) Department hope to dispel.

At the NHS 70 open day on Saturday 16 June, RD&I will be in the squash courts with many activities to show what research is really like.

James Lind the first person to conduct a randomised controlled trial in 1747 is even making a special guest appearance, along with Bear-Lind-a, a selfie booth and a dressing up area for children.

You can experience being recruited into a randomised chocolate trial…promise there will be no placebos! As well as seeing how the research of the past is helping to shape the healthcare of today and beyond.

A research reminiscence wall will give visitors the opportunity not only to see early examples of our research experience but also a chance to tell their own experiences of any research. There will also be videos running throughout the day on the future of research.

We hope that these activities will convince visitors to invest in the future of healthcare, by visitors signing up to our research database.

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp*.

*We are experiencing some issues with the app appearing on the Apple Store – you can view a pdf version here – if you would like to book onto any sessions, email communications.phnt@nhs.net.

The NHS started fitting hearing aids right at the beginning – 70 years ago. This was in response to the vast number of service men and women who had suffered hearing loss in the Second World War.

The basic method of doing a hearing test hasn’t changed in all that time – but the equipment certainly has!

We’ve gone from valves to digital technology. The same is true of the hearing aids themselves. No more big boxes worn on straps round the waist, but tiny devices with maybe 1000 times more processing power than the computers that ran the Apollo moon landings.

Who knows what the future will bring? Most predictions miss the mark by a country mile. But I suspect that the technological revolution we are going through at the moment is likely to be outstripped by the biomedical revolution coming soon – with the understanding and manipulation of genes in particular offering opportunities that we are only just beginning to grasp. The next 70 years are going to be amazing.

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp*.

Adam Beckman

Audiology

*We are experiencing some issues with the app appearing on the Apple Store – you can view a pdf version here – if you would like to book onto any sessions, email communications.phnt@nhs.net

We will be hosting a Careers Fair as part of our Open Day on Saturday 16 June 2018, bringing together the city’s educational and vocational organisations to help you explore potential career opportunities in healthcare.

Representatives from the various organisations will be available between 10.00 and 14.00 to talk to about your aspirations and the opportunities which are on offer. The organisations who will be attending are:

• University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (Apprenticeships, Volunteering, Preceptorship, Midwifery and many more)
• NHS Professionals
• Livewell Southwest
• Plymouth Marjon University
• Scott Medical and Healthcare College
• Army Reservists
• University of Plymouth

Specialist careers talks will be taking place throughout the day. These always prove to be really popular, but you can book ahead using our #NHS70Plymouth Open Day app or by calling Lauren on 01752 439654 to save a place.

• (10:00-10:10) NHS Professionals
• (10:15-10:25) Livewell South West
• (10:30-10:40) Good applications on NHS Jobs
• (10:45-10:55) Healthcare Assistants
• (11:00-11:10) Voluntary Team
• (11:15-11:25) Preceptorship Team
• (11:30-11:40) Allied Health Professionals
• (12:30-12:40) Healthcare Science
• (12:45-12:55) Midwifery
• (13:00-13:10) Good applications on NHS Jobs
• (13:15-13:25) Scott College
• (13:30-13:40) Marjons
• (13:45-13.55) Army Reservists

If you are interested in job opportunities within UHPNT, all available vacancies are advertised on NHS Jobs, but please come along and talk to us for some hints and tips about the application process.

We look forward to meeting and welcoming you to our Careers Fair and are more than happy to answer any questions you may have. For further information please contact Matt Glastonbury/Lauren Scott within the Recruitment Team on 01752 432100 or via email on plh-tr.Recruitment-Team@nhs.net.

Plym Children’s Theatres will once again be opening its doors as part of the Trust’s NHS70 Open day on Saturday 16 June (10.00-14.00). This is a great opportunity for children and adults to come and find out more about what happens inside an operating theatre.

Once again, we will be running our Teddy Bear Hospital – so if you know of a teddy or toy who is in need of some medical attention, please bring them along to be checked over, bandaged, or even stitched back up by the experts. The teddy bear’s owners are welcome to help and there are reward stickers for the owners and patients.

Come inside our operating theatre of the past, present and future – showcasing the changes that there have been in caring for people having surgery over the 70 years that the NHS has been in existence. Visitors will be able to see how the equipment we use to keep patients safe during anaesthesia has improved. Find out more about the different job roles in an operating theatre team and how we work together to look after patients, you could even have a go at “scrubbing-up”.

Plymouth Kidzzz – the charity that supports Plymouth Children’s Theatres, will be offering the opportunity to get involved with some pebble art and there will be lots of other activities for children and adults.

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp

Sarah Wimlett
Consultant Anaesthetist

This year the NHS celebrates its 70^th birthday. We thought a great way to celebrate it would be to hold an Open Day with the theme of #NHS70 – the NHS past, present and future.

Some of our many services will be showing what healthcare was like in the past, how it is now and what it might look like in the future.

We will have on show equipment used in healthcare in decades past, for example old equipment used to test your hearing and old lenses and artificial eyes. We’ll also be exploring how roles, such as those of nurses and therapists have changed since the NHS first started. Being a Major Trauma Centre, we’ll be able to explain how things like survival rates have changed (and improved!) for patients and why.

From the chance to step into a modern day operating theatre to viewing our unique historic library collections, from discovering more about blood  and the history of microscopy to cracking bones, from finding out how research has changed over the years to trying your hand at delivering a mock baby … we’re inviting people to come along and find out more.

Download our programme for full details

But the #NHS70 Open Day won’t be all looking back. By very popular demand, we’ll once again have a Careers Fair so those interested in being our future staff and volunteers can find out more about the opportunities available. You can book in advance to attend talks by some of our specialist staff groups using our app.

We have also teamed up with our two local universities – the University of Plymouth will be joining us on the day with interactive stands around podiatry and dietetics. They will also be bringing their training ambulance along to the event so visitors can explore how Paramedic Practitioners are trained.

Plymouth Marjon University, just across the road from Derriford Hospital will be opening up their sports centre and health areas to demonstrate activities such as rehabilitation.

Being a military hospital benefiting from the Defence Medical Group South West, our military colleagues will be with us on the day with Casualty Sim to interact with and a display of RNH Stonehouse amongst other things.

For those interested, we’ll once again be running our popular behind the scenes tours too.

Over the next few weeks we will bring you more information about some of the many activities which will be on show on the #NHS70 Open Day using this blog. So please keep visiting and we hope to see you on the day. There will be free car parking for the Open Day in Car Parks C and D – site map here.

Come along for a day of interactive fun and education for all the family. For more information and to book on to events or talks, please download our app: http://bit.ly/NHS70PlymouthApp

Hope to see you there

Amanda

Head of Communications