Great success for burns management training
15 May 2013

The burns team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital have just held their third successful Burns Management Study Day (BMSD), which like the first two, was fully booked and received excellent reviews from participants from across Buckinghamshire, East Berkshire, Oxfordshire and West Hertfordshire.

Smoking is worse for women than for men
13 May 2013

Buckinghamshire Smoke Free Support Service is concerned about a recent study from the University of Tromso in Norway, where researchers found that women smokers have a higher risk of bowel cancer than their male counterparts.

Norovirus circulating in the community
03 May 2013

Norovirus is currently circulating in the community. Please help to reduce the risk of norovirus infection in our hospitals by ensuring you do not visit a hospital if you have had diarrhoea and/or vomiting within the last 48 hours or have had contact with someone who has.

Choose well this bank holiday
03 May 2013

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe hospitals, is urging people to carefully consider the most appropriate place to seek medical treatment for a health problem over the bank holiday weekend.

Response to Care Quality Commission report
24 Apr 2013

The Care Quality Commission has today (24 April 2013) published its report following inspections at Stoke Mandeville and Amersham hospitals during February and March. The Trust is pleased that inspectors found the hospitals to be compliant in key care standards, in particular the standards for ‘care and welfare for people who use services’ and ‘safety, availability and suitability of equipment’. Inspectors also noted that “most people were positive about the care they received”.

Trust continuing to provide good patient experience
23 Apr 2013

79 per cent of patients say the inpatient care they received from Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust was good or excellent, according to a recent national report.