Public open day to precede Derriford Hospital's AGM
Plymouth's Derriford Hospital will be opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 28 September with its first Open Day in more than a decade.
Among a variety of activities, the general public will have the opportunity to visit an operating theatre and a delivery room, find out about organ donation, check their livers and try some hospital food. The hospital will also be explaining how they support patients with a learning disability and hosting a Careers Fair.
The Open Day will be followed by the hospital's annual general meeting from 2pm in the Post-Graduate Medical Centre, during which the public will have a chance to put questions to the Board. Questions can be submitted via email, Twitter or Facebook or by telephone. Alternatively you can turn up and ask on the day.
The hospital says it is working hard to create an event that offers something for everyone. The Open Day will include:
- Step inside an operating theatre and play a life-size operation game
- Meet the military staff
- Bring your Teddy Bear to the Teddy Bear Hospital
- Visit the Careers Fair
- Challenge your children with the hospital's quiz
- Step 'inside' a delivery room in the maternity unit
- Comfortably numb: find out where your nerves are
- Get inside the Emergency Decontamination Tent
- Find out about medical research and how it advances care
- Discover the amazing Discovery Library and Plymouth Medical Society's Historic Collection
- iLiveiGive ... find out more about organ donation
- Love your liver? Have it checked
- Moving you safely: the manual handling team explain how
- Supporting those with a learning disability
- Try a taste of hospital food and give your verdict
and much more besides ...
The Board will hold its annual general meeting, looking back on the year just gone and the year ahead. The Annual Report is available here.
Derriford Hospital says there is no need to book. Just turn up and you will be welcomed.
Derriford is a large hospital on one site so will be providing maps with what is on in different places around the site. The hospital hopes to make these available on this site in the coming weeks.
If you have any questions, please call Derriford Hospital on 01752 439060.
A flyer advertising the event has been created. The hospital is encouraging people to print this out and share it with friends, family and colleagues to help publicise the Open Day.
You can read the Open Day blog here.
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