LJP Training

03/09/2025

Hopefully this new treatment centre will relieve the pressures in the Emergency Department. Take a look at what they can do!

A new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) has today opened its doors to patients at Derriford Hospital. Located in the brand-new, three-storey Dartmoor Building, the UTC will be open daily from 8am to 8pm, for patients of any age.

Urgent Treatment Centres are walk-in facilities and are available to treat injuries and illness which are not life-threatening but still require urgent treatment. The new UTC will provide treatment in addition to the Cumberland Centre in Devonport and Minor Injury Units in Tavistock and Kingsbridge.

Dr Anne Hicks, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, said: “The new Urgent Treatment Centre will give patients a choice of where to visit when they have a minor illness or injury. This increased capacity in the local area will ease the pressure on our Emergency Department, enabling emergency medicine specialists to focus on those patients who are seriously unwell.”

You should visit the UTC if you have an injury which is not life threatening, but still requires urgent treatment such as:
• Limb fractures
• Minor illness
• Sprains and strains
• Minor head injuries
• Minor scalds and burns
• Bites and stings
• Foreign body in eyes
• Infected wounds and cuts

You do not need to pre-book an appointment, just drop-in to the centre during opening times. There are 14 drop-off spaces and 2 disabled parking spaces, each with a 30-minute limit. For longer stays, the multi-storey car park is available. The Dartmoor building is located at the top of the hospital site, opposite the multi-storey, Costa Coffee and Boots chemist.

The Dartmoor Building, which houses the new UTC, will shortly also become home to other key hospital services such as the Fracture Clinic, Main Outpatients and Pre-operative assessment.

Derriford is also due to benefit from a new, state-of-the-art Emergency Care Building estimated to open in 2028. It’s part of the Future Hospital Programme, which aims to transform how care is delivered and improve lives across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall through investment in the most up-to-date healthcare environment.

John Stephens, Director of Infrastructure Strategy & Site Services said: “The opening of our new Urgent Treatment Centre marks an important milestone in the continued transformation of Urgent and Emergency Care. It forms part of a broader programme of healthcare developments at Derriford and beyond, designed to deliver state-of-the-art facilities for the people of Plymouth and the wider South West.”

You can find our more on our website: https://bit.ly/DerrifordNewUTC

15/08/2025

09/08/2025

Some of your questions answered by Resuscitation Council UK

12/07/2025

18/04/2025

Happy Easter to all the first aiders out there!

05/04/2025

Wow… a very busy couple of weeks for me. Paediatric course for Teignbridge Leisure, EFAW course for Newton Abbot Chiropractors, Staff training session at Pinehurst and my own attendance on a renewal course so I can continue to teach first aid ⛑️. Another re qualification course next week and then a break for a little while.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all the first aiders out there! I’m looking forward to this years training schedule that’s slowly filling up ⛑️🚑⏱️🩺🩸

12/12/2024

I have had many CPR classes over the years but was never told this . . . Have you ever thought about it ❤️🤔

When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

A really good post that can't be shared often enough:

1. Take a 2 minute break and read this: Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

3. Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it...

4. Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs 🫁 and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.☝🏻

9. FOR WOMEN 👭: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

10/11/2024

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We Will Remember Them.

Today we reflect on the service of our armed forces, and remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect our communities.

27/04/2024

A full First Aid course delivered for Teignbridge Leisure which was a pleasure to teach. Good to catch up with some old work colleagues too. Well done to all 6 of you for becoming qualified first aiders. ⛑️

31/03/2024

Happy Easter to all the first aiders I have trained! 🐣⛑️🩹