Derriford Hospital Open Day

Derriford Hospital is opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 28 September 2013, with our first Open Day in more than a decade.

They would love you to come along between 10am and 2pm.

They are working hard to create an event that offers something for everyone, including:

• Step inside an operating theatre and play a life-size operation game
• Meet our military staff
• Bring your Teddy Bear to our Teddy Bear Hospital
• Visit our Careers Fair
• Challenge your children with our quiz
• Step inside a delivery room in our maternity unit
• Comfortably numb: find out where your nerves are
• Get inside our Emergency Decontamination Tent
• Find out about medical research and how it advances care
• Discover our amazing Discovery Library and Plymouth Medical Society’s Historic Collection
• iLiveiGive … find out more about organ donation
• Love you liver? Have it checked
• Moving you safely: our manual handling team explain how
• Supporting those with a learning disability
• Try a taste of hospital food and give your verdict
• … and much, much more!

The Open Day will be followed by the Annual General Meeting in the Post Graduate Medical Centre at 2pm. This will start with a public question time with our Board: you can submit questions via email, Twitter or Facebook or telephone them through. Or you can turn up and ask on the day.

The Board will then hold the Annual General Meeting, looking back on the year just gone and the year ahead.

There is no need to book. Just turn up and you will be welcomed.

Amanda Nash, Head of Communications and the organiser of the event, said: “We are a large hospital on one site so we will be providing maps with what is on in different places around the site. We hope to make these available on our website in the coming weeks.

“Please do come along and bring your family and friends. Whether we are your local hospital or your nearest specialist centre, we hope we can help you find out a little bit more. If you have any questions, please call us on 01752 439060.”