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Visitors took the chance to see the range of services and speak to staff during Newark Hospital’s open day on Saturday.

There were demonstrations on how to resuscitate a child, and tours of the operating theatre. Many children and adults had one of their arms put in plaster.

Visitors were shown the CT scanner and could taste various liquids, including barium that patients drink to make their organs show more clearly during a CT scan.

The chairman of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, which runs the hospital, Miss Tracy Doucet, said: “I have never seen so many visitors to an open day.

“The overall impression is that they are impressed with the range of services offered. It is a great opportunity for us to remove some of the fear surrounding hospitals.”

She said there was a lot of new equipment to see following investment since last year’s open day.

Jenny Arnatt (17) of Top Street, Elston, attended this year to gain an insight into physiotherapy, which she hopes to study at university.

Jenny, an A-level student at Toot Hill School, Bingham, particularly enjoyed hearing about knee replacement surgery and infection control.

She said: “The open day is a good idea. It makes you realise how everyone, from the surgeons to the physiotherapists, works together.”

The infection control team asked visitors to rub a cream into their hands that showed up under an ultra-violet light. They were then asked to wash their hands before placing them under the light to see how much of the cream remained.

Jenny was surprised at how much cream remained even though she thought she washed her hands well.

Miss Samantha Annis, department lead pre-operative assessment and clinical nurse specialist, said visitors included people who were due to have an operation and wanted to put their minds at rest.

Some who previously had surgery also came to tell staff how they were doing.

There were interactive displays, including naming the body parts of a skeleton and finding out how keyhole surgery was done by using instruments and cameras to lift sugar cubes out of a box.

There was a display about cervical screening and contraception in the Eastwood Centre, which houses the genito-urinary medicine, contraception and sexual health, and drug and alcohol teams.

Miss Janet Cartledge (41) of St Mary’s Gardens, Newark, took her son, Philip Cartledge-Smith (8) to let him see behind the scenes of a hospital so that if he ever needed treatment he would not be nervous.

They were joined by Miss Cartledge’s sister, Miss Diane Cartledge (39) of Belmont Close, Newark.

Members of Newark Hospital League of Friends ran a raffle and tombola in aid of breast services and urology services.



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