State-of-the-art education centre opens at hospital

A STATE-of-the-art education centre for staff at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield was formally opened yesterday.

It includes clinical skills rooms, mock ward areas and training rooms for resuscitation. One feature even allows junior doctors to carry out surgical procedures on virtual reality patients.

• Consultant anaesthetist Dimple Vyas of the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS trust is one of four people from the UK to join an initiative to share health expertise between this country and the United States.

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The doctor, who has a special interest in chronic pain management, will spend a year at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working alongside experts from around the world.