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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are proud that an emergency department (ED) team and an ED sister have been recognised in two categories in this year’s Nursing Times Award.

The High Intensity User Service has been shortlisted for the Emergency and Critical Care category and emergency department sister Charlotte Malcolm-Davies (Charlie) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Nurse of the Year Award for her work as part of the High Intensity User Service, alongside her role in nursing ED.

Staff on Samuel Johnson Community Hospital’s Darwin Ward have helped to bring a smile back to a patient’s face by encouraging him to pick his drawing pens back up and create caricatures of the ward team.

UHDB’s Labour Ward Manager Clare is set to swap scrubs for a ballgown as she channels her inner Rose Ayling-Ellis as she takes part in ‘Strictly for Milly’ to raise money.

Clare Pugh, Labour Ward Manager at Queen’s Hospital Burton, will be taking part in ‘Strictly for Milly’ a fund-raiser in honour of her niece who passed away at the age of two from a heart condition.

A local singing group, Cherry Vixxen, recently performed to patients on Ward 311 at Royal Derby Hospital to support dementia patients and was hailed a great success. 

We are delighted to announce that this year’s UHDB Annual Members Meeting will be taking place in person, for the first time since 2019, at the Lecture Theatre in the Medical Education Centre, Queen’s Hospital Burton on Tues 6 September.

UHDB has welcomed NHS England’s regional maternity team to two of its sites as part of their Ockenden assurance visits to all maternity services across the region.

The team spent the day at Royal Derby Hospital on 17 August and the following day visited Queen’s Hospital Burton. 

A consultant urological surgeon has penned a new book to help debunk myths and provide reassurance to men regarding prostate cancer.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has appointed its first Chief Digital Information Officer, which will support the further integration of the Trust’s clinical digital systems.

Kind-hearted staff who were surprised to learn one of their long-term patients was celebrating his 20^th wedding anniversary, put together a surprise of their own to mark the special occasion.

Kevin Hill is currently being cared for on Ward 310 at Royal Derby Hospital and his wife Camille visits him every day.

A Derby patient who was offered a procedure at Burton’s Treatment Centre has thanked staff for their ‘fantastic care’ at the state-of-the-art facility, which is helping to ease pressures on waiting lists for elective recovery.

The Treatment Centre at Queen’s Hospital Burton recently celebrated its two-year anniversary providing elective care for those who need orthopaedic treatment within our community.

Today, a Healthcare Assistant in the Children’s Emergency Department (CED) at Royal Derby Hospital, Jake McCandless, is eagerly awaiting his A Level Results as he continues his NHS career and dreams of becoming a paediatric consultant. 

A member of UHDB’s catering team has been awarded with the first ever Costa Passion Award for her commitment and dedication to customers and patients at Samuel Johnson Community Hospital.

We were delighted to celebrate UHDB and League of Friends volunteers recently, in a ceremony that recognised our dedicated volunteers that have supported the Trust. We were also able to recognise our student volunteers for their exceptional work they have provided during their work experience placements.

Three UHDB colleagues have been shortlisted for the Key Worker Award in this year’s BBC Radio Derby Make a Difference Awards.

The Discharge Assessment Unit (DAU) at Queen’s Hospital Burton is working with the Burton-upon-Trent Rotary Club to provide hampers of essential food items to patients who are being discharged home and may not have essential supplies. 

Colleagues in the Amputee Rehabilitation Centre have been recognised for going above and beyond to help a patient scale Mount Snowdon by being presented with June’s Team UHDB Monthly Making a Difference Award.

Patients that are prone to falling will receive a pair of yellow socks and a yellow blanket when they are treated at UHDB, as part of an innovative trial to reduce the risk of falls.

Think Yellow is an innovative scheme that was first rolled out in East Kent Hospitals University in 2021 by Jayne Flood and was found to significantly reduce the falls rate in their Emergency Departments and Acute Medical Units.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have welcomed the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay MP, and Burton and Uttoxeter MP, Kate Griffiths, to visit the Treatment Centre at Queen’s Hospital Burton today.

The Secretary of State spoke to UHDB staff and patients about the work to reduce waiting times for planned procedures. He visited part of the Treatment Centre that opened in 2020, with two orthopaedic theatres, X-Ray and Ultrasound rooms and a 28 bed ward.

As part of World Breastfeeding Week 2022 we have asked our UHDB colleagues to share their stories and experiences. Sarah tells us her breastfeeding story.

On World Breastfeeding Week 2022, we wanted to share with you more information about what is in breast milk.

We were delighted to celebrate the amazing UHDB and League of Friends volunteers recently, in a ceremony which recognised and commemorated our dedicated volunteers that have supported the Trust for many years.

A UHDB midwife who opted to have a waterbirth with her first child has told of the “beauty of being able to catch your child” and said she couldn’t imagine doing it without the water now.

Olivia Swaddle is a midwife at Royal Derby Hospital so when it came to the birth of her first child Annabelle, who better to deliver her daughter than her own colleagues.

She opted for a waterbirth and her baby girl was one of seven babies born in birthing pools across UHDB in May.

A cervical cancer survivor returned to thank staff at who cared for her at Royal Derby Hospital and to donate copies of her new book which documents her treatment journey.

As part of World Breastfeeding Week 2022 we have asked UHDB colleagues to share their stories and experiences. Here, Lucy, Imaging Tracker at RDH and QHB, tells us her breastfeeding story. 

Paul Brooks MBE, Director of Patient Experience, Estates and Facilities, is leaving University Hospitals of Derby and Burton at the end of October to take on a new role as Director of Estates and Facilities at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn.

A Dementia Key Worker who does her best to make her patient’s smile while they are on the ward has been presented with a Monthly Making a Difference Award.

Joanne Lloyd, a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) at Royal Derby Hospital, has been awarded with a Cavell Star – a nursing award created by the Cavell Nurses’ Trust for nurses, midwives and HCAs who show exceptional care.

We are delighted that our friends and charitable partners at Air Arts are hosting a special event entitled A Choral Forest.

The event will be held at Lichfield Cathedral on Saturday 8 October – featuring an artistic showcase of poetry, art and music collected from UHDB staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of Air Arts’s Staff Voice project.

Our thoughts are with the friends and family of Mhairi Cooper who sadly passed away this month.

Our hospitals continue to be extremely busy and our teams continue to work exceptionally hard. We would like to reassure our patients and the public that despite the challenges faced, essential services remain fully open for anyone who needs them so if you require urgent medical help, you should continue to come forward.