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Colleagues across UHDB will come together with members of the global LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate Pride Month, with this year’s event marking its fiftieth year in the UK.

This week marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and while some will be celebrating with bunting and cake, two of our UHDB staff members will be getting a special nod from the Queen herself in her birthday honours.

We are so proud to announce that among those receiving special accolades are two of our very own colleagues.

Dr Andrew Goddard, consultant gastroenterologist at UHDB and president of Royal College of Physicians, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to health and social care.

Dr Goddard has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading gastroenterologists and has been praised for his ‘outstanding’ leadership during the pandemic, helping unite all parts of the system, while continuing to provide care for Covid-19 patients.

One of UHDB’s highly valued governors has been awarded an MBE Honour for Services to Nursing and the community of Derby’ over the last 50 years.

Maura Teager has had a long and distinguished career which has seen her serve the people of Derbyshire for the past five decades in roles that include nurse, midwife, volunteer, governor, NHS board member and Director of Nursing.

Today, 1 June, marks the start of National Volunteers’ week and as ever on behalf of the Trust, we are forever grateful for our volunteers contribution and support to our hospitals.

Here at UHDB we have more than 610 volunteers and have actively restored over 220 volunteers back into the Trust across our five sites.

Mr Azher Siddiq, a Consultant ENT Surgeon based at Queen’s Hospital Burton, will fly to Ghana on Friday 3 June, alongside four other consultant colleagues from the UK in his role as Medical Lead for Humanity First UK (HFUK)

Three blind football players visiting Burton have been given a ‘distinct glimmer of hope’ that they may see again, after two UHDB consultants volunteered their time and efforts to help them.

The goodwill gesture came from Mr Satish Chawdhary, Consultant Opthalmologist at Queen’s Hospital Burton and Mr Rohit Sharma who is also a Consultant Opthalmologist at Queen’s Hospital Burton.

Team UHDB have come together to sing the National Anthem for the Platinum Jubilee, organised by Air Arts.

Over the last few weeks colleagues have recorded themselves singing God Save the Queen to show their appreciation of Her Majesty the Queen on this very special Platinum Jubilee weekend.

A biomedical scientist at UHDB has received two awards after completing a degree level apprenticeship funded by the Trust.

A member of #TeamUHDB has teamed up with nursing colleagues from across the UK to form a new association for Italian nurses and midwives. Simone Rizzi, Matron for Cardiology and Rheumatology, is one of the six founding members of the Italian Nurses and Midwives Association UK (INaMA-UK), which launches next week.

As part of UHDB’s core value of openness, we are working hard to make our hospitals more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ patients and colleagues.

Following on from the enormous popularity of the NHS Rainbow Badges in 2019, UHDB and the Pride Staff Network have been working closely with NHS Rainbow Badges Scheme and are excited to announce that we have been selected to take part in phase two of the Rainbow Badge project.

Today, 24 May, is Pansexual Visibility Day.

This day was created as a way of recognising and celebrating those who identify as Pansexual. Pansexuality is often a lesser-known sexual orientation but is by no means uncommon. 

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have appointed Garry Marsh as Interim Executive Chief Nurse. Garry will join the Trust on Monday 23 May 2022 from The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, where he has been Executive Chief Nurse.

A gentleman who is being cared for at Royal Derby Hospital has been treated to a special visit and performance of ‘You raise me up’ by his former choir members.

The special visit was organised by Sharon Dunworth, Dementia Key Worker on Ward 311, after a request from Alan Glossop, a patient who is being treated on the ward.

People in Derbyshire and Staffordshire continue to be encouraged to have important conversations about their wishes regarding organ donation, two years on from the introduction of an opt-out system in England.

The first in-person Anaesthetics Study Day since before the pandemic was held for SAS Doctors based at RDH & QHB on 6 May 2022.

Tenacious fundraiser and ISS team member, Avtar Samrai, has donated £5,500 to Kings Lodge Neuro Rehab at Florence Nightingale Hospital.

Today, Tuesday 17 May is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) 2022, and the theme this year is Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Rights.

Today is Facilities Management (FM) day and here at UHDB we are lucky to have so many incredible facilities staff who work tirelessly to ensure that our patients, colleagues and visitors have the best experience they can while using our hospitals.

To mark FM day (Friday, 13 May) we want to recognise and shine a light on all the amazing work our facilities teams do across our five sites.

Today is Facilities Management day and here at UHDB we are lucky to have so many incredible facilities staff who work tirelessly to ensure that our patients, colleagues and visitors have the best experience they can while using our hospitals.

To mark FM day (Friday, 13 May) we want to recognise and shine a light on all the amazing work our facilities teams do across our five sites

Meet Aldarico – our International Nurse Facilitator. He originally started his Nurse Training in the Philippines and moved over to the UK in July 2019 to continue his nursing role working at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.

“I came over to the UK with a group of other Filipino Nurses, some of us lived together at the start so we could really try to embrace British culture.  My new role as International Nurse Facilitator is about fostering a positive learning experience for international nurses coming to work with us at #TeamUHDB – my support isn’t just for our Filipino Nurses, it is for any nurse that has joined us from overseas.”

Royal Derby Hospital this week welcomed five refugees who have been working as nurses in Lebanon to give them training and experience to become qualified nurses at UHDB as part of a national scheme spearheaded by NHSE/I.

Ghada El Ayoud, Ibrahim Al-Ali, Ibrahim Tantory, Salah Hussein and Hamzeh Shridi, who are all from Palestine, were all working as nurses in Lebanon, where they were also living in refugee camps with their families – often in poor conditions.

Part of the Driving Mobility network, Derby DrivAbility will be hosting a free mobility event for healthcare professionals and the public on 14 June. We will be offering the opportunity for visitors to explore specialist equipment for driving, wheelchair loading and passenger safety.

As we bid farewell to our Chief Nurse Cathy, Interim CEO Dr Magnus Harrison shares some lessons that he's learnt working alongside her.

After 13 years of dedicated service to the people of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, Cathy Winfield MBE has hung up her UHDB tunic for the final time as she leaves for a new adventure.

Cathy will start a new role as Chief Nursing Officer for the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. She has been an inspirational nursing leader and has played a key role in making UHDB a great place to work, learn and receive care.