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Two UHDB Urology clinicians are once more offering community prostate cancer screening after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

A member of #TeamUHDB is leading the development of a new website to help patients living with Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and the clinicians who look after them after winning a £10,000 National Lottery award.

Colleagues on Florence Nightingale Community Hospital’s Ward 2 have been raising the awareness with patients, friends and family about how they can help up to five people regain their sight by becoming an corneal organ donor.

Our thoughts are with the friends and family of Anna Brett who sadly died last month.

The team at Queen’s Hospital Burton’s Discharge Assessment Unit (DAU) has been recognised for going above and beyond to help care for a patient’s dog while they were admitted to hospital in recent weeks.

A UHDB Urology Consultant is urging men not to ignore signs of prostate cancer and to get checked as soon as possible as a national awareness raising campaign is launched.

Maternity services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have been rated in the top five in the Midlands for both antenatal and postnatal care. More than 200 women, half of which were first time mums, gave their views as part of a Care Quality Commission survey.

Cathy Winfield, our Executive Chief Nurse will be leaving the Trust to take on a new role as Chief Nursing Officer for the Integrated Care Board in South Yorkshire.

The Security Team at Royal Derby Hospital have been praised by multiple colleagues across the Trust for their work with a young patient on our Children’s Ward.

Our security staff across UHDB do so much more than just making sure our sites are accessible and safe for patients, staff and visitors. They are also trained to provide support to patients who are distressed and need additional support when in hospital.

The fantastic lengths a Royal Derby Hospital colleague went to in order to help and support a colleague have been recognised by our Interim Chief Executive, Dr Magnus Harrison, with his first ever Chief Executive Award.

Sarah Moss, Deputy General Manager in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Royal Derby Hospital, went above and beyond to support a colleague who was off sick and going through a difficult time after one of their parents passed away.

Volunteers and the Voluntary Service Team across UHDB have been recognised for their resilience and going above and beyond throughout the Covid-19 pandemic after being awarded with a Team UHDB Making a Difference Award.

In March 2020 we paused many of our volunteering roles as the country went into lockdown. After months of being away from the Trust, volunteers who support UHDB have slowly began to return.

New payment machines have been installed in our antenatal ultrasound departments at Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton. They will be in operation from Monday 28 February 2022 and feature card and contactless payment technology with no need for handling cash.

Thanks to our Air Arts Team and support from a former a cancer patient, we have proudly unveiled our latest piece of reflection artwork in our Combined Day Unit (CDU) at Royal Derby Hospital.

This February, NHS England and NHS Improvement is raising awareness of heart attack symptoms as part of the latest ‘Help Us Help You’ campaign.

Heart and circulatory disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, causes a quarter of all deaths in the UK and is one of the largest causes of premature mortality in deprived areas.

A member of the Imaging Team has been presented with a Making a Difference Monthly Award after a patient praised him for going the “extra mile” and providing them with reassurance and support during their appointment.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are proud to be working in partnership with the University of Derby on our first ever Operating Department Practitioner apprenticeship programme.

The first cohort of Operating Department Practitioner apprentices started at the Trust in January 2022. 

A former cancer patient has urged women to attend their smear test appointments and to not ignore potential signs of cervical cancer ahead of World Cancer Day (4 February 2022).

A patient at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, is raising awareness on World Cancer Day on how the disease can affect anyone, of any gender and any age.

An Emergency Medicine consultant at Royal Derby Hospital has shared his experiences of helping in the fight against Covid-19 in Malawi back in October 2021.

Last week I shared the sad news that Adele Hunter passed away peacefully, with her loving family beside her. I wanted to tell you a little bit more about Adele.

UHDB has appointed a new NExT Director to join our Trust Board as part of an innovative NHS initiative. Alan Smith, is an experienced leader who will join the board in a non-voting capacity on 1 February 2022.

Wayne Grindle, Lorraine Smedley and Dana Anwar have been awarded with January’s Excellent Employee Making a Difference Award for the immeasurable support they have provided to ensure our staff and visitors follow covid-19 measures.

Photos taken prior to pandemic.  Quality Improvement is defined as the application of a systematic approach that uses specific techniques to improve quality. The purpose of Quality Improvement within our hospitals is about making healthcare safer, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Our library team have been working on two Quality Improvement Projects across UHDB. We spoke to Lindsay Snell, Clinical Librarian, to find out more.

A new digital Facilities Management App has benefited UHDB FM staff across Derbyshire and Staffordshire by making important information relating to their work available to them at their fingertips.

The app, which launched at the end of 2021, for all facilities and estates staff, across all five sites, including our partners in ISS, Skanska, STERIS and Synergy.

The team in Queen’s Hospital Burton’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has been presented with the latest Chief Executive’s Award for their “exceptionally high standard of care and compassion” during the pandemic and extensive recent renovation works in the department.

An outpatient manager at UHDB has dedicated more than 45 years of service within outpatients.

Are you an AHP, HCS, nurse, midwife or ACP with a desire to dip your toe in the world of research; or develop your research ideas further into fully fundable projects; even develop your ideas into a fully funded PhD programme?

This week, NHS England and NHS Improvement launched a new mental health campaign to highlight that feelings of anxiety and depression can affect us all - and the NHS is here to help. The NHS provides a range of talking therapies for common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression which are free, effective and confidential.