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The amazing Audio Visual (AV) Team have been presented with July’s Team UHDB Monthly Making a Difference Award for supporting colleagues to take their educational work onto a digital platform during the pandemic.

We are asking international nurses working in the NHS to share their experiences of arriving from overseas and of integration into life in England and the NHS by taking our Internationally Educated Nurse Experience Survey.  

Together We’re Better, the local health and care partnership, is seeking to improve midwifery services in these areas by offering more personalised care around the needs of pregnant people and their families.

A nurse on Royal Derby Hospital’s Ward 305 has received July’s Patient Hero Award for becoming “elder sister” to a teenage patient who spent more than 50 days in hospital.

Derbyshire's health system has made a plea to local people to think more carefully than ever before about their service choices, as pressure mounts.

Together We’re Better, the local health and care partnership, is seeking to improve midwifery services in these areas by offering more personalised care around the needs of pregnant people and their families.

Queen’s Hospital Burton’s Fracture Clinic team have been lauded for the “creativity and ingenuity” they’ve shown to enable them to continue to be there for our communities throughout the pandemic.

The team have really risen to the challenge of Covid-19 and taken the initiative by completely changing they work – to support both our patients and colleagues by lessening the pressures on other services at UHDB.

The Gynaecology Assessment Unit at Royal Derby Hospital have been recognised for the support they offered to a patient suffering with acute morning sickness by being presented with June’s Patient Hero Monthly Making a Difference Award.

A pregnant woman from Burton has spoken of her decision to take the Covid-19 vaccine to protect herself and her unborn child.

A Radiographer has been named as the new Vice President for the Society of Radiographers (SOR), and will go on to become UHDB’s second President of the organisation.

A patient who has struggled with hearing loss for a number of years has singled out a Royal Derby Hospital audiologist for praise after he helped improve their quality of life. Piyush Patel has been named as UHDB’s latest Excellent Employee Award winner in recognition for the “fantastic” contribution he has made to improving this patient’s hearing.

Colleagues on Ward 2 at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital are taking part in a mammoth bike ride to raise funds for a mural in their garden.

We celebrated some of our #TeamUHDB heroes of the pandemic last night as part of our first ever virtual annual awards.

The lengths that UHDB teams have gone to during the pandemic to limit the spread of Covid-19 and to provide outstanding care to patients with other respiratory conditions has been recognised on a national scale. UHDB has been shortlisted for two awards at the Nursing Times Awards –  for two separate projects that have helped reduce the spread of Covid-19 in our hospitals and allowed some patients with pneumonia to go home sooner than before. 

Colleagues who have worked in UHDB’s Vaccine Hubs throughout the pandemic have seen the priceless impact they have made to our communities recognised with an incredibly well-deserved award.

Over the last few months, literally hundreds of re-deployed staff from all corners of the Trust have come together to create and then operate the Vaccination Hubs at Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton.

Newly qualified staff are being given the opportunity to have dedicated one-to-one supernumerary support in their clinical environment in addition to working alongside experienced UHDB colleagues to further their learning and development as part of a new six/twelve month pilot scheme.

Despite the easing of lockdown measures in the community on Monday 19 July, current restrictions will remain in place across all of our hospital sites as we continue to care for vulnerable members of our community.

Our new Florence Nightingale Community Hospital Outpatient Department, Clinic A, was officially opened on 9th July 2021 as it welcomes its first patients

Staff at the community hospital on London Road, marked the hospital name change to ‘Florence Nightingale Community Hospital’, on 5^th July 2021, with the unveiling of a new statue taking pride of place at the front of the hospital, and portrait, to be placed inside the entrance.

Joe Sim, Energy Monitor, at Royal Derby Hospital, has been chosen as the National Winner for the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2021 in the category of Lifetime Achievement.

Sadly, due to the ongoing pandemic, Joe was unable to make the official awards ceremony being held in London on Wednesday, 7 July, so instead, received a special surprise call from Sir Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS, who virtually congratulated Joe on his achievement.

A Royal Derby Hospital nurse has expressed her pride in her UHDB family after they joined her in sharing their personal stories of working through the first wave of Covid-19 for a book about the pandemic.

‘The Last Hug’ is a powerful collection of 30 UHDB colleagues’ differing experiences of the first few months of Covid-19 – with some staff having to be redeployed to new areas, some having to shield at home and all of them having to handle huge changes.

As the NHS turned 73, we marked the occasion with a splash of colour across all sites by unveiling rainbow walkways.

The rainbow installations lead on from our campaigns to combat hate received by staff at the Trust and are a permanent show of support to the LGBTQIA+ and BAME communities who visit, work and attend our hospitals.

It is with great sadness we share the news of the death of Dr David Anderson, former CEO and Medical Director at Queen’s Hospital Burton, in mid-June.

David studied medicine at St Thomas’ in London and qualified in 1963 before gaining his first post as House Officer at Queen’s Hospital Burton, where he spent large parts of his career. After returning to St Thomas’ for three years, David came back to Burton in July 1970 and remained until August 2013, working as a Consultant Anaesthetist. It was during this time that he established Burton’s first Intensive Care Unit, which he ran for almost 20 years. David was also instrumental in establishing Burton’s flying squad, the Day Treatment Unit and used his prominence in the community to raise vital funding for anaesthesia. David also enjoyed success implementing a new clinical IT system, Meditech, in 1990 after visiting the USA and South Africa to discover the best solution for Burton.

In the summer of 2019 the Trust’s wholly-owned subsidiary, known as D-Hive, aimed to bring a pop concert called Derby Sound to Derbyshire. This concert would have brought significant investment to the area, with the any funds generated reinvested into the NHS, and NHS staff receiving a number of free tickets and concessions. Sadly, due to poor ticket sales, the concert was cancelled in advance as it was not deemed commercially viable.

Clinicians at Royal Derby Hospital have been hand selected to co-host a prestigious national event to share best practice for interventional cardiology treatment methods.

Nurses, Radiographers and Cardiac Physiologists from the Cardiac Catheter Suite beat off competition from other units around the UK to become joint hosts of The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society’s (BCIS) Allied Health Professionals Annual Conference alongside colleagues from the John Radcliffe Hospital based in Oxford.

A nurse who has returned to her role after a five year career break has praised UHDB’s Return to Practice (RTP) scheme for helping her to feel comfortable when coming back to work on the frontline.

Ward 2 at London Road Community Hospital has been shortlisted for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards for the End of Life Care Initiative of the Year award.

Body-worn cameras are set to be introduced in Royal Derby Hospital’s A&E for clinical staff to use, in order to help protect NHS colleagues and patients alike from threatening and violent behaviour.

The cameras are roughly the size of a smartphone and will only be worn by designated clinical staff to help deter hospital visitors from being aggressive – creating a safer environment for everyone in the department.

In addition to hopefully preventing this type of behaviour from happening, the body-worn cameras will also help to identify and prosecute any offenders, following a sharp rise in incidents of violence and aggression against A&E staff at RDH since the start of the pandemic.

Paediatric Anaesthetist, Dr Grace Monnery, has won the Patient Hero Award for providing exceptional care to a young patient needing his appendix removed.