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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.

Today, we celebrated the Armed Forces Covenant re-signing as part of Armed Forces week to pay tribute to those who have served for this country.

A cancer treatment room at Royal Derby Hospital has been transformed to help aid the emotional wellbeing of patients recovering from radioactive treatment for thyroid cancer.  

Dan Walton-Ashmore, Trainee Nursing Associate and Chair of our UHDB LGBTQIA+ network has been awarded the Making a Difference Chief Executive Award by our Chief Executive, Gavin Boyle.

The award, which was presented to Dan earlier this week, recognises his work to promote equality, diversity and inclusion at UHDB.

Today marks 73 years since the HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex – containing 1,027 passengers from the Caribbean who would each go on to help change Britain for the better.

The so-called ‘Windrush Generation’ have had an incredible impact on British society as a whole and this is certainly true for our NHS, with many of those who arrived from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973 going on to work for our health service.

Royal Derby Hospital’s Out of Hours Team has received the Team UHDB award for their remarkable work throughout the pandemic.

The month of June marks the celebration of Pride Month - the international celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community.

University Hospitals of Derby & Burton is showing its support for Pride month by flying the Pride flag from outside our hospitals throughout June and sharing staff stories from our colleagues in our UHDB LGBTQIA+ network.

A Children’s Emergency Department Consultant from UHDB is urging parents and carers to use the ‘appropriate’ urgent care services for their children.

In the last few weeks, our Children’s Emergency Department Team have reported a ‘real increase’ in patients visiting the department at Royal Derby Hospital, averaging at 139 patients per day in comparison to June 2020, where an average of 59 patients were attending per day.

As part of continued improvement to the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton website, we’d like to ask you for your feedback.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has today (Wednesday 16 June 2021) welcomed a Care Quality Commission report into infection control measures at our hospitals.

My name is Chris and I am the Team Leader of Pathology Stores. We package stock for GP surgeries, remove clinical waste and serve housekeepers, during the first and second wave of covid I was helping every afternoon of my shifts in the Mortuary.

Today, staff at Queen’s Hospital Burton celebrate ward 801’s first birthday to commemorate their hard work and achievements since its opening in June 2020.

I’m a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner here at UHDB, I’m quite new in my role having only started in April after being a Charge Nurse on the Coronary Care Unit.

A community midwife whose intervention “potentially saved the life” of a patient who was 35 weeks pregnant has been presented with UHDB’s Monthly Making a Difference Award for May.

The Government is seeking your views to help inform the development of the Women’s Health Strategy.

From 14 – 18 June we will profile the positive impact of the work undertaken by our own NHS knowledge and library specialists as part of NHS Knowledge and Library Services Awareness Week.

People who have accessed maternity services in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are invited to share their experiences and views at an online event on 16 July 2021.

A teenager who recovered from being critically ill has sat her A-level exams one year early while recovering in a ward at Royal Derby Hospital. Tejal Paliya, a 17-year-old student at Littleover Community School, contracted a bacterial infection which left her fighting for her life in intensive care.

UHDB colleagues have shared their experiences of being assaulted and threatened while at work – to help us spread the message that there is absolutely no excuse to behave like this in our hospitals.

Despite their heroic efforts throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we have sadly still seen a sharp rise of UHDB staff experiencing physical violence, aggression and abuse from patients and hospital visitors over the last year. 

A beautiful mural is being created in the ‘Forget Me Not Gardens’, located to the left of the main entrance at Royal Derby Hospital (next to the the Discharge Assessment Unit). This is a space to commemorate the staff that have passed away from the UHDB hospitals. 

Nominations for our Annual Making a Difference Awards are now closed.