Stillbirth rates at UHDB have fallen to their lowest level since the creation of the Trust two years ago and are now below the national average - thanks to the dedication and commitment of our maternity teams and supporting departments. Nationally, the average rate of stillbirths is 4.1 per 1,000 births, whereas the Trust’s stands at 2.2 per 1,000 births.
When I started my maternity leave early on 27 December 2019 due to the Alara’s sudden arrival, I could not have imagined how much the landscape of healthcare was going to change. COVID-19 has changed so much for so many and has provided the NHS with one of the biggest challenges in its history.
Tracey Homar, Renal OPD Healthcare Assistant, has penned a poem about the role of HCAs.
Johnny Buckley, Theatre Porter from Queen’s Hospital Burton, heard about Twycross Zoo's financial struggles after having to close due to the coronavirus outbreak and decided to do something to help.
Throughout the month of June, Johnny held a weekly virtual quiz for his colleagues to help raise money and support the zoo’s “Summer of Survival” fundraising campaign. In total, the virtual quiz managed to raise over £200.
The Parkinson’s Service at UHDB has been recognised internationally as providing ‘outstanding’ care by becoming one of 47 in the world to be designated as a Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence. This comes after an inspection by the Parkinson’s Foundation carried out in October 2019, and is the second time the service has been awarded this prestigious accolade.
The Healing Garden at Royal Derby Hospital is a place for people to come and plant a bub in memory of a loved one who has sadly died at our hospitals.
Painters, Porters, Domestics, Estates, Contractors and Infection Prevention Control all received a special thank you from our Burton Paediatrics Team for supporting the team to “move back home” after the they were temporarily relocated to the Royal Derby Hospital to support with the Trust’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
These unsung heroes have gone above and beyond to make sure the Queen’s Hospital Burton Children’s Department was immaculate before it started to admit our younger patients again. Each member of the different teams received a Team UHDB Thank You Card for the exceptional work they had carried out.
UHDB has been granted £4 million to increase capacity in our two A&E departments which will enable colleagues to continue to provide safe care to patients during the busy winter months.
The funding will be split equally between Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton, with each site receiving £2 million.
UHDB continues to encourage cancer patients to act if they have any concerns they may have symptoms. This follows the release of a survey that found previous and current cancer patients in Derby and Burton had given the Trust some of the highest scores in the Midlands for the care they received.
UHBD patients with arthritis in the knee are being helped to self-manage their condition at a rehabilitation group held at London Road Community Hospital.
The ESCAPE-pain programme is designed to help people with osteoarthritis to independently increase physical function and improve their quality of life – while offering an alternative option to surgery.
Jane Haslam, UHDB Director of Midwifery & Divisional Director of Nursing, will be retiring this September following a 38-year career spent caring for people in our hospitals.
To help us reduce the spread of Coronavirus, and keep our colleagues, patients and visitors safe, we are asking all visitors to our hospitals to adhere to some key safety measures that we've introduced. You should wear a face mask or face covering on entrance to our hospitals and throughout the duration of your visit.
A new digital care record system is set to benefit UHDB patients across Staffordshire by making important information relating to their care more accessible to those who are treating them.
From tomorrow (7 August), all staff and visitors to SRP will only be able to use Car Park 2. This is the second car park on the left as you drive towards the hospital.
The Lymphoedema Service based at Royal Derby Hospital has become one of only 11 centres in the world to achieve special recognition for the care provided to patients. The service has been awarded the title of Comprehensive Centre of Excellence by the Lymphatic Education and Research Network (LE&RN) following an application which showed the service was excelling not only in patient care, but also in areas such as research, training and education.
At UHDB, our play workers have gone above and beyond throughout the coronavirus pandemic to ensure that play in our hospitals has still taken place.
Strictly Come Dancing star Giovanni Pernice has sent colleagues at our hospitals a message of thanks and support for their hard work and dedication throughout the pandemic.
A mother whose new-born son spent the first four weeks in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has thanked the incredible staff for the solid support that they provided him with in the early stages of his life.
We are very sorry to announce the sad passing of Kim Cobb from Head and Neck Unit at Royal Derby Hospital due to illness. Kim had worked for the Trust for 41 years and will be known to many as Kim Love. She was a Sister for Head and Neck before retiring and returning as a nurse in the same department.
More than 500 UHDB patients have been able to access support at home for a “debilitating” sleeping disorder throughout the Covid-19 pandemic – thanks to the help of charity Derbyshire Blood Bikes. The volunteer group have played an enormous role in the Trust’s Clinical Measurement team being able to maintain its Sleep Clinic service, by providing support to patients with suspected or confirmed obstructive sleep apnoea.
We are pleased to announce that all five of our hospital sites at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust have signed up to the "eat out to help out" Government scheme
Our Tissue Viability Team have purchased 1,200 new high risk pressure reducing cushions to benefit patients across the Trust.
A UHDB Consultant has been elected as the President Elect of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) after winning a record-breaking number of votes. Professor Adam Gordon, an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Royal Derby Hospital, won the election with 25% of the votes, in a ballot that saw the highest turnout in BGS history.
Blood, sweat and tears have all been shed to keep our patients safe throughout Covid-19 and this has certainly been true of our Phlebotomy teams, who have been recognised for their outstanding efforts.
A UHDB surgical ward has been commended for continuing to put the needs of their patients first during what has undoubtedly been an extremely difficult period for the team on a personal level.
A Queen’s Hospital Burton team’s small act of kindness has helped provide “a little bit of joy” to one of their patients – right when she needed it most.
