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A Senior Theatre Practitioner who started a career in nursing back in 1980 says she has ‘no regrets’ after spending her working life at UHDB and would “never have wanted to work anywhere else.”

Di Watson is well known at Royal Derby Hospital for her roles throughout the years in gynae theatres. She started as a staff nurse, progressed to Sister and then managed the gynaecology, obstetric and paediatric theatre suites for over 25 years, before stepping down and finishing her career as a Senior Theatre Practitioner.

Kirsty Bishop, a Complimentary Therapist at the Nightingale Macmillan Unit at Royal Derby Hospital, has been awarded with one of our monthly Making a Difference Awards for her brilliant work in the Unit.

UHDB will be hosting a Health Talk to help you find out more about hidden Disabilities and the work taking place within the Trust to support colleagues, patients and visitors who live with a hidden Disability.

A member of the leadership team at Sir Robert Peel and Samuel Johnson Community Hospitals has been presented with our latest monthly CEO award – the first awarded by our new Chief Executive, Stephen Posey.

From 1 October, Black History Month 2022 begins. This year's theme is "Time for Change: Action Not Words".

Throughout October, we will be sharing stories, information, and events from across the Trust and the NHS that will demonstrate and reflect our actions and attitude in ensuring racial equality. We will be supported in marking this year's celebrations by the Trust's EMBRACE Staff Network.

A UHDB colleague who gave birth to her first child at the Trust has thanked the team of medics who she said delivered a ‘VIP experience’ when her dream labour plan “got turned upside down.”

Ali Naylor and her husband Will have shared their birthing story to highlight the ‘invaluable support’ midwives offered when things didn’t go to plan. They hope to raise awareness, provide reassurance and express their thanks to the team who delivered baby Rupert safely.

Two UHDB vehicles have been daubed in designs promoting organ donation to encourage more people to have the important conversations with their loved ones and have been unveiled for Organ Donation Week.

NHS services across Derbyshire and Staffordshire are very busy - but Urgent Treatment Centres and Minor Injuries Units can help you with a wide range of illnesses and injuries.

A consultant who wanted to help free up theatre space and deliver a better service to patients has come up with a new ‘walk in, walk out’ service which he is offering in an outpatient setting.

Sanjay Singh, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, is now delivering radiofrequency ablations procedures to patients with varicose veins – using local anaesthetic, in a bid to reduce waiting times for patients and free up theatres for patients with emergencies.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) and Derbyshire County Cricket Club have come together to create a special training top for the players to wear at their upcoming fixtures to raise awareness of Organ Donation.

Dr Caroline Bates, Consultant Anaesthetist at Royal Derby Hospital, has been awarded an Excellent Employee award as part of the monthly Making a Difference Awards. Dr Kathy McLean, Chair of UHDB, was there to surprise Caroline with the award, as she took a quick break between her very busy duties in theatres.

Paul Thomson and Josh Bosworth, Therapy Peripheral Stores Co-ordinators who work for the Stroke Team at Physiotherapy, have been awarded the Making a Difference Award’s #TeamUHDB Award.

Our thoughts are with the friends and family of Stacey Elliot who sadly passed away last month. Stacey was a Healthcare Assistant who worked in Comprehensive Assessment Service for Older People (CASOP), formerly known as the Falls Clinic, at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.

It is with much sadness that we have learned of the passing of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.

NHS England has led an independent review, on behalf of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, into the care provided by Mr Daniel Hay, a Gynaecology and Obstetrics Consultant who worked at Royal Derby Hospital.

Patrick Kumah, a Consultant Biomedical Scientist specialising in gastrointestinal histopathology at Royal Derby Hospital, has been recognised for his work in The Pathologist’s 2022 International Power List. 

A UHDB colleague who always goes above and beyond has been awarded the prestigious Key Worker Award in this year’s BBC Radio Derby Make a Difference Awards.

Paul Gothard who is an Intensive Care Nurse at Royal Derby Hospital, was shortlisted for the accolade alongside two other UHDB colleagues Paul Brooks MBE and Amanda Broad for their outstanding contributions and commitment to health care in the local area.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Estates and Facilities and Patient Experience team have been shortlisted for Estates and Facilities Team of the Year at The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) Awards 2022.

We are delighted to introduce our new Meet The Team series, where we will be speaking with colleagues across our five sites to get to know them a little better, and share what they do across our organisation. We start with the Surgical Day Case Unit in the Treatment Centre at Queen’s Hospital Burton.

UHDB’s very own International Nurse Facilitator Aldarico Velasco is delighted to have been shortlisted for a Nursing Times Workforce Awards 2022 in the category ‘Overseas Nurse of the Year.’

Aldarico, who joined the Trust three years ago, said it is a great honour to have been shortlisted for the accolade and it is a nod to the amazing contribution from all the Internationally Educated nurses and overseas nurses that work across UHDB.

UHDB is trialling a new role to provide tailored care and specialist training to staff who are caring for patients who have had a tracheostomy or laryngectomy.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are proud that an emergency department (ED) team and an ED sister have been recognised in two categories in this year’s Nursing Times Award.

The High Intensity User Service has been shortlisted for the Emergency and Critical Care category and emergency department sister Charlotte Malcolm-Davies (Charlie) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Nurse of the Year Award for her work as part of the High Intensity User Service, alongside her role in nursing ED.

Staff on Samuel Johnson Community Hospital’s Darwin Ward have helped to bring a smile back to a patient’s face by encouraging him to pick his drawing pens back up and create caricatures of the ward team.

UHDB’s Labour Ward Manager Clare is set to swap scrubs for a ballgown as she channels her inner Rose Ayling-Ellis as she takes part in ‘Strictly for Milly’ to raise money.

Clare Pugh, Labour Ward Manager at Queen’s Hospital Burton, will be taking part in ‘Strictly for Milly’ a fund-raiser in honour of her niece who passed away at the age of two from a heart condition.

A local singing group, Cherry Vixxen, recently performed to patients on Ward 311 at Royal Derby Hospital to support dementia patients and was hailed a great success. 

We are delighted to announce that this year’s UHDB Annual Members Meeting will be taking place in person, for the first time since 2019, at the Lecture Theatre in the Medical Education Centre, Queen’s Hospital Burton on Tues 6 September.

UHDB has welcomed NHS England’s regional maternity team to two of its sites as part of their Ockenden assurance visits to all maternity services across the region.

The team spent the day at Royal Derby Hospital on 17 August and the following day visited Queen’s Hospital Burton. 

A consultant urological surgeon has penned a new book to help debunk myths and provide reassurance to men regarding prostate cancer.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has appointed its first Chief Digital Information Officer, which will support the further integration of the Trust’s clinical digital systems.