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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have appointed Garry Marsh as Executive Chief Nurse.

This week, 20-24 June is Dietitians Week. Georgia Dickenson, Community Team Lead Dietitian, who works at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, explains how dietitians help patients and communities across Southern Derbyshire.

The role of a dietitian has a broad spectrum and dietitians play a vital role in helping patients get back to full strength, while also offering support to other healthcare professionals.

Staff at Queen’s Hospital Burton’s Treatment Centre have celebrated two successful years treating patients in the community for elective procedures.

The state-of-the-art Treatment Centre has seen more than 2,000 patients enter its doors for hip, knee or shoulder replacements and other orthopaedic operations since it opened on 15 June 2020.

Today, Wednesday, 22 June is Windrush Day, a day that means many things to our staff, patients and the communities we serve.

To mark the milestone, Delisha-Joy Ruskin, Community Dietitian based at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, has shared the story of her grandparents’ journey to England.

In what is thought to be one of the first scheme of its kind in the country, UHDB and the Ministry of Defence have joined together to provide real-world experience and training a first cohort of Combat Military Technicians at Royal Derby Hospital.

This week, 20-25 June, is Armed Forces Week. Here at UHDB we are lucky enough to have staff within our ranks that have served for our country and we are celebrating them by shining a light on our Armed Forces family.

To kick off Armed Forces week we have been talking to Chris Upton, a Portering Supervisor at Queen’s Hospital Burton, who has recently been appointed as the new Deputy Lead for UHDB’s Armed Forces Network.

We’ve carefully reviewed the guidance in consultation with our Infection Prevention and Control team and microbiologists and here at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, we are amending our mask wearing policy from Monday 20 June 2022.

A member of the UHDB domestic team has reflected on her incredible 47 years of service to the NHS in Lichfield as she enters the final chapter of her career before her well earned retirement.

Mia Metcalfe has recently taken on a new position on Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital’s Andrew Ward as Patient Experience Facilitator, helping to provide patients with more activities and things to do during their stay on the ward.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) has announced that Interim Chief Executive Dr Magnus Harrison is to leave the Trust at the end of September to take on a new challenge as Medical Director for a Midlands based company specialising in women’s health and wellbeing.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton are proud to share that as part of Carers Week, on Thursday 9 June, we have signed the Carers Pledge.

UHDB Chair, Dr Kathy McLean, has shared her personal experiences as we continue to commemorate Pride Month throughout June at UHDB. Pride Month takes place every June, allowing people to come together in love and friendship and to show how far LGBTQIA+ rights have come.

Carers Week runs from Monday 6 June to Friday 10 June at UHDB, and we are excited to share what the Carers Network are doing throughout the week.

Colleagues across UHDB will come together with members of the global LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate Pride Month, with this year’s event marking its fiftieth year in the UK.

This week marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and while some will be celebrating with bunting and cake, two of our UHDB staff members will be getting a special nod from the Queen herself in her birthday honours.

We are so proud to announce that among those receiving special accolades are two of our very own colleagues.

Dr Andrew Goddard, consultant gastroenterologist at UHDB and president of Royal College of Physicians, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to health and social care.

Dr Goddard has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading gastroenterologists and has been praised for his ‘outstanding’ leadership during the pandemic, helping unite all parts of the system, while continuing to provide care for Covid-19 patients.

One of UHDB’s highly valued governors has been awarded an MBE Honour for Services to Nursing and the community of Derby’ over the last 50 years.

Maura Teager has had a long and distinguished career which has seen her serve the people of Derbyshire for the past five decades in roles that include nurse, midwife, volunteer, governor, NHS board member and Director of Nursing.

Today, 1 June, marks the start of National Volunteers’ week and as ever on behalf of the Trust, we are forever grateful for our volunteers contribution and support to our hospitals.

Here at UHDB we have more than 610 volunteers and have actively restored over 220 volunteers back into the Trust across our five sites.

Mr Azher Siddiq, a Consultant ENT Surgeon based at Queen’s Hospital Burton, will fly to Ghana on Friday 3 June, alongside four other consultant colleagues from the UK in his role as Medical Lead for Humanity First UK (HFUK)

Three blind football players visiting Burton have been given a ‘distinct glimmer of hope’ that they may see again, after two UHDB consultants volunteered their time and efforts to help them.

The goodwill gesture came from Mr Satish Chawdhary, Consultant Opthalmologist at Queen’s Hospital Burton and Mr Rohit Sharma who is also a Consultant Opthalmologist at Queen’s Hospital Burton.

Team UHDB have come together to sing the National Anthem for the Platinum Jubilee, organised by Air Arts.

Over the last few weeks colleagues have recorded themselves singing God Save the Queen to show their appreciation of Her Majesty the Queen on this very special Platinum Jubilee weekend.

A biomedical scientist at UHDB has received two awards after completing a degree level apprenticeship funded by the Trust.

A member of #TeamUHDB has teamed up with nursing colleagues from across the UK to form a new association for Italian nurses and midwives. Simone Rizzi, Matron for Cardiology and Rheumatology, is one of the six founding members of the Italian Nurses and Midwives Association UK (INaMA-UK), which launches next week.

As part of UHDB’s core value of openness, we are working hard to make our hospitals more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ patients and colleagues.

Following on from the enormous popularity of the NHS Rainbow Badges in 2019, UHDB and the Pride Staff Network have been working closely with NHS Rainbow Badges Scheme and are excited to announce that we have been selected to take part in phase two of the Rainbow Badge project.

Today, 24 May, is Pansexual Visibility Day.

This day was created as a way of recognising and celebrating those who identify as Pansexual. Pansexuality is often a lesser-known sexual orientation but is by no means uncommon. 

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have appointed Garry Marsh as Interim Executive Chief Nurse. Garry will join the Trust on Monday 23 May 2022 from The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, where he has been Executive Chief Nurse.

A gentleman who is being cared for at Royal Derby Hospital has been treated to a special visit and performance of ‘You raise me up’ by his former choir members.

The special visit was organised by Sharon Dunworth, Dementia Key Worker on Ward 311, after a request from Alan Glossop, a patient who is being treated on the ward.

People in Derbyshire and Staffordshire continue to be encouraged to have important conversations about their wishes regarding organ donation, two years on from the introduction of an opt-out system in England.

The first in-person Anaesthetics Study Day since before the pandemic was held for SAS Doctors based at RDH & QHB on 6 May 2022.

Tenacious fundraiser and ISS team member, Avtar Samrai, has donated £5,500 to Kings Lodge Neuro Rehab at Florence Nightingale Hospital.