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A mobile MRI scanning unit has been set up at Queen’s Hospital Burton to ensure our patients continue to receive the best care possible – while new state-of-the-art scanners are installed across UHDB.

Two brand new MRI scanners will replace the existing ones at Queen’s Hospital Burton and London Road Community Hospital over the coming months, as part of an exciting, staggered £2.5m upgrade within the Trust’s Imaging department. 

Trevor Hickling, Estates Project Support Officer, has written a poem reflecting on our NHS heroes, who have worked tirelessly through the pandemic:

Today, Juliane Bryant, receptionist on Ward 204 at RDH, has shared a poem she's written about her experiences of working through the pandemic. 

Dementia Keyworker, Tina Scarrett, has gifted three wonderful pieces of her own artwork for display in the Ward 410 Day Room as a way of thanking staff there for being such a great support to her whilst she worked on the ward.

To mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic, members of Team UHDB are sharing their thoughts and reflections of their personal and work lives during Covid-19. Staff Nurse Mary Andaquig shares one thing she wants to take forward, one thing she wants to leave behind and one thing she’s looking forward to one year on from the beginning of the pandemic.

Derbyshire began the biggest vaccination programme in the history of the NHS, and today – Wednesday 17 March – the NHS in Derbyshire is marking the milestone with a video bringing together some of the highlights from the journey so far.

The first Covid-19 vaccine doses were administered at Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal Hospital on December 8, just six days after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had been formally approved by the MHRA.

Today Emma, Senior Sister on Ward 302 at Royal Derby Hospital, has shared how she feels about her team one year on from the beginning of the pandemic. *Emma was alone in the non-clinical room when this mask free selfie was taken*

We continue to mark one year on from the first inpatients with Covid-19, by sharing thoughts, reflections, poems and images from Team UHDB who have worked throughout the pandemic.

The pandemic has impacted each of us differently, so now is a good opportunity to reflect on the year gone and begin to look forward.

More than 100 respiratory patients have now benefitted from care packages delivered by a virtual ward which provides ongoing care and support to patients in the community throughout the pandemic.

To mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic, members of Team UHDB are sharing their thoughts and reflections of their personal and work lives during Covid-19.

The pandemic will have had a very different impact on each and every one of us, so the one year anniversary since we started to see the first inpatients admitted is a good opportunity to reflect on the year gone and to look forward.

Today, Louise Tristam, Registered Nurse, who was redeployed to our Intensive Care Unit throughout the pandemic, has shared a reflective poem about what “one year on” means to her

Today, Nick Southorn, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, from our Hospital out of Hours team at RDH, has shared a powerful poem about the loss of a patient during the pandemic, which you can read below: 

Charge Nurse, Rob Bradley, has won our March 2021 Patient Hero Award for providing exceptional care to a patient with Autism & Sensory Processing Disorder. 

The dedicated nurse who works at Royal Derby Hospital was presented with the UHDB Patient Hero Award earlier last week after being nominated by Derbyshire Mum, Chloe.

A UHDB nurse has won a prestigious national award for her role in helping to establish our Lymphoedema team as one of the best of its kind in the world. 

The Trust was exceptionally proud to see the service named a ‘Comprehensive Centre of Excellence’ by the Lymphatic Education and Research Network last year – one of only 11 centres in the world to receive this accolade.  

The Deceased Patients’ Property Release Service was reintroduced at the Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton, on Monday 18 January 2021 to support wards under considerable pressure during the third wave of Covid-19 and prevent the need for families to go to ward areas to collect the belongings of their loved ones.

Construction of a new multi-storey car park at Queen’s Hospital Burton is set to begin imminently.

The project has got the go-ahead following the allocation of £3m of Government funding. The car park is to be constructed on land behind the Treatment Centre building on the main Queen’s Hospital Burton site and is set for completion by next winte

Staff at UHDB continue to say that the Trust is the place where they would like their families to receive treatment. Each year, the NHS nationally undertakes an anonymous staff survey, with the survey this year being conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite this more than 6,800 staff took part, the highest number since the Trust was created.

Barbara Day, Head of Professional & Practice Development at UHDB has been redeployed to help support Intensive Care Unit colleagues throughout the Coronavirus pandemic.

Barbara qualified as a nurse over 30 years ago and has helped out our colleagues in ICU throughout the first and second wave.

Today (10 March 2021) is National No Smoking Day. This year's national campaign is centred around the theme of 'Quitting smoking does not have to be stressful'.

Warren Caffrey, Physiotherapist, talks to us about his redeployment from Musculoskeletal Outpatients at London Road, to the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Derby Hospital.

Before being able to fully settle into his new job at London Road, Warren was redeployed to help the respiratory team get through the pandemic.

Monday, 8 March marks International Women's Day and we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate women in the NHS.

Women make up just over 80% of our UHDB workforce and with this year's theme being #ChooseToChallenge (a call-to-action for challenging gender inequality across the world), some of our senior leaders have shared their messages for girls, young women and their colleagues to help them fulfil their aspirations.

MP for Derby North Amanda Solloway has praised the incredible work of UHDB staff as second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine began being administered this week.

Louis Hicks, Rotational Physiotherapist,who has been redeployed from Musculoskeletal Outpatients to the Intensive Care team within the surgery here at Royal Derby Hospital, talks about his story.

Patients and staff have this week begun to receive their second dose of Covid-19 vaccinations at Royal Derby Hospital.

Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour party, paid a visit to Royal Derby Hospital today (4 March).

UHDB Chair, Dr Kathy McLean, has spoken to our LGBTQIA+ Network and shared experiences from both her personal and professional life of being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community working in the NHS. 

As part of our No Place For Racism campaign, colleagues across UHDB have come forward to share their experiences of abuse received whilst providing care to patients.

Elita, a Registered Nurse, has bravely shared her experiences of working as a nurse over the past 23 years

A nurse has shared her emotional account of accompanying a patient as they approached the end of their life. Felicity ‘Fliss’ Pass, Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist based across both Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton, has been working on Covid-19 wards since late December 2020 to support her colleagues in caring for patients who have contracted the virus.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is once more appealing to NHS staff and the general public to increase the collection of Covid-19 convalescent plasma as research into further treatments of the virus continues.

Michelle Dable has praised the “amazing” Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff at Royal Derby Hospital as she shared her experiences of being redeployed to the unit during both the first and second waves of the pandemic.