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The last few months have understandably been extremely daunting for all of our pregnant women but UHDB’s maternity teams have truly gone above and beyond to provide them with priceless support.

We are really pleased to welcome birth partners back into the maternity wards and offer some visiting time from Tuesday 7 July 2020, but please read the details below carefully.

A UHDB worker says she “doesn’t know what would have happened” if it wasn’t for her husband’s intervention after suffering with Coronavirus-like symptoms.

Julie Smith, who has worked at the hospital for 36 years and is a receptionist on Ward 403, started feeling unwell one evening, showing signs of COVID-19 in March.

The teams our Emergency Departments at Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Hospital Burton have been awarded with a Team UHDB Award for the care and compassion they have continued to deliver to our patients and the way they have adapted and responded to COVID-19.

The fantastic flexibility and sheer commitment of our UHDB Theatres teams throughout Covid-19 have been recognised with a UHDB award.

After months of hard work providing colleagues with everything from free meals and parking to ensuring relevant signage is in place across our hospitals, our fantastic Facilities Team has been recognised with a Team UHDB Award.

Catering staff in Lichfield and Tamworth have cooked up more than a treat after receiving one of our July Team UHDB Awards.

The Catering Teams at both Samuel Johnson Community Hospital and Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital have done a fantastic job over the last few months.

During the COVID pandemic, our IT Desktop Support Team has helped to ensure that hundreds of members of #TeamUHDB have been able work remotely and have today been recognised for their hard work and dedication after being presented with a Team UHDB Award.

This weekend the NHS turns 72! 

The last 12 months have been the most challenging yet in the NHS' history, so this year we will be marking this milestone a little bit differently. See below for more details.

Governors at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has sent supportive messages to staff across the Trust for the work they have done through the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 20 Governors have sent in a three word message, which have been turned into a social media gif. Staff can watch the message on social media or the trust intranet and tap the screen to reveal one of the 20 messages to them.

Team UHDB Award: Intensive Care

Team UHDB Award: Workforce Transformation

Team UHDB Award: Business Intelligence

The Florence Nightingale Foundation releases special collage of nurses and midwives working on the frontline during COVID-19 to mark the 72nd birthday of the NHS.

The public’s ongoing support for our staff throughout Covid-19 has been truly humbling; with the numbers of different donations we’ve received literally going into the hundreds.

UHDB’s commitment to educating and offering career opportunities to young people in the community has been acknowledged with an award.

The Trust has worked closely with Derby College for nearly 20 years and launched the Derby Academy back in 2015 to give students aged 16-19 the opportunity to gain an insight and experience of working in our hospitals.

Team UHDB Award: Derbyshire Pathology

A Covid-19 survivor who spent more than two months fighting for his life in Intensive Care at UHDB has given a personal insight into his incredible recovery.

UHDB patient Dave was finally able to walk out of London Road Community Hospital on 19 June - a massive 91 days on from first being admitted to Royal Derby Hospital on 20 March.

UHDB has now discharged 1,000 patients who have beaten Coronavirus and are now back at home with their families – thanks to the care they have received from staff at our hospitals.

Derbyshire and Staffordshire have been hit hard by the pandemic, and staff at the Trust are celebrating as they bid farewell to our 1,000^th survivor, 87-year-old Gwnyeth Campton from Swadlincote.

A Royal Derby Hospital porter has finally completed his mammoth two-month running challenge in memory of all of the NHS heroes who have sadly lost their own battles to Covid-19.

Avtar Samrai decided back in April that he wanted to help create a lasting memorial honouring those UHDB colleagues who are no longer with us – and so set himself the epic task of jogging three miles every day to raise the funds.

We're asking different members of our #UHDBfamily to share their experiences of the last few months, in their own words, so that we can understand what kind of impact Covid-19 has had on our colleagues.

The UK Government has set out a roadmap for the clinically extremely vulnerable on the future of the shielding programme.  

Derby County fan Dave has been cheered on by the players he's used to backing from the stands of Pride Park as he continues his recovery after beating COVID-19.

Dave spent more than three months in hospital, with more than 60 of those days in Intensive Care, after contracting Coronavirus.

An elderly patient who beat Coronavirus has praised the ImpACT+ Team at UHDB for helping him get back on his feet after he was discharged from Royal Derby Hospital on his eightieth birthday in April.

Keen to help the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic, engineering giants Rolls-Royce rose to the challenge and set up production lines to produce and donate thousands of visors for frontline healthcare workers.

Outpatient appointments for children have resumed at UHDB, but on your next visit, you will notice some changes.

Our teams at both Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton have made a number of alterations in order to keep everyone safe and limit the spread of Covid-19.