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A group of volunteers from Toyota, who joined Team UHDB to support us through the Covid-19 pandemic, have been praised by our Executive Board.

Gavin Boyle, Chief Executive and Amanda Rawlings, Director of People and Organisational Development, joined our group of Toyota Engineers to thank them for working alongside us over the last two months, helping us with our fight against Covid-19.

We can now share the news that former Queen's Hospital Burton Chair James Morrison passed away in early April from Covid-19. Jim, as he was widely known, was Chair between 2005 and 2012.  

We are very saddened to share the news that Norman Austria, a Healthcare Assistant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, sadly passed away today (13 May 2020) after many weeks battling Covid-19 at Royal Derby Hospital.

A Royal Derby Hospital nurse whose bike was stolen while he was caring for patients has been given a replacement bike by Derbyshire Constabulary as a special thank you.

A 66-year-old patient who spent over a month fighting Coronavirus in hospital has been discharged from Royal Derby Hospital.

Brian Billyeald, from Holbrook in Derby, was admitted on 26 March after suffering COVID-19 symptoms. After two days of being cared for on Ward 404, he was then taken to ICU where he spent three weeks being cared for.

The whole world has been paying tribute to all of the phenomenal nurses working in this country and beyond as part of International Nurses Day today. 

As part of the celebrations, we've reached out to several of our nurses to ask them what the role means to them. 

A Royal Derby Hospital theatre staff member has been selected as our next ‘Chief Executive Award’ winner.

Theatre Nurse, Alison Clark, was nominated by her colleagues for identifying that the material used by Steris to wrap our instrument trays is the same material that is used to make the disposable hoods that our staff use in theatre and ICU. (Hoods are not part of standard PPE but are worn by some theatre staff for specific operations.)

Mandeep, the latest UHDB Florence Nightingale Alumni Nurse, has been a Sister at UHDB for four months, less than three years after becoming a qualified nurse. She shares her journey into healthcare and her experience as a mature student.

A member of staff has become the first patient admitted to Intensive Care at Queen’s Hospital Burton to be discharged after beating COVID-19.

Julie Webb, a member of the Domestic Team, spent 33 days in hospital after being admitted to Intensive Care on 8 April. She was placed into an induced coma and spent 20 days on the unit before being transferred to Ward 20 where she continued her recovery.

This Valentines Day, we've found a Nurse who works for #TeamUHDB named Lovely! She's a LOVELY nurse, she LOVES nursing and she LOVES her team on ICU!

Al is a Staff Nurse on Ward 7 at Queen’s Hospital Burton. He originally started his Nurse Training in the Philippines and moved over to the UK in July 2019 to continue his nursing role in the NHS.

Debbie is a Staff Nurse on Ward 30 at Queen’s Hospital Burton. She started her nursing journey in November 1979 and has been in nursing for just over 40 years!

“I always wanted to be a Nurse. Eight of my family members were also Nurses, including my mum who worked in theatres – I followed in their footsteps. At one stage, there were 11 family members working at Queen’s Hospital – now there’s only me left!”

Hannah is a Sister on Ward 409 at the Royal Derby Hospital. She qualified as a Nurse in March 2018.

The nation will fall silent for two minutes from 11am today to commemorate VE Day and to remember all those heroes who sadly lost their lives during the Second World War.

A 75-year-old patient who spent six weeks in hospital fighting Coronavirus has today been discharged from Royal Derby Hospital.

A Royal Derby Hospital patient who spent four weeks in intensive care recovering from COVID-19 has thanked the “wonderful” UHDB staff who helped save her life.

Ann West was first admitted to hospital on 23 March after contracting coronavirus, with colleagues on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Ward 402 working around the clock over the next six weeks to help her overcome the illness.

The Hand Outpatients area at Royal Derby Hospital will be operating at a reduced capacity today (Tuesday 5 May) after equipment was stolen and damage caused during a break-in.

Midwives who have been working through the Coronavirus pandemic at UHDB have chosen some of their favourite memories of recent weeks in an uplifting video to celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020. Colleagues from the Derby Birth Centre at Royal Derby Hospital have shared some heartwarming stories of helping to bring babies into the world - with one colleague even sharing her own birthing experience! 

NHS England’s Midwifery Ambassadors have come together virtually to celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2020, #IDM20, as a choir through the medium of music and technology to spread a little hope, sunshine, smiles and happiness during COVID-19 - and a member of #TeamUHDB has featured in the wonderful video!

UHDB has introduced a brand new service to help patients stay in contact with their families from their hospital ward while current visiting restrictions are in place because of COVID-19.

The Trust can now arrange for patients to receive a ‘virtual visit’ via video call from their loved ones, or have a written message passed on, to improve their wellbeing and make them feel less isolated.

The community in Tamworth has banded together to ensure that the Community Midwifery Service in the area can continue to support new and expectant mums and their babies closer to home.

UHDB is one of only a handful of Trusts in the UK now offering a brand new procedure designed to improve the quality of life of prostate cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. 

The minimally invasive procedure, known as SpaceOAR Hydrogel, involves a layer of protective gel being inserted between the prostate and the rectum, so as to ensure that the highest dose of radiation is limited to the prostate only.

A relative has praised staff at Royal Derby Hospital for the care provided to her brother, who sadly passed away after contracting Coronavirus.

April Sly, praised Ward 404 for their compassion and thoughtfulness via a Facebook video she uploaded to her page last week.

Nigel, April’s brother, who lived in Cornwall prior to the lockdown, moved to the Midland’s to live with April so she could help support him.

 

A group of almost 1,000 volunteers across Derbyshire and Staffordshire are firing up their sewing machines to provide members of #TeamUHDB with surgical scrubs. The group, called ‘Derby For The Love of Scrubs’, is headed up by Verity Ruane from Allestree, Derby, and has already provided the Trust with 400 sets of scrubs in all sizes, colours and patterns.  

A tattoo artist has created a beautiful, bespoke work of art as a tribute to Mr Amged El-Hawrani at Queen’s Hospital Burton. Mr El-Hawrani, who was Associate Clinical Director and Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant here at the Trust, sadly died on 28 March after contracting COVID-19. His colleagues in his department at Queen’s Hospital Burton wanted to pay tribute to him, and after seeing the work of artist Adam Foster on social media, they requested a bespoke piece in his memory.

The Respiratory Team at Royal Derby Hospital have now discharged nine COVID-19 patients from the wards after been treating with an innovative form of non-invasive ventilation. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) treatment helps to improve the oxygen levels in patients with respiratory failure without the need to invasively ventilate them such as in Intensive Care.

UHDB has introduced a brand new service to help patients stay in contact with their families from their hospital ward while current visiting restrictions are in place because of COVID-19.

We are very sorry to announce that Eileen Landers, a member of our cleaning team here at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, sadly passed away yesterday (26 April 2020) at Queen’s Hospital Burton from Covid-19.

UHDB is supporting a campaign led by Derbyshire County Council to bring people together by shining a light on the fantastic community spirit that has grown in defiance of COVID-19.