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A Royal Derby Hospital porter has raised over £5,000 by running in memory of the UHDB colleagues who have sadly passed away during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Avtar Samrai has now run more than 130 miles, after setting out to complete a three mile jog each day for 31 days from the end of April, to help create a memorial honouring those colleagues no longer with us.

Laura Waterworth, Midwife at Queen’s Hospital Burton, has been awarded the June “Patient Hero” Making a Difference Award for her compassionate care throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Laura was nominated by a patient named Katie, who recently had to give birth in isolation due to being in contact with her dad and sister who had both contracted Coronavirus.

A cervical cancer patient is reminding other women of the importance of going for a smear test.

Bec, who lives in Derbyshire, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May 2020. As part of Cervical Cancer Awareness Week, she is also encouraging women to go for their smear tests regularly.

Sadly, around one in six people who are 60 or older will have experienced some form of abuse in community settings during the past 12 months. 

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton has put in place comprehensive measures for staff, patients and visitors for the wearing of face masks and face coverings whilst at our hospitals. From Monday 15 June 2020 all patients and visitors should wear a face covering on entrance to the hospitals and throughout the duration of their visit.

A new mother has praised her colleagues at Queen’s Hospital Burton for making the birth of her first child as easy as possible, despite him being born in the midst of the COVID pandemic. 28-year-old Lucy Harrison said giving birth to her son, Archie, was as normal as she would have expected and paid testament to the staff who showed her great kindness and compassion.

Few could fail to be affected by the dreadful death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020. Around the world people have expressed both their anguish and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Happy tears were shed yesterday as a Queen’s Hospital Burton patient was finally able to leave Intensive Care after more than 10 weeks on the unit fighting for his life against Covid-19.

David Turley was able to sit up in his bed and take in the adoration of delighted UHDB colleagues as he was wheeled out to a standing ovation – 72 days on from being moved to ITU for treatment.

For over 236 years, knitwear company John Smedley has been creating ‘The World’s Finest Knitwear’ at their home in Lea Mills, Derbyshire and they are now using their skills to produce scrubs for NHS staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the most popular sites at our hospitals are our Pets as Therapy (PAT) dogs, who visit patients on our wards to give them lots of love.

Our “phenomenal” discharge teams have been selected as the deserved winners of our ‘Team UHDB Award’ after completely transforming the way we safely discharge patients as a Trust.

Nearly quadruple the number of patients are now being discharged from Royal Derby Hospital to before, while double the amount of applicable patients are now also coming through the Discharge Lounge at Queen’s Hospital Burton, compared to before.

It's National Volunteers' Week so we want to pay tribute to the 600 or so amazing Trust volunteers who all help to make UHDB what it is.

Our team of helpers aren’t able to be with us at the moment because of the Covid-19 outbreak but they are all in our thoughts and we can’t wait to welcome them back soon!

A patient who spent 46 days in Intensive Care battling Coronavirus has thanked staff at Royal Derby Hospital for saving her life after being discharged home yesterday (3 June). 70-year-old Yvonne Thompson was admitted via ambulance on 5 April after self-isolating at home for the week prior with COVID-19 symptoms, including worsening shortness of breath, which showed no signs of improving.

Former football manager and winner of I'm A Celebrity.. Harry Redknapp has sent a message of support to colleagues at Queen's Hospital Burton for their work during the Coronavirus pandemic. The ex-Tottenham, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, West Ham, Birmingham and QPR boss thanked the team, singling out Matron for Emergency Department, Alison Wadlow, for their "amazing work during these difficult times".

Compassionate colleagues on a care of the elderly ward at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital have been giving their patients a helping hand to feel and stay connected with their loved ones.

Driven by the loss of his father, a local businessman has made and donated thousands of visors to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton in his memory.

Colleagues on Ward 7 at Queen’s Hospital Burton have created end of life resource boxes to help to give palliative care patients and their families the support and care that they need.

Retired Derby A&E Consultant Alistair Fraser-Moodie sadly passed away on 21 May 2020.

Grateful members of the public are planning a long trek to “give something back” to all of the amazing UHDB colleagues working in Intensive Care at Queen’s Hospital Burton.

The Trust tripled the size of Burton’s ITU in April, with staff on Ward 14 taking up new roles in Critical Care as part of this to help provide life-saving care to more patients throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dozens of knitted nurses have been donated to staff at Royal Derby Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) – as a special thank you for everything they’ve done for families in the community.

This week marks 11 years since our Nightingale Macmillan Unit moved to Royal Derby Hospital!

The team have had many special achievements throughout their 11 years, but they say their greatest achievements of all was being able to discharge a patient to her family home in Thailand for end of life care, and being able to palliate the symptoms of a patient so she could have her last wish to holiday in America.

In just over a decade, the team have developed our palliative care services so that we can offer specialist symptom management with access to services within Royal Derby Hospital, holistic end of life care and complex discharge planning.
 

A Burton Nurse who has worked on the frontline caring for patients with Coronavirus has shared a video of the moment she was reunited with her beloved children.

Aimie, a Nurse on Ward 9, who has worked at the Trust for five years, left her three children behind with their father at the end of March.

Aimie’s five year old daughter Ivy suffers with Asthma , so is socially shielding. Aimie was worried about putting her loved ones at risk, so when an opportunity came up to stay elsewhere, she took it to protect her family.

UHDB has “revolutionised” the way it discharges patients to ensure that they are the ones to benefit from not spending any more time in hospital than is absolutely necessary.

The Trust has changed the way that it discharges patients from hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic to help speed up the process of helping patients go home or on to their next place of care safely.

International Clinical Trials Day is an annual event acknowledged around the world to commemorate what is thought to be ‘the first ever’ clinical trial conducted in 1747 by Naval Surgeon, James Lind aboard HMS Salisbury. 

A UHDB Consultant Cardiologist has urged patients to “act quickly” and not hesitate to call 999 if they think they’re experiencing problems with their heart. 

The Trust has seen a reduction over the last month or so in the number of emergency patients coming to our hospitals with serious health concerns, such as a heart attack or stroke.

From Wednesday 20 May 2020 at 8am, UHDB is enhancing its Stroke Services at both Queen’s Hospital Burton and Royal Derby Hospital. This will see patients benefit from improved access to specialist consultant delivered care.

The Trust is expanding the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) at Royal Derby Hospital to be able to treat patients from East Staffordshire in the first critical 72 hours after a patient has suffered stroke.

A member of staff who spent more than three weeks in intensive care battling Coronavirus was today (15 May) discharged from Royal Derby Hospital to rapturous applause from his friends and colleagues. Cyrus Casandra, who is a Clinical Support Worker for the Hospital Out of Hours Team at Royal Derby, was admitted via ambulance on 11 April after suffering from COVID symptoms for more than a week.