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We are delighted to announce that recruitment to the IBD BioResource study continues at a brisk pace. We have reached our 400th participant by recruiting over 100 patients in the last six months!   

The team in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Royal Derby Hospital have been presented with the Patient Hero Award for January 2020 by a returning patient, whose life they saved after he contracted meningitis.

21-year-old Harrison Monk was admitted to ICU on 23 August 2019 after his sister found him semi-conscious on the bathroom floor with a purple rash on his face, arms and torso. Harrison then spent a month in the unit as he slowly recovered before being discharged in late September 2019.

A patient has returned to Royal Derby Hospital thank the team who saved his life after he contracted meningitis last year.

21-year-old Harrison Monk, from Mickleover, Derby, spent a month in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after falling ill with meningococcal septicaemia, a type of meningitis sometimes referred to as blood poisoning, in August 2019.

The Sterile Services Team at Queen’s Hospital Burton are enjoying the benefits of being the first team in UK to have five newly installed, eco-friendly machines, called ‘Ken’, which are used to clean around 7,000 trays of surgical equipment every month. The department, which processes almost 160,000 wash cycles every year, carefully selected the new machines based on a wide variety of benefits to both the team and the environment.

A UHDB respiratory ward has nearly doubled the amount of patients that it’s been able to safely discharge home in the morning each day – in the space of just one month. Staff on Ward 402 at Royal Derby Hospital have all banded together to follow a Japanese improvement method, known as ‘kata’, to enhance our patients’ experience by ensuring they don’t spend any more time in hospital than they need to.

A much-loved four-legged therapist at Royal Derby Hospital is like a dog with a bone as she tries to sniff out votes in her bid to be crowned Pet’s As Therapy Dog of the Year.

Staff at UHDB have said 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 more than 250,000 NHS staff taking part this year – including nearly 6,000 from UHDB.

Ward 3 at Queen’s Hospital Burton is feeling the love after decorating the ward in hearts and cupids!

A UHDB colleague has received a special award for making it her mission to teach, support and guide one of our Project Search interns.

The Practice Learning and Support Unit (PLSU) are delighted to have been shortlisted for the ‘Student Placement of the Year: Hospital’ category for the prestigious Student Nursing Times Award 2020.

We were delighted to see more than 400 teenage students attend our latest Health and Social Care Careers Evening.

Healthcare professionals that have had a career break are being encouraged to follow a perfect route back into work by returning to practice here at UHDB. You can find out more about Physiotherapist Sophie Dales’ at 6.30pm this evening on BBC East Midlands Today.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have appointed two new Non-Executive Directors to join the Trust Board. Professor Victoria Chapman and Christine Fearns started their terms of office on 1 February 2020, replacing Prof Avril Drummond and Sir Stephen Moss, whose terms of office had been completed.

Consultants at Burton are now providing better care for patients with a fractured hip, according to national scoring data which shows patients receive better care and recover quicker at Queen’s Hospital Burton than in most other hospitals (better than the national average).

UHDB has been granted more than £600,000 to fund innovative schemes to care for and treat patients during the busy winter period.

Staff from the Royal Derby Hospital and Barbers from all over Derby attended the “Pop up barbershop” event hosted by Derby County Community Trust.

A Domestic Worker who believed she could give more to the NHS has started her journey towards becoming a fully qualified Healthcare Assistant.

Today we have re-opened Theatre 5 in General Theatres at RDH after it has undergone a complete upgrade.  They’re working on Gynae Theatre 2 for later this month and General Theatre 6 for March. 

In April, we have two new state-of-the-art orthopaedic theatres opening at QHB.

All three RDH theatres are being upgraded by KARL STORZ as part of the managed service. All three theatres have the latest OR1 technology, including 4K screens, new lights and a complete revamp of the theatre.

A new endoscopy treatment room has opened at Queen’s Hospital Burton to further improve the level of care available to those in need of a procedure. The hospital’s Endoscopy Unit now has three treatment rooms on site – allowing the Trust to see more patients than before and better manage any increase in future demand.

A UHDB patient today made a special TV appearance to thank the Trust’s Pulvertaft Hand Centre staff for the role they played in saving his career.

Wendy Ingram has today brought the curtain down on her career in the NHS after 42 years of service.

The Macmillan Information Centre at Royal Derby Hospital has been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark (MQEM) after receiving the highest possible rating of 'Excellent'.

A patient wedding took place at Royal Derby Hospital on Friday, 24 January, to help a couple fulfil a lifetime wish.

A cobbler who lost his thumb has been able to return to the job he loves after surgeons at UHDB sewed one of his big toes onto his hand in its place. 

David Lee was trimming the heel of a shoe in his shop when he suddenly became tangled in the machine and, to his horror, watched his severed thumb drop onto the floor.

After freeing himself from the machine, David’s first thought wasn’t about the pain – or lack of it – in his hand, but instead about how he would be able to earn a living after the accident.

Radiotherapy patients experiencing any late side effects following treatment can now benefit from a vital new UHDB service.

Leading Derby-based firm Pattonair has come to the rescue of hospital patients by stepping in to replace three stolen TVs.