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Monthly archives: June 2018

Night worker questionnaire

 

The working time regulations require employers to offer regular health checks to night workers every 12 months.

If you or any of your colleagues you manage work for at least 3 hours between the hours of 11pm-6am (regardless of frequency) please complete the night worker questionnaire and then send it back to the occupational health and wellbeing service. The questionnaire aims to find way of how to better support colleagues who work between the hours of 11pm-6am.

You can access the questionnaire by clicking the link below:

https://connect2.swbh.nhs.uk/od/occupational-health-and-wellbeing-service/forms-questionnaires/

For more information please contact an occupational health on ext. 3306.

 

 

Advice for next of kin during or after cardiac arrest

 

There are many opinions about what to say to someone on the phone when they are called during a significant emergency such as a cardiac arrest.

Click here for advice and what we would recommend.

For more information please contact jonathan.hulme@nhs.net.

 

Star Awards 2018: Nominations close today!

 

Today is the final day to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards as nominations close at 5pm.

The Star Awards are an opportunity to recognise and honour colleagues, volunteers and fundraisers who go above and beyond in their work here at our Trust but we need your help to nominate them.

This year, not only can you nominate online through Connect but if you’re short on time or struggling to write down exactly why you want to nominate you can send us a short video!

  • You can complete a paper nomination form which you can download by clicking here.
  • You can send in a video nomination for free to swbh.comms@nhs.net via www.wetransfer.com Choose go to free. When doing the recording remember to state clearly who you are and the name of the person/team you are nominating.
  • You can complete the online form by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2018 page on Connect.

Fiesta 2018

 

Our BME & LGBT Staff Networks, along with our Trust Volunteer Team will be supporting Fiesta 2018 this weekend

This is the Birmingham, Sandwell and West Midlands Fillipino Fiesta – a two day celebration of all things Fillipino including culture, music, food and a number of Fillipino celebrities will be preforming during the event.

9am to 6pm
Saturday1st of July and Sunday 2nd of July
Lightwoods Park, Adkins Lane, Bearwood, B67 5DP

Please come along and join us if you are free

Enjoy a free healthy meal on our active 5 deal

 

We’re offering Trust colleagues a free healthy lunch voucher when you ditch the car as part of our ‘Get Active, Eat Free’ campaign.

Join us for five of our lunchtime walks or cycle a return journey to work five times and get a free healthy meal for the value of up to £3.

For more information on regarding the lunchtime walks contact jenny.wright9@nhs.net and for more information on cycling, contact Francesca.silcocks@nhs.net.

Working in Partnership – LGBT Staff Survey

 

The LGBT Staff Network are working in partnership with the Trust to complete the 2019 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index

As part of the Stonewall 2019 Workplace Equality Index, our Trust has been asked to get staff from across the organisation to complete this anonymous survey

The employee feedback survey is available online at www.stonewall.org.uk/index-survey-2019  the Trusts unique four digit code for the survey is 2089

Please complete this really short survey to help Stonewall gain a snap shot of how we all feel and help the trust make changes to improve our inclusive culture

By getting our voices heard in this survey we can directly influence the work of the Trust going forward on our Inclusion Journey

Fiesta event – 30 June and 1 July

 

Our BME and LGBT Staff Network, along with our Volunteers’ service will be supporting the Filipino Festival event at Lightwoods Park, Smethwick on Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July.

All colleagues are welcome to come along.

Further information on the event can be found on the Filipino Festival flyer.

For more information please contact d.mighty@nhs.net.

Furosemide injection shortage

 

Pharmacy are currently experiencing a shortage of furosemide injections.

Please see furosemide memo for full details on the affected injection and alternatives on offer.

Details of the product can also be found in the following summary.

For more information please contact medicines information in the pharmacy department on ext. 5259.

Informatics: Improving security over the next two weeks

 

Over the next two weeks Informatics will be deploying changes to PCs that improve their security. These changes will restrict the applications that run on the PC to those authorised by Informatics.

If you try to load an application that is blocked, you may see one of the two warnings shown below:

This warning means the application has been blocked by the Informatics team. If you need access to the application, the Informatics Third Line team must enable your access to the application. A request should be made via the service desk giving the application name (e.g. Chrome), publisher (e.g. Google) and the business reason for accessing the application.

If you see the warning above, this means an aspect of that website you are trying to access is being blocked by the new security rules. In order to enable access to the site a call should be logged with the Informatics service desk that includes the website address (URL) and the purpose the site is being used for.

All sites ending nhs.uk have already been approved.

Star Awards 2018: Digital Leader of the Year – 3 days left to nominate

 

There are only three days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards with nominations closing on Friday 29 June.

Do you know a leader or manager who has inspired or brought about clear and demonstrable outcomes in terms of digital ways of working like 2017 winner, Subtan Mahmood?

This could include changing processes to reduce reliance on paper, improvements in service or care for our patients, or financial savings.

Nominate them for the Digital Leader of the Year Award in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

Ways to nominate:

  • You can complete a paper nomination form which you can download by clicking here.
  • You can send in a video nomination for free to  swbh.comms@nhs.net via www.wetransfer.com Choose go to free. When doing the recording remember to state clearly who you are and the name of the person/team you are nominating.
  • You can complete the online form by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2018 page on Connect.

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