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Monthly archives: June 2018

Sustainable Health and Care Week 2018: 25-29 June

 

This week we’re celebrating Sustainable Health and Care Week 2018. This is a national week long campaign that promotes best sustainable practices across the NHS, public health and social care sector.

To celebrate, we will be offering the following:

Thursday 28 June: Free bike checks for cyclists (To book please contact francesca.silcocks@nhs.net)

  • City Hospital, Birmingham Treatment Centre, ground floor, 11am-2pm

NHS 70 birthday celebrations at Sandwell and City: July 5

 

Come and celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS with us at Sandwell and City Hospitals on 5 July.

We will be throwing two “Big 7Tea” parties at both sites on the day, and both will be fun packed events, raising funds for Your Trust Charity.

The Sandwell party will kick off at 10am at the Courtyard Gardens and will include food and refreshments, as well as various specialities showcasing their work. There will be an exhibition of old photographs and memorabilia as well as music from local bands.

Over at City Hospital, there will be a bouncy castle, henna painting, music as well as food and refreshments.

Alternatively, if you are unable to make either event why not throw your own NHS Big 7Tea party, and do some good to boot! You can raise funds for our very own Your Trust Charity, with proceeds going towards improving patient experience across the Trust.  A toolkit is available via our website at https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/about-us/nhs-70/ and includes posters, bunting, cake cards and selfie-props.

If you choose this, please let us know about your party and send pictures taken of your event to us at Anuji.evans@nhs.net, with NHS70 within the subject heading. We’ll be looking for some great photos to put out on social media and also for the commemorative edition of our wellbeing magazine, which we’ll be publishing at the end of the year.

Eid celebration at City

 

Our Muslim liaison group in association with the BME network and the Trust’s chaplaincy department with be hosting a special Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan today (26 June) in the Anne Gibson Board Room at City Hospital from 12pm-2pm. Everyone is welcome.

For more information, please contact swbh.mlg@nhs.net or swbh.bme@nhs.net.

Strategic Command Room at Sandwell Hospital

 

When a major incident is called our policy dictates that we establish both a strategic and a separate tactical command centre.

The location of our strategic command room at Sandwell Hospital has changed effective from 25 June to Room 48 in the Trust HQ building at Sandwell (across the corridor from the old strategic command).

This is an interim measure until we move into permanent accommodation downstairs in the PMO room. No other locations have changed. We will update you when we make our final move.

Information Governance training update

 

Following a mandated update to the national system, Information Governance training within the Trust is changing.

Click here for your training options.

There is now only 1 training course – ‘Data Security Awareness’ which is to be completed annually.

Any previous paper versions of the training will not be accepted.

For more information please contact vikki.williams4@nhs.net.

 

Roof work this weekend on Sheldon Block: limited road access

 

Crane work to the roof of  Sheldon Block is scheduled for this weekend on Saturday 30 June between 6am-12pm.

In order to complete this work, it will be necessary to close the road access between the Sheldon Block entrance canopy and the west end of the building.

Barriers will be put in place on Friday 29 June meaning all car-parking spaces on the west side must be vacated by 7am Saturday 30 June.

Whilst the lifting operation is ongoing access to the Lasercare, Skin Minor Ops Theatre and Skin Outpatients (3rd Floor West Side) will be prohibited.

During this time pedestrian and ambulance access the Sheldon main entrance will still be available from the east side.

For more information please contact imelda.osullivan@nhs.net.

Star Awards 2018: Non-Clinical Team of the Year – 4 days left to nominate

 

There are only 4 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.

Do you know a non-clinical team that has provided a consistently excellent performance whilst meeting financial and operational targets like 2017 winners Estates?

Nominate them as the Non-Clinical Team of the Year at 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.

Moving and handling training for bariatric patients cancelled

 

The moving and handling training to support colleagues with the movement of our bariatric patients on Tuesday 26 June has been cancelled.

For more information please contact Karen Morsley on ext. 4566 or Carol Brown on ext. 6025.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

NHS 7Tea Party – big day approaching

 

As the big day approaches everyone can get involved in helping celebrate 70 years of the NHS.

If you’re planning a tea party in your team or department, please consider doing it in aid of Your Trust charity. More details on our website https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/about-us/nhs-70/. Please let us know what you are planning so we can publicise your events.

We’ll be delivering a birthday card to every patient on the day, and there’ll be events on City and Sandwell sites.

Informatics routine maintenance – June and July

 

During June and July the informatics team will be moving to a new backup system. The backup system keeps a secure copy of the Trust’s data, whether that’s a copy of the Connect website or the information stored in CDA.

The backup is performed out of hours and at weekends and should not make any difference to using the systems. There is a small risk that out of hours or at weekends some IT systems run a little slowly. If this is the case, please contact the on-call IT Backup (available through switchboard). In previous backups no slowdown has been seen, however if you are affected, please contact the on-call IT backup.

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