Monthly archives: June 2018
Mental health workshops available
With one in four people suffering with mental ill health during their lifetime, its paramount we all look after our mental health and wellbeing.
With this in mind, we’re offering a variety of mental health support workshops for colleagues across the organisation.
Experiencing grief and loss: Tuesday 2 October, The Berridge Room, Sandwell Hospital – 10am-1pm.
Work place stress management: Tuesday 7 August, The Berridge Room, Sandwell Hospital and Tuesday 4 September, Anne Gibson Board Room, City Hospital – 10am-1pm.
Induction to mindfulness: Thursday 19 July, The Berridge Room, Sandwell Hospital and Thursday 23 August, Anne Gibson Board Room, City Hospital – 10am-1pm.
Sleep hygiene and relaxation seminar: Thursday 21 June, The Berridge Room, Sandwell Hospital and Thursday 18 October, Anne Gibson Board Room, City Hospital – 10am-1pm.
For bookings please contact Jatinder Sekhon or Emma Williams on ext. 3306.
Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia awareness day: 19 June
Today (Tuesday 19 June) is Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia awareness day which aims to raise awareness and educate people about what Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia is, and the impact it can have.
Be sure to check out this short clip which features the young person’s Sickle Cell and Thalassemia transition project launch.
Also as part of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia awareness day, one of our colleagues, Florence Burgundy-Benders will be hosting a cake sale event at the Birmingham Treatment Centre at City Hospital on today (Tuesday 19 June) from 8.30am-12.30pm to raise funds for the project.
For more information please contact florence.burgundybenders@nhs.net or call ext. 4470.
Star Awards 2018: Learner of the Year – 10 days left to nominate
There are only 10 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.
Do you know an individual who can demonstrate the impact training has had on themselves, their team and their service?
This award is open to all colleagues and could include, for example, completing an apprenticeship, a computer course or a post grad/leadership programme or university module.
Nominate them for Learner of the Year 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.
Tusker offers throughout June
Throughout the rest of June, we have secured some further deals on Peugeot 3008, 5008, Renault Clio and Ford Fiesta with up to £25 off selected models.
In addition, we have more cars coming back online and available for quoting with great offers on Toyota Aygo and Citroen C3 models, having passed their regulatory tests.
Informatics routine maintenance completed this past weekend
The Informatics routine maintenance was successfully completed over the past weekend ahead of time.
We thank you for your co-operation over the weekend and apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Recommend a nurse to work at SWBH and you could earn £100
We’re hosting a Nursing Recruitment Open Day on 23 June, at the Education Centre, Sandwell Hospital, 9am-4.30pm – and you could earn £100 by recommending a friend who is offered a job.
Successful nurse candidates will be given on-the-spot conditional job offers. If you know anyone who would be interested in working with us let them know about the event. If they get the job on the day and stay with us for three months, you will each receive £100.
For more information about the Nursing Recruitment Open Day, please click here.
Read more about terms and conditions about the recommend a friend scheme.
Star Awards 2018: Patient Safety Award – 11 days left to nominate
There are only 11 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.
Do you know an individual or team who has exhibited best practice in providing safe care, who has openly raised awareness of safety issues, championed transparency or introduced new ways of working to a service or treatment that has improved patient safety?
Nominate them for the Patient Safety 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.
Aromatherapy massages available at City and Rowley
We are offering colleagues a variety of discounted aromatherapy treatments at City and Rowley Hospital.
- Aromatherapy shoulder and neck massage, 20 minutes: £10 (June offer)
- Aromatherapy back massage, 40 minutes: £20
- Aromatherapy full body massage 1 hour 30 minutes: £30
For more information or to book an appointment please call Tracey Moore on 07713 811038 or email her at tracey.moore7@btinternet.com.
Foam mattress audit – City
A foam mattress audit will be taking place on Tuesday 19 June at City Hospital.
On this day where possible, please leave any beds stripped and patients out of bed.
We will be auditing and exchanging the foam mattresses that are not fit for purpose.
For more information please contact Tissue Viability on ext. 3278.
Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 15 June
The NHS is gearing up for our 70th birthday celebrations (July 5th is the big day). We very much hope that a long term funding settlement will follow from that, and this week we had the welcome news that the latest pay award has been accepted. Confirmation of funding for that to local Trusts is due shortly! That should provide a boost to us all, and the news that the tier 2 visa restrictions will be lifted for key NHS roles, including doctors and nurses, is also great news. In 2017 we made massive progress in recruitment. That has taken a knock with our Midland Met delay, and we need to reach far and wide to draw in talent, and talent that reflects our own diversity locally if we can.
This weekend sees continued events to mark the anniversary of Windrush. British citizens who moved to this country from the Caribbean, and many of whom found a home in the NHS, and some in our Trust. I know that some of the sons and daughters of that generation work now in our Trust. Thank you for your service, and I hope that the intensity of celebration says something about the esteem in which that is held. The disgraceful immigration fiasco of recent months (and in truth years) gave a contrary impression. This organisation benefits from the range of backgrounds, interests and experiences of our staff, and we need to continue, with our staff networks to the fore to champion that. We are close to achieving our initial targets to improve the diversity of our organisation’s leadership at band 8 and above, and targeted programmes of investment, empowerment and support continue.
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In the last few days I led an open staff meeting with the dedicated colleagues who form our IT teams. There is recognition of the strain placed on patients and colleagues by both our long term problems and recent outages. The change control process has been in operation for ten days now. It is giving us a more professional model of certainty about what changes we are ready to make and when. If however you are being told inadvertently that it is preventing changes you need or work you want, do speak up, as it should do nothing of the sort. There is no ban on IT changes, just a sensible process for governing that. I have held good discussions this week with expert supply partners who we will be bringing in later this month to give us more capacity around IT, especially around infrastructure, and from the start of July we will publish data on performance. Technology issues ought to be predictable and foreseeable in the main and that is the shared goal of the IT department in coming weeks.
We hosted a Ministerial visit yesterday to the Midland Met site, with Steve Barclay MP, Minister of State for Health, joining the Chairman and West Midlands Mayor Andy Street to see the building as it is now. There remains a commitment to finish the hospital as quickly as possible. It has proved, as I have explained here before, impossible to get agreement on doing that via the current PFI company, and so we are working with government to make in principle a decision by the end of July on the final programme of funding and building. In the meantime, we have secured some investment to help repair the building a little, and support too to move forward with our reconfiguration changes in 2019. The issue is a distracting one, and there is no hiding the fact that other things, like our pathology programme, and some quality initiatives, have taken longer than we would like whilst Midland Met competes for attention and time. I very much hope that that balance can shift this summer and we can achieve certainty.
On Thursday 21st we have our Annual General Meeting at 6pm in the Education Centre at Sandwell. The Board will do our best to answer questions, about last year’s quality and financial accounts, and about the future of care, research and education here. Do come if you can (England’s games are Monday and Sunday this week). Sarah Yusuf, Group Director for Imaging, will give us the keynote talk on developments in imaging, and the upcoming opening of the new energy centre at city (opposite the old nursery) means we can now move forward at pace with new equipment adjacent to the Birmingham Treatment Centre. Investing in the right equipment is something we are determined to do, so make sure if you have ideas and thoughts on that, that your pitch is known to your directorate leadership team.
Finally, thank you to everyone who has had your PDR, and every line manager who has loaded that data on the sometimes temperamental database. Moderation of PDR outcomes, and a focus on the support to high potential folk flagged in PDRs will get attention from both the clinical leadership executive and the board in July and August. We are determined to better support careers, plans and dreams in our Trust, and the PDR process is key to that aim: Aspiring to Excellence.
#hellomynameis….Toby
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