Monthly archives: October 2019

Would you like to join our medicine and emergency care team?

A recruitment event is being held for band 5 and 6 nurses to join the medicine and emergency care team.

Those attending will be able to find out more about the flexible working hours on offer which include permanent weekend and night shifts as well as 7.5 hour shifts.

Job offers will be made on-the-spot to successful candidates. Meanwhile colleagues who recommend a friend will pocket £100 and the new recruit will also receive the same amount*.

The event will be held at the Education Centre, Sandwell Hospital, 10am – 2pm, Saturday 2 November, and will be a family friendly event with entertainment for youngsters.

Note: Light refreshments will also be available.

Be sure to check out this video featuring, Nina Faraon senior staff nurse who works 8am-4pm shifts on Priory 4 talking about her flexible working hours allowing her to spend time with her 11-year-old daughter.

Get your flu jab on site or in the community

Our flu season continues to be a success with us having administered a total of 2,050 vaccinations to colleagues with 1,656 of jabs being given to patient facing colleagues as of Friday 18 October.

We are pleased to confirm that the ‘Flumobile’ will once again be visiting our community sites.

Below are some confirmed dates and times for clinics.

Community flu clinics – please note that arrival times are approximate

Tuesday 29 October
2.30pm – Neptune Health Park, Tipton, DY4 8PX – onsite for 20 minutes
3.10pm – Glebefields Health Centre, Tipton, DY4 0SN – onsite for 20 minutes

Thursday 31 October
11am – Warley Medical Centre, Oldbury. B68 0RT – onsite for 30 minutes
12.20pm – Whiteheath Medical Centre, B69 1EJ – onsite for 20 minutes

Monday 4 November
3pm – The Lyng, West Bromwich, B70 7AW – onsite for 30 minutes

Tuesday 12 November
11.10am – Rowley Hospital, Rowley Regis, B65 8DA – onsite for 50 minutes

Note: We will be at Rowley Hospital on Wednesday 23 October, 8.30am – 3.30pm administering flu jabs. Colleagues should ask Rowley reception on the day for the exact location of the flu clinic.

Please note:

Colleagues must show their Trust ID card to be eligible for their flu vaccination
Times of arrival are estimated and depend upon conditions at the time
No appointment needed, just drop-in when the Flumobile is at your base

We are also offering flu vaccinations on site so be sure to drop in to one of the clinics and make time to get yourself protected.

Week 4 – 6: 21 October – 8 November

Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30am – 12pm, main reception, Sandwell Hospital
Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30am – 12pm, breast feeding room, adjacent to D6, City Hospital
Friday, 1pm – 4pm, occupational health, courtyard gardens, Sandwell Hospital
Friday, 1pm – 4pm, breast feeding room, adjacent to D6, City Hospital

Are you refusing your flu vaccination due to personal or religious beliefs associated with pork? If so please be aware that there are no porcine products contained within the adult flu vaccination on offer at our Trust.

Get your flu jab on site or in the community

Be sure to check out this short clip featuring Puneet Sharma, Chief Pharmacist talking about the safety of the flu vaccine itself.

We are pleased to confirm that the ‘Flumobile’ will once again be visiting our community sites.

Below are some confirmed dates and times for clinics.

Community flu clinics – please note that arrival times are approximate

Wednesday 23 October
9.20am – Victoria Health Centre, Smethwick, B66 0PZ – onsite for 30 minutes
1.30pm – The Lyng, West Bromwich, B70 7AW – onsite for 30 minutes

Tuesday 29 October
2.30pm – Neptune Health Park, Tipton, DY4 8PX – onsite for 20 minutes
3.10pm – Glebefields Health Centre, Tipton, DY4 0SN – onsite for 20 minutes

Thursday 31 October
11am – Warley Medical Centre, Oldbury. B68 0RT – onsite for 30 minutes
12.20pm – Whiteheath Medical Centre, B69 1EJ – onsite for 20 minutes

Monday 4 November
3pm – The Lyng, West Bromwich, B70 7AW – onsite for 30 minutes

Tuesday 12 November
11.10am – Rowley Hospital, Rowley Regis, B65 8DA – onsite for 50 minutes

Note: We will be at Rowley Hospital on Wednesday 23 October, 8.30am – 3.30pm administering flu jabs. Colleagues should ask Rowley reception on the day for the exact location of the flu clinic.

Please note:

Colleagues must show their Trust ID card to be eligible for their flu vaccination
Times of arrival are estimated and depend upon conditions at the time
No appointment needed, just drop-in when the Flumobile is at your base

We are also offering flu vaccinations on site so be sure to drop in to one of the clinics and make time to get yourself protected.

Week 4 – 6: 21 October – 8 November

Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30am – 12pm, main reception, Sandwell Hospital
Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30am – 12pm, breast feeding room, adjacent to D6, City Hospital
Friday, 1pm – 4pm, occupational health, courtyard gardens, Sandwell Hospital
Friday, 1pm – 4pm, breast feeding room, adjacent to D6, City Hospital

Pain management training session

Join the pain management team for a multi-disciplinary and practical training session, which will cover:

Epidurals
PCAs
Post op pain
Pharmacology

The study courses are aimed at doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists and student nurses ready to qualify.

The next sessions will take place on 4 November: Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital 9am – 1.30pm.

For further information or to book your place contact the team on bleep 5813 (after 1pm) or email swb-tr.SWBH-GM-Pain-Management@nhs.net.

NHS supply chain: Metal roll cages

We have been advised by NHSSC that there are a significant number of metal roll cages which have not been returned to them from our Trust. NHSSC roll cages are clearly marked with a metal plate advising they are the property of NHS supply chain or the metal strut has been embossed with these details.

The Trust does not own them and therefore they should be returned once the NHSSC products have been removed from them. The colleagues in our receipts and distribution centres will collect these on a daily basis so please have them ready for them.

Note: A “walk-about” will be taking place and any NHSSC roll cages found will be removed and returned to NHSSC.

If you have any roll cages to be collected call ext. 4954 for City and ext. 3135 for Sandwell.

Arches Café to open at 11.30am on Thursday

to scheduled maintenance on the Costa Coffee machine, Arches will be opening at 11.30am tomorrow (Thursday 24 October) rather than its usual time.

Note: Coffee Culture will be open from 7.30am and BTC Costa will be open from 8am both offering hot and cold beverages and food items.

City Hospital catering team apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Super Ed’s a real fundraising hero

Featured in The Chronicle Week:

He may not wear a cape to work, but don’t let that fool you, for fundraising superhero Edward Edmead has in the last two years helped secure and grow funding for a number of key outreach projects to greatly benefit the local area.

Rates of IBD are 3 times higher than realised

Featured in Healthline:

Researchers from our Trust have found there are three times as many people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than previously estimated.

Not only do more people have IBD, they’re also at greater risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC), according to the research.

Our researchers worked with the University of Birmingham to examine IBD cases from 2000 to find accurate data on ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) prevalence in the UK.

Work on £475m hospital to restart

Featured in The Chronicle Week:
Work will resume on the £475 million Midland Metropolitan Hospital after the green light was finally given by the Government.

Heartbeat: HSBC lend a helping hand

Volunteers from HSBC’s internal audit team descended on our workplace once again to lend a helping hand in transforming some key patient areas. Ditching their spreadsheets and calculators for dustsheets and paintbrushes, the intrepid band of DIY painters and decorators set to work transforming Priory Ground at Sandwell Hospital and the garden at Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre.

Leading the charge from HSBC was Kundai Madamombe who said: “Last time we were here we transformed Lyndon Ground and Lyndon 1 and we loved making the area bright and colourful for the children, we also took on the challenge of transforming the reminiscence room on Lyndon 4 for older patients. This time, we’re bringing a bit of calm to Priory Ground with some calm pastel colours.”

Coordinating the makeover was Your Trust Charity’s Membership and Fundraising Manager Amanda Winwood who shared her thoughts on the work: “We’re absolutely delighted to see the HSBC team back again, they did a fantastic job at transforming the children’s wards and the reminiscence room, this time they’re taking on Priory Ground with the aim of making it a more calming environment for children returning from surgery, as well as taking on the cinema room and garden at Leasowes for our older patients.”

Sharing her thought on the transformation at Leasowes, Matron, Natalie Whitton said: “The renovation is amazing. It has made the cinema room at Leasowes a vibrant, warm and welcoming environment for our patients to enjoy their favourite movies, the style we chose also helps our patients to focus on times in their lives which will trigger happy memories.

“The garden is a family friendly environment where our patients can sit outside with their children/grandchildren to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air, it also gives them more space, so they don’t feel confined to their rooms. As Leasowes is a rehabilitation unit the garden will help the patients and their motor skills, as we will also be encourage to plant new seeds and shrubs, ready for spring.”

If you have a patient area in desperate need of a spruce up, get in touch with Amanda.winwood@nhs.net.

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