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Monthly archives: May 2021

Can you support the homeless team with books for patients?

 

Our homeless team are currently seeking any unwanted books. The team have many patients referred that unfortunately have limited or no belongings.

If you would like to donate any books please contact any member of the team listed below.

Star Awards 2021: Distinguished Service Award

 

Do you know an individual who has worked above and beyond the call of duty in their service to the Trust?

This could be a current employee or someone who has left during the previous year.

Nominate them for the Distinguished Service Award in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

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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.

Be sure to check out last year’s award ceremony featuring last year’s winner for the award, Nick Sherwood (timecode: 31 minutes, 58 seconds).

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

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

Mouth care matters display board competition – winners announced

 

Thank you to all the teams that took part in the mouth care matters display board competition.

Judging took place on Friday 14 May with the panel comprising Acting Chief Nurse, Melanie Roberts, Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurse, Janice Nelson and Group Director of Nursing – Medicine and Emergency Care, Julie Thompson.

Commenting on the judging process Melanie said: “We were absolutely delighted with the quality of submissions. All the teams put in excellent effort to demonstrate why mouth care really matters when caring for our patients. After much deliberation we managed to choose first, second and third place. But I must stress that all the boards were wonderfully produced and it wasn’t an easy decision for the judging panel.”

In the communications bulletin this week we will feature all the display boards that were submitted for the competition. Today we feature the winners, congratulations to:

  • Cardiology – first place
  • Priory 3 – second place
  • D11 – third place

Cardiology have won £100 e-vouchers and Priory 3 and D11 will each receive e-vouchers worth £50.

Melanie Roberts will visit all three teams this week to congratulate them and give them their prizes.

First place – Cardiology:

Second place – Priory 3:

Third place – D11:

Essential upgrade to Trust Reporting System this Wednesday, 8pm

 

Please be aware that an essential upgrade will be taking place on Wednesday 19 May from 8pm to the supporting infrastructure for the Trust Reporting system which will take 2 hours and 30 minutes.

During the upgrade Trust Reporting will be unavailable for up to 1 hour from approximately 8.15pm. The upgrade has been scheduled at this time to try to minimise impact and works will begin at 8pm and should be completed by 10:30pm.

Please do call the 24 hour IT service desk if you have any issues accessing reporting after the upgrade on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050 for home workers.

Black Lives Matter Race and Space podcasts

 

In case you missed them, you can check out all the weekly Race and Space podcasts which were hosted every Friday over the last five weeks.

New parking barrier system from Monday 24 May

 

From Monday 24 May Q-Park are starting a project to replace the current ParkAre equipment with a new Skidata barrier systems and pay stations at Rowley, City and Sandwell sites. The barriers and pay stations will be replaced like for like so the location of all the equipment will remain in the same place. Therefore, this install shouldn’t cause any disruption to your daily routine.

For the time being your existing permits will continue to work on the new system so there is no need to worry. The only change in the short term will be where you tap your barrier card on the new system to allow access and exit from your current car park. You will only be able to access the same car parks that your current barrier card allows. Please see image below.

Note: In the near future we will be asking all barrier card holders to apply for a new pass so please look out for this communication on when you should re-apply for a new permit.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the Q-Park team at Sandwell@q-park.co.uk.

Star of the Week – Beth Hampl

 

Our Star of the Week is Beth Hampl, Nursing Associate on Newton 3.

Beth was nominated by medical colleagues for frequently going the extra mile to support patients and colleagues on the ward. She was particularly commended for her care for a patient at end of life. Her liaison with the family was seen as a great example of excellent nursing care.

Do you know someone in your team that has gone above and beyond the call of duty? Why not put them forward for Star of the Week by clicking here.

Last Friday we celebrated Operating Department Practitioner Day

 

National Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) Day took place last Friday (14 May). It promotes the profession and celebrates the vital work that ODPs perform in the NHS every day.

Following a particularly tough year, it is more important now than ever to give thanks and recognition to our colleagues who play vital roles within our NHS. Sandwell theatres marked the occasion with posters, gift bags with some token goodies, and photo props to enable colleagues to take pictures and share on social media.

Help us make incident reporting easier

 

Our Trust wants to continue encouraging people to report incidents, including near misses, to support our constant strive to improve the quality and safety of the care we deliver.

In order to achieve this, we want to make the incident reporting process as quick and simple as we possibly can, but we need your help to achieve this.

Currently, the governance department are reviewing the incident form – one of the areas under development is the coding and categorisation process and associated options.

To ensure that colleagues reporting incidents experience as quick and easy a process as possible, a consultation is currently underway.  The initial key focus is to review the staff experience when reporting, but this is also an opportunity to raise any frustrations or improvement requirements associated with the incident reporting process and management.

Colleagues wishing to take part in the incident reporting consultation are encouraged to download the from below and return the completed form to kristina.murphy2@nhs.net by Friday 28 May.

PSS Incident Coding Consultation

For more information please email kristina.murphy2@nhs.net.

Star Awards 2021: Green Award

 

Do you know an individual or team that has made simple changes to reduce our environmental impact? They will have made changes within their area of work (even small changes can make a big impact) with enthusiasm and inspired others to get involved.

This could include changes that have potentially:

  • Saved energy
  • Saved water
  • Led to less waste
  • Changed travel habits to more active and sustainable modes
  • Any other sustainability related topics that you feel passionate about.

If so, nominate them for the Green Award in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

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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.

Be sure to check out last year’s award ceremony featuring last year’s award winner – the alcohol care team (timecode: 27 minutes, 38 seconds).

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

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

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