Monthly archives: November 2024
City Gym permanently closing: 29 November
We would like to inform all colleagues that City Gym will be permanently closed from Friday 29 November. As part of our transition to the MMUH, we appreciate that this may affect your fitness routine and want to reassure you that the Sandwell Gym remains fully operational for your use.
In addition, we are actively working on alternative fitness options to continue supporting your health and wellbeing.
If you wish to join Sandwell Gym, you can do so here.
Please stay tuned for further updates through our staff communications. We will share new arrangements and opportunities as soon as they become available.
Do you want to car share and priority park?
We have partnered with KINTO Join and the Integrated Care System (ICS) so that colleagues can buddy up and car share to get to/from work. The app also allows for cycling and walking in groups and is free to use. Car sharing, walking and cycling via the app allows colleagues to share journeys to.
There will be car sharing priority bays at MMUH. To use these, you must register with Kinto.
If you would like to know more and join a quick demonstration, please register for the event this week (Monday 18 November – Friday 22 November) for a 30-minute demo session.
The demo will be held on Monday 25 November at 12pm via teams.
To download the car sharing app click here.
Saying farewell to City with Pun Sharma
Saying farewell to City with Pun Sharma, Chief Pharmacist.
To hear Pun talk about his City experience, click here.
Update: New bleeps for Clinical Nurse Practitioner teams
Following the move to MMUH, the Clinical Nurse Practitioner teams have gone from 4 bleeps to 3.
The previous deputy manager bleeps were:
- Sandwell 6126
- City 5401
From now on the duty manager beep will be on 6126 only.
The clinical bleeps have also been divided into Alpha and Bravo, those located on levels 2 and below will be on bleep Alpha 6014 and those located on levels 3 and above will be on Bravo bleep 5046.
Hallam Restaurant opening hours
Hallam Restaurant at Sandwell Health Campus will now be open Monday – Friday, 7.30am – 4pm where they will continue to serve breakfast, lunch and afternoon hot and cold food.
Note: Hallam Restaurant will be closed on the weekend.
International Fraud Awareness Week
This week is International Fraud Awareness Week, colleagues from our fraud team (RSM) have provided a week of events to help highlight fraud and how it can effect people in their every day lives.
To read about Fraud and the events taking place, click here.
A walkthrough level 5
It’s one week on since we welcomed our City colleagues into Midland Met and completed our final patient moves. With this in mind, we’re reminding you of the facilities and features that level 5 has to offer. From the Winter Garden restaurant to our newly opened Marks & Spencer, level 5 includes:
- Welcome Centre
- Winter Garden Restaurant
- Coffee shop serving Costa coffee
- Education Centre and the lecture theatre
- Library Services
- Art gallery (opening soon)
- Marks & Spencer
- Market Express powered by Amazon (opening soon)
- Bereavement office
- Patient Experience team
- External terrace area
- IT drop in shop and agile working area
- Overnight stay areas
To help guide you through, we’ve created a short walkthrough video, here.
One Health and Care system maintenance: 21 November, 1pm – 4pm
Please be advised the One Health and Care system will be undergoing essential maintenance on Thursday 21 November between the hours of 1pm – 4pm.
During this time the One Health and Care link in Unity may not return any data, this will have no impact on any other Trust system and the rest of Unity will continue work as expected. The Health Information Exchange (HIE) will also continue to work as expected during this time allowing access to West Birmingham and Sandwell GP records.
Colleagues should not use the system during the maintenance window as data may only be partially complete
Mobile phone maintenance at MMUH impacting EE coverage: 27 November, 9am – 5pm
Please be aware that essential 3rd party mobile phone maintenance will be taking place at MMUH on Wednesday 27 November from 9am – 5pm which will affect the EE mobile signal coverage. This is required to move the EE transmission equipment.
During this time there will be multiple interruptions to the EE mobile service at MMUH impacting all work and ward mobile phones that utilise the EE network.
Please refer to the Quick Reference Guides (QRG): Enabling Wi-Fi calling on Android and Apple phones – this feature lets you make calls over a Wi-Fi network instead of a cellular connection.
This will not affect any landline calls.
This will not affect the 8×8 solution.
This will not affect the Bleeps application, emergency red phones utilised in our A&E, maternity and cardiology departments.
Once the work is complete, the EE signal will be re-activated and devices will reconnect automatically.
We would recommend that this information is included in ward handovers and that landlines are actively manned by ward leads during this time.
In the unlikely event of issues with the phone system, radios are located on level 2 at MMUH Security control room located at the back of ED Reception which will be fully charged and available for collection. Please return any radios taken to the Security control room as soon as the maintenance has finished.
Please be assured the activity will be closely monitored by our IT support.
As always, should you have any further queries then please do contact the IT Service Desk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050. Alternatively you can live chat with the IT Service Desk.
NHS Smartcards: Planned maintenance taking place on Saturday 30 November 9am to 4pm
Please be aware essential national NHS Smartcard maintenance will be taking place on Saturday 30 November from 9am through to 4pm.
During this period we will not be able to issue new smartcards or reset passwords on smartcards, however cards already in use will remain fully functional.
The work is scheduled to begin at 9am and should be completed by 4pm.
As always, should you have any further queries please do contact the IT Service Desk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050 or via chat with the IT Service Desk.
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