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Heartbeat: MIS lead the way in equality, diversity and inclusion

February 17, 2022

At our 2021 Star Awards back in October, our medical infusion suite won the award for Equality and Diversity Champion.

This award recognises an individual or team that has demonstrated engagement internally or externally with a minority group or diverse groups from the Sandwell and West Birmingham community to deliver improved services for colleagues, patients or carers.

The medical infusion suite (MIS) are the perfect example for diversity with colleagues from all over the world who speak different languages, have different faiths and sexual orientation.

The MIS are part of COVID/tocilizumab infusion which means that the team administers the treatment across the entire organisation in places such as ITU, respiratory and AMU. The team is nurse led and going forward into 2022, will have nurse prescribers which will help provide greater support to our doctors and prevent delays of treatments and hospital admission.

Shehnaz Mohammed, MIS manager was delighted when she had heard her team had won the prestigious Award for Equality and Diversity Champion and said: “MIS is a perfect diverse team which consists of colleagues from Yemen, different part of Africa, Jamaica, Portugal and England. We have multilingual colleagues who speak Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic, Swahili, Nigeria, Ghanaian, Portuguese and Sierra Leone. Our staff are multi faith of Christianity, Islam, Sikh and Atheists, with various sexual orientated choices. We respect and value one another believes and choices with none judgmental attitude and we work together as one positive team, all of which makes us perfect for this award.

“In addition to this, we are one of a few teams in the Trust who are competent and trained to administer Tocilizumab infusion for (COVID) patients.”

Jenny Mynett, Matron believes MIS are deserving of winning the award and should feel proud of what they have achieved.

She said: “Shehnaz and the MIS team are a shining example of multiple cultures and ethnicities all working hard for the same goal and going above and beyond and exceeding expectation.

“Though the team has very diverse backgrounds, different beliefs and cultural values, they all work cohesively and exceed expectation on MIS whilst maintaining cultural sensitivity to patients and each other’s needs.”