#WithAllOurHearts: A minute’s silence

March 10, 2022

NHS Charities Together are asking everyone to observe a nationwide minute’s silence at 11am this coming Friday, 11 March. Which is the second anniversary of when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

This will be a part of a remembrance event, livestreamed via both YouTube and Facebook from 10:45am. The event held at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, will host NHS staff representing all nations of the UK and all areas of healthcare will be in attendance – including ambulance, hospital, mental health, community, social care and primary care services. Wanika Simpson, Acute Medicine Health Care Assistant will be in attendance representing SWB.

The event will feature personal readings and testimonies and NHS colleagues will be joined by patient representatives to lay blue heart wreaths as a symbol of gratitude and remembrance.

Colleagues at the Trust can congregate outside the main entrances to observe the minute’s silence if they wish to and are able to do so. However, please continue to observe our social distancing guidelines.