This International Women’s Day, it’s important that we #ChooseToChallenge hetero- and cis-normative ideas of womanhood. For this reason we’ll be celebrating the incredible achievements of two LGBT+ women in history, who have accomplished great things, and made their marks on the Gender Equality movement. Of course the women’s rights movement should always be intersectional, so … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2021
IWD 2021 #ChooseToChallenge
International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate women and their allies. This year, it is specifically a day to challenge. To challenge behaviours. To challenge perceptions and stereotypes, and to challenge ourselves. This is my story, by Camilla Redding Camilla Redding, Deputy Chair of the Women’s Network I’ve never been an overly confident person, … Continue reading IWD 2021 #ChooseToChallenge
Night before Christmas
It was the night before Christmas, when all through ED not a patient was stirring, except the drunkguy in 3.The nurses were stood by the station with poise, as all of a sudden the red phone made a noise.The doctor was quick to answer the call, and soon wrote the details of a terrible fall.The … Continue reading Night before Christmas
LD and Autism champions week
This week, we are celebrating the Autism and Learning Disability Champion Awards for 2020 founded for hospital staff or teams that have provided an exemplary service and care for patients with a Learning Disability (LD) or who are Autistic. Usually each year we have an award ceremony with a celebratory lunch attended by the winners, people … Continue reading LD and Autism champions week
Emergency Department staff take solace in ‘Coffee and Vent’ sessions at Devon hospital
Dr Annette Rickard, Consultant in Emergency Medicine When the global pandemic hit the UK, NHS emergency teams knew their challenging jobs were about to get harder. Staff that work in the Emergency Department at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) are no strangers to working in a high-pressure environment. As the largest acute hospital and … Continue reading Emergency Department staff take solace in ‘Coffee and Vent’ sessions at Devon hospital
A Trust perspective – Advanced Practice Week
Normally awareness weeks in this trust would involve banners and cakes, this year however, as we are all very aware, things are a little different. But we do still want to raise awareness of the exciting role that is Advanced Practice, so we will do so from a distance, definitely a social distance. If you … Continue reading A Trust perspective – Advanced Practice Week
Tissue Viability are helping to #stopthepressure
The Tissue Viability Team at UHP are here to work with patients who have particular needs in terms of skin integrity, wounds and pressure ulcers. Lead Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist, Siobhan Mccoulough, writes about the different models of care and the importance of aSSKINg ahead of Stop the Pressure Day on 19 November. Two … Continue reading Tissue Viability are helping to #stopthepressure
World Radiography Day is celebrated on 8 November each year
The date marks the anniversary of the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. This year we are celebrating WRD with blogs from our UHP Radiography colleagues. Helene Baudains – CT Radiographer and CT Head Reporting Radiographer My favourite thing about being a radiographer is the variety of patients you see and multidisciplinary teams … Continue reading World Radiography Day is celebrated on 8 November each year
Occupational Therapy Week: What do occupational therapists do?
The 2nd to the 6th November is Occupational Therapy Week. Normally, we’d be enticing you to find out more about Occupational Therapy (OT) with an information stand and cakes at the main entrance of the hospital, but the current situation sadly precludes us from doing so. However, as a department, we wanted to take this … Continue reading Occupational Therapy Week: What do occupational therapists do?
An Employee App for our #1BigTeam
**The app is currently in testing phase, so some functions are incomplete. If you install the test version, it will automatically upgrade you to the live version upon launch. Please share your thoughts on the test version under 'Your Feedback' on the main menu - Thank You** We’ve worked on staff feedback to bring together … Continue reading An Employee App for our #1BigTeam