New Stop Smoking Clinic

Elaine Hotson, health and wellbeing lead, talk to Sue, our tobacco dependence lead. They discuss our service for staff to give up smoking, and the new Staff Stop Smoking Clinic.

The clinic is running from September 17th on Wednesdays 2-4pm, Location : 1st floor FFP3 hub room - by Theatres entrance ( first floor off the tower block stairs and past the lifts ), Hillingdon hospital

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Listen to the next podcast episode of Radio Hillingdon's In Conversation series - Molly Arbuthnott, the volunteer storyteller on the Bumblebee Ward at Hillingdon Hospital.  

Molly volunteers her time to meet the children staying on the ward, and to share her love of books by reading them stories. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Kavita Goreeba (Chair for our Women's Network) and Rana Erteza (Deputy Chair for our Women’s Network) chat in this podcast about this year's International Women’s Day, what it means to our staff, and how we are celebrating it in the Trust.

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year's theme is 'Accelerate Action' - calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind.
 
 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this week's episode we talk to Brenda Webb, Programme Manager within the Transformation, Improvement and Programme Management Office, who is leading on the Trust’s Clinical Service Reviews which started in May 2022.

Brenda said: "We're really keen to ensure that we get as many views as we can from all our patients, family members and carers. They survey is really quick and easy and the patients perspective is probably the most important ones because they're the people that we're here to serve."

Take part in the survey and have your say.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this episode we talk to Dr Jide Menekaya about the Trust's Community Neonatal Clinic, which was launched in 2021 as part of the pandemic response. It has since been highlighted by the RCPCH as an excellent example of pandemic-initiated service re-design, and discussed in Parliament as an exemplar of best practice for cross agency working.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In today's podcast, Sarah Burton, Learning Disabilities Clinical Nurse Specialist, tells us how the Trust works to ensure that we are supporting patients appropriately and makes adjustments if needed.

Sarah has recently updated our best practice guidelines for supporting patients with a learning disability, listen to the podcast to find out more.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this episode we talk to Elaine Hotson, the Trust's Health Wellbeing and Engagement Lead about financial wellbeing, and what support is available to staff if they are worried about the cost of living crisis. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

What is Trans Day of Visibility?

Transgender Day of Visibility takes place on March 31st each year to celebrate trans and non-binary people and raise awareness of discrimination faced by trans people worldwide.

In this podcast, Danny Karystinos, our equality and diversity lead, talks to Soraya Boam who is CBT psychologist working for West London NHS Trust. Soraya delivers workshops around gender identity and conformity.

The conversation covers trans rights, experiences and how society has evolved towards inclusion.  Listen for full details of the workshops that Soraya delivers and why awareness is important. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism on 21 March, Danny, our Trust's Diversity and Inclusion Lead sits down with members of the Multicultural Committee to talk about what the day means, how we can take a stand against discrimination, and what you can do if you observe or experience racism while at work. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In preparation for Disabled Access Day on 16 March, our latest podcast discusses how we can make our Trust more accessible for all. 

We talk to Matthew Page, Deputy Chair of the Trust's Disability and Wellbeing Committee and Danny Karystinos, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, about what it means to be an accessible organisation, what we can do support staff and patients, and how you can get help if you experience barriers in your role. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In the second of our International Women's Day specials, we talk to Gemini Sampath and Elaine Hotson about how we better support staff wellbeing, and why achieving equity sometimes means we need to treat people differently. 

Find out more about how our Trust is working to raise awareness of some of the issues that affect women's wellbeing in the workplace, including the experience of menopause or perimenopause, and how colleagues can access help if they are  struggling with their health or wellbeing. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In honour of International Women's Day, Eilidh Young, associate director for improvement practice & Hazel Rawdon-Smith, deputy director of transformation, discuss the power and impact of the  Google 'I am Remarkable' initiative, a programme that aims to empower women and other underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. 

Tune in to find out more about the initiative, their personal experiences of taking part, and to find out how you can get involved in the future. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

This latest episode from Hillingdon Hospitals welcomes Adam Tocock, our Library Services Manager. Listen to Adam talk about all the services that we provide through the library and facilities on site and online.

Our Library Services in the Trust is proud to have recently produced the National Search Guidance, a document meant for all librarians and information professionals. 

The Library also runs the Trust Book Club for staff.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Cynthia Oji, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead in the Trust discusses our staff networks in the Trust. Our mission is to make our workplace as inclusive as possible, as well as being a place where staff can meet like-minded colleagues.

Cynthia explains why we have staff networks, how people can get involved, as well as some leadership roles that we're looking for in the LGBTQ+ Network and the Multicultural Network.

Want to start a new network? listen on to find out more about that too! as well as some network events coming up.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this podcast Abbas Kakhoo, lead for clinical strategy in our hospitals, talks us through our Clinical Services Strategy. 

The strategy has been developed within the context of the North West London Health and Care Partnership and the local Hillingdon Health and Care Partnership strategies.1 It will continue to evolve in light of the ongoing development of these strategies and further engagement with stakeholders, although the broad direction of travel outlined in this strategy is not expected to change.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We have become the latest of over 90 NHS Trusts to partner with AccessAble; the UK’s leading provider of detailed disabled access information.

Working with AccessAble, we have created detailed access guides to facilities, wards, and departments at Hillingdon Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital.

The guides are 100 per cent facts, figures and photographs to help patients, visitors and staff plan their journeys to and around the hospital sites, covering everything from parking facilities and hearing loops, to walking distances and accessible toilets.

We know everyone’s accessibility needs are different, which is why having detailed, accurate information is so important. It’s why all of the details you’ll find in the guide have been checked in person, on site, by trained surveyors.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Our Trust has a very diverse nationality of staff and this employee network group is vital in helping employers act on equality issues in the workplace – especially those around recruitment and progression.

In this podcast, Danny, our Equality and Diversity Lead, talks us through our multicultural network for staff.

The multicultural group recognises the multiple backgrounds, diverse cultures and the wide range of views within the Trust. We represent all employees regardless of their multicultural background.

And so we work to support, resource, and advocate for the diverse communities here in our hospitals.

Networks are all about people; they are about progressive change; they are all about supporting the employee journey and inspiring a feeling of belonging. There is a feeling of inclusion with a network, and making employees feel included at work can directly enhance performance and happiness in the workplace. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

You may have noticed that our Trust public website looks different: new colours, new typefaces, new layouts and new functionality. This new version is the result of a close collaboration with VerseOne, would have provided website solutions to more than 50 NHS organisations.  

I’m Justine McGuinness, head of communications and engagement, and in today’s podcast I’m chatting to digital communications manager, Lucy Wills, about the project and the ideas behind the redesign, and Matthew Page, our deputy disability and well-being chair, about accessibility needs of a website.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Our Speech and Language Therapy Team at Hillingdon Hospitals is relatively small, and split into acute with three therapists and the Rehabilitation Unit. Stroke and Alderbourne and the Daniels Unit over at Mount Vernon Hospital with another 3 therapists. 

Referrals from all over the adult adult wards when people are concerned that their patients may have a swallowing difficulty and that there's a risk of what we call aspiration. So that is when food or drink might be going down onto the lungs. So a speech therapist will come and do an assessment of someone, swallow and try and reduce the risk of things going down the wrong way, which essentially has an associated positive.

Listen to the podcast today to hear all about the Speech and Language Therapy team and the work they do.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

PATCH stands for Providing Assessment & Treatment for Children at Home and they recently won the Special award at our Staff Awards 2022. 

They won this award because of all work hard they put in to run the service and to make developments for ongoing improvement. They have expanded their service to incorporate community integration with primary care.

The PATCH Team provide assessment and treatment for children at home. 

PATCH nurses do this by working closely with the hospital medical team to enable acutely ill children to be cared for in the comfort of their home whilst they recover which means shorter stays in A&E and earlier discharge home from the ward so less time spent in hospital. 

PATCH will continue to monitor and care for these children at home by supporting and empowering parents to help in their care whilst their child recovers before discharging them back to GP care.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this episode of the Hillingdon Hospitals podcast, we are talking to Dr Akram Girgis, a surgeon at the Trust, who recently won an award at our Staff Awards 2022. 

Akram won the CARES Equity Award. He is an experienced and highly skilful surgeon and is always willing to go the extra mile and teach junior staff in his own time.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Eleni Baldwin, the Clinical Specialty Lead for Elderly Medicine and Stroke Medicine, recently won an award in our Staff Awards 2022, in the category of CARES Responsibility.

Eleni won the award for her great motivation and consistent hard work to give patients the best experience. Importantly, she’s successfully recruited Care Of The Elderly consultants and is working with wider teams to further grow the service.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Welcome to the next in the series of informative and educational antenatal podcast. by Kavita Goreeba, midwife and antenatal leader educator. Her guest today is Nikki Rennison, professional midwifery advocate, who will be sharing more about her role supporting midwives, woman and birth people. 

The professional midwife midwifery advocate team is a part of a multidisciplinary team that aims to deliver seamless service to women and their families with the aim of of improving well-being.

One aspect of their role is to provide support to the midwives for restorative clinical supervision to enable midwives to produce high quality care to women and their families.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

The chaplaincy in our hospital Trust has the title of the Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Care - it is as an all-inclusive centre for support. 

Every year in the hospital here at Hillingdon we have a feature called the Giving Tree in the Chapel. Predominantly staff, but also members of the public are incredibly generous in bringing items that really are for patients who come into hospital over Christmas and maybe didn't have time to pack a bag or they were rushed into hospital.

The Team are there to support staff, patient and visitors who ask for our service. Working closely with the palliative care team, to lend a listening ear to someone who wants to chat, supporting people of any religious background or spiritual background or the non-religious.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Join Loretta Achiekwelu, operations programme manager from Hillingdon Hospitals Trust, in the podcast where she chats about health inequalities.

The NHS has recognised that certain groups of people experience poorer health outcomes or face barriers to accessing services compared to others. Tackling these inequalities involves addressing the root causes of these disparities and ensuring that everyone, regardless of their background, has fair and equitable access to high-quality care.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Welcome to the latest podcast from Hillingdon Hospitals. In this episode, Lucy Wills is talking to Kavita Goreeba, a midwife in the Trust, about what it means to be a Mental Health First Aider and how we can all become one.

Being a MHFA is about being able to offer support and understanding to staff who would like to talk about their feelings in confidence.

It’s important to provide support to help the Trust to look after the mental health of the staff. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Our People Strategy 2021-2024  was developed following feedback from our staff. It was developed following the 2020 Staff survey results and subsequent staff engagement events. 

The strategy sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition to be a great place to work, underpinned by our NHS People Promise. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

A podcast with Annamaria Hardwick, Head of Resourcing, talking through the recruitment process, applying for jobs and interview top tips.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

As part of our Antenatal Education Podcasts, Kavita Goreeba, Antenatal Lead Educator, talks to Dr Yasmin Mulji about the various forms of contraception available suitable after you have had a baby.

Why is it important to think about contraception after having a baby?
Ovulation can occur in the first month after having a baby, so it's possible to get pregnant straight away. Yasmin discusses the options for contraception after giving birth.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Our classes prepare women, birthing people and partners for the last trimester of pregnancy and beyond. 

They are always up-to-day with policies and NHS guidelines, we help parents to make a birth plan and choose options for labour, pain relief, and how to feed and care for a newborn baby. We provide tips for looking after a newborn and give you the opportunity to ask any questions of concerns and to meet other people who are also expecting a baby. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Kavita Goreeba, Midwife, talks to Doctor Jamie Shah, Neonatologist, about the value of vitamin K for newborn babies.

All babies are actually born with low levels of vitamin K, particularly because it does not cross the placenta well. Vitamin K is a group of vitamins that the body needs for blood clotting to help wounds or internal injuries heal.

Vitamin K is particularly important for newborns is because it helps prevent a bleeding disorder called haemorrhagic disease of the newborn. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

With World menopause Awareness Month in October and in particular World Menopause Day on October 18th, we are today talking about the symptoms of the menopause and how this can affect women in work, and importantly how our workplace can support this. 

I’m here today with Neale Watson, consultant gynaecologist, who’s an expert in the menopause, and Elaine Hotson, Wellbeing Lead in the Trust who can advise us on the support we provide for woman at this time. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

The Maternity Department at Hillingdon Hospital provides maternity support for up to 5,000 mothers and babies each year. Whilst most women go into pregnancy expecting healthy babies, sadly some couples lose a baby. 

I’m Lucy Wills and I have with me today Shirley Clipp, Major Appeals Manager, and Priya Vara, a mother of three born at Hillingdon Hospital, one of whom was still born. They are here to talk about our new Materniy Bereavement Suite at Hillingdon Hospital. 

The Suite was funded jointly by Hillingdon Hospitals Charity and the hospital Trust.

The charity has raised over £200k to fund the Bereavement Suite, giving families the valuable space to mourn the loss of a baby. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

This February, we are holding our Freedom to Speak Up Month, during which we have a number of events. Our Freedom to Speak Up service runs throughout the year, allowing staff to raise any concern in a number of ways, including anonymously should you wish. Your concerns will be listened to confidentially; investigated in line with good practice and will receive timely feedback on actions, progress and outcomes. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Let’s celebrate inclusion in our hospitals by creating momentum to engage every employee so they understand the importance of inclusion and how they can make it an integral part of our culture.
National Inclusion Week is a week dedicated to celebrating inclusion and taking action to create inclusive workplaces. Founded by Inclusive Employers, National Inclusion Week is now in its 10th year.

For National Inclusion Week 2022 we want to progress unity by taking positive actions towards this- this year’s National Inclusion Week theme is ‘Time to Act: The Power of Now’.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We are holding an Open Day on Saturday 24th September at Hillingdon Hospital, to showcase everything that is brilliant about our people, our services and the work we do at here.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Guests on today's podcast are Guilia Ciccolini and Samantha Vincent from our Pelvic Health Team at Hillingdon Hospital. They are talking about about perineal care, pelvic floor exercises and bowel and bladder care for new mums.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We have a dedicated Patient Safety Team that works hard to ensure that we avoid unintended or unexpected harm to people when they receive care in our hospitals. 

In this podcast, Emma Babski, Patient Safety Manager, discusses how we can promote an open and honest culture around reporting incidents, to identify action to mitigate the risk of similar incidents occurring and to keep our patients and staff safe. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Emma Symes, our Deputy Director of Nursing, explains all about this strategy. It sets out how we will achieve a sustainable, equitable, knowledgeable and caring service. The strategy has been developed with input from nursing, midwifery and therapy colleagues and it will help us deliver high quality care to our patients – with appropriately skilled and developed staff – as we face the challenges of the future. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We have a new Let’s Talk Series at Hillingdon Hospitals, with our recent Let’s Talk discussion on microaggression in the workplace. Danny Karystinos, our Diversity and Inclusion Lead, set up the Let’s Talk series, with first guest speaker Jade Ajetunmobi, talking through microaggression and how to deal with it. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

The Trust is made up of a variety of staff as well as a strong team of volunteers, both at Hillingdon and Mount Vernon Hospital. Our volunteers play a vital role in improving the experience that patients and the public have when they visit us. In this episode we talk to Marcy Madzikanda about our volunteers and what they do.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this episode, we discuss who the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are, what they do and why we need to be regulated along with the rest of the NHS.

The CQC who are an independent regulator of health and social care in England. They make sure that our services that we provide as an NHS Trust are safe, effective and of high quality. Today we are talking to Pretty Naik, Assistant Director of Regulatory Compliance and Clinical Governance in our Trust and Julia Gould, also from our Trust as our Head Nurse for Effectiveness and Compliance. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Danny Karystinos talks to Weli Farah, a member of staff at the Trust, about Muslim culture and celebrations. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Natasha Rashid, corporate applications analyst, talks us through a new co-pilot trial in our Hillingdon Hospitals and London North West Hospitals Trust. With 950 users across the Trusts, the project is testing how corporate staff can use co-pilot AI to assist them in daily tasks and the possible future utilisation of this software into working life. 

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Neale Watson, a consultant gynaecologist in the Trust, tells us all about the changes in the body during the menopause, and in the perimenopause, and what we can do to support women during this time.  

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.