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Talking with and listening to our staff
Tomorrow I will be attending my last staff conference as Chief Executive of the Trust. It’s strange to think that next time a large group of our staff get together at such an event, I won’t be part of it. I am looking forward to making the opening address and setting the scene for the [...]
Innovation Awards
Each year I like to recognise staff members and teams who are working on innovative ways to improve patient care, support quality improvements and help us to achieve our values of caring, safe and excellent. This recognition takes place throughout the year through a range of mechanisms. These include our executive visits, the reports from [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week
As many of you will know, it is Mental Health Awareness Week this week. We have a number of activities happening across the Trust and are promoting as many of our mental health services as possible. The theme for the week nationally as set out by the Mental Health Foundation is ‘Doing Good Does You [...]
Busy start to the week
This week has proved to be a busy one for the Trust and on Tuesday we had three events. I attented the launch of the Children and Young People’s IAPT service at the University of Reading. The Trust is working with the Charlie Waller Institute to deliver the service and the three year pilot began [...]
No Smoking Day
As I’m sure you are aware, it is national No Smoking Day today. There are lots of initiatives happening across the Trust to support our patients, service users and staff to cut down or quit smoking. The Kick the Habit manual was developed on one of our wards to support a smoking cessation group. This [...]
Working with our partners and the Health and Social Care Bill
Conversations and opinions about the Health and Social Care Bill are never far from peoples’ minds at the moment. As a provider of healthcare services we make sure we work closely with our commissioners to deliver the best care we can with the funding available. Regardless of the outcomes related to the Health and Social [...]
Congratulations to YoungDementia UK
We would like to offer our congratulations to YoungDementia UK who are one of one ten projects across Europe to be awarded the EFID Award 2012 ‘Living well with dementia in the Community’. The European Foundations’ Initiative on Dementia (EFID) aims to improve perceptions of dementia, particularly locally, to achieve a better quality of life [...]
Getting involved.
The Trust is looking at ways of developing engagement opportunities for our Members. We have received lots of suggestions from our staff about things we could set up for our Members including health talks and visits to services. These are things we are working on at the moment and I hope to be able to [...]
Preparing for the Holiday period
In the run up to Christmas and New Year with a number of Bank Holidays on the horizon it is important that we all ensure we are prepared to look after our health. If you have a pre-existing medical condition make sure you have your medication to hand and your repeat prescriptions on order. Don’t [...]
Julie Waldron
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- Talking with and listening to our staff
- Innovation Awards
- Mental Health Awareness Week
- Busy start to the week
- No Smoking Day
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