The breast care unit recently held an art exhibition to raise money for an art therapy group for breast cancer patients. A local artist and past breast cancer patient to the unit, provided paintings that documented her recovery as an…
Ainslie ward receives certificate for best attendance to palliative care ward training
In response to the CQC visit feedback we received earlier this year, we have made a commitment to improve palliative care. Palliative care bitesize training was set up and since March we have delivered training to 226 members of staff…
Our latest Our People Awards winners
We are delighted to be able to share with the winners for the latest round of Our People Awards. We had had some really great nominations and our judges had some tough decisions to make. Congratulations to all the winners…
Screensaver request changes
Following on from your feedback in our internal communications survey, we have made some changes to streamline the screensaver request process. Due to the popularity of, and demand for, the two week option we have removed the option for one…
Successful completion of the ‘craning’ work for theatres expansion at Torbay Hospital
A huge thank you to everyone at Torbay Hospital for their understanding and patience while we completed the vital work of craning in our modular build for the day theatres expansion over the weekend. Our capital developments and workplace teams…
Changes to COVID-19 vaccination
In response to queries about the change from Pfizer to Moderna for the COVID-19 vaccination we can advise that the change is solely driven by the need to manage the centrally held vaccine stock and minimise wastage, therefore, at times…
Children and young people’s community mental health
The NHS is launching a month-long online conversation from Thursday 09 October on children and young people’s community mental health, focusing on gathering learning and ideas on how we can improve waiting times and make services more accessible. Using the…
Chief Nursing Officer Award win for Nik
Congratulations to Nik Hill who has been awarded the national Chief Nursing Officer healthcare support worker award from NHS England. Nik was nominated for their excellent work supporting healthcare support worker colleagues. This has included organising the HCSW council, planning…
SAS Week 2023
We had an incredible SAS Week this year, celebrating and championing our SAS doctors with a range of special events. SAS doctors are specialty doctors or specialist grade doctors with at least four years of postgraduate training, two of which are…
Disruption to PACS on Thursday 02 November 2023
There will be disruption to Insight Web PACS on Thursday 02 November between 7 – 7.30am. During this time Insight Web will be available, however, users may experience a temporary disconnection at 7am and need to log back in again.…