Members of mums group Mummy’s Linkup have paid a visit to Queen’s Hospital to donate a number of packs aimed at women who have a miscarriage.

In his final blog on racism in the NHS, co-clinical lead for stroke and consultant Devesh Sinha discusses how racial inequalities have impacted BAME staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gemma Norburn, a trainee anatomical pathology technologist at our Trust, has shared what her pandemic wedding was like after getting the go-ahead with just weeks to go.

As we work together to support our patients, and each other, during the pandemic, providing excellent end-of-life care is more important than ever. Read this blog from palliative care consultant Andrew Gage, which reminds us of the most important things we can do for our patients at this time: listen, be with them, and give them the comfort and dignity they deserve.

Our Trust has been shortlisted for the ‘Best International Recruitment Experience’ award in the Nursing Times Workforce Awards.

Dealing with additional deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic has been something everyone in the NHS has had to deal with on varying levels. For our Bereavement team, it meant often dealing with double the number of deaths on a daily basis, and completely changing how they dealt with bereaved families.

No part of the NHS (or the world) has remained untouched by the Covid-19 pandemic, however, for our Living With and Beyond Cancer team, which supports cancer patients through their diagnosis, treatment, and life after that, it meant they had to completely reconsider how they provided their service.

In his second blog about his lived experiences of everyday racism in the NHS, consultant and co-clinical lead for stroke Devesh Sinha writes about the structural racism which limits BAME representation at senior levels of the NHS. He also discusses the role of white colleagues in being part of making change happen.

We recently shared with you how our trailblazing Academy of Surgery had prepared its first group of graduates to continue into their higher-level surgical training posts.

While some of the trainees have moved on from our Trust, we caught up with Taniya Perera, who currently remains a clinical fellow within the academy. She told us how it has helped her on her way to achieving her dream of being a surgeon, and find her calling within orthopaedics.