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.

New mums at our Trust are set to benefit from more support during the Covid-19 pandemic, after medical student Gregory Yates won a scholarship.

Ensuring that patients receive prompt treatment in our Emergency Departments (ED) remains a priority for our Trust, as well as reducing delays so patients can go home from our wards as soon as they are medically well enough.  

Jo Player is a clinical operational site manager in our Bed and Site team. Having spent more than a decade working in ED, she explains the government-set waiting time standards for patients and the impact on patient care if these are not met.

Having moved to a role which involves working with wards to monitor available beds, Jo discusses how she quickly learnt more about the challenges wards face in ensuring their patients don’t experience any delays in leaving hospital.

Our latest blog is written by Devesh Sinha and the racism he experiences working for the NHS

All our teams are currently working extremely hard as we, along with the rest of the NHS, tackle Covid-19. That’s why we wanted to give our colleagues the spotlight, as part of our In Conversation With interviews, to share what they’re doing and the impact on them.

This week we spoke to Siobhan Graham, who recently helped oversee an upgrade to one of our radiotherapy machines, making us the first Trust in the UK to introduce Ethos Therapy. This more patient-focused treatment uses artificial intelligence to tailor it to our patient’s daily changing needs. She also shares what it was like becoming our Head of Radiotherapy in the midst of the pandemic.

Two years after opening its doors, our Academy of Surgery has successfully prepared its first group of junior doctors with the skills needed to enter their higher level surgical training posts.

All our teams are currently working extremely hard as we, along with the rest of the NHS, tackle Covid-19. That’s why we wanted to give our colleagues the spotlight, as part of our In Conversation With interviews, to share what they’re doing and the impact on them.

Our student summer volunteer programme ended on a high note last Tuesday (18 August)

Abbi Spurdle is a play specialist in our children’s Emergency Department, and she explains in this blog post the important role her team have in helping children, who might be anxious or worried, cope with and understand what is happening with their care.

One of the many hats Magda Smith, our Chief Medical Officer, wears in our Trust is our Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC). On paper this means she is the one with overall responsibility for ensuring we’re protecting our patients and staff from the risk of infection.