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- Christmas Belles are ringing
- Tributes to John Belstead
- Farewell to a great Ashford double act
- John’s leaving us again
- Lucy mercy mission
- Liz to be a lay minister
- They’re all PALS together
- Baby take a look at our maternity unit now!
- Our team are making the news
- Appreciation Awards
- Long-service Sylvia just wishes she’d kept a diary
- Darren delighted to pick up 19 student awards
- Team that cuts the risk in our hospitals
- Solid as a rock Liz is a superb role model
- Alison, they all agree you’re one in million
- Baby love is such BLISS
- Gifts ... Gifts ... Gifts ...
- All hands on deck
- Eyes have it!
- Paper girls support Fund
- Diversity Week dancers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A new face on the block
- Keyworker homes should be blessing for Ashford staff
- Lunch with Sir Steve
- Hi-tech at the bedside
- Bargains for all who work for the Trust
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- Merry Christmas
Firstly, thank you to one and all for everything you have done for the Trust over the past year. We have made significant progress - two stars, HSJ award for Recruitment & Retention, MAU, Childcare and Day Surgery facilities - during the year. Perhaps, most importantly, we are on course to achieve our nine month waiting list target early - if we keep up the current performance and have a good winter we may well be at six months going into 2004 as we try to make the Trust into the hospitals of choice for our patients.
- Ashford Gets Festive
- Medical Illustration and Photography
- 25 Years or More!
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- British Heart Foundation Donates £20,000 to Ashford
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has donated £20,000 to fund a Portable Ultrasound machine for Ashford Hospital Cardiac Unit.
- Friends of St Peter's New Chairman Gives First Report at AGM
- Caldicott is for Life not just for Christmas!
- Crane at Ashford
- Charity Corner Gets a New Name
- Surrey County Council Moves Up to Two-Star Status
- Car Parking at SPH
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- Chain Gang Wins National Award
A project team from our Trust is a winner in this year’s 3M Awards for Improved Practice in Infection Control.
- Stroll on for Children in Need
- PP Update!
- Ashford's T5 Get's a Crane of its Own
- Appreciation Award Pictures
- Secta Review
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- Staff of our Trust can Trust our Security
Now that British Summer Time is officially over and the nights are getting earlier and earlier it is nice to know who is watching over us when we walk to our cars, or wait for the bus in the dark.
- Christmas and New Year Working
- Secta Appointed to Undertake Cost Improvement Review
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- Trust Condemns Thieves and Vandals
There has been a spate of car parking meter thefts over the last two months at St. Peter’s. The parking meters have been vandalised and forcibly opened by what is suspected to be a team of local thieves.
- Pathology is Praised by National Magazine
- Healthcare Careers Open Day
- Tour the Mosque
- Stoma Care Open Day
- Kulkarni is Proud to Speak at BAUS
- Consultants Event
- Choice Consultation
- Family Accommodation at Ashford
- ECDL Testing
- Patient Power Update
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- Encore for Concord!
Friday 24th October marked the end of an era for British aviation and I had the privilege of being invited to one of the best vantage points around to watch it all first hand. When Concord rein-acted a typical bus stop, and came along three at a time, it was a sight and a sound that will stay with me for many years to come.
- Go on Grundy!
- Staff Survey
- It's Good to Talk
- Portering Changes
- Office Robbers
- Mid-Season Transfer
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- Trust on Course to Hit March 2004 Targets
A major contributory factor to the progress made has been a significant increase in the level of day surgery. These operations would previously have required an overnight stay and are now done in a morning or afternoon enabling the patient to leave hospital later the same day, providing that they have someone at home with them.
- Housekeeping Open Day
- New Sports and Social Club a Reality!
- Changing Rooms Meets Gardener's World Meets Timberland
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- 62 Nationalities - One Diversity Week
Last weeks diversity week has been heralded as a complete success. Some of the talks were well attended and many people have commented that they found them useful, and varied.
- Victory is Close for Ashford
- Maternity Masseuse
- Social Centre at SPH
- Trust Board Update
- Stephanie Marks Appeal - Latest Events
- PALS Opening at Ashford
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- Long Service Awards are Well Attended
Two ceremonies were held last week to recognise those people who have been working with the Trust at either hospital for more than ten years.
- Trust Listed in Top 10 for Handling Complaints
- The Early Births Fund
- Have Your Say on National Voluntary Services Issues in the NHS
- E-Learning Seminars
- Bleeper's Cup
- A Vision for Pharmacy
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- Trauma Training
Many of you will have seen that the Education Centre at Ashford has been closed over the last week; this has been because of the ATLS training that has been taking place. ATLS or Advanced Trauma Life Support training has been running for eight years at Ashford and has now had 14 courses with an average of 20 candidates successfully completing each course.
- Ashford's T5
- Career Change
- Management Board Update
- Appeal Leaflets Available
- Annual Open Evening
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- Nappies Nail NICU Hopes Home
The sale of the nappies has so far raised £1,300 which will be going towards the Early Births fund for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
- Sneak a Peak at Knowledge Net
- A Right Old Send Off
- Join the "Chain Gang"
- Fore Thousand Pounds
- Farewell Fair Maiden Name
- What is Diversity Week?
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- Patient Power
It’s time to wave goodbye to wheelie payphones, and shared TV’s, as the NHS Plan states that: “Bedside televisions and telephones will be available in every major hospital by December 2003.”
- A Right Stitch Up!
- Diamond in the Trust
- St Peter's First
- Telecommunications and Technical Services Department
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- Red Balloon Ball
The British Lung Foundation are hosting the Red Balloon Ball 2003 at The Runnymede Hotel, Egham, Surrey on Saturday 11th October.
- Hot and Steamy
- Staff Social Facility
- A Fond Farewell
- Read All About It!
- Ashford Gardens Special
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- Bishop of Kensington Licenses Hospital Chaplain
Bishop of Kensington, the Rt. Rev Michael Colclough visited the Ashford Hospital Chapel, where he officially licensed Maureen Body to work as an Assistant Hospital Chaplain at Ashford.
- Meet the Chief Executive
- Works Outside Charity Corner
- Pathology Lab Recruits
- Project 18 Gets New Wheels
- Farewell Pharmacy Volunteers
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- The Gallaher Suite
A brand new suite of rooms was opened this week in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Abbey Wing St. Peter’s; with the aid of £30,000 raised by one very brave family.
- First Steps First Thousand
- Say "No" to Cold Calling
- Long Service Awards
- Plea from the Post Room
- Lions Roar for HDU
- Leading Empowered Organisations Programmes
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- Count our Lucky Stars
The Trust has taken another step up the performance ratings ladder this year and has now achieved two stars.
- Future of Local NHS
- Successful Breast Information Day
- Paging Dr Murray
- Thanks to the Friends of St Peter's
- Charles Olsen
- St Peter's Day Service
- Big Box, Little Box
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- Complaints in Perspective
Complaints are important!’ writes Samantha Tilley, Complaints Manager. They may be a bind but the few complaints we do get help us to make improvements to our services.
- Agenda for Change, Stars, and Transforming Local Healthcare
- Ashford Hospital League of Friends Fete
- Appreciation Awards
- Diversity Week
- Toasters are Back!
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- Minister of State for Health Opens Sandgates and Playscheme
The Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Minister of State for Health, has formally opened the new NHS staff housing at Sandgates, Chertsey and the new ‘Hop Skip and Jump’ play scheme at St. Peter’s Hospital.
- WRVS Re-Opens
- Tune In
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- League of Friends Donates £25,000 at Volunteers Lunch
The League of Friends has done it again. They have stepped up to yet another good cause and this week have donated a massive £25,000 to the Trust’s diabetes appeal.
- Free Phone Help Is On Us
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- Trust Salutes Work of Volunteers
Volunteers continue to play an active and valuable part at our hospitals. Around 500 members of the local community regularly spend time supporting patients and staff in a wide variety of ways. This support ranges from helping on wards, greeting and directing visitors at reception desks, meeting patients in clinics, photocopying and helping on wards, clerical work behind the scenes to making the welcome cup of coffee or tea.
- Onwards and upwards!
- She put her back into the job ...
- A working life in the NHS
- A positive future ahead
- resident meets Prime Minister!
- Captains to the fore!
- Gifts ... Gifts ... Gifts ...
- This gift is no accident!
- Work hard, play hard!
- Commitment continues
- First residents
- Wish you well Denise
- And then there were three!
- Thanks From A Yank!
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- British Heart Foundation is Inspired by St Peter's Coronary Care
Members of the North Surrey branch of the British Heart Foundation led by branch Chairman Mrs Anne Youle chose British Heart Week (June 7-15) to visit St. Peter’s Hospital, to see how a gift of £20,000 of BHF money has been spent recently.
- Rooms to Let
- A Big Thank You Friends
- Sponsorship Please
- St Peter's Day - Diversity Week and Hospital Heroes
- Sorry - Wrong Number!
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- Diabetes Appeal Launched
W ith the commencement of Diabetes Awareness Week the Trust is taking the opportunity to launch its latest and greatest appeal under the leadership and guidance of newly appointed Fundraising Manager Claire Hooper - who has come on board specifically for this appeal.
- Launch Day for Professional Supervision
- Charity Corner is on the Move
- New FD Aims for Top Class Service
- EAP Presentations
- Retirement Fellowship Moves to New Venue
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- Assistance is at Hand
The Trust launched its Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) on June 1st.
- Fundraising About to Bloom
- Get Your Walking Shoes Ready
- New Staff in the Communications Team
- WRVS Shop and Café to be Refurbished
- Travel Questionnaire
- Gold Fish Appear in Fish Pond
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- £94,000 Project Will Reduce Waiting Times
Long waits for urology patients are to be drastically reduced by an innovative project. Ashford & St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has been awarded £94,000 by the NHS Modernisation Agency to investigate possible training of urologists to do their own ultrasound scans on patients in urology clinics. This will remove the need for patients to wait for an ultrasound appointment and a second visit to the doctor for the result. Ultrasound is used for diagnosing many diseases, including cancers, of the kidneys, prostate, bladder and testes.
- Payphone Faults
- First Steps Day Nursery
- GMC - Licenses to Practice and Revalidation
- Transforming Local Healthcare
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- Pay Days
Some concern was expressed at the April Team Briefing about the change in the April pay day.
- Recruiting for Surrey and Sussex
- Dermatology Referral Guidelines Launched
- Trust Board Update
- Welcome to New FD
- Parking
- New Health Watchdog for Surrey Launched
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- Transforming Local Healthcare
In March key individuals from Hounslow, North Surrey and Woking Area PCTs, the Department of Health and Surrey & Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA), and North West Surrey Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust met with senior Managers, Consultants & staff side representatives from Ashford & St. Peter’s to discuss progress on the project to develop options for services provided by the Trust on our two sites.
- Audrey Gets Silver Acorn
- Neurophysiology Gets New Kit
- Happy 90th Birthday
- Nursery Needs Crisp Packets
- Warm Weather Warning
- First Patients Through Mobile Theatre
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- Bright Future for Hospitals Says New Chief Executive
April was my first month as Chief Executive ‘proper’ and it was good to be ab le to talk to people at the quarterly ‘Meet the CE’ meetings last week to discuss issues which are of importance to both you and me.
- NHS Pay Modernisation - Agenda for Change
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- Your Pay, Your Future
Next week sees two "road shows" in the Trust to look at ‘Agenda for Change’ - the pay reform package - and how it will affect staff and the Trust as a whole.
- Blanche's Big Surprise
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- CHI Publish Maternity Services Investigation Report
It is doubtful whether any one in the local NHS or community can have failed to notice that the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) published their matern ity service investigation report on Monday 31st March.
- CHD is the "Game", Cardiology the Name!
- Family Friendly Policies
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- Decontamination Tent is Tested
With all the preparations in hand for possible major incidents it was important to test the recently received Decontamination Tent. Whilst our Decontamination Room can cope with 20 people per hour, up to 100 people per hour can be put through the Tent.
- Golf Captains Donate £5,000 to Ashford MAU
- Name Needed
- Hop Skip and Jump Club
- Flash and Fairy Make a Clean Sweep
- LEO Extended to All Staff
- Transport Group Hears Initial Results of Access Study
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- Message from Milburn
The NHS and local councils have done well this winter. I wanted to write to thank you for your achievements.
- Science Week 2003
- Do U Know What To Do?
- Calling Unison Members
- New ED at Runnymede
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- Mad Hair Day
The Ophthalmology Unit at Ashford are having a ‘Mad Hair Day’ for comic relief on Friday 14th March.
- News from the Hospital Friends
- Go Karting Challenge
- Calling all Health and Safety Reps
- Pancakes Raise £115
- Car Parking
- Trust Board Update
- Emergency Dept Canopy
- Modernisation Report
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- Food Acceptable, Cleaning Good
That’s the conclusion from the national surveys of food and cleaning on Ashford and St. Peter’s published on 26th February.
- SPH Electrical Work
- Lang House Temporary Car Parking
- ECDL News
- Science Week
- Welcome to Ian White
- Surrey Ambulance CE
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- New Nursery Opens
First Steps Nursery has two deputy managers Belinda Smith and Sylvia Lyes who work with manager Tika Patel.
- Eyeing up new horizons
- On to pastures green ...
- Hail and farewell - but all in good time!
- Giant strides forward for Day Nursery
- Patient Pathways
- A&E Focus
- Exceptional support from the Regulars!
- Master stroke by George
- Projecting thanks
- Not the usual League of Friends chair!
- Super Safeways Staff
- Bottle vs Breast - baby knows best!
- Heart-Felt Thanks
- Modernising Maternity
- Service with a smile!
- A celebration of leadership
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- Managing Discharge Planning and Delayed Transfers
John Coleman, General Manager Medical & Emergency Services, writes: As soon as a patient arrives for admission on a ward the discharge plan should begin, so that throughout the patient’s stay all involved in the management of a patient’s care will know exactly what is happening regarding the patient’s discharge. If you are part of the nursing team working on a ward at Ashford or St Peter’s, ask yourself 3 questions.
- NAO Reports Progress
- Trust Condemns Vandalism at Ashford Hospital
- Family Services - Revised Structure
- Bill Blay
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- Chart Toppers H and Claire Pick Mitzi
Mitzi the Cat, rescued by Freda Larham and looked after by Liz Longley and the staff in the Hazel Centre has won the "Rescue Cat of the Year ‘Award". Since the Hazel Centre closed she has taken up residence at Walton Hospital where she had a celebration salmon supper!
- ASPH Hits the 21st Century!
- Moving and Handling Team Expands
- Please Don't Park Illegally or Dangerously
- Feedback on Cleaning
- Yellow Clinical Waste Bags
- Trust is Awarded IWL Practice Status
- Advertising Ban
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- Doctors Inducted
The latest group of doctors have arrived at the Trust for the first or next stage of their rotation. As part of their training the doctors have to do six month sessions specialising in a variety of acute Trust areas to ensure that they get a good across the board experience.
- New Finance Director
- Trust Board Update
- Transport Issues
- Channel 4 Call for Volunteers
- Abolishing CHCs
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- Safe Birth at St Peter's
Demonstrating her trust in St. Peter’s maternity unit IVF mother of 57, Sandra Lennon, selected the maternity unit in the Abbey Wing for her maternity care. Natural really as she lives locally and her older children were born here.
- Looking for a New Home for 2003?
- Restaurant News
- Management Board Meeting
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- Glenn Douglas Writes
welcomed the opportunity to meet a number of Trust staff at last weeks 'Meet the CE' sessions. We are at that time of year when all effort is focused on ensuring that we meet the end March performance targets. All things being equal (of course they never are!) we should meet most if not all of our targets. Therefore well done to everyone so far and please keep your ‘eye on the ball’ for the next few weeks.
- With Your Pay Slip
- BAP - Reminder of Booking Codes
- Car Boot Sales End
- Parents Please Note
- Secretarial Update - Big Thank You!
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- Teddy Bear Open Day
The Children’s Services Department are holding an Open Day on 30th January. Venue Oak Ward. Time: 11.00a.m. to 5.00p.m.. The aim of the day is to recruit E and F grade nurses. The day will consist of talks throughout the day, lunch, visits to the wards and interviews.
- Patient Survey Starts 10th February
- Valuables Sent to Ashford Hospital
- Hospital Heroes
- Bleeper's Cup
- Dolly Bhaskaran
- Eagle Cars
- Food Allergy and Intolerance Week
- Weekend Detective Work
- Healthy Eating
- Fire Brigade Strikes
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- New Signs at St Peter's
New wayfinding signs are being installed at St. Peter’s to make it easier for patients and visitors to find their way around the site. The main entrances or buildings on the site are being identified on the signs.
- Parent Education Donation
- Feeling Safer?
- Racing at St Peter's
- Duty to Involve Staff
- Information Freedom?
- Health Clearance for Serious Communicable Diseases
- Primary Care Trust Cash Allocations
- Trust Board Update
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- Congratulations to Heather
Congratulations to Chronic Pain Nurse Consultant Heather Hawksley whose MSc Pain Management dissertation has been awarded this years Welsh Pain Society Prize. Heather has been invited to present her work at the Society’s annual scientific meeting in Nov. 2003.
- Meet the Chief
- League of Friends News
- Heatherwood and Wexham Park
- Start of Health Scrutiny Powers
- Food for Thought
- Comments Invited on Draft
- Surrey Wide Agency Contract Award
- Dave Hayles Retires
- Care Pathways in Ireland
- Trust Estates Manager Appointed
- Inter-site Minibus
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