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A huge shout out to our colleagues
@WYFRS
Keighley and Silsden,
@WYP_Keighley
@WestYorksPolice
and
@YorksAmbulance
who joined us for tonight’s
#clapforkeyworkers
And they brought Easter eggs too!
#localheroes
#clapforourcarers
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We were delighted to receive a surprise 50th Anniversary video message from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
@ClarenceHouse
sharing his recollections of his visit in 1970 and his “heartfelt thanks and kindest wishes" with our staff.
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Together with
@bradfordmdc
it's been an absolute privilege to honour
@captaintommoore
and celebrate his 100th birthday with a plaque here at Airedale Hospital, near his hometown of Keighley. Thank you, Captain Tom, and a very happy birthday from all of us here at Airedale!
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Another fabulous and inspiring
#clapforkeyworkers
thanks to
@WYFRS
@WYP_Keighley
@NYorksPolice
@keighleybus
our amazing staff, our lovely neighbours and everyone else who joined in!
#localheroes
#amazing
#soproud
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Leanne Cooper will be joining us in the new year as our Chief Operating Officer. This is excellent news for us and we look forward to welcoming Leanne to Team Airedale in 2023😀
@LeanneCooperNHS
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A massive thank you to the amazing
@mosssideange
for telling her story with
@DrAmirKhanGP
for
@lorraine
this morning. Well done - you were brilliant, and brave for being so honest. We are proud to call you our colleague 💗
Matron Angela McGarry's father died of Covid-19 at the hospital where she works. She explains why she felt it was her duty to continue to work while her dad was ill and returned to support her colleagues soon after he passed.
'I knew my dad would have been proud.'
@DrAmirKhanGP
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Enormous thanks to
@HerriotsHotel
for supplying 100 cream teas to our hospital for an
#EasterMonday
bank holiday tasty treat for our staff. They went down very well and will keep our teams going this afternoon 😁
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Today is a very special day. It's the 72nd birthday of the NHS, and also 50 years since Airedale first opened its doors to patients. We're proud to care for our local community as part of the NHS and are looking forward to continuing in the next 50 years
#50YearsofAiredale
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Today it was our turn to return a gesture of appreciation. We applaud and tribute the efforts of our wonderful communities in abiding by government and local restrictions in order to protect the NHS. Thank you!
#ClapForOurCommunities
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Fantastic news! Wishing them all the best 🙂
Today we discharged 3 patients who had all recovered from Covid! So proud of my team! 💖🌈🥰👏🏻
#CovidElderlyWard
@AiredaleNHSFT
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Airedale ranked as the number 1 non-specialised NHS trust for patient experience
A huge congratulations to the top 10 acute non-specialised NHS trusts in England for
#patientexperience
as rated by the high volume of public comments collected and analysed by PEP Health, up to Oct 2021. 👏👏👏Full report available tomorrow!
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Fantastic news from Ward 5 this week! This is what makes it all worthwhile 🙂 Wishing Andrew all the very best for a continued recovery 🌟
Well done Team Airedale, one very happy covid survivor going home👏👏👏
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This is amazing! Thank you so much to
@bradfordmdc
Highways Team for creating these messages outside our hospital. It means so much to our staff to have such incredible support and such a boost as they come into work 🌈💙!
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We are excited to announce that we have been accepted on to the Government’s
#NewHospitalProgramme
! 🏥🎉
Read more about the announcement here 👇
We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us along this process!
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A warm welcome to our new Interim Foundation Doctors who have graduated from medical school and chosen to join us earlier than their normal August start date to help us look after our patients – huge thanks and respect! We hope you enjoy your time at Airedale.
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Fantastic news from Ward 14!
Super Saturday... today we discharged not 1, not 2 but 3 patients our youngest being 87 years young! So proud of our team!! 💖🥰🌈
#ward14covidelderly
@AiredaleNHSFT
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Amazing week in our
#CovidVaccine
centre - way to go team! With thanks to
@nickyward27
for the pic and to all our incredible vaccinators who are superstars
@VixLouPix
@Brendanbrown20
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Thank you to everyone who has done the
#clapforourkeyworkers
over the last 10 weeks. It's been humbling, uplifting and energising, and we've been clapping for every one of you, too ♥️
@WYP_Keighley
@WYFRS
@keighleybus
@YorksAmbulance
#NHS
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The rain held off for our
#ClapForCarers
so we were able to celebrate
#50yearsofAiredale
and
#NHS72
in style! Thank you to all who came down to clap and everyone for all you did during the pandemic and still do to support our community ❤️
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Thank you
@MattHancock
and
@_RobbieMoore
for our birthday wishes. We're proud to be part of our wonderful
#NHS
and proud to be part of our amazing community who have supported us so much during
#Covid_19
To all at the
#AiredaleHospital
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY 🎂🥳 - the support you have provided over the last 50 years to everyone across
#Keighley
&
#Ilkley
has been exceptional - A huge Thank You 🙏
@AiredaleNHSFT
from
@DHSCgovuk
&
@MattHancock
- here is to the next 50 years & beyond!
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A big shout out to our Pharmacy colleagues, without whom we couldn't give the
#CovidVaccine
Not only are they vital in our Vaccination Centre, they've worked incredibly hard to help get the Centre up and running, and to keep us safe.
@gavmillerpharm
@L3Hennessy
@gash_andy
🙂
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Today one of our radiographers Julia Rose is retiring after an incredible 49 years 😊Julia is normally based over at Skipton Hospital, but has been working at Airedale during the pandemic. Thank you for all your hard work over the years Julia, and enjoy your well earned rest!
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Lots of people recover from coronavirus and can go home. So far we have discharged 188 people.
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On the
#HottestDayOfTheYear
we've just given out around 2500 ice lollies to patients and staff across the hospital today! We hope they helped to cool you down slightly 🌞
#HeatwaveHeroes
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Congratulations to our consultant anesthetist (and Montane Spine race winner/hero) Tom Hollins
@stilesandmiles
who has now joined our senior
#medical
#leadership
team as Divisional Director for our Women's and Children's and Specialist Services Division. Great news Tom!
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RIP Captain Tom. You were an absolute legend and an inspiration to us all, and our teams have been enriched and cared for by your funds, working with our
@AiredaleCharity
Thank you, and bless you, from all of us here in your hometown of Keighley
#TomMoore
#Hero
Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised almost £33m for the UK’s NHS, has died with coronavirus
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A good day for Airedale as we have started our covid-19 vaccination programme today. Listen to
@Airedale_ED
consultant and clinical director Richard Keeble explain why he's pleased to have had his vaccination
#GetVaccinated
#KeepHope
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Today we bid a happy retirement to our Director of Nursing, Jill Asbury.
We say goodbye after 5 years working with our Airedale family, and 37 years with the NHS.
An amazing pillar of kindness, dedication and hard work. We cannot thank you enough and will miss you dearly ❤️🌷
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Thank you to Airedale Sewing Fairies,
@schoolofsew
and
@Ilkleygrammar
who together made and donated 300 sets of scrubs! 🧑⚕️👕
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Check out the new "Butterfly Tea Rooms" just installed on ward 6! A social space for patients to aid recovery. Familiar things such as the tea room setting and the red phone box especially help older confused patients or those with dementia to feel at home.
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Getting set for filming with
@DrAmirKhanGP
@AlanHartThomas1
@mosssideange
for
@lorraine
live to the nation at 9.15am talking about wellbeing and planting a tree for our next 50 years 🙂
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A shout out to Rebecca and Katie
@Morrisons
Yeadon who yesterday delivered juice, snacks and hand cream to keep our staff going, and Easter eggs for our young patients. Thank you to all at Yeadon, you’re stars 🌟🌟
@AiredaleCharity
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We are the FIRST trust in Yorkshire & one of only a few in the country to have a new
#Surgicube
. It creates an ultra-clean air environment so our patients can now have microsurgeries like
#cataract
surgery quickly easily and safely in our Dales Suite.
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2/2 For the 1st time patients with shoulder & elbow problems will be seen by an
#orthopaedic
surgeon, a
#radiologist
&
#physiotherapists
all at the same time. Having a team of experts at the first appointment will reduce patient appointments from 4 to 1.
#PuttingPatientsFirst
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Lots of people recover from coronavirus and can go home. We're pleased to say that so far we have discharged 190 people.
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Happy retirement to our Medical Director, Karl Mainprize. We couldn't let you go without a compilation of your best pics! Enjoy the sunshine and the time to do what you want to do 🙂
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Thank you so much to
@Morrisons
Keighley, Delta Taxis, Highcrest Retail, EuroTrans/APC and Wharfedale Harriers for donating Easter eggs today to keep our teams going - absolutely amazing!
#LocalHeroes
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More scenes from our vaccination centre this week, where we've given almost 1500 doses of Oxford AZ
#CovidVaccine
It's been an amazing week! THANK YOU to everyone who has been involved, or who has had their vaccine, you're all amazing 🌟
#GetVaccinated
#KeepHope
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We wish everyone a healthy and safe New Year.
Thank you to all our colleagues who are working today, you're doing an amazing job 💙
Thanks too to our colleagues on their rest day
We're proud of you all
and thanks to
@mina_abuelhawa
from our ED team for the beautiful photo
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Thank you to the Dog & Gun at Malsis who have once again brought in 200 delicious ready-to-cook meals to keep our night staff going. Thank you Anita, Beth and Amy 😍
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Great to see Pat, our Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Haematology, Oncology and Chemotherapy on tonight’s
#ITVCalendar
explaining how we continue to treat up to 40 patients per day on our two mobile cancer care units, in partnership with
@HfTcharity
#StillHereToHelp
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Amazing achievement Dr Hollins - we don't know how you do it!🏃♂️30 mountains non-stop 😮👏Congratulations for completing such an incredible challenge, and for raising money for an important cause
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Enormous thanks to
@UWT_UK
for the kind donation of PPE, snack bars and bottled water. It's extremely kind and will help to keep our teams safe, nourished and hydrated.
#HeroesOfCovid19
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Just to clarify, there hasn't been a new coronavirus spike in Keighley.
Do your bit to avoid this happening for real by keeping your distance, washing your hands frequently and continuing to follow the guidance.
Reports of Keighley coronavirus outbreak dispelled after Health Secretary's comments
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Drumroll please....at the end of our clinic tonight our hospital vaccination centre has given an incredible 20,000
#COVID19
vaccinations!
Enormous thanks to everybody who has helped to deliver this - and to all of YOU for getting vaccinated. You're all amazing!🌟
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Thanks to the amazing Hope for Tomorrow
@HfTcharity
and our team who made it happen TODAY we'll be taking delivery of our 2nd mobile unit to help care for and protect our patients with cancer
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We're super-excited to win a Pacer train carriage, which will be used by our children's unit, other patient groups, our youth volunteers and our local community. Thank you
@transportgovuk
!
Ladies and gentlemen, the face of
@AiredaleNHSFT
's winning bid for a Pacer train carriage,
@jodiepodieh
!!
@BBCTheOneShow
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We've said a fond farewell to our Deputy Director of Nursing, Karen Walker. Karen retires today after working in the NHS for 37 years and we've been lucky enough to have her at Airedale for 30 of them! Enjoy your retirement Karen, and much love from all of us 🥰
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It's not every day you get a special message from an absolute legend - thank you
@DavidHasselhoff
! AMAZING
#theHoff
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Despite pandemic pressures, cancer services continue at Airedale. For August 2020, 100% of cancer targets were delivered for all cancer services
@WYHpartnership
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The NHS employs and cares for people who come from different backgrounds, different cultures, and different races and that is to be celebrated. If we see, hear or experience racism or any other intolerance we must call it out and support each other.
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We are very proud to say that Airedale Hospital is one of them.
Yorkshire will be receiving two of the first 10 'one-stop shops' for diagnosing cancer - where patients with more vague symptoms can have several different tests at once for different forms of the disease. Find out more here →
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Enormous thanks to Arooj who kindly donated drinks last night from Shaib & Sons in Keighley to our thirsty
@Airedale_ED
teams 🙂😍
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Thank you, Captain Sir Tom Moore, for all your miles walked for the NHS, for lifting our spirits and for being a beacon of hope. We are extraordinarily proud of our local lad. Rest in peace: all our blessings go with you
#CaptainSirTomMoore
#WeSaluteYou
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As it is his last day here at Airedale, it's only fitting that we close the
#AiredaleAdvent
calendar with Chief Executive, Brendan Brown and two of his festive friends❄️🎅
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Meet our newest member of staff...Dobbie the guide dog! He's just been paired with one of our physios Mark. If you see Dobbie around the hospital with his harness on, please don't pet him, as he's working. But if he's harness-free he'll gladly have lots of pats and fuss :)
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We have been named as being in the top 5 of all trusts nationally for a patient safety award - and the only trust in the North of England. Congratulations to all our staff for this fantastic achievement
#CHKS
#RightCare
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It's
#YorkshireDay
. How lucky we are to have our hospital in the middle of this beautiful county. And we have some of the best views. 💙🌈
Photo courtesy of our very own Amina Abu-El-Hawa
#OurPeople
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Filming the wonderful Pam Beaumont with
@itvcalendar
@emmawilkitv
on our amazing ward 5 stroke unit today. Pam, Dr Sami, Kathryn, Carol and Shinta you were all fabulous, as were our lovely patients, inc
@MintonTaylor
. Looking forward to seeing the piece tomorrow night 6pm ITV!
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We've revealed our first annual
#PrideofAiredale
winners: Volunteer of the Year - Hearts in Little Hands! They teach basic life support to children
Our awards event should have been in April, but we're surprising the winners now instead. Other categories to be announced...
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Our Nightingales Nursery children did their
#ClapForCarers
at 2:30pm today. Children and staff put their heart and soul into creating banners, flags and love hearts. The children wore rainbow hats and banged pans to make a HUGE noise!
Thank you, Nightingales ❤️❤️
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Another fantastic week in our
#COVIDVaccination
centre last week. We have now given over 3250 vaccines to health and social care staff in two weeks, which is fantastic! Enormous thanks to everyone involved and everyone who has had their jab 🙂
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The 8pm Clap For Key Workers is incredibly moving, and means so much to us. However we want to keep everyone safe so we ask that you do not visit our hospital site to take part in Clap for Carers. Thank you and stay safe ❤️🙂
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Today our wonderful colleague Mary Stronach retires after a stellar 50 years service in the NHS. Mary started work at Airedale in 1970 she was 15 as a ward hostess serving tea and coffee & then became a midwife on our Labour ward.
What an achievement, we'll all miss you Mary!
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Thank you
@mbillingtonitv
for showing what we're doing to fight
#coronavirus
It was a privilege to share our story with you.
@itvcalendar
Today ITV has been devoting its programming to NHS staff. We've been given access to Airedale General Hospital near Keighley to see how the entire team there is working hard to save lives. Here's
@mbillingtonitv
.
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The judges have voted and
@Airedale_ED
is our Clinical Team of the Year! 👏👏👏
Congratulations to the whole department who have been nominated for "showing compassion, inclusivity, courage and humour while working together in the best interest of patients.”
#PrideofAiredale
🌟
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We’re excited to announce this year’s first
#PrideofAiredale
winner🤩
Our Leader of the Year is...
Kay Green!
She’s the Airedale collaborative care team leader and does an amazing job 💕
Congratulations Kay🏅🌟
More surprises coming soon...
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In order to help protect everyone, we've had to make the decision to suspend all visiting to the hospital.
Exceptions: birthing partner, 1 parent of a child, or for a patient receiving end of life care.
We're sorry for any concern this may cause, but hope you understand ❤️
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On
#NursesDay
we want to celebrate our amazing nurses 💙 Please say thank you to nursing staff everywhere who are always there for us whenever we need them:
#IND2020
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We've launched some special services for relatives & patients including a drop off & pick up service for essentials, sending hugs service where you can send a letter or card, & a care parcel service for patients if relatives can't leave their home.
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Our
@CareQualityComm
and
@NHSImprovement
report is published today, and we’re rated as ‘Good’
THANK YOU to all our people for the great work they do day in, day out and the amazing support from
@FriendAiredale
and our community🙂
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We are now Edible Airedale! We've planted a food forest of 2650 fruit trees with the help of Trees for Cities & YORgreencic & funded by The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund.
We'll soon have an edible landscape for our staff, visitors & wildlife 🌳🍎🐦
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On
#InternationalNursesDay2020
we're so proud of our nursing students who have joined us to help in the fight against
#COVID19
- you are stars, one and all! 🌟
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Our brilliant choir has recorded a message for all of us in these extraordinary times and it's very appropriate as we celebrate the 100th birthday of our hero,
@captaintommoore
Please watch and enjoy!
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Frank is someone who you instinctively know means it when he asks ‘how are you doing?’ Asking the sincere question prompts the honest reply - try it today
#BDCTTimetoTalk
@AiredaleAnaest1
#TimeToTalkDay
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For patients over 80, 10 days in bed ages muscles by 10 years
#endPJparalysis
Our staff want to stop
#deconditioning
by getting patients up
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Welcome to Michelle Hinchliffe our new Consultant in
#Palliative
#Medicine
. She already knows Airedale well – completing her core medical training with us. We’re delighted you’re joining
#TeamAiredale
✴️
Read more:
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Congratulations to each and every one of this year's
#PrideofAiredale
nominees 🌟 You should be really proud that one (or more) of your colleagues took the time to submit a nomination for you
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We’ve surprised a couple more people this afternoon!
The Quality Award for Outstanding Patient Experience goes to...
The Airedale cardiac rehab team!
#PrideofAiredale
They provide individualised care for patients in the community.
Congratulations! 🌟
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We've provided
#wellbeing
rooms for any staff who need to take a moment and recharge. They are open 24/7 and full of your
#rainbow
pictures and community donations including mugs, drinks and snacks, as well as information and support for their mental health.
#NHSHeroes
#WeCare
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Our day nursery children have been busy making this lovely sign 🥰 Thank you!
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123 care homes in our district are getting support during the coronavirus outbreak. Our telemedicine service has been enhanced – measures put in place in just 3 weeks – with the addition of different staff teams to the already established base of nurses
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Another exciting announcement...
Our AGH Solutions Team of the Year is our domestics team 🌟🏅
They work incredibly hard keeping our hospital clean and are very deserving of this award 🤩 Congratulations!
Hope you enjoyed the surprise...
#PrideofAiredale
@AGHSolutions
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A the winner of our
#PrideofAiredale
Volunteer of the Year award is...
Janet Wilson!
Janet is a
@stjohnambulance
volunteer who gives her time to help out in our Emergency Department, caring for patients and also for the busy
@Airedale_ED
team.
Congratulations Janet!
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Colleague of the Year was one of our biggest
#PrideofAiredale
categories this year.
Our judges chose Gareth Williams as the winner 🤩🏅He worked in catering as our hostess and housekeeper supervisor
Congratulations Gareth!🌟
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Amaaaazing! Congratulations to Bradford,
#CityofCulture2025
! We're so proud to be part of this fantastic district!! 💙💙💙
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We surprised our
#PrideofAiredale
Team of the Year...the postgrad placement team!🏆
They manage all placements for doctors in training, over 140 every year. They're compassionate&understanding, treating everyone with respect, dignity&confidentiality
Congrats Sally,Katie&Judith🌟
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Thank you so much to the
@Cougarmania
boys who came in today after a hard morning's training to visit our Children's Ward and ICU. Charlie, Ibrahaim, Sally and Emelia were delighted to meet them 😀
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We're very proud of Maureen Greenwood who's been awarded the title of
#QueensNurse
👑 Maureen is Team Leader for our Craven District Nursing Service & the award is given to nurses who show highest standards of patient care, learning and leadership 🌟
#rightproud
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A few pics from our brilliant Employee Open Day today. Thank you to everyone who came along and supported it, whether you were stall holders, visitors...or alpacas! We do this every year because we value our people - without you there would be no Airedale
#rightproud
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A huge thank you to everyone at
@meritecltd
for the lorry load of electrical goodies to use for our staff kindly brought by Adam & Adam from the Skipton office The lorry was full of kettles fridges microwaves & TV's, all delivered for free too thanks to Stephen & Simon from
@ao
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Thank you
@katieoscroftitv
for coming to see us yesterday; we're looking forward to seeing the piece tonight. Enormous thanks also to ward 13 for telling their story
#COVID19
#NHS
We're so proud of you all 💙
Covid a year on.
@katieoscroftitv
spends the day at
@AiredaleNHSFT
Hospital on ward 13 talking with front line Nurses and Doctors - watch her feature report on
@itvcalendar
tonight at 6
#News
#covid
#NHS
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We are very proud to have participated in this trial and contributed to this important breakthrough. Thank you to
@AiredaleNHS_RD
who led it for Airedale and to our patients who took part.
“A major breakthrough”
Scientists have found a cheap and widely-available drug which can help save lives of seriously ill coronavirus patients
It’s called Dexamethasone
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Our community teams can now update patients'
#SystmOne
records out and about wherever they are: better for them and better for patients.
It's an exciting change and they've been taking photos of working in the beautiful
#YorkshireDales
😄
Welcome to their office...
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Giving out cream teas courtesy of the Staff Lottery to celebrate our Golden Anniversary
#Airedaleis50
and the sun is shining!
#Fridayfeeling
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Some more shots from today's
#ClapForCarers
#50YearsofAiredale
#NHS72
courtesy of
@VixLouPix
Lovely to see
@FriendAiredale
, volunteers,
@AGHSolutions
and our staff 🥰
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Pharmacist Josh and dietitian Nick
#WorkingSafely
#BradfordOpenSafely
#StillHereToHelp
@bradfordmdc
A callout to our teams - take your
#SafetySelfie
and share it!
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