Just reflecting on 3 years as CEO
@WhitHealth
tonight at midnight - what a privilege & experience - thank you to everyone across the organisation & wider system who has supported me - the best job with at times the most challenge I have ever experienced in my career
#nhsceo
Last night at sunset we gathered
@WhitHealth
to recognise & celebrate the contribution Nick has made over many years as a porter
@WhitHealth
- it was a special time;he will be so missed by colleagues & patients; thank you ‘the general’; a gentleman & outstanding role model
As I visited the emergency department today at Royal Bournemouth hospital
@UHD_NHS
I met Ernie one of our volunteers who was wheeling a wheelchair to come and help patients - he is 92 & has been helping here for 24 years - just inspirational- thank you Ernie 🙏
one of our amazing gynaecologists Dr Amma retiring today;what a woman & what a contribution to women & families & colleagues
@WhitHealth
- not only an inspirational caring consultant but also first black female student
@QueensCollegeCa
Cambridge - thank you Amma we will miss you
Ali told me this morning this is his last week
@WhitHealth
- he has been one of our amazing cleaners working across the Whittington & always brings a smile - thank you Ali for all you have done
At Bournemouth Hospital we have a lake & 🦆 - today I met Paul Fox in the estates team
@UHD_NHS
- below is Paul & the garden where the ducks go to hatch their baby ducks who can’t fly. Paul looks after the baby ducks & helps them to the lake - above & beyond 365days per year
… but very excited that I will be joining
#TeamUHD
and everyone at
@OurDorsetICS
- looking forward to meeting the people in
#TeamUHD
and everyone in the health and care system in Dorset who support local people (2/2)
We are pleased to share
@S_HarringtonNHS
has been appointed as our new chief executive and will take up her role on 1 June 2022. Siobhan will succeed
@DebbieFleming18
, who announced in September that she would be retiring from the NHS on 31 March 2022.
Our new nursing badge
@WhitHealth
based on an original badge from long ago.
#proud
to be a nurse - rolling them out across nursing & midwifery & considering how we roll out to all our staff - this is the beginning
#valuingourstaff
Just have to say this Friday after a long week - I am just in awe of how hard everyone has been working
@WhitHealth
- thank you 🙏 and thank you to our local community and partners for all your support
Today started as a challenging day - seeing the Christmas Tree - & the sun shining on the Jenner building & seeing our amazing ITU colleagues interviewed on
@itvnews
& all the colleagues I met today across
@WhitHealth
&
@nclstp
made it a positive day - thank you
#NHSheroes
Very privileged & proud to lead the opening of the Michael Clift Well-being Room
@WhitHealth
with colleagues & Michael’s family - a legacy of kindness & compassion
My experience of being part of induction
@UHD_NHS
this morning. Great to meet everyone in person - only one colleague today said they were on Twitter. Great positive energy in the room & thanks
@Pete_Papworth
for the main intro to the Trust - and Clare for the IPC session
Brenda our marvellous housekeeper doing a fab job through this challenging time - keeping us safe
@WhitHealth
thank you and your colleagues and love the new outfit
Our CEO
@S_HarringtonNHS
is moving on, after over 12 years
@WhitHealth
and 4.5 years as our Chief Exec, to take up a new role leading
@UHD_NHS
.
Read her message here:
Thank you
@CNOEngland
for coming
@UHD_NHS
to see us today. The sun shone on our wonderful new Beach building at Royal Bournemouth Hospital & you bought your energy & passion for patients & staff with you to some of our special events today 🙏
Just sitting with my mother in law - 5 days after valve replacement
@NHSBartsHealth
- she is telling me about what great care she has had. 85 & going strong - thank you
@A_WilliamsNHS
& team sounds amazing even the food
So proud & honoured to work with you
@johnsonmich18
- this is so well deserved. Thank you for all you have done over many years in the NHS & especially each & every day
@WhitHealth
for our local community & all our staff, & partners
Our CEO
@S_HarringtonNHS
and our Chair Baroness Julia Neuberger have congratulated our Chief Nurse
@johnsonmich18
on behalf of everyone at Whittington Health NHS Trust on being made an MBE in the Queen's New Years Honours:
A huge thank you Gretta O’Toole - retiring as our very special infection control nurse - great to talk to you about how you came
@WhitHealth
in 1975 as a student & stayed your whole nursing career. Thank you on behalf of your patients & colleagues - 46 years!
@johnsonmich18
⭐️👏
Just stopped by young man as leaving
@WhitHealth
hospital site who said - aren’t you the ceo here - just want to say how great it is here; have been on placement as part of degree & just succeeded in getting job
@kpmg
- what you all do here really matters’
A difficult day
@WhitHealth
- all our thoughts are with family & friends however struck by how many emails & texts I have had from staff & colleagues & that how much our outstandingly caring staff got me through today - thank you
My car is in the garage so this evening thought how shall I get from Royal Bournemouth Hospital to home near Poole -
@BCPCouncil
thank you - really enjoyed my cycle ride on the beryl bike - easy & along the beach
@UHD_NHS
we are lucky to be in
@OurDorsetICS
Looking forward to meeting
#teamUHD
over the week ahead. Thank you Steve for my name badge last week at Poole & also a big thank you
@paula_shobbrook
for everything & loved seeing the coloured eggs. This evening a quick walk by the harbour - feel fortunate to be
@UHD_NHS
Not sure how may people have noticed the new ‘Living wall’ outside
@WhitHealth
on Highgate Hill - the planters are part of the Councils carbon reduction initiative to reduce vehicle pollutants in the locality. Thank you
@IslingtonBC
& I love flowers & plants so think this is g8
We are delighted that today we have been rated as Good overall and Outstanding for caring by
@CareQualityComm
following our most recent inspection. Our Community Services were rated as Outstanding overall.
This is a fantastic achievement against a very challenging backdrop. 💙
In a bit of a mad day so good to bump into
@DrJulieAndrews
who had just been given gifts from her new consultants leadership group that she developed a leadership programme for
@WhitHealth
- our values in action & great clinical leadership - thank you
#caringforthosewhocare
Two of our fabulous guys who support everyone
@WhitHealth
- Mark & Steve working across the hospital with years of experience & looking out for staff & patients alike - thank you
‘Be more Bernard’ - such a lovely gesture from one of the junior doctors who had badges made that the whole team were wearing to encourage more people to be like Dr Bernard Davies one of our great haematologists
@WhitHealth
Thank you
@RoyalMintUK
for the lovely 10p coins - we are one of two NHS trusts in London to have them enter circulation. They are lovely with a stethoscope & heart & N for NHS. Thrilled that
@WhitHealth
is part of this. Our NHS70 heroes will receive one on Monday
A socially distanced happy retirement to Dr Wakeel - over 40 years in the NHS & 17 years
@WhitHealth
as one of our great Dermatolpgy team - thank you on behalf of all the patients you have treated and your colleagues
Great to catch
@WillWindsor1981
in Theatres at Royal Bournemouth Hospital this morning
@UHD_NHS
- your passion for what you do was so evident. Thank you 🙏
Jonathan our director of strategy
@WhitHealth
has been an absolute star working with local people & companies on supporting our staff - thank you for toilet rolls
@Ocado
- staff so appreciated it as distributed across trust
Michael is leaving his role in the canteen after over 20 years at Royal Bournemouth hospital to work in a new role in estates. I think many of us are going to miss his amazing smile & humour in the mornings
@UHD_NHS
- thank you 🙏
The A (amazing) team
@WhitHealth
deep cleaning Meyrick ward - Shaun leading the charge & real energy & passion for making everywhere safe for patients & staff - thank you all of you for what you are doing each & every day
Thinking of everyone affected by COVID-19 tonight - NHS & social care colleagues who have died; their families & friends
#ThankYouNHS
& everyone else who has been impacted by this pandemic
#ThankYouTogether
@WhitHealth
I first met Ruth over 20 years ago - she has always been a woman of such integrity & commitment to the NHS & nursing. As a nurse & CEO I have seen the injection of confidence & profile of the nursing profession since she has been
@CNOEngland
#proud
we need you now
@CNOEngland
I’ve never read such nonsense as I have about
@CNOEngland
.Ruth has given her life to the service of others and provided top leadership to the profession in its hours of need ,from ppe to nurses we have lost ,Ruth is the CNO we all need now
#dontletetc
Bumped into Clarence Moore
@UHD_NHS
#christchurchhospital
not only the matron for some of our medical specialities across the Trust but also a Nightingale nurse with a new modern badge different from mine! So good to meet you Clarence
Thank you to everyone
@UHD_NHS
over the last few days preparing for the days ahead. We are
#TeamUHD
- we are the NHS. Our priorities are keeping our patients safe & looking after our staff 🙏 & thank you to all our community & partners
@OurDorsetICS
for your support
Just such a special thing this morning on a Friday - arrived at work & the team told me a special thing was waiting for me. It was anonymous. In a world where you can be anything be kind & thank you
#TeamUHD
you are kind
@UHD_NHS
Walk around our busy emergency department & Helen told me that she had started the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice & is amongst the 1st AHPs
@WhitHealth
to do this - working as part of our amazing frailty team
#proud
Met sister Gill in outpatients at Royal Bournemouth Hospital
@UHD_NHS
- 48 years in nursing & working in the NHS - what a ⭐️ - thank you for all that you have done for all your patients & colleagues over those years - and still
Smiling
#NHS75
A huge thank you to colleagues across community services
@WhitHealth
vaccinating our local housebound patients yesterday & today. Helping local people live longer healthier lives with partners across Islington & Haringey
@VardaLassman
& Juliet Benton
We are so proud
@WhitHealth
of our very own and special Comfort Offorjindu NHS Lifetime Achievement award - so well deserved and struck by so many midwives and doctors that she has trained supervised and inspired
#proud
Trust Board meeting today where Matthew described his experience of having had covid and spending over 40 days in ITU. Thank you so much for talking with us & also to whole team
@WhitHealth
who cared for him
To everyone working across the bank holiday weekend - thank you for what you are doing for patients & each other across hospital & community services
@WhitHealth
heroes & hoping you all manage to get some rest at some point. Easter & spring are seen as a time of hope
#StayAtHome
A huge thank you to all our staff working tonight & over the weekend
@WhitHealth
- it is a challenging time & inspired by your focus on keeping our patients safe in the community & hospital. Happy New Year to everyone
Kofi - thank you for being my mentor - my experience of being reverse mentored is proving challenging, energising, enlightening - at some times sad & some times very affirming. Look forward to our next session!
So nice to bump into Dr Theresa Freeman Wang
@WhitHealth
just been announced as President of the British Society of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology - first woman president - many congrats Theresa we are so very proud of you & your achievements
Back on twitter after a great week of annual leave - saw my dad after a long time! Had a haircut, swim and time out.
@WhitHealth
colleagues make sure you take some leave - you deserve it
#smilebehindthemask
Thank you Dr Calisha Allen for reminding me how important the smile is behind the mask - many of us are realising how important our smiling eyes are
@WhitHealth
Wow what a great lady - Carol Skillen who has worked here for 18 years & today received an award at Royal Bournemouth hospital for demonstrating excellence in our values
@UHD_NHS
our ‘walking ray of sunshine’ - thank you Carol - discharge coordinator & bank therapy assistant
A quiet walk around Poole reflecting on my first few months
@UHD_NHS
- a special place & special people - thank you for making me feel welcome
#TeamUHD
- &
@OurDorsetICS
- having a break for the next few weeks & back for all the opportunities ahead
@paula_shobbrook
thank you
A highlight of many this week meeting Monica & Judith who are part of the leadership team of the BAME network
@UHD_NHS
- looking forward to supporting the network. Lots to do & such great people
A special time today celebrating our Noel
@UHD_NHS
- much missed & his son played for us all one of Noel’s favourite songs - thank you & to TeamUHD for making it so special 🙏
Enjoyed walking & talking around the fab imaging department
@UHD_NHS
#poolehospital
this afternoon - 3 MRI machines & 3 CT scanners on this site & ultrasound & X-ray & amazing ‘can do’ colleagues
@mmould_pooleNHS
@raviayer
thank you
A huge thank you
@SomersetFT
for the care my dad has had over the last 12 days as in patient in Montacute ward - great care thank you
@hayleypeters
@PeterLewis45
such a challenge as parents become frailer but
#lucky
he is now home 🙏
There are some days when you realise how amazing staff in the NHS are & how hard it can be.
@WhitHealth
today was one of those days - thank you
#teamwhitthealth
Welcome to Dr David Broadley - local GP who has started as Medical director for integrated care
@UHD_NHS
- week 3 & he is in great demand - welcome to
#TeamUHD
& our executive team
And then I met John today - one of our patients having an outpatient appointment
@UHD_NHS
- RBH has many long corridors & he was on roller skates. He proudly told me he was 78 & liked to love life to the full!
#onlyinDorset
Anil from our amazing rapid response team
@WhitHealth
with Dr Sarah Humphery medical director and local GP with a sign made by one of patients - so special
Wishing Bridget Coleman all the best
@WhitHealth
after coming to the Whittington pharmacy 23 years ago for a one year fixed term contract as a junior member of staff & now retiring as deputy chief pharmacist - thank you for all you have done & what a great personal journey
Just in queue for lunch
@WhitHealth
with my 2m distance from Ali ahead of me who told me of her experience in ITU & how different from her role as clinical lead for speech & language therapy
@thepalincentre
- in awe of how you have helped patients & fellow staff this morning
pleased to have visited the maternity unit
@UHD_NHS
#stmaryspoole
- meeting the team & talking about the last few years, the now & future. Struck by great teams & honesty re things that are good & where improvements planned. Thank you
@KerryTa24800219
@The60528001
& Jane & team