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Thank you to everyone at
#TeamUHL
who shared their feedback in the 2023 National Staff Survey.
We have improved in 96 out of 103 questions and this year’s progress is down to you.
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🕺💃The first set of 'BedDances' to get patients moving in hospital ahead of their discharge have taken place.
‘BedDances’ aim to improve patients' mobility and prevent deconditioning in hospital through creative dance-based exercise sessions accompanied by uplifting music.
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😀👏Light at the end of the tunnel -
@Leic_hospital
sends 61 year old Hylton Murray-Philipson home fit and well after 2 weeks in hospital for COVID-19, including 7 days in ICU on a ventilator. He says, “There is no limit to my gratitude to the team.” 🙏♥️
#ThankYouNHS
#TeamUHL
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.
@Mahrez22
&
@slimaniislam
visited sick children at our hospital, even playing table football with children who were well enough to do so.
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We are pleased to announce that both intensive care units at our Childrens’ Hospital are to be named after Leicester City’s late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The naming decision has been taken by our charity in recognition of the £2m donation he made to the project.💙
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People have asked how we are...
We are a hospital in the middle of a pandemic. We are trying to get as many sick people back to their families as we can. We shed tears when we can't. We are tired. We are vaccinating. We are hopeful. We are here for you.
Stay safe, stay home💙
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It is with deep sadness we and
@uniofleicester
announce the loss of a talented, dedicated and much loved colleague, Professor Tony Gershlick, who passed away today. Read our tribute here:
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Christina, who will be Jacob’s named midwife again for his second pregnancy, says: “Whoever the birthing parent may be, it’s important to individualise their care, listen to them without judgement and take time to make them feel comfortable.”
#UHLPride
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An historic day! We’re delighted to begin vaccinating patients, care home workers and NHS staff at highest risk of
#coronavirus
David Brindley (87) was the first local patient to receive the fully-tested and approved
#COVID19Vaccine
at Leicester General Hospital this morning.
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Congratulations to
@KartarSBring
who has recently taken up his new post as Head of
@Leic_Chaplaincy
!
Not only is Kartar the first Sikh to head up the Chaplaincy team at
@Leic_hospital
, he is also the first Sikh Head of Chaplaincy within the NHS.
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To help keep our patients safe, all visitors and colleagues in clinical areas of our hospitals, including outpatients, should wear surgical face masks at all times unless eating or drinking.
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We’re GOOD! 🙌 The CQC have rated our Trust as GOOD, a testament to the hard work and dedication shown by our staff each and every day. Go
#TeamUHL
#BecomingtheBest
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BREAKING NEWS! Following
@NHSEngland
meeting, threat to decommission services at
#EMCHC
has been lifted. We can continue to provide lifesaving surgery to our patients! We would like to acknowledge the fantastic support we've had from our campaigners ❤️
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Today we remember the tragic helicopter crash at
@LCFC
one year ago. Our thoughts are with the five people who lost their lives that day, and their friends and families. Thank you to all our colleagues across the emergency services who worked tirelessly that night. 💙
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We can confirm that
@LCFC
Alan Birchenall is being cared for at our Glenfield Hospital and is stable
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Liz Darlison, consultant nurse
@Leic_hospital
and Head of Services for the national
@Mesouk
charity, has been awarded an MBE for ‘services to Cancer Research and Patients’ in the 2019
#QueensBirthdayHonours
!
Congratulations
@darloliz
! 🎖️
➡️
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❣️[Warning: Story may induce happy tears]❣️
Husband and wife of 61 years, Michael, 91 and Gillian, 88, walked out of hospital together yesterday, following three-weeks in hospital recovering from
#COVID19
.
📸Photo credit: their son, Russell.
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A new app is being developed which hopes to improve maternity outcomes & reduce health inequalities for new mums from ethnic minorities.
The JanamApp has been designed to address cultural barriers in pregnancy by providing appropriate info in multiple South Asian languages.
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With only days to live, one of our patients Stephen got his wish and married his partner Jo yesterday.
Staff nurse Adrianna led the ceremony on Ward 33 at Glenfield Hospital after being granted special permission to act as registrar.
Read more here:
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🚗 A child’s journey to surgery has become easier thanks to a generous donation from
@SturgessCarsLtd
. Not 1, but 6 electric cars have been delivered to the Royal, which will allow children to drive themselves to theatre! Thank you from all of us at
#LeicestersHospitals
😊
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In these challenging times, it’s those small acts of kindness and events like
#ClapForOurCarers
that show how valued our health service is, and how grateful we are to those who work in it. 👏
#ThankYouNHS
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Yesterday, we opened a new 10-bed facility at Leicester Royal Infirmary as part of our commitment to reducing ambulance wait times at our hospital.
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Happy Birthday Leicester Royal Infirmary!
This weekend marks 250 years since the LRI first opened. As you can imagine, things were very different back then. Over the weekend we'll be sharing some photos from our past.
#LRI250
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Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Abbie Crawford, was excited to start her new job this week as Injuries Lead in our Emergency Department - becoming the first AHP to take on the role.
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"It has been the greatest honour of my career to work alongside you all."
Today, we say goodbye to acting chief executive Rebecca Brown, who led us through the most challenging time in NHS history.
📺This was her message to
#TeamUHL
on her final day
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“They have been incredible,” that’s what deputy chief nurse, Eleanor Meldrum had to say about the Army personnel who have been redeployed to support
@Leic_Hospital
.
Thank you from all
#TeamUHL
for supporting us, our patients and our community.
@ArmyMedServices
@R_Signals
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🌈 Beautiful rainbow over Glenfield Hospital this evening 🌈
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📢 Richard Mitchell will join
@Leic_Hospital
as chief executive from Autumn ‘21.
Richard said joining
#TeamUHL
again would be a privilege: “Recognising how tough the last 18 months have been, I feel optimistic about our future. You already make such a positive difference.”
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Doctors and nurses at Glenfield Hospital's new ITU extension received their first patients today. The extension was completed Friday, before being cleaned and prepared ready to accept its first patients.
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We'd like to say a big well done to the staff on ward 17 for raising funds for a new end of life room. They held raffles and cake sales to raise money and also came in and decorated the room in their own time. Thank you for your hard work!
#OneTeam
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Congratulations to our Paediatric Emergency Department who have been named ‘Training unit of the year’ in the East Midlands Paediatric Awards for Training Achievements. Well done team!
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A dedicated life of service and a legacy of grace, hope and compassion. The thoughts of everyone
@Leic_hospital
are with the family of The Queen this evening.
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Amazing support again 😊💙
Thank You. Thank you all. Great turn out from the Leicester emergency services showing our support and respect.
#clapforNHS
#savelivesstayhome
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The Victoria Building at LRI has been turned pink to mark organ donation week. What a lovely tribute to all those who lives have been touched by Organ Donation.
#PassItOn
#OrganDonationWeek
@MidlandsOrgan
@NHSBT
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What better way to start
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth
than with the news that 11-month-old Sophie recently celebrated her last day of chemotherapy.
Sophie was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in April 2020 and was treated on Ward 27 at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
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Staff Nurse, Cass, will be presenting three short films about trans healthcare at this year’s LLR Academy Health & Wellbeing Festival.
Cass developed their idea as part of the Chief Nurse Fellows programme, which sees nurses and midwives take on their own improvement projects.
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Behind every COVID-19 statistic is a person.
The initials of some of the lives we have saved are on our ‘tree of life’ outside of the adults intensive care unit a Glenfield Hospital.
And the people we have lost remain in our hearts forever 💙
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Say hello to Lucy and Liz 👋
Lucy is a Staff Nurse in children’s intensive care. Liz is a Consultant Nurse in the lung cancer team.
Lucy is also Liz’s daughter 💙
They've been vaccinating together at Leicester Royal Infirmary 💉
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Tonight we light up our oldest building, the Victoria building at Leicester Royal Infirmary, in support of
#WorldPatientSafetyDay
and the efforts of our staff to keep our patients safe.
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Doctors at Glenfield Hospital have become the first in the UK to implant the latest generation Micra AV leadless pacemaker.
Consultant cardiologist, Dr Somani, implanted the miniature device through a leg vein directly to the patient's heart in a day case procedure last month.
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Probably the cutest thing you will see today... 💙
When Evelyn had to dress up as a superhero for
#ChildrenInNeed
at school, she chose her own real-life superhero… Dr Andy Currie.
Dr Currie and the
@UHLNeonates
team saved Evelyn’s life when she was born in 2014.
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We were with you all the way. What a match. Big goal. Huge save. Massive win for all of us. Congratulations
@LCFC
from all
@Leic_hospital
🦊⚽️💙
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Well that was emotional! Think the clapping was even louder this week. Huge thanks to all key workers for your amazing work and to those who clapped for your support. 👏 💙👏
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Wonderful news for George who, after eight weeks in hospital with COVID-19, is well enough to go home and was discharged yesterday 👏
Thank you George for allowing us to share your journey! 💙
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Meet our first babies of 2021! At 1.15am, parents Emilie and Joaquin welcomed baby Noemie to the world at LRI. Only two minutes later, Preety and Ghanshyam welcomed their baby girl at LGH. Congratulations to our families and new additions, we wish you a year full of love and joy.
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📢Leicester General Hospital is confirmed as the first COVID-19 vaccination site for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
More here ➡️
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The Government has announced today that we will receive vital funds to deliver new facilities for Leicester by 2030, as part of the New Hospitals Programme.
Read a statement from
@RMitchell_NHS
welcoming the news here: -
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“I love making the hospital nice and clean for patients and knowing that it’ll help them get better. Getting to talk to the patients when I’m working is the highlight of my day.”
Jennifer Tugeman - Domestic
#BehindTheMasks
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#MedTwitter
What makes an inspiring role model? Ask the doctor that nominated
@jennyldb
@ItapsTeam
consultant - Our Most Inspiring Role Model ‘21. Recognised for: advocating for trainees & ensuring that despite COVID-19 they got the training they needed & supporting wellbeing.
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💙😃 Shout out to our egg-cellent staff who are working this Easter! No yolking - they really go above and beyond everyday. We have some cracking teams who keep you safe so don't whisk it and get too egg-citied, enjoy your eggs but stick government advice!
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
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🌟Congratulations to Dr Sanjiv Nichani and Professor Mick Peake who were amongst only 260 people awarded OBE as part of the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
.
#TeamUHL
are incredibly proud of your achievements and your commitment to better outcomes for patients.
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.
@evelyn41991870
is looking forward to a new challenge, after being appointed as Deputy Head of Nursing for
@LeicChildHosp
.
Since joining
#TeamUHL
as one of our first international nurses she has built up a wealth of experience ready to pass on to the new generation of nurses.
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The ‘Thank You NHS’ Spitfire soared in the sky over Leicester Royal Infirmary this morning as part of a scheduled fly past of NHS hospitals thanking frontline healthcare staff for their hard work and dedication during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Congratulations
@GrangerKate
&
@PointonChris
for raising over £250,000 for
@YCC_Appeal
! Love from
@Leic_hospital
x
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A special thanks to
#TeamUHL
for their hard work and dedication over the last 12 weeks. Although it's not over yet, whether you are on the frontline, working from home, or shielding you’ve all played your part in getting us to this point.
#NHSBirthday
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Yesterday, we opened our third COVID-19 vaccine ‘hospital hub’. The hub, based at Leicester Royal Infirmary, will vaccinate health and social care staff from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Read more:
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Consultant in Palliative Medicine,
@DrRosieBronnert
has been appointed as Quality Improvement (QI) Clinical Advisor for the National Audit of Care at the End of Life.
Rosie will help to develop a QI strategy for the Audit, which contributes to improvements in end-of-life care.
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📢
#TeamUHL
: Colleagues can now start their day with a free and freshly cooked porridge in our main site restaurants.
Simply show your ID badge at the tills between 7am-11am throughout December and January.
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Our chairman, Karamjit Singh CBE, would like to offer the thoughts and prayers of everyone at
#LeicestersHospitals
to our close friends at
@LCFC
during this sad time.
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"The staff in our NHS are phenomenal" says our COVID-19 survivor, Hylton.
#TeamUHL
that one's for you. You've seen the video. Now read the story
@leicslive
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Singer
@example
visiting our teenage cancer patients on ward 27 at the Royal
http://t.co/WX4mpISSGQ
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🌟🏆 It's official - we have the best radiography team in the UK! They have been named by the Society of Radiographers as the UK and Midlands Radiography Team of the Year! Take a read of the full story here:
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Congratulations to Clair Martin, Advance Practitioner Physiotherapist, who has been elected as Critical Care Champion on
@TheACPRC
committee.
Clair said: “I’m excited to champion the work of physios in critical care regardless of how large or small a trust they work for.”
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Congratulations to Dr
@FfionDavies4
, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, who has been elected as President of the
@IFEM2
.
Ffion said: “I feel very privileged to have been elected into this role and look forward to working with a fantastic international team of senior doctors."
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You won’t see a better ‘how it started vs how it’s going’ post than this on
#WorldPrematurityDay
💜
Olivia was born at just 25 weeks in Oxford and weighed a tiny 707g.
Now Olivia’s a third-year medical student caring for patients at Leicester’s Hospitals.
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‘Kerry empowers her senior team on AMU to go above and beyond for both patients and staff.’
Congratulations Kerry Johnston, Head of Nursing, for winning the 2020/21 ‘We focus on what matters most’ Caring at its Best award. Your dedication to others is inspiring!
#caib21
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Keeping over 16,000 staff fed and watered during a pandemic is no small task but our retail teams have done just that over the last year 🥪🥗🍏🥤
A huge thank you to all involved 💙
#TeamUHL
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Good Morning 🌅 Happy International Women’s Day 🌟 We’re grateful everyday to ALL the staff & volunteers at our hospitals 🙏🏥 As today is
#IWD19
we wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to the ladies
@Leic_hospital
- all 12,241 of you 🦸♀️👩⚕️👩🔧👩💻🤱🧗♀️🚑💊💉🌡🧪🦠📝🚨☕️🍼🍏⛑👮♀️👩🍳👩🔬👏💙🙌
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Fresh fruit & veg stall comes to LRI, outside Osbourne Building 7am-4pm, Mon-Sat, no excuse now to get your 5-day, welcome to Penny, PB Fruit & Veg - make an order for home, bowl of fruit for the office or an apple 🍎 a day!!
#NewYearNewYou
#health
#2018
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Congratulations to Bereavement Midwife, Becki Crook, who has received the Midwife of the Year Award from baby loss charity The Mariposa Trust. The award is in recognition of Becki’s work with the rainbow service, which provides specialist care to bereaved families.
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For the last 20 years, Sheena Moore has been responsible for keeping Leicester Royal Infirmary's grandfather clock ticking. But after nearly 50 years of service in the NHS, she clocked off for the last time on Friday.
Good luck in your retirement, Sheena.
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👶Christmas babies!
Meet Teddy, born at half past midnight, to proud parents Holly and Josh at LRI and Baby Kamli who followed an hour later at Leicester General to delighted mum, Mital, and dad Ketan. Sending our best to all our newborns and their families
@Leic_hospital
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Congratulations to
@jonny_acheson
, who’s been appointed as the Director of Engagement & Communications at
@ParkinsonsEN
!
“I’m looking forward to working with members of the Parkinson’s community, and NHS colleagues, to shape and deliver potentially life-changing messages.”
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This week our pathology and lab teams processed their 150,000th COVID-19 test since they began testing in March.
A huge thank you to all of our brilliant pathology and lab staff who have worked so hard to help us diagnose and care for local people. 👏
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⬇️ New this week ⬇️
✅ Pub gardens
✅ Hairdressers
✅ Retail shops
✅100,000 vaccines given at our hospital hubs 💉
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Paediatric Emergency Consultant, Dr Habab Mekki, joined
@UKMed
colleagues this afternoon for a reception at 10 Downing St. in recognition of her work on the Turkey-Syria border to help children injured in the recent earthquake.
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Much-loved general manager, Emile Forbes, is preparing for an emotional farewell to
#TeamUHL
as he retires this week having started at
@Leic_hospital
in Sept 1982 as an assistant in the operating department.
Thank you for your contribution and we wish you a happy retirement! 💙
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A new system has been implemented by lung cancer specialists at Glenfield Hospital that shortens the time from diagnosis to treatment. This means patients with small cell lung cancer can start vital treatment earlier. The initiative was recently shortlisted for a national award.
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A new endoscopic procedure to safely remove throat cancer was performed
@Leic_Hospital
for the first time in April. The endoscopic oropharyngectomy was carried out by head and neck surgeon, Dr Oladejo Olaleye.
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Heart attack patients are being discharged faster thanks to a pilot scheme run by Dr Modi (pictured) and Glenfield’s cardiology team. The scheme empowers patients to monitor their blood pressure at home and receive virtual follow-up appointments meaning they can get home quicker.
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Some things may change today, but masks in our hospitals won’t 😷🏥
Please remember to wear a face mask when attending our hospitals.
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Thank you to the care workers, council staff, teachers, check-out assistants, delivery drivers, call centres, charities and to our community who
#StayHome
to
#SaveLives
. We’re all in this together. 💙
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All hail to our female staff today on
#InternationalWomensDay
👩🏻⚕️👩🏼💼👩🏾⚕️👩🏻👩🏻💼👩🏼⚕️👱🏼♀️🧕🏽👩🏽💼👩🏽💻
You make up around two thirds of our workforce so we literally could not run our hospitals without you. Thank you 🙏🏼
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A 100 strong Zoom choir of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) staff – including some from
#TeamUHL
– are hoping to secure the Christmas No1 spot 🎄🎵
The choir have recorded a remake of The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’. You can pre-order it here:
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🎉 Today we launch our new electric Hospital Hopper Bus service in partnership with
@Leicester_News
and
@Centrebus
🚌🔋🚌🔋🚌🔋
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Happy 3 week’s old today Vanellope! You’re waking up to front page news. Today people will hear about your surgery at Glenfield Hospital & how surgeons put your heart back inside your chest
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Nurses hope a new vein finding device will improve the experience for chemotherapy patients. The easy to use device lights up to clearly show the veins under the skin. Importantly, it works on all skin tones, ages and body types meaning all patients can benefit from the device.
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A man who spent almost two weeks fighting coronavirus has praised the care he received from NHS staff.
Hylton Murray-Phillipson said he wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for staff at
@Leic_hospital
Read more:
#TeamUHL
#ThankyouNHS
#Coronavirus
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It’s official, we have Britain’s Best Junior Doctors!
#BBJD
Well done to Jon, James and Will - we think you’re fab!
#teamUHL
#NHS70
#NHS70Leicester
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