POOLE: Availability this weekend at winter wellness clinic

Around one in five staff is now further protected from Covid-19 after our winter vaccination clinic at the Royal Bournemouth at the weekend.

The clinic, which also offers staff the annual flu vaccine, moves back to Poole this Saturday and Sunday, with limited appointments available on Sunday (17 October). Use the online booking system to find a time that suits, using your Chrome browser to do this.

Please remember:

• Bring your NHS number with you to your appointment
• If you cannot attend your appointment, please let us know using the instructions in your booking confirmation email, or via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information check out this FAQ.

Time running out in consultation on compulsory vaccinations for healthcare workers

The Government's consultation on extending compulsory vaccination requirements to health and care settings for COVID-19 and flu ends on 22 October.

The consultation proposes that, if introduced, requirements would apply to frontline health and care workers– those with face-to face contact with patients and clients. It would mean only those workers that are vaccinated (or those with a legitimate medical exemption) could deliver those services.

These are complex and important issues and the consultation seeks to gather a wide range of perspectives across the health and care sectors about whether requirements should be introduced.

One contact for e-roster

There is now only one email address for raising any problems with e-roster across UHD - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Public Health England hands over to the UK Health Security Agency

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is the new body that takes on the roles of organisations including Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace.

The UKHSA's remit will include public health, including the fight against Covid-19 through the continuing development of effective vaccines.

The UKHSA will also work to tackle health inequalities, one of UHD's strategic objectives as a partner on the Dorset Integrated Care System.

All Public Health England and Public Health Dorset contact details will remain unchanged for now.

POOLE: New members of #TeamUHD

A warm welcome seven new international nurses to the trust. They have finished their isolation period post arrival in the UK and started work last week.

They join us from the Philippines, Ghana, Zimbabawe, Nigeria and Kenya and will be joining our teams in wards A5, B2,B3, emergency department and theatres.

Welcome to all of our new starters this week, we are so glad to have you.

It's time for Abbott glucose and ketone external quality assurance (EQA) samples

If you use Abbott glucose and ketone meters look out for the letter and sample to test coming to your ward from Wednesday (13 October).

The letter will include details on where to send results, which must be submitted for each meter before 1 November.

Every meter on our register must have a result submitted by the point of care team within 21 days of the sample dispatch to be compliant. Any results returned after the deadline are not submitted and the ward or clinic is marked as non-compliant. If ketones are also measured on a device we expect a glucose and a ketone result for each meter.

If you have any questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

EQA compares different sites testing the same analyte, so there can be continuity of testing over geography. At UHD we subscribe to Wales External Quality Assurance Scheme (WEQAS) and samples are sent for us to test quarterly.

When reporting results to WEQAS point of care needs: meter serial number, strip lot number, test being performed, date of test, operator details and the result. The operator details are not reported but is a contact for us should the results be unacceptable, and we need to investigate or troubleshoot.

RBH: Limited inpatient stoma care service the Friday

We may not be able to facilitate day of referral review on Friday.

Stoma care service can be contacted on extension 4813, bleep 2633 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

National pension banding reassessment process

A new national payroll process has been added to ESR to automatically reassess new starters and assignments with certain pay-affecting changes, to ensure they are allocated to the appropriate pension per cent band.

This process will use all pensionable pay in the period of change to estimate pensionable pay for the assignment for the whole year.

Events that trigger the new assessment process on an assignment are as follows:

• new starter, including a new or secondary assignment for an existing person
• a change to the assignment grade step which is pay affecting
• assignments affected by a pay award.

Where the reassessment process finds that a new pension band is required the new pension per cent rate will be updated from the start date of the change in pay, either on the 1 of the following month, or backdated from the date of change in pay.

POOLE: Help keep our workplace fire-safe

Fire wardens have a vital role in maintaining fire safety compliance in their local workplaces and assisting in fire alarm incidents.

Two further courses have been booked in for Poole Hospital fire warden training. If you are already in the process of becoming a fire warden and have had to miss a previous session you can also book on to one of these dates.

• Monday 29 November 9-11am
• Tuesday 14 December 10am-12pm

Courses are held in the lecture theatre and can be booked on the Poole education and training pages on the intranet.

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POOLE: Telemetry outage next week

Due to a planned upgrade of the telemetry system next week there will be no ability to monitor telemetry centrally on Tuesday 19 October. This means the telemetry boxes will not be working.

It is planned that the outage will only last 24 hours and the system will be back up on Wednesday 20 October.

If a patient requires telemetry monitoring during this time, please discuss with the cardiology team. Patients who require monitoring will need to be transferred to AMU or ACU for monitoring whilst the telemetry system is down.

Save the date for our Christmas Elf Dash

Our first UHD Charity Christmas event is here and you're invited.

Join us at Branksome Dene Beach from 11am on Saturday 4 December 2021 – run, walk, skip or dance your way along a festive promenade route followed by a visit to Santa in his grotto!

Pop the date in your diary - sign up information coming very soon.

Do you know how to have difficult conversations?

If you have line management responsibilities, why not come along to a leadership development session aimed at helping develop techniques for managing difficult conversations.

The virtual programme, delivered by Practive, also aims to support attendees to tackle poor behaviour and support individual performance

Sessions can be booked on the leadership development pages of the RBCH intranet.

Spaces available at 'leading teams through change' workshops

Are you leading a team through change? Join one of our leadership development workshops to gain knowledge on leading through times of uncertainty and network with other leaders across UHD.

Workshops can be booked on the leadership development pages of the RBCH intranet.

Job of the week: Workforce lead across sites

The workforce team is looking for a motivated registered healthcare professional to join them on an 18-month secondment. You will support delivery of the workforce agenda for nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals across UHD.

The work is challenging, interesting and hugely varied, reflecting the current and future needs of the trust.

You will need to have experience in working with multidisciplinary teams and some operational and clinical experience.

The job closes on the 21 October. Click here for more information.

Your wellbeing weekly

Be sure to read up on all of the latest wellbeing offers on the You Matter pages of the intranet. This month is Menopause Awareness Month and there are workshops and discussions on offer which allow us all to learn more about menopause and its effects. You can also join mindfulness courses, take up exercise group opportunities and much more.