Staff Bulletin 16 September 2022

Paying our respects on the day of funeral

A two-minute silence will be held at 11.55am on Monday at the conclusion of the state funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II, it has been announced. Please feel free to participate in your departments.

We appreciate that this an historic occasion, so we will have screens broadcasting the Royal funeral during the day for you to watch on your breaks. They will be in:

• The lecture theatres at RBH and Poole as well as the conference rooms in our education centres.
• In the Dolphin Restaurant at Poole and both the Shelley and Oasis restaurants at RBH.

A full timetable for the service is available here and read more about our plans here.

The Dolphin and Shelley will be open as normal and will have a memorial coffee and cake special offer for all. The Oasis will not be trading, but will be available for watching the service.

Additional bank holiday

Monday 19 September has been declared a bank holiday.

We have now received confirmation from ESR that the additional bank holiday will be nationally uploaded on to the system in due course. However these additional hours will then need to be uploaded into Health Roster. Please be patient as this may take some time to filter through to your annual leave entitlement.

Ask Aly

Join us at 12noon on 22 September for Ask Aly, hosted by our deputy chief medical officer, Dr Matt Thomas. It's a great opportunity to ask questions, raise concerns or share your views. You can join the meeting here and if you'd like to send any questions in advance, send them through to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we can ask on your behalf.

Antenatal services coming together from Monday (19 September)

The antenatal team in Ward 7 at RBH are moving to St Marys (Poole), so from Monday 19 September all antenatal appointments will be run from the Poole site. For the background to the changes click here.

RBH: No medical photography service

There will be no medical photography service from 15-23 September. In emergencies a camera is available from the site office.

Stay up to date: The Brief and all staff briefing

Your September edition of The Brief is out now, complete with your handy 'The Brief in brief' document to help you cascade the key information to your teams and feedback any queries or comments. Please return this cascade feedback form to Siobhan Harrington, CEO, or email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Workforce helpdesk

From the 1 October, IT will start to push back with emails requests for ESR and Health Roster. Enquires will have to come though the helpdesk via the intranet.

NHS Dorset EPR/PAS and the digital summit

In Dorset we have a once in a generation opportunity to invest in a next generation Electronic Patient Record. We know that clinicians want better clinical IT and to move this forward, we will be attending The Digital Summit on 21 September. The event will bring clinicians together from across Dorset to ensure that whatever decisions are reached about the organisational “footprint” of the new EPR are clinically led.

We expect that we can successfully apply for significant national funding to help us procure this new system. In order to deliver better “joined up” patient care, the national expectation is that we would use this opportunity to run fewer EPRs, for each Integrated Care System, than previously.

RBH: Car parking

A polite reminder that staff should not be parking within the contractor's car park at RBH. These spaces are behind the residences buildings, facing Wessex Fields. These spaces are reserved for contractors working on the transformation programme, and any unauthorised parking within this area may lead to works being delayed.

RBH: Window cleaning

The window cleaners will be on site from 26 September to clean the atrium and both wings. They will be cleaning both inside and outside. Please ensure you are satisfied with the cleanliness of your windows, any problems must be raised while they are on site via ext. 4454.

Reminder: Advanced warning of Longfleet Road closure 16-19 September

At Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road will be closed while the tower crane is removed. The closure is scheduled to begin at midday today (16 September) and will run to 6am Monday (19 September). The areas affected will be the mortuary, help desk, porters lodge, Mitie store room and pathology labs.

We apologise for any disruption caused by this project and are doing everything we can to make sure that any inconvenience is kept to a minimum. The BCP Council traffic notice for Longfleet Road can be found here.