Staff Bulletin 19 April 2022

Poole: departure lounge opens to support flow

A departure lounge is opening from 9am-4pm from today (19 April) in the old WRVS café. This will run until Thursday (21 April). We hope this will enable some early flow from wards in the mornings after the busy bank holiday period, to contact the departure lounge for any queries ring ext. 5707 or ext. 4172.

To find out more and view the departure lounge SOP, please check the latest news on the intranet.

RBH: discharge team delays

The discharge team at Bournemouth are experiencing reduced staffing levels for the remainder of this week.

The team is operating an 8am-4pm cover Monday to Friday with cover this Saturday 8am-4pm but no service across the discharge team in UHD this Sunday.

Have you updated your car parking records?

Following the reintroduction of car parking charges for staff, it is important that our assignment number and banding details are up-to-date to ensure that we are charged the correct amount.

Our assignment number can be found on our payslip, via BEAT, or the employee self-service. Our banding can be found on your contract.

To update your records, please click on the link below. This form will take approximately two minutes to complete.

Click here to complete the form.

Please ensure you have completed this form by 29 April.

Join us for Ask Aly on Thursday

Join us at 1pm on Thursday (21 April) for Ask Aly, hosted by our chief medical officer, Dr Alyson O'Donnell.

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, pop 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. We hope to see you there.

#YouMatter – the People Pulse survey, hearing our views throughout the year

"As a trust we care about all our staff, please have your say by completing the People Pulse staff survey. It will only take a few minutes. Your opinion matters." - Karin Bauser, senior education administrator and foundation programme coordinator.

We know our experiences at work change over time, which is why we regularly ask how you are feeling. The quarterly People Pulse survey allows us all to be listened to and understood around a range of important topics throughout the year.

Click now to tell us how you feel.

When you access the survey, select University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust as your organisation.

Investing in informatics

A range of devices across the Trust are set to be modernised. The investment will ensure that IT and telecoms devices (eg PCs, laptops iPADs, digital phones) and equipment that is invisible to users (eg servers, data storage and back up, wireless access points and networks etc) will be replaced according to manufacturer's recommendations. Updating the equipment will mean that it is more reliable and easier to use which will play a key role in ensuring day-to-day work can be carried out efficiently with limited interruptions. With this investment, we aim to improve the care and working lives for our staff and believe it represents an excellent development for UHD.

The roll out will take place throughout the year.

EPMA update

EPMA is now deployed throughout medicine and cardiology, and the EPMA team are preparing to begin rolling-out the system to surgery after Easter. The roll-out plan is available on the EPMA intranet pages here, and has been agreed with surgical leads.

If you work on any of the surgical areas at RBH, make sure you've completed your EPMA eLearning to get an account.

Covid pneumonitis trial

If you have a patient who has Covid pneumonitis and you think they may be suitable for the recovery trial then please bleep 2831 at RBH and 0116 at Poole. The research team will come and assess them for suitability. Please document in the notes that you are happy for them to be recruited into the trial. Recovery at our site currently has the high-dose corticosteroids and Sotrovimab arms open.

Together leading compassionately - leadership and management support and development from Dorset ICS

The Dorset ICS is launching a new offer of support and development for leaders and managers across the Our Dorset System. Together leading compassionately is a new well-being offer that supports, connects and develops leaders and managers in health and care across Dorset. If you decide to take part, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so we can get an idea of what support our staff are receiving and we can share your learning.

You can find more about the offer and links to sign up here.

What does the ICS mean for you?

Please take part in a short survey aimed at capturing what the Our Dorset integrated care system means to you to help create a new visual identity. Deadline to take part is 3 May, click here to take part.

Last chance to try Dynamed

Our trial of Dynamed will be ending on 24 April. Dynamed is an online tool designed to provide the most useful information to health care professionals at the point of care.

If you haven't had a look yet click here and log in using you NHS OpenAthens account. We would also really love it if you could complete our quick survey here to give us an idea on whether our library should purchase it for the Trust. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Twilight Walk for Women's Health

To celebrate Easter, UHD charity are offering a special 10% discount on all tickets for Twilight Walk for Women's Health until Sunday 24 April! Join us at Baiter Park, Poole at 7pm and sparkle to support women's health projects at UHD.

Whilst sponsorship is an important part of fundraising at our events, we want Twilight to be about shining a spotlight on women's health across Dorset. So, gather a group of friends, family or colleagues and run or walk the 5k route in your most glittery outfits to help us spread the word. Invite your loved ones to cheer you across the finish line and bring your four-legged friends along for a walk under the stars.

Sign up today here and walk with us for every woman in our community.

Fighting period poverty at UHD

Do you work at UHD and need period products? Last week, the education and training department are proud to offer free menstrual items to those who need them in our bathrooms. The education centres are open 24/7 with a ID badge, and products are available in our female and accessible bathrooms on the ground floor. This is only possible through kind donations. If you are able to support this initiative we welcome donations at the education centre reception desk.

Free tickets from Lighthouse, Poole for NHS staff

Our friends from the Lighthouse are offering NHS staff free tickets to see Alistair McGowan: the Piano Show on 5 May. With only 100 tickets, be quick to snap them up by entering the code ALIMCGNHSFRE at booking. Book here.