Staff Bulletin 28 June 2022
#YouMatter – financial support available
When thinking about your wellbeing, an important - and often overlooked - part is financial. We all worry about money at some point in our lives, and we want to ensure you have access to the tools that can really make a difference.
UHD works with Salary Finance, an independent organisation who offer a range of financial services to NHS staff.
Through Salary Finance, you have access to:
- loans repaid through salary
- advances on earned pay for when you need it
- simple savings accounts where you can save straight from your salary
- money insights including budgeting tips and tools, videos and webinars
To find out more and apply, visit: uhd.salaryfinance.com Please note that while UHD is signposting to Salary Finance, we would always recommend you take your own independent financial legal advice.
Remember that wellbeing support is available to all of us. Please take a look on our dedicated intranet pages and share the information with your teams. If you are feeling overwhelmed, please talk to your line manager, and remember that our wellbeing support services and staff networks are also available to support staff at these times.
Join our all staff briefing next Wednesday
Join Siobhan Harrington, our chief executive, for the next all staff briefing (6 July) either in person in the lecture theatre at Poole Hospital or on Teams at the link here at 8.30am.
Siobhan will be updating on the latest news for our trust and introducing the next edition of our all staff magazine, The Brief.
There will also be an opportunity to ask questions at the event or through Teams as well as sharing your views via Slido.
Show your Pride
Join your LGBTQ+ network for Bourne Free celebrations in Bournemouth on Saturday 9 July. Network members and allies will be meeting at the Bournemouth Triangle to join the walking parade at 11am to Meyrick Park, with banners, balloons, t-shirts and whistles, so please join us if you can or cheer us on from the side lines!
If you are unable to join on the day but would like to show your support, you can make a pledge for inclusion with our library teams who have rainbow lanyards and badges to share. If you work offsite and would like to get in the spirit with some flags, posters and information resources, get in touch with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Have you completed your National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL) survey?
If you play a part in end-of-life care, you are invited to share your opinions and experiences in the NACEL staff survey. Whether you work in a clinical or non-clinical role, your views matter, and will help to ensure UHD gets end-of-life care right for our patients.
Ongoing delays in IT hardware delivery
Due to global supply constraints, the trust is struggling to gain access to IT and medical hardware.
If you have placed an order with IT, the team will be in touch when the order has arrived and is ready for deployment or collection.
POOLE: New mandatory training topics on the BEAT VLE
Three new topics are now live on the BEAT VLE: tissue viability, end of life and sepsis. An additional topic will follow in the coming weeks: VTE (venous thromboembolism)
This now completes the alignment of all core mandatory (green brain) topics across UHD. Our education teams will now be looking to aligning our clinical topics on the green heart.
Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
Spinal MSK service change
From 1 July the spinal MSK service will be moving to Dorset Healthcare and will no longer sit under rheumatology at UHD. The service will still run out of UHD sites including Christchurch and Poole but will also include some clinics at the AECC Chiropractor College and Shelley Road Surgery. Any internal referrals will now need to go via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and not to the rheumatology team.
RBH: Limited stoma care service this Thursday
Due to staff training, the service will be reduced this Thursday (30 June).
Supporting Hey Jude Summer Ball
Our colleagues Dr Andrew Cunnane and Dr Laura Tarry, based at Poole, are fundraising in name of their son Jude. After passing away unexpectedly in October, they are now fundraising for Young Epilepsy and Julia’s House. Although their music event, Hey Jude Summer Ball, is sold out, you can still support by purchasing raffle tickets here or taking part in the online auction here to win prizes, including a signed guitar donated by Ed Sheeran.
RBH: Inspections for all hoist slings and patient moving and handling equipment expiries
There is a large number of patient lifting equipment (slings, standing belts and safe handling sheets) that available for their lifting operations lifting equipment regulation (LOLER) inspection last week. Without being inspected, this equipment must not be used. Please ensure the pre use safety checks are being carried out and are in date until November 2022.
In the event that a sling is discovered to be out of date of its safety check (LOLER), Please ensure a speedy return, via the onsite laundry if used, to the equipment library, where it will await a follow up inspection in July.
We would appreciate that you do not hoard slings on the wards/ in departments as these can easily be missed when undertaking inspections and this will also have an impact on the stock levels, which in turn impacts on patient flow.
RBH: Stour building
Do you store anything in the Stour building? By 31 July, our estates team has asked all departments who are using this area for storage to collect their items as anything left will be disposed of.
POOLE: Become a fire warden
Open to all nominees who have missed previous training, as well as others who would like to learn how to become a fire warden, the next training will take place on 8 July from 9-11am in the lecture theatre. Please book in advance on the education and training pages on the Poole intranet.
Feedback skills workshops - spaces available
These new three hour virtual workshops are a great leadership and management development opportunity for all staff to improve their skills around giving and receiving feedback. The impact of feedback, both positive and developmental can be far reaching and has the potential to help us increase our self-awareness, motivation and performance levels. We have spaces available on 9 August, 9am–12noon. If you would like to book then click here or if you would like any further information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Help fight period poverty
Period poverty can affect up to 25% of those who have periods. Our education centres proudly supply free menstrual products in their bathrooms for all to use. This month, they are asking for donations of menstrual products such as sanitary towels and tampons, to continue this well used initiative. Please give what you can at the reception desk at either the Poole or RBH education centre.
Stall holders wanted for Walk for Wards
Are you a crafter, sewer, maker or baker? We need stall holders to join us in the grounds of Upton House on 17 September for Walk for Wards. Pay just £20 for a pitch fee and take home everything you earn on the day! Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to reserve your pitch today.
Calling all women who cold water swim
Dr Ruth Williamson, our deputy chief medical officer, is working collaboratively on research with UCL and Portsmouth University. Whether you swim in an unheated outdoor lido, river, sea, lake etc, please spare 15 minutes to complete an anonymous, online survey – we want to know if you feel that cold-water swimming has an effect on your menstrual and menopause symptoms. Take part here.
