To do list: get a jab

Click here to book your weekday vaccinations. Covid-19 booster and flu vaccination appointments in occupational health departments are now available. If you can't find a slot to suit you, please keep checking as more sessions are being added on a rolling basis over the coming weeks.

The clinics will be offering the Pfizer bivalent Covid-19 booster. Weekday appointments run throughout November and can only be booked online - please do not contact our occupational health teams. You may choose to have either the Covid booster, the flu vaccination, or both.

For information on how to have your jabs elsewhere, and what to do if you have had your jabs elsewhere, please see the occupational health pages on the intranet.

NHS Staff Survey 2022: You talk... we'll listen.

This week our staff survey response rate reached 34%. Thank you so much to everyone who has responded. Sharing your experiences at UHD is a vital way to help us understand what works and what we need to improve.

You told us at the all staff briefing this week that there were concerns about being identified by your answers. Please be reassured that the survey is anonymous - take a look at our FAQs and confidentiality videos. If you have a question that isn't answered here, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Have you received a paper copy but would prefer to fill it out online? Just scan the QR code on your letter, log in with the details provided and you can respond on your PC or phone!

Your Wellbeing - Finance Friday

Are you worrying about money? Use this online resource to find out what support is available in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

To help you navigate your household expenses, our financial wellbeing partner, Salary Finance has created the G.U.I.D.E which stands for Groceries, Utilities, Insurance, Debt, Energy. Read more here.

Patient wristbands

Printing wristbands are being standardised across both sites to ensure patient safety.

Adult wristbands should now be printed from eCaMIS. The guide on how to print wristbands from eCaMIS is here. If you don't have the permissions in eCaMIS please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Neonatal wristbands and those for patients at the Harbour Hospital are the only areas that will have permissions to use EPR to print wristbands.

Have you nominated for our UHD Excellence Awards?

Nominate for these monthly awards and recognise some of the amazing people and teams around our trust. The awards are open to any UHD member of staff or volunteer and the winners are chosen by Siobhan Harrington, our chief executive. Siobhan then announces the winners at her monthly briefings. Find out more on the intranet.

Stay up to date: The Brief and all staff briefing

Your November 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..

You can also catch up on Siobhan's all staff briefing from earlier in the week here and see all of the chief executive briefings on the communications pages of the intranet.

MyPorter task management update

The roll out of MyPorter has been a great success, making processes more efficient and providing data that can be utsed to further support wards and department with their individual demands. As with any new processes, improvements can be made.

• Ensure all task request have 'From Location' and 'To Location' are entered.
• For Poole site only – if the transfer is a bed move enter 2 for Porters Required
• When requesting support for a 'timed' appointment, the time entered into the request should be 15 minute before the appointment time. Appointment time of 1100 enter time 1045, this is the time the Porter needs to be with you in order to conduct the transfer and meet the appointment time.
• Use of the correct priority, if everyone selects High then High becomes Routine:
  Priorities
  • Non time specific task (as porters become available) - usually non urgent equipment moves or waste requests.
  • Routine (30 minutes) – majority of patient transfers would fit this criteria including timed appointments
  • High (15 minutes) – For urgent request not to be
  • Immediate (5 minutes) – should only be used in an emergency requests
  • If a task is no longer required, cancel the request to avoid wated Portering response.

By adopting the above it ensures that the Porters available are utilised in the most efficient manner in support of the Trust.

Recruitment events/careers fairs

Are you interested in coming along to a recruitment event? You can now find a section on the recruitment intranet page which details our upcoming events, as well as other activity planned in for 2022/23 (this will be updated monthly with any changes).

If you need any help with writing job adverts, social media promotion or you want to talk about other ways to enhance your recruitment, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Meet our cancer pathway navigators

An exciting new role, funded for 12 months by Wessex Cancer Alliance, has recently been introduced at UHD.

Working as part of the personalised care agenda, pathway navigators have been shown to make a real difference to patients in the early phase of the cancer pathways as well as providing additional capacity in the teams they work within. The first two post holders are based with the colorectal and gynaecology teams. Please do get in contact with Sanja Agic and Sheryl Cowan if you have any questions.

Parking at The Village

Parking is not permitted at The Village opposite RBH due to the negative impact this has on its customers. While parking is free for up to four hours, this is for hotel clients and customers only.

The Village's car parks are controlled via ANPR and we have been informed their enforcement efforts will be increased. This will mean that any vehicle that is parked without permission will receive a parking charge notice (PCN).

If you have permission to park at The Village, you will have received a separate communication to confirm this. Please note there are no further spaces available to us and no further applications will be processed.

Book a space at Yeomans House

Yeomans House offers some great facilities for those looking for meeting and training rooms as well as ad-hoc desk space. More information on Yeomans House can be found in the 'cross site working' pages on the intranet. Bookings can be made via UBook.

RBH: Pathology hub works

From Monday (7 November), trenching work will start to allow connection into the energy centre from the Stour Building. The completion date is expected to be 18 November.

Health and safety: Sharps focus events

Using data from the health and safety quarterly report, the team has raised concerns around the number of sharps incidents across our trust. To try and reduce these, our health and safety, occupational health and waste teams will be holding safety focus sessions on the topic of sharps on Monday (7 November) at the dome in Poole and 17 November at RBH by the Oasis cafe between 10am–1pm.

As part of our sharps focus please come and meet us and enter our competition to win a prize.

Quality and risk toolkits

The quality and risk meeting toolkits have been updated and are available on the intranet. These toolkits provide meeting document templates and guidance for conducting quality and risk meetings – please see the quality and risk pages on the intranet to read more. If you require any further information, contact the quality governance team, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

RBH: No medical photographer next week

The medical photographer will not be available from today (4 November) until 11 November. In an emergency, a camera is available from the site office.

RBH: Reduced acute speech and language this weekend

Continue to make referrals via EPR if you have any concerns relating to SLT. Please leave a message on ext. 4437.

Catering feedback survey

Our catering team has created a survey to find out more about what we want from the services they provide. Please fill it out here.

Job of the week: trainee nurse associate

Sign on to our virtual recruitment event to learn more about how to become a trainee nurse associate. The event at 2pm on 16 November is a non-interview, informative event with talks from our education team, Indeed and Bournemouth and Poole College. You also hear the lived experiences of a trainee nurse associate. Find out more here.

Free events on the NHS Pension Scheme

NHS Pension Scheme seminars are available until 31 March 2023. Click here for further information and to book.

Separate EDTA sample required for HbA1c testing

Due to the increase in HbA1c requests and in an attempt to ensure turnaround times stay within the required 48 hours (Monday to Friday), the haematology laboratory will require a separate EDTA sample for HbA1c testing from 15 November. The exceptions to this will be for any add on requests or paediatric samples.

Join us on Saturday 3 December for Elf Dash

Join 'Crackers' the elf for a day of festive family fun, all in aid of raising money for some very important projects in our hospitals this Christmas. We return to the stunning seaside venue of Branksome Dene Chine, ideally located for our community to come together in support of the RBH, Poole and Christchurch Hospitals.

The family friendly 2km 'dash' is along the prom - you can run, walk, skip or dance your way along the promenade route. Hot drinks and refreshments will be provided courtesy of the Rapid Relief Team and all children's tickets include a visit to Father Christmas.

Register here or call our charity office on 0300 019 4060/8449.

Leading the way as part of the NHP...

Steve Killen, our transformation director, flew the flag for Dorset in 'Connected', the new-look update for all trusts that are part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP).

Steve attended a recent meeting of Cohort 2 schemes who are helping lay the foundations to transform the delivery of new hospitals. He said: "We need to work hard to maintain our collaborative approach to maximise the benefits of scale the national programme brings and share lessons learned for all future hospital building."

You can read Connected here.

UHD part of research study to tackle infections in infants

GP practices and NHS trusts across Dorset, including UHD, are playing a vital role in a new respiratory virus study looking into the leading cause of infant hospitalisation. RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) is one of the leading causes of hospitalisation in all infants worldwide and affects 90% of children before the age of two. In recent months, there has been a resurgence of RSV following the easing of Covid-19 public health measures. Read more here.

RBH: Management suite moves

The following teams will be located in the first floor education centre from Monday (7 November): PAs and EAs, care group admin, specialties care group, information governance and all execs.

IBD nurses will be located in commercial services.

CWU withdraws industrial action dates

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called off its strike next week, but is likely to hold a postal strike on 12 and 14 November. We will operate the same contingency and recovery plans as we have in previous national strike action.