HRH visits UHD

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited the Royal Bournemouth Hospital today to recognise all that NHS staff and patients have been through during the past two years.

During his visit, The Prince Charles met staff from RBH, Poole and Christchurch, and visited the new Derwent operating theatre that will help with the backlog of patients requiring elective operations since the pandemic.

He then officially opened our new Lavender Garden on the east wing, dedicated to the memory of colleagues who have died and a special area for staff to rest, reflect and recharge. The garden was funded by generous donations to our University Hospital Dorset NHS Charity, and Prince Charles met donors and family members of those who have died.

The garden is open to all staff - please do visit if you can.

You can read more about the Royal visit here.

Discharge services across our hospitals

Due to staff vacancies and sickness within the team we are unable to provide a seven-day service across all our sites.

Our discharge team will operate a six-day service with support 8am-6pm Monday to Friday. Saturday will operate 8am-4pm with no service Sunday.

RBH: Portering services prioritised today

Due to staff shortages, portering services are currently prioritising responses.

This may lead to a delay for some requests and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

POOLE: UHD PAS goes live for inpatients on 17 May – are U ready?

As we gear up to inpatients at Poole Hospital going live on UHD PAS later this month, you can find a range of helpful documents, including a ward-level checklist, instructions for EPMA users, user guides and a schedule of ward go lives times, on the UHD PAS section of the intranet.

Comprehensive support will be available on the day, with expert teams on site and across the hospital to support you during the cutover, including specialist nurses, IT trainers and application support personnel, business intelligence and the single PAS programme team.

UHD PAS is a combination of the two separate patient administration systems (PAS) historically used by Poole Hospitals and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals.

Benefits at a glance:

• allows the creation of single waiting lists at specialty level across all sites
• standardises waiting times across UHD
• offers improved patient choice about where they are seen
• more efficient booking processes, utilising just one PAS episode
• is an evolution of the PAS systems used currently
• makes more efficient use of our resources.

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Celebrating Nurses Week

Next week our trust will come together to celebrate the fantastic work of all of our nurses, and to say thank you for everything that they do for our community.

Look out for stands in the dome at Poole, and by the restaurants at Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch each day, where throughout the week all of our care groups will take their turn to celebrate our nurses.

To honour Florence Nightingale's birthday, and to mark the transfer of knowledge between our nurses a lamp will travel across our hospital sites on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The lamp will finish its journey at the Poole Hospital Chapel for a service at 12.30pm on Nurses Day (12 May). The service will be livestreamed on our social media channels, so please tune in to share your support for our nurses.

We will be sharing content throughout the week, so keep an eye on our social media channels.

Appraisal season

It's almost time for our annual staff appraisals.

This is an opportunity to have good conversations, reflecting on our last year and reviewing and recognising achievements and progress. Your appraisal meeting provides an opportunity to:

• discuss how things are going
• receive feedback
• establish future goals and objectives
• talk about future aspirations
• identify areas for development
• document your plans for training and development and for your career.

Appraisers – ensure you are 'appraisal ready' by allocating time, communicating with your appraises, booking rooms and reviewing team objectives for the coming year.

Further details about the appraisal process, including the forms, can be found on the intranet under 'appraisals'.

RBH: No palliative care team (HPCT) cover this Sunday

There will be no RBH hospital palliative care cover this Sunday (8 May).

For urgent concerns, 24 hour advice is available from the Macmillan Unit, please call ext 5470 option 1 between the hours of 8am-5pm and option 3 between the hours of 5pm-8am.

For non-urgent queries, please leave a message on ext 6021 (HPCT) and a staff member will pick these up on Monday (9 May).

Welcome to our new head of midwifery

Kerry Taylor has joined our maternity team as our new head of midwifery. Kerry has been a midwife for 22 years and joins us from Royal Berkshire Hospital.

"After visiting UHD before I joined the team I was overwhelmed how welcoming and helpful staff were – every time I looked lost someone stopped and took the time to guide me to the right department. I think this attitude is a sign of a great trust, and it's been reflected across my first weeks with everyone making a huge effort to help me settle in.

"I'm really looking forward to getting to know the whole maternity team, building our relationships and working together – I am also of course excited to be working in the brand new maternity department in 2024. Working in a new, spacious high-specification department is going to be fantastic.

POOLE: Employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) user tutorial

On 26 May, the BEAT team will be holding two tutorial sessions to show staff how to use ESS and MSS to book themselves and their team onto mandatory training.

Session times are:

• 12.30-1pm
• 1.30-2pm

Sessions will be in seminar room 3 at the education centre.

Attendees who have a work laptop are asked to bring it with them and have their ESR username/smartcard and password to hand.

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POOLE: It's curtains for bed curtains next week

Curtains are being replaced as part of our regular changeover programme next week (9-13 May).

If you have any questions, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ext. 2725.

Complete our health and safety audit tool

The health and safety audit tool (HASAT) completion deadline is coming up at the end of June and our health and safety team is still awaiting the return of a large number of department responses.

This is a mandatory return, if you are a manager and have not yet returned your departments response you access the form and further information on the health and safety pages of the intranet.

If you need any help completing this, please contact your local health and safety advisor.

Job of the week - medical laboratory assistant

Applications are open to join our laboratory team.

Our laboratories are an exciting and integral part of our hospitals and as a medical laboratory assistant you will be working in departments such as biochemistry, haematology and blood transfusion, supporting our fantastic biomedical scientists.

Find out how to apply here.

Three weeks to go until our 2022 Revue – Pandemonium

Don't forget to book your tickets for our staff Revue show!

Our colleagues are working hard rehearsing for our production of 'Pandemonium' a show by our staff, for our staff. This is a great opportunity for us all to come together with our colleagues, take a lighter look at life in the NHS and support our UHD Charity through ticket sales.

You can watch the show on 25 and 26 May at Talbot Heath School in the STEAM hub auditorium. Doors will open at 7pm, with the show starting at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 (plus booking fee) and include an interval drink during the show. You can buy tickets here.

SafeCare and HealthRoster drop-in sessions

Are you a SafeCare or HealthRoster user? Do you have a question about either system or an issue we can help resolve?

Every other Wednesday our workforce team will be available to offer support in for drop in sessions on Teams from 1-1.30pm.

Calendar invites have been sent to ward/department leaders so please ask them to forward to you if you would like to drop in or email 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..

The next session is on Wednesday (11 May).

Raise awareness of women's health projects at UHD tonight

Join our charity at Baiter Park, Poole from 7pm tonight (6 May) and walk to support women's health across Dorset.

Gather a group of friends, family or colleagues to take part and invite your loved ones to cheer you across the finish line. You can even bring your four-legged friends along for a walk under the stars.

You can buy your tickets at the event from the charity stand. £15 for adults and £8 for children under 16. (Under 5s go free).

Tickets include free pizza from Papa Johns and your very own Twilight Walk t-shirt.

Principal investigator workshops

Are you a principal investigator (PI)?

Join a workshop focusing on your role and responsibilities, developing a understanding of the regulatory landscape in research, leadership, oversight and communication skills and the importance of building working relationships with research and development and research and innovation. and R&I departments.

Workshops take place in Southampton on 17 May, 9.30am-3.30pm.

If you would like to attend contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Free staff bike maintenance next week

Bike Fixed will be returning next week to offer you a free bike tune up.

If you suspect your bike may need replacement parts, Bike Fixed may be able to supply these, but they will incur a charge.

If something is spotted which may need to be replaced, you will be advised about this at the time of the service.

RBH - 11 May 9am - 4pm

Poole - 12 May 9am - 4pm

Christchurch - 13 May 9am - 12pm

Yeoman's Way - 13 May 1pm - 4pm

A limited number of appointments are available on each day.

If you'd like your bike to be serviced, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..