Congratulations to Anita Astle who is one of our Public Governors in Nottinghamshire County. She has been shortlisted in the RCN Nursing Awards for the Leadership award, recognising her work in care homes through the pandemic.
A project for veterans delivered by Nottinghamshire Healthcare, in partnership with Care after Combat and Project Nova, was a finalist in the HSJ’s Partnership Awards.
The Trust’s Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit (MBU), part of Hopewood in Nottingham, has formally received the Perinatal Quality Network (PQN) accreditation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The unit has been accredited for 10 years and this reaccreditation is a great testament to their commitment to deliver quality care for mums and their babies.
Dr Pallab Majundar, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at the Bulwell Children's Centre, and colleagues have been successful in publishing two papers in a remarkably important and topical subject of this time, the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on the wellbeing of the frontline health workers and the strategies to help.
Well done to Sarah Atkinson, one of our Learning Disabilities Primary Care Liaison Nurse who has had an article published in the Nursing Times.
Congratulations to Trevor Clower, Volunteer/Parent Carer, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award in the NottinghamshireLive Heroes Awards.
Congratulations to our Oral Health Promotion Team who have won at the national Dental Awards. The team won the Best National Smile Month Initiative category for their ‘Share a Smile’ campaign.
At the Board meeting today we heard of the great steps forward in the work around Freedom to Speak Up and the progress in this area.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is investing £1.46M in five citizen science research projects where the public are directly involved in the research process, with its largest investment being given to the Citizen Science To Achieve Coproduction at Scale (C-STACS) study, led by Mike Slade at the Institute of Mental Health (a research partnership between the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust).
