The Hillingdon Hospitals' Podcast

Freddie Mundy shares his incredible story on this week's podcast having been born at Hillingdon Hospital eight weeks prematurely. Freddie, who is now 29, is running the Edinburgh marathon in May to raise funds for the hospital's neo-natal unit. The civil engineer talks to us about his and his family's experience at the hospital, meeting staff years later and his preparations for the...

We catch up with Director of operational Estates and Facilites at the Trust, Steve Wedgwood, to talk about the new incinerator - or Energy Generation Centre as it is now known. Following a two-year project costing nearly £10m, the plant is now up and running and providing heating and hot water for patients and staff at Hillingdon Hospital. Steve discusses the story behind the project, the incinera...

It's a special podcast this week from our recent Women's Network event workshop, where Leslie Gaudet talks about the importance of self-care and ways to prevent burnout. Leslie is a self-care strategist for female CEOs and their teams, and provide clients with self-care strategies for them to prevent burnout and enhance their quality of life both in their business and beyond in their per...

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Following national Moisture Associated Skin Damage Awareness (MASD) Day, we sat down with our Trust's experts, the Tissue Viability Team, to talk about MASD, risk factors, the common causes, and how we can help prevent patients from developing skin damage.  Tune in to find out more.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

THH Library Services Manager Adam Tocock met up with Helena Delagdo Cohen, Clinical Engagement Lead at BMJ Best Practice, to hear about this point-of-care tools' many features and how it can help busy staff at the point of care or elsewhere. It's freely accessible to all Trust staff on-site via the staff intranet, or remotely via NHS OpenAthens. It's also downloadable as an app. For...

We talk to the chair of our multicultural network, Weli Farah, all about Ramadan and the support on offer to Trust staff during this period. Weli discusses the importance of the month, fasting and what colleagues can do to support those observing Ramadan. Do you have an achievement we should be talking about? Have a story we should be discussing? Or do you want to tell us about your story with the...

Join Adam Tocock, library services manager for a conversation with Dr Shveta Khajal and Dr Neil Verma about their recently published research paper, which looks at regional anaesthesia in the UK. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

February is Medication Safety Awareness Month at the Trust so to find out more about this, we chat to Sarah Abdul-Amir and Sarah Newman from the pharmacy team. The pair talk about medication safety, safeguarding measures you can take and the importance of awareness. They also explain what the 5 Rs are when it comes to medication safety. Do you have an achievement we should be talking about? Or do...

We talk to the Trust's new chief people officer Phil Spivey about his career to date, what his position entails, his ambitions for the organisation and what his life is like away from work. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this week's episode we speak to Jenny Jean -Jacques, information governance manager about our duty to protect personal data, common threats that we should consider, how to keep data secure, and what to do if a breach occurs.  Tune in to find out more.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this episode, we talk to Ed Cox, a patient safety specialist at the Trust, about the launch of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and what it all means for staff and patients. Ed explains why this new approach to responding to incidents is being taken, the background behind it and what the overall aim of the scheme is going forward. For all the latest Trust news and informat...

We chat with leading surgeon and cancer specialist Yasser Mohsen who has been elected Chair of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Yasser talks about his career at Hillingdon, being recognised by his colleagues, what working was like during the Covid pandemic and how the Da Vinci robot is taking bowel surgery to the next level. For all the latest Trust news and info...

For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We catch up with Practice Development Nurse Priya Priya  and Practice Educator Mohan Selvaraj who are both from the clinical training and development team to talk about the upcoming Healthcare Assistant recruitment day, how you can become one and the training on offer here at the Trust. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In  this week's episode we speak to Elaine Hotson, our Trust's Health, Wellbeing and Engagement Lead about some of the things you can do to proactively look after your wellbeing this coming year, support and offers available through the Trust, and what to do if you are finding the winter months difficult. Tune in to find out more. If you would like to access any of the services mentioned...

We talk to Gemma Taylor, lead haematology nurse in the Medical Haematology Day Unit, after her team won the 'I am the Change' Award at our Staff Awards ceremony. This award is for a person or a team exemplifying change, either through innovation or by introducing new initiatives to the workplace. Gemma explains the story behind the nomination and why teamwork is so crucial to delivering...

In this episode, Priya Priya, practice development nurse - HCA support, speaks to Raviraj Biefun, lead nurse for education about the importance of healthcare support workers within the Trust and how they can progress their career from completing the mandatory care certificate to upskilling through apprenticeships and degrees. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - ww...

STAFF Awards podcast with the winner of the CARES Award for communication, Ashifa Trivedi. Ashifa was our lead pharmacist for women and children at Hillingdon for nearly seven years before recently moving on. She talks about her award, the importance of communicating well in her work and how she reflects on her time with the Trust. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our websit...

How sustainable can Library Services be? Bringing the subject of green libraries to our Trust, Adam Tocock, library service manager talks to Hyder Mohammad, head of sustainability. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this week's episode we catch up with chaplain, Christopher Geake, who is due to retire from the Trust this month.  In this conversation he reflects on his time at our hospitals, some of the challenges he has faced, the humanist perspective, and his proudest moments.  Tune in to find out more.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

We caught up with Dr Bassam Aweid from the Stroke Unit here at Hillingdon Hospital following the team's CARES Award for Equity at our Staff Awards. Dr Aweid explains some of the challenges his staff have had to face over the past year and how everyone's attitude has been exemplary. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

Paula Wheatley, divisional director of nursing and unplanned care, talks to us about the nurses from CNS Unplanned Care who won the CARES Award for Safety at our recent Staff Awards. Paula talks about the vital role played by the nurses in unplanned care, the type of support they gave during industrial action by junior doctors and winning the award. For all the latest Trust news and information ch...

The Hillingdon Hospitals Book Club meets again to discuss their latest book: Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus. "Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one:...

We talk to Paula Lewis, the Trust's Freedom to Speak Up guardian, about this year's staff survey and why it's so important to get your views in and have an opportunity to enact change at the organisation. Remember, you have until Friday, November 24 to submit the survey!  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.