The Hillingdon Hospitals' Podcast

As part of Deaf Awareness Week, which takes place between 1-7 May, one of our colleagues has kindly shared their personal experience of a hearing impairment to help raise awareness and share some examples of how they adapt to the working environment.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

In this week's episode we talk to Brenda Webb, Programme Manager within the Transformation, Improvement and Programme Management Office, who is leading on the Trust’s Clinical Service Reviews which started in May 2022. Brenda said: "We're really keen to ensure that we get as many views as we can from all our patients, family members and carers. They survey is really quick and easy a...

In this episode we talk to Dr Jide Menekaya about the Trust's Community Neonatal Clinic, which was launched in 2021 as part of the pandemic response. It has since been highlighted by the RCPCH as an excellent example of pandemic-initiated service re-design, and discussed in Parliament as an exemplar of best practice for cross agency working. For all the latest Trust news and information check...

In today's podcast, Sarah Burton, Learning Disabilities Clinical Nurse Specialist, tells us how the Trust works to ensure that we are supporting patients appropriately and makes adjustments if needed. Sarah has recently updated our best practice guidelines for supporting patients with a learning disability, listen to the podcast to find out more. For all the latest Trust news and information...

In this episode we talk to Elaine Hotson, the Trust's Health Wellbeing and Engagement Lead about financial wellbeing, and what support is available to staff if they are worried about the cost of living crisis.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

What is Trans Day of Visibility? Transgender Day of Visibility takes place on March 31st each year to celebrate trans and non-binary people and raise awareness of discrimination faced by trans people worldwide. In this podcast, Danny Karystinos, our equality and diversity lead, talks to Soraya Boam who is CBT psychologist working for West London NHS Trust. Soraya delivers workshops around gender i...

In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism on 21 March, Danny, our Trust's Diversity and Inclusion Lead sits down with members of the Multicultural Committee to talk about what the day means, how we can take a stand against discrimination, and what you can do if you observe or experience racism while at work.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our w...

In preparation for Disabled Access Day on 16 March, our latest podcast discusses how we can make our Trust more accessible for all.  We talk to Matthew Page, Deputy Chair of the Trust's Disability and Wellbeing Committee and Danny Karystinos, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, about what it means to be an accessible organisation, what we can do support staff and patients, and how you can get help...

In the second of our International Women's Day specials, we talk to Gemini Sampath and Elaine Hotson about how we better support staff wellbeing, and why achieving equity sometimes means we need to treat people differently.  Find out more about how our Trust is working to raise awareness of some of the issues that affect women's wellbeing in the workplace, including the experience of men...

In honour of International Women's Day, Eilidh Young, associate director for improvement practice & Hazel Rawdon-Smith, deputy director of transformation, discuss the power and impact of the  Google 'I am Remarkable' initiative, a programme that aims to empower women and other underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond.  Tune in to find o...

This latest episode from Hillingdon Hospitals welcomes Adam Tocock, our Library Services Manager. Listen to Adam talk about all the services that we provide through the library and facilities on site and online. Our Library Services in the Trust is proud to have recently produced the National Search Guidance, a document meant for all librarians and information professionals.  The Library also runs...

In this podcast Abbas Kakhoo, lead for clinical strategy in our hospitals, talks us through our Clinical Services Strategy.  The strategy has been developed within the context of the North West London Health and Care Partnership and the local Hillingdon Health and Care Partnership strategies.1 It will continue to evolve in light of the ongoing development of these strategies and further engagement...

We have become the latest of over 90 NHS Trusts to partner with AccessAble; the UK’s leading provider of detailed disabled access information. Working with AccessAble, we have created detailed access guides to facilities, wards, and departments at Hillingdon Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital. The guides are 100 per cent facts, figures and photographs to help patients, visitors and staff plan thei...

Our Trust has a very diverse nationality of staff and this employee network group is vital in helping employers act on equality issues in the workplace – especially those around recruitment and progression. In this podcast, Danny, our Equality and Diversity Lead, talks us through our multicultural network for staff. The multicultural group recognises the multiple backgrounds, diverse cultures and...

You may have noticed that our Trust public website looks different: new colours, new typefaces, new layouts and new functionality. This new version is the result of a close collaboration with VerseOne, would have provided website solutions to more than 50 NHS organisations.   I’m Justine McGuinness, head of communications and engagement, and in today’s podcast I’m chatting to digital communication...

Our Speech and Language Therapy Team at Hillingdon Hospitals is relatively small, and split into acute with three therapists and the Rehabilitation Unit. Stroke and Alderbourne and the Daniels Unit over at Mount Vernon Hospital with another 3 therapists.  Referrals from all over the adult adult wards when people are concerned that their patients may have a swallowing difficulty and that there&apos...

PATCH stands for Providing Assessment & Treatment for Children at Home and they recently won the Special award at our Staff Awards 2022.  They won this award because of all work hard they put in to run the service and to make developments for ongoing improvement. They have expanded their service to incorporate community integration with primary care. The PATCH Team provide assessment and treat...

In this episode of the Hillingdon Hospitals podcast, we are talking to Dr Akram Girgis, a surgeon at the Trust, who recently won an award at our Staff Awards 2022.  Akram won the CARES Equity Award. He is an experienced and highly skilful surgeon and is always willing to go the extra mile and teach junior staff in his own time. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website -...

Eleni Baldwin, the Clinical Specialty Lead for Elderly Medicine and Stroke Medicine, recently won an award in our Staff Awards 2022, in the category of CARES Responsibility. Eleni won the award for her great motivation and consistent hard work to give patients the best experience. Importantly, she’s successfully recruited Care Of The Elderly consultants and is working with wider teams to further g...

Welcome to the next in the series of informative and educational antenatal podcast. by Kavita Goreeba, midwife and antenatal leader educator. Her guest today is Nikki Rennison, professional midwifery advocate, who will be sharing more about her role supporting midwives, woman and birth people.  The professional midwife midwifery advocate team is a part of a multidisciplinary team that aims to deli...

The chaplaincy in our hospital Trust has the title of the Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Care - it is as an all-inclusive centre for support.  Every year in the hospital here at Hillingdon we have a feature called the Giving Tree in the Chapel. Predominantly staff, but also members of the public are incredibly generous in bringing items that really are for patients who come into hospital over C...

Welcome to the latest podcast from Hillingdon Hospitals. In this episode, Lucy Wills is talking to Kavita Goreeba, a midwife in the Trust, about what it means to be a Mental Health First Aider and how we can all become one. Being a MHFA is about being able to offer support and understanding to staff who would like to talk about their feelings in confidence. It’s important to provide support to hel...

Our People Strategy 2021-2024  was developed following feedback from our staff. It was developed following the 2020 Staff survey results and subsequent staff engagement events.  The strategy sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition to be a great place to work, underpinned by our NHS People Promise.  For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.th...

A podcast with Annamaria Hardwick, Head of Resourcing, talking through the recruitment process, applying for jobs and interview top tips. For all the latest Trust news and information check out our website - www.thh.nhs.uk.

As part of our Antenatal Education Podcasts, Kavita Goreeba, Antenatal Lead Educator, talks to Dr Yasmin Mulji about the various forms of contraception available suitable after you have had a baby. Why is it important to think about contraception after having a baby? Ovulation can occur in the first month after having a baby, so it's possible to get pregnant straight away. Yasmin discusses th...