The RCHT Podcast

Welcome to season two of our podcast! News for this week: Hospital visiting restored to pre-pandemic arrangements NHS overseas workers' day A new electronic referral system Introducing our new patient safety lead, Mohana Maddula BAM appointed as our Principal Supply Chain Partner for the Women and Children's construction programme Staff encouraged to get active at RCH

In this week’s episode I sit down with our chief executive and chairwoman to reflect on the challenges and successes of this past year, what next year might look like and what we can look forward to in 2023. Also, we’ll hear from Mark Richards and Sarah Chaplin from our chaplaincy team who’ve recorded their thoughts for Christmas and the new year.

There’s been a lot of coverage in the news recently about Strep A and Scarlet Fever so we speak with consultant emergency physician, Dr Mark Jadav to get advice on what to look out for and what actions to take if you think your child may have this infection. We also catch up with our Rhiannon Matthews from our sustainability team to find out more about the work they’re doing to make us a greener o...

Have you heard about pedal for patients? How would you feel about taking part next year? We speak with Lynne Lees from RCHT Charity about how you can get involved and what it’s like to take part. Also this week, we’re launching the new RCHT strategy which will set out our ambitions as an organisation for the next ten years. I sit down with Steve Williamson our chief executive and Alison Thorne-Hen...

We have a round table discussion with our first set of graduates from the Chief Nurse’s Research fellowship programme. We’ll find out what the programme is, why they decided to take part, what projects they’ve got involved with and what they’ve gained from the experience. We hear from our pathology team about the open skies project and their proposal to use drones to transport pathology samples fr...

Do you know what “reset week” is? Do you know about our “emergency village”? What about our “personalised outpatient programme”? This week we’ll be speaking with Robin Jones, Steve Williamson and Claire Florey to find out answers to those questions. And as always, we’ll have our latest news, updates and infection forecast.

We're focusing on two of our new buildings this week. The first is our new diagnostics hub opening this week on the Bodmin Hospital site to provide an essential services to patients in the east of our county. Then we speak with Bryson Pottinger and Roberta Fuller about the new MRI Oncology building on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site that'll be opening early next year. And in between both of these...

This week, we celebrate the achievements of our Headland Unit Patient Volunteer Team, we stop by the frailty and same day emergency care unit to look at how life on the new ward is helping to improve patients lives, and I pay a visit to the newly relocated discharge lounge to find out what help the team can offer wards across RCHT with discharging patients. Also this week, have you ever wondered w...

This week, we take a trip to the Cornwall Health Library to find out about the services that can help you. We ask Edward Mabgwe and Steve Williamson why recognising black history month is important and the benefits of staff networks and allyship. We have a goodbye chat with Thom Lafferty who’s leaving the organisation in November. And of course, there’s our weekly news, updates and infection forec...

It's 'freedom to speak up' month so of course we need to talk to our freedom to speak up guardian to find out more about it. Also this week, Iain Davidson our chief pharmacist shares some good news about our Covid vaccinations, I talk to Steve Williamson our chief executive about our winter plans and how we're planning to reduce our 18 month waiting list, and there's also the latest news from acro...

This week, we talk to a few of our colleagues about why they're getting their winter vaccinations. We have the latest news, updates and infection forecast. And I talk to Lisa Trembath, our lead research nurse about her role at Royal Cornwall Hospitals and why research is important in Cornwall.

Welcome to the first edition of the RCHT podcast. In this episode we talk about the summer party, a summary of the latest news from across the organisation, the infection forecast, and why should you fill in the staff survey.