Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

🔎 | For World Radiography Day, we want to say a big thank you to everyone working in and supporting our radiography services. ✨ They play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of a vast range of medical conditions. Some of our radiographers have recorded videos to share what they do and why they love their roles 💙👇👇 #WRD2024

👶 | Baby Week is right around the corner! A range of events, activities and workshops for parents, caregivers and babies will be taking place across Torbay during Baby Week (14 - 20 November) 😍 You can find a full list of Torbay events on the Baby Week website 👉 https://lnkd.in/efFhwriJ

🎨 | Our next exhibition at Torbay Hospital’s HeArts gallery opening Tuesday 12 November will be Something Other, Somewhere Else; paintings by Mark Jessett. Mark is a semi-abstract painter and maker of things, and his painting is colourful, abundant and immersive, drawing on nature and made from a place of optimism. For his exhibition at Torbay Hospital, Mark presents new, old and updated works from rediscovered corners of his personal landscape.

🗣️ | Join us for a free health talk on urology and prostate disease. 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2024 🕔 5pm - 6pm 📌 TREC, Torbay Hospital 💊 At our next Medicine for Members event we will be joined by Seamus MacDermott, urology consultant. Seamus is a leading specialist who will present and answer questions on urology and his own expertise in and work on prostate disease. All members of the public and our colleagues are welcome to attend. The event is free of charge, will last approximately an hour and will also be livestreamed. Refreshments will be provided 📣 📧 Please email foundationtrust.tsdft@nhs.net to register your attendance or for a livestream link. Medicine for Members is a free health talk covering a different topic and area of health each session. Hosted by our clinical professionals, information is provided on the condition, treatments and available support services.

🗣️ | We need your voice to help build a health service that's fit for the future. It’s quick and easy to get involved, and it’ll be worth it. Here's how 👉 change.nhs.uk

🧠 | The first sign of a stroke might not seem like much. Like not being able to raise your arm, or struggling to smile, or slurring when you speak. 🚨 Any sign of a stroke is always an emergency. 📞 Face or arm or speech, at the first sign, it's time to call 999 ➡️ nhs.uk/actFAST

📣 | We are delighted to announce our latest set of Allied Health Professions (AHPs) awards winners 🎉 🏆 Winner of the AHP support worker award 🏅Natasha Lister, Physiotherapy, Torbay Hospital. 💬 "...Tash worked tirelessly to enable a woman her dying wish. She went above and beyond to enable a patient who was under the end-of-life pathway to achieve her dying wish to return home, sort out her affairs, and have fish and chips on the downs with her family for six hours before returning to hospital..." 🏆 Winner of the AHP registrant award 🏅Samantha Gregory, speech and language therapist, head and neck cancer team. 💬 "…Throughout her time, Samantha has consistently demonstrated unparalleled dedication and innovation in her role. One of Sam's most remarkable achievements setting up The Swallows Head and Neck Cancer support group, including visiting and working at The Cancer Centre in Boston, USA, where she shared and refined best practices within speech and language services for head and neck cancer patients…" 🏆 Winner of the AHP special award for inclusion 🏅MSK physiotherapy team, Torbay 💬 "…During the EDI AHP listening, a staff member employed from overseas described their support in the MSK team. They indicated they had been well supported by compassionate staff who were clear on expectations, and who supported the staff member to perform to their very best, and to develop…" Congratulations to all our winners and thanks you all who nominated 💙

📢 | We want to hear your experiences of the NHS and your ideas to help us change it. ✍️ Add your voice today ✅ Let's make it fit for the future Get involved 👉 change.nhs.uk

💡 | Our RESTORE2 team are offering free training for healthcare assistants or carers in nursing homes or domiciliary care teams. RESTORE2 is a tool to help care and nursing homes to recognise physical deterioration and to escalate this information. The training provides the opportunity to… 👉 enhance clinical skills and develop career 👉 improve residents care 👉 commit to providing quality care 👉 gain confidence in recognising early signs deterioration 👉 communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals RESTORE2 training is provided free of charge face-to-face at your place of work or remotely on MS Teams. Book via the Hive, or email tsdft.restore2@nhs.net

🎂 | Our breast care team held a lovely event on Friday to celebrate 20 years of the breast screening programme in our area 🎉 They were joined by current staff and executives, those who had worked for the team over the decades, representatives from our incredibly generous Torbay Hospital League of Friends, some of the first patients screened when the service was launched, and MP for Newton Abbot, Martin Wrigley. What a fabulous occassion to round off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Watch a video of the event below where screening programme director Dr Katie Giles speak to Susan who was the first person screened as part of the programme 20 years ago 💙👇 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/gKQb50TWgv8 #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth2024 #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth