Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

💙 | Our Chief Executive, Liz Davenport, has announced that she will be retiring from the NHS at the end of this year. Liz has been with us since 2014 and has been our Chief Executive for six years. In that time she has played a key role in implementing our integrated care model, overseen service improvement and innovation, and led us through challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic. We are so grateful for Liz’s contributions to our organisation and her commitment to improving health and care for the people of Torbay and South Devon. She has our very best wishes for her retirement after 40 years of service to the NHS 💙 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/9tUn50TpfaZ

📖 | This Falls Awareness Week, our falls prevention team are highlighting a number of training event opportunities for colleagues and partners 👇 ❓ Falls management and reducing deconditioning - care homes webinar 📅 Tuesday 18 September 🕑 2pm - 2.30pm 📝 Visit the Hive to book ❓ Adult Social Care Network: Preventing falls online event 📅 Wednesday 19 September 🕙 10am - 12.30pm 📝 https://ow.ly/CtSv50ToUe2 #FallsAwarenessWeek #FallsAwareness #FallsPrevention

🏆 | Help us celebrate the fantastic work of our Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) and AHP support workers by submitting an AHP Award nomination! Our next award winners will be announced next month so get your nominations in by Friday 30 September 📅 Find out more and nominate here 👉 https://ow.ly/G7vg50Topbe

❗ | Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection and can be hard to spot. Today is World Sepsis Day - an important opportunity to raise awareness of sepsis. Thank you to all our colleagues who not only identify and support people with sepsis but also work hard to raise awareness 📢 Find out more about the symptoms of sepsis 👉 https://ow.ly/hUeW50ThvZU #WSD #Sepsis

👏 Congratulations to Abdul Alhassan, nurse at Dawlish Hospital who recently won an Our People Award! Adel Jones, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer presented Abdul with the ‘we are always learning’ award. 🧡 Abdul was nominated for his knowledge and keenness to learn, his interest to teach, and his ability to turn to anything, at any time. Abdul is a keen advocate for learning. From supporting staff of all bands from daily tasks, to helping them develop in their chosen field of work, nothing is too much. Every patient who has met Abdul remembers his name, and it is always followed with the highest praise. Thank you, Abdul for always supporting your colleagues and our patients. If you have received excellent care, service with a smile, kindness and understanding or exceptional service from one of our people or our teams, then nominate them 👇 https://ow.ly/Gypa50T7gUo

📣 Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer We are seeking a dynamic and clinically experienced Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer (DCCIO) to join our NHS Trust. This role is pivotal in supporting the Chief Clinical Information Officer in leading the digital transformation of our clinical services, both in our acute hospital setting and across our community care services. You will be expected to work closely with the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) team, Health Informatics Service (HIS) and other digital providers for the trust. You will also work with members of the wider Trust leadership team to support the delivery of safe, effective and high quality clinical services. 👇 https://ow.ly/cUCY50ThoGn

📅 | Everyone is welcome to join us at our Annual Members’ Meeting as we look back on some of our highlights from the past year and talk about our plans for the future. 📅 Friday 27 September 🕒 11am - 1pm 📍 TREC, Torbay Hospital Doors open from 10.30am. The event will also be livestreamed online. There will be hands-on demonstrations with our Digital Futures team, which is at the forefront of developing digital healthcare solutions including a 3D virtual patient programme, and virtual AI-powered avatars. Find out more and reserve your place 👉 www.tsdft.uk/amm

💙 A huge thank you to the Torbay Hospital League of Friends for generously funding £12,400 for our new above patient bed boards, which are now up in wards at Torbay Hospital. Above bed boards are really important for patient care as they provide clear care requirements for patients, at a glance. All the information above each patients bed is individualised and specific to their needs, this will help the way we care for our patients. These new boards support our person-centred care agenda, and where possible, these boards are completed with patients and their families, to ensure we capture what matters most to our patients.

🏥 | A new portable bladder ultrasound scanner is helping to improve patient care on our coronary care unit thanks to a generous donation of £8,500 from Torbay Hospital League of Friends 💙 The scanner will help the team identify people in their care with acute urinary retention more quickly. This can be a medical emergency and so early diagnosis and treatment is vital.

📺 | Thank you to BBC Spotlight for featuring our incredible oncology and research colleagues and the wonderful Stephen, who was the first person in the South West to receive a personalised cancer vaccine as part of a new trial. The trial looks at creating a personalised vaccine specific to a person’s cancer, when markers have shown that there is a risk of the cancer returning. We are extremely proud of the work of our research and development teams and colleagues across the organisation who support research. Thanks to their work we can provide unique opportunities to local people while helping to further groundbreaking studies 💙