Baby loss awareness week cake sale: 11 October . We will be hosting a cake sale on Friday 11 October throughout the day in the neonatal portacabin (opposite the delivery suite) to help raise funds for Your Trust Charity, more specifically, the bereav...

Addressing common issues with Unity . There are several common issues to be aware of, and simple steps you can take to overcome them:

Staying on top of barcode scanning

The RXK barcode on the patient wristband (see picture) MUST be sca...

Countersigning students’ work on Unity . Student nurses and midwives have received access to Unity e-learning and will be given a Unity login so that they can complete their work on the system.

Practice supervisors/assessors (mentors) have to...

Heartbeat: Rita muscles her way to UK bodybuilding champion . Huge congratulations to Capital Projects Manager, Rita Brown who bagged the coveted title of UK bodybuilding champion at the UKBFF (Ultimate Beginners Stars of the Future Masters Bodybuilding and Fitn...

Winter Wellness event: 16 October . The annual Winter Wellness event is taking place on Wednesday 16 October from 11am – 2pm at the courtyard gardens, Sandwell Hospital.

The event marks the launch of the flu vaccination programme as well...

Infection control portacount training available in January . Infection control portacount training (known to many as face mask fit tester training) will be available on the below dates:

15 January, 9.30am – 1pm – tutorial room 5, Post Graduate Centre, City Hosp...

Employee Smoking Cessation Programme – proud to be smokefree! . As the rest of the country joins in with Stoptober – the national stop smoking campaign, our workplace has been smokefree across all of our sites for the last three months.

Colleagues wanting to kick t...

Toby's Friday Message . Each Friday, Chief Executive, Toby Lewis writes a message to all colleagues, which is published on the front page of Connect. He discusses important topics or events that have occurred during the week....

Proud to be smokefree . As the rest of the country joins in with Stoptober – the national stop smoking campaign, our workplace has been smokefree across all of our sites for the last three months. We’ve asked colleagues, visi...

Why going smokefree matters . As the rest of the country joins in with Stoptober – the national stop smoking campaign, our workplace has been smokefree across all of our sites for the last three months. We’ve asked colleagues, visi...