Heartbeat: Hit the road for Your Trust Charity. Is your New Year’s resolution to get fit? Are you looking for a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Why not combine these and sign up for the 2019 Birmingham and Midlands Velo? The 100 mile cl...

EU Settlement Status – how to claim back settlement application costs. To all of our colleagues and family members of the EU, we need you and we welcome you! On 21 January the Prime Minister announced that there will be no fee when the EU settlement scheme opens fully on ...

Maintenance requests - BTC. Colleagues are reminded that when reporting maintenance requests in the Birmingham Treatment Centre, please ensure you include: Name of the colleague reporting the job Location area (room number if ap...

Changes to mandatory training refresher periods - equality and diversity. In order to align with national NHS statutory and mandatory training guidelines, there are some upcoming changes to mandatory training refresher periods. Equality and diversity training: There is now a...

Heartbeat: Colleagues share feedback to improve end of life experiences for patients. An engagement session to help our connected palliative care team improve the service saw more than 50 colleagues sharing their ideas. The event was organised by the Connected Palliative Care team, with...

Free eye tests at City from 4 March. The eye-care service will be offering free eye tests to everyone within the Trust at City Hospital from 4 March for 4 weeks. The eye-care clinic is will be based outside the hearing centre, on the grou...

Unity – the pain and the gain. As the launch of Unity, our brand new electronic patient record draws closer, the Unity project team arranged two engagement sessions earlier this week for colleagues wanting to find out more about the...

Heartbeat: State of the art x-ray machine takes pride of place at Rowley. A new state of the art x-ray machine has been installed at Rowley Regis Hospital this month, which means patients will no longer need to be transferred to another site for diagnostics. The Siemens Ysio...

Hospital bed audit: W/C 28 January. Drive Devilbiss (the company that currently holds the contract to maintain and repair our bed stock) will be undertaking a bed audit week commencing Monday 28 January. Their audit team will visit each ...

Arches planned closure: 1-7 February. Arches cafe will be closing between 1-7 February to enable essential maintenance work to be carried out. During this period the postgraduate retail unit will re-open whilst Arches is closed coffee cult...