What your colleagues are saying about Unity. Sandra Kennelly, Clinical Team Leader, Integrated Care Service: “Working as part of the community admission team in iCares, we assess people at home with the aim to prevent an unnecessary admission, i...

What Unity means for you and your patients. NHS trusts that have implemented an electronic patient record consistently highlight the ‘freeing up of time to care’ as one of the most important and positive outcomes of implementation. Unity will al...

Unity is coming – ensure you are prepared. The introduction of Unity will impact significantly on the way we work. This means that some of your current systems will be replaced by Unity e.g. eBMS, Patient First, iCM, VitalPac, CDA (archived). T...

Emergency theatre first floor at Sandwell moved to third floor until 9pm. Due to unforeseen circumstances and with immediate effect the Emergency theatre on first floor theatres (Th1) at Sandwell Hospital is being moved to third floor theatre (Th6) at Sandwell. The theatre i...

Suicide awareness – safeTALK. Whether directly or indirectly, most people with thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe. This three hour accredited session prepares participants to recognise these invitations and connect a pers...

Free will writing services - Dunham McCarthy. We’re now offering free will writing services for colleagues courtesy of Dunham McCarthy Estate Planning and Will Specialists. For more information please access the Will Writing Brochure....

Team Talk Briefing - December 2018. TeamTalk, our refocussed team briefing sessions took place last week where attendees were given an update from the Clinical Leadership Executive and were also briefed on national and regional updates. ...

Organ donation - why it's important. Organ donation is giving an organ to someone else who needs a transplant. Organ donation is an amazingly generous act and saves thousands of lives in the UK every year. However, this relies on donors a...

BME Staff Network elections. Our BME Staff Network elections have recently taken place and we’re proud to announce our new BME Chair and Vice Chair for 2019 are Donna Mighty and Mark Haynes respectfully. Both Donna and Mark will s...

Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 21 December. This is my penultimate Friday message of the year (and about the 270th I have written so far). It is an easy one to write in advance of Christmas and after the bonhomie of the decorations contest yeste...