With World menopause Awareness Month in October and in particular World Menopause Day on October 18th, we are today talking about the symptoms of the menopause and how this can affect women in work, and importantly how our workplace can support this. 

I’m here today with Neale Watson, consultant gynaecologist, who’s an expert in the menopause, and Elaine Hotson, Wellbeing Lead in the Trust who can advise us on the support we provide for woman at this time. 

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The Maternity Department at Hillingdon Hospital provides maternity support for up to 5,000 mothers and babies each year. Whilst most women go into pregnancy expecting healthy babies, sadly some couples lose a baby. 

I’m Lucy Wills and I have with me today Shirley Clipp, Major Appeals Manager, and Priya Vara, a mother of three born at Hillingdon Hospital, one of whom was still born. They are here to talk about our new Materniy Bereavement Suite at Hillingdon Hospital. 

The Suite was funded jointly by Hillingdon Hospitals Charity and the hospital Trust.

The charity has raised over £200k to fund the Bereavement Suite, giving families the valuable space to mourn the loss of a baby. 

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Let’s celebrate inclusion in our hospitals by creating momentum to engage every employee so they understand the importance of inclusion and how they can make it an integral part of our culture.
National Inclusion Week is a week dedicated to celebrating inclusion and taking action to create inclusive workplaces. Founded by Inclusive Employers, National Inclusion Week is now in its 10th year.

For National Inclusion Week 2022 we want to progress unity by taking positive actions towards this- this year’s National Inclusion Week theme is ‘Time to Act: The Power of Now’.

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We are holding an Open Day on Saturday 24th September at Hillingdon Hospital, to showcase everything that is brilliant about our people, our services and the work we do at here.

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Guests on today's podcast are Guilia Ciccolini and Samantha Vincent from our Pelvic Health Team at Hillingdon Hospital. They are talking about about perineal care, pelvic floor exercises and bowel and bladder care for new mums.

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We have a dedicated Patient Safety Team that works hard to ensure that we avoid unintended or unexpected harm to people when they receive care in our hospitals. 

In this podcast, Emma Babski, Patient Safety Manager, discusses how we can promote an open and honest culture around reporting incidents, to identify action to mitigate the risk of similar incidents occurring and to keep our patients and staff safe. 

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Emma Symes, our Deputy Director of Nursing, explains all about this strategy. It sets out how we will achieve a sustainable, equitable, knowledgeable and caring service. The strategy has been developed with input from nursing, midwifery and therapy colleagues and it will help us deliver high quality care to our patients – with appropriately skilled and developed staff – as we face the challenges of the future. 

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We have a new Let’s Talk Series at Hillingdon Hospitals, with our recent Let’s Talk discussion on microaggression in the workplace. Danny Karystinos, our Diversity and Inclusion Lead, set up the Let’s Talk series, with first guest speaker Jade Ajetunmobi, talking through microaggression and how to deal with it. 

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The Trust is made up of a variety of staff as well as a strong team of volunteers, both at Hillingdon and Mount Vernon Hospital. Our volunteers play a vital role in improving the experience that patients and the public have when they visit us. In this episode we talk to Marcy Madzikanda about our volunteers and what they do.

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