#TeamBartsHealth blogs

Ahead of International Dog Day on 26^th August, Karen Green, a Barts Health volunteer, talks about her therapy dog Dodger and how he helps Barts Health staff and patients de-stress.

Jean Jones talks about having a shoulder operation at Newham Hospital, having had it cancelled previously because of Covid-19.

We caught up with Samantha Cook, who is a highly specialist critical care physiotherapist and a professional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete, about the benefits of sport to her mental health.

This week we caught up with Paige Brown, the new violence reduction lead nurse at Barts Health. Paige’s role is being piloted by Barts Health across The Royal London, Newham and Whipps Cross hospitals. She gave us some insight into her role.

31 year old support worker and videographer, Quincy Dwamena, has recently recovered from Covid-19 after a 2-week stay at Whipps Cross Hospital. We caught up with Quincy to discuss his experience and to encourage young people to get the vaccine.

Martin Patrick Griffiths discusses the importance of younger people being educated about Covid-19 vaccines and understanding that they are still at risk of Covid-19 despite their age. 

Barts Health is implementing the standards of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative, which is about infant feeding and relationship-building within new families - and to mark this we're sharing 73 baby feeding tips this week! Keep an eye on the page during the week as we add more tips.

Geraldine Cunningham, associate director of culture change, has been awarded the prestigious Royal College of Nursing fellowship.

HRH The Prince of Wales thanks hospital radio volunteers. The programme will be available on Sunday 4^th July at 2pm via the station’s website www.wxhr.org.uk and on mobile devices at wxhr.org.uk/player as well as on smart speakers via the TuneIn radio app.

As part of our staff survey campaign we are continuing to shine a light and address key areas that are raised by staff year after year. One being the limited number of BAME staff promoted to senior levels

For this we caught up with Amina Osman who has currently been seconded to the role of Matron in in the medicine division and she talks to us about her journey of progressing to band 8A role.