Square Mile Stories — articles for May 2020
“It’s been a real journey, with up days and down days”
Many of our staff selflessly stepped up and volunteered themselves to be redeployed into new departments across the trust and this included clinical nurse specialist Carmen Zerafa.
Novel screening programme ensures urgent cardiac care continues during the coronavirus pandemic
A team from St Bartholomew’s Hospital has established a new screening programme for patients requiring urgent cardiac care during the Covid-19 outbreak.
60 seconds with mental health first aider Melanie Alveranga
A donation of £20,000 from Barts Charity will leave a legacy of improved health and wellbeing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital beyond the coronavirus pandemic, including funding training courses for mental health first aiders across the site.
Nurse reflects on crucial role of therapy to help Covid-19 patients return home
In this blog, senior charge nurse at St Bartholomew’s, Liam Tobin, reflects on how nursing and therapy teams on ward 3A West adapted to provide rehab care to patients after long stays in the intensive care unit.
Nurse portrait is ‘thank you’ from long lost friend
An ICU nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital has become the subject of a piece of art after she was nominated by a patient’s relative, who turned out to be an old friend.