News from Whipps Cross Hospital

From Saturday 13 to Monday 15 November staff will need to exit the staff car parks via the James Lane gate due to demolition works removing the chimney

To mark the end of the celebrations for our Allied Health colleagues, we hear from Saleha Humayun, orthoptitst at Whipps Cross Hospital. 

Ahead of AHP day on 14 October, we hear from Sherelee Govender who works as a part-time orthotist at Whipps Cross Hospital.

Alia Harrison, Community Lead Orthoptist at Whipps Cross Hospital, tells us more about her profession as an orthoptist and the work she is been doing to support the local community. She also tells us what her typical day looks like. 

We caught up with Ruquyya Vankad, who recently joined the Chaplaincy Team at Whipps Cross Hospital.

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.

We caught up with midwife Nicola Johnson to discuss her nomination for The Sun Who Cares Wins award and to highlight the important work she is being recognised for.

We’re at an exciting stage of progressing our plans for a brand new hospital for our patients, our staff and our communities.

Find out more in our update video from Alastair Finney, Whipps Cross Redevelopment Director.

The Minister of State for Health, Ed Argar, visited the Whipps Cross site on Monday 5^th July to mark the 73^rd birthday of the NHS and to tour the demolition site for the new hospital at Whipps Cross.

In November 2020, Whipps Cross Hospital had an ambition to create a Community Forum to support a stronger relationship between the hospital and the communities it serves.