News from Whipps Cross

As part of the #OurWXpeople spotlight series, this week we are highlighting the great work carried out by the chaplaincy team. We caught up with James Grenfell, Chaplain at Whipps Cross Hospital, to give us all the details on the department.

As part of the #OurWXpeople spotlight series, this week we are highlighting the great work carried out by the phlebotomy team. We caught up with Ana Lourenco, Phlebotomist, to give us all the details on the department.

As part of the #OurWXpeople spotlight series, this week we are highlighting the great work carried out by the medical records team and we caught up with medical records manager, Ekundayo Badmus, to give us all the details on the department.

Nurse, Zway Magama discusses how she and the team scooped the first prize for the best e-poster at this year’s British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) meeting.

As part of the Whipps Cross spotlight series on porters, we caught up with porter supervisor, Kieran Nevin, to discuss all things portering before and during the pandemic.

Rainbow scrubs have been brightening up our Whipps Cross corridors and wards, as staff opt to wear the brightly coloured donated designs.

Last week, we received the delivery of a very special bench in memory of Jeff Edwards, a porter who worked at Whipps Cross for over 35 years, who sadly passed away at the beginning of the year.

Pop-up skin clinics have been a huge success at Whipps Cross Hospital and the Royal London Hospital with many staff members receiving help for PPE related skin conditions.

Whipps Cross Hospital's ophthalmology team has been selected as a case study for Health Education England's e-learning module ‘Environmental sustainability in healthcare’.

PReCePT, a national quality improvement initiative involving clinicians from Whipps Cross Hospital, has been shortlisted for Workforce Initiative of the Year at the 2020 Health Service Journal Awards.