Stow-ries — articles for February 2022
Spotlight on: Woodlands Day Unit team
We spoke to Sare Hewitt and her team at the Woodlands Day Unit at Whipps Cross Hospital about the work they do at the unit, some of the successes they’ve had and the positive feedback they’ve received from some of their patients.
“Each nurse was absolutely lovely, warm and caring and they were all very gentle with my son”
Hannah from Leytonstone shares her positive experience at Whipps Cross Hospital.
"I love working at Whipps Cross because of its lovely family friendly atmosphere"
We spoke to Karen Bryan, matron at at AAU, AEC and MRAU, about her role, being awarded Star of the Month and highlights from the past year.
60 seconds with...Althea Bart
We talked to Althea, our new head of community participation at Whipps Cross, about her role, the work with the local community and how staff, patients and the local community can get involved in what she does.
Covid-19 stories: Pauline Ricketts
We talked to Pauline about her decision to have the Covid-19 vaccine and how she's encouraged others to get their jab.
Transforming how we discharge patients
We talked to Ash Halkhoree, head of complex discharge, about the pioneering work his team of 13 has been doing via the virtual wards and how this work started.
“It’s been a really interesting and eye-opening experience”
We talked to lieutenant Harriet Burns one of the army personnel that was deployed to Whipps Cross to support our A&E department for three weeks.