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The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust provides acute care for the people of Bath, North East Somerset and Wiltshire. Tweeting 9am-5pm weekdays.
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We've launched a staff grocery store in our Lansdown restaurant for picking up essentials after a shift🛒🎉
You'll find bread, pasta, soup, teabags, sugar and plenty of biscuits now being stocked! 🍞🍪
Thank you to the team who got the shop up and running 👏
#ProudOfTheRUH
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One of our staff spotted these lambs on a
#Wiltshire
farm this morning, showing their support for the
#NHS
and brighter times ahead 😍🌈
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911 boyband singer Jimmy Constable is a big hit at the RUH – he’s swapped the stage for working on the NHS frontline, driving ambulances. 🎤➡️🚑
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A new intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients, built in just 42 days, has opened at the RUH.
Read more:
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Emergency Department receptionist Candice Scott has had a one-to-one call with His Royal Highness, The Duke of Cambridge, about her personal perspective on being part of the COVID pandemic. Candice said: "His kind words came at such a good time and will honestly stay with me."
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Thank you to everyone helping to keep the world turning and allowing NHS staff to focus on their jobs 👏 Thank you to supermarket workers, emergency services, food producers, blood donors, waste disposal, manufacturers, drivers, teachers, carers, call centres and many more! 💙
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She's our golden girl of the Min and our longest-serving member of
@RUHStaff
@RNHRDBath
Congratulations to Brenda Oliveira on an amazing 50 years of service as a health care assistant - and all on night shifts as well! 💐🏆🎉 Read her story here
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Thank you to the
@UniofBath
for producing and donating 250 face shields to the RUH 👏👏 Read the full story ⬇️
Proud to see our teams supporting the
#NHS
. 💙 💛
250 face shields, produced in
@bathenganddes
, have been delivered to the
@RUHBath
emergency department, designed to protect medical staff and cut the transmission of
#coronavirus
in appointments.
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We're incredibly grateful that we have such a wonderful local community supporting us in many different ways.😍
Big thanks to the
@UniofBath
for all you are doing for staff and patients.👏👏👏
💙💛 More than 28,000 pieces of
#PPE
for medical staff have been now made by our amazing team of engineers for hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and GPs in and around the city. Thank you to the efforts of all our staff! 🙏
#PPEforNHS
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In recognition of our staff, we're lighting up the front of the hospital in
#NHSblue
every evening - a big thank you to every one of you 💙 👏
Find out how you can help support our staff through donations to
@ForeverFriendsA
:
#InThisTogether
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More than 100 COVID-19 patients have now been safely discharged from the RUH and are recovering at home 🙂👏 Angie Shell and Hugh Mullally are just two of those patients - read their stories here:
#coronavirusuk
#NHSheroes
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Thank you to everyone who offered their 4x4 to help our staff and patients get to and from work in difficult weather conditions
Massive thank you to Jeremy from
@NatSpaFactory
who organised a fleet of 4x4 to supports us!
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Did you spot the
#NHSSpitfire
across Bath this afternoon? It was fantastic to see the iconic 'Thank U NHS' plane do a fly over the RUH in appreciation of the efforts of NHS staff 💙
#ThankYouNHS
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Jack Spence from our Estates team is just one of many colleagues working hard to keep our site safe and running today. Huge thanks to all our snow heroes ❄️❄️
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Our Children's ward have been busy this afternoon making a card for
@captaintommoore
100th birthday at the end of this month 👏🎉 From all of us at the RUH, thank you Captain Tom Moore for your fundraising and congratulations, you are a true hero and inspiration 👏🌈
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We're saying goodbye, good luck and best wishes to Chief Executive James Scott, who's retiring after 13 years in the role. Thanks for everything!
@bathnes
@NHSBSWCCG
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We’ve introduced a series of new quiet spaces across the hospital for staff to visit if they need a moment to themselves 🤫 The rooms, known as 'wobble rooms' or 'pause rooms', provide staff with a place they can go to take a pause if they are feeling overwhelmed 👍
#NHSheroes
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It’s been a huge team effort today, thank you to everyone who played a part in keeping the RUH, RNHRD and our Birth Centres open! We’ve had many examples of staff going above and beyond, and great support from our local community. Thank you ❄️💙
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We're pleased to announce that Cara Charles-Barks
@CaraCBCEO
will become the new Chief Executive of the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust in September 2020.
Read more:
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Today marks 88 years since the RUH opened at its current site, here at Combe Park. 🎂🏥 During this time the RUH has undergone many changes and 2020 was an unprecedented year for all of us, but we are still here for you. Swipe to see the RUH from present day to the 1930s. ⬇️
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Did you spot RUH Community ED receptionist Candice featured in this video by
@KensingtonRoyal
?
Earlier this year His Royal Highness, The Duke of Cambridge, spoke to Candice and over 300 staff and volunteers across the NHS to say a special thank you for their work. 💙
To everyone working across the NHS — thank you for all that you do 💙
Since January, Prince William has spoken to more than 300 NHS staff, volunteers and leaders throughout the UK, to check in on their welfare and thank them for their exceptional work:
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A massive thank you to
@BTPcafes
and
@extractcoffee
for their generous donation of coffee supplies to our very grateful A&E team! Thank you!! 😀👌☕️
#Bath
#RUH
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Thank you to all NHS staff who have worked tirelessly this week. We're extremely proud of everyone who has battled the snow and
#StormEmma
to keep things running as smoothly as possible.
#ThankYouNHS
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The Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) team have been awarded Team of the Month for October. 🏆 The team developed a virtual program of their educational talks and exercises, allowing patients to continue to gain all the usual support and guidance at home during the pandemic. 👏
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We’re really grateful for all the lovely messages of thanks and support we continue to receive for our staff. 💕🙌 To help make sure as many staff as possible get to see these messages, we’ll also be sharing a selection here, every Monday morning. 👇
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This evening we'll be lighting up the front of the hospital in blue as part of our collective memorial and reflection. 💙
Join us for a moment of remembrance by placing a light in your window – an LED candle, a lamp or a torch. 🕯️
#LightItBlue
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Over the coming days we're expecting some amazing weather but please don't be tempted to go out and enjoy the sunshine. 🙏⛅️
Sarah Wexler, head of division for Women's and Children's at the RUH, shares an important
#StayHomeSaveLives
message. Watch it now and share 👇
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To all our RUH staff, THANK YOU 👏💐
This
#ThankYouThursday
is dedicated to all our incredibly hardworking staff across the Trust for their continued care, thoughtful actions for wellbeing and support to each other during this challenging time. 💙
#proudoftheruh
#ruhstaff
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Congratulations to Professor Grey Giddins, Consultant Orthopaedic and Hand surgeon at the RUH, who has been made a Royal College of Surgeons of England Hunterian Professor for 2022, in recognition of his contribution to research in biomechanics of injuries in the wrist and hand🎉
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We are delighted to welcome Cara Charles-Barks as our new Chief Executive.
Cara said: "The RUH is highly valued and regarded in the community and I intend to build on its position as a respected and progressive organisation."
Read more:
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Hat's enough! We've been overwhelmed by the generosity of knitters from all over the world. We launched an appeal for 5,000 baby bobble hats. Eight months on we've received more than 30,000 hats! So for the time being we're saying thank you very much – but no more please. 👶
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We’ve signed the NHS Plastic Pledge and are eliminating
#singleuseplastic
from our catering facilities.
From tomorrow, say goodbye 👋 to Styrofoam containers and hello 👋 to better (recycled sugarcane) or best (bring your own lunchbox) alternatives.
#EatRinseRepeat
🥡♻️
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We don’t let COVID-19 and social distancing get in the way of important traditions at the RUH. Patient Brenda Gough from Bath wanted to mark the end of her cancer treatment by ceremonially ‘ringing the bell’ – so we took it outside so her family could join the celebration. 👏👏
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💜We're proud to light up the Atrium in purple this week, showing our support for
#CrohnsAndColitisAwarenessWeek
💜
Crohn’s and colitis are diseases of the gut, that affect every part of the body. For info see:
@CrohnsColitisUK
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The RUH have teamed up with the
@UniofBath
and
@BathSpaUni
to boost our PPE supply chain in innovative ways. On behalf of Intensive Care, Theatres, Anaesthesia, Surgery and the Emergency Department, we thank you for your time and generosity👏
📽️Watch now:
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Well done to Theatres Senior Sister Bindu Baiju, who has been presented with a Chief Executive’s Customer Care Award. ✨ Bindu was nominated for her outstanding leadership, always putting her team and their patients first. Congratulations Bindu 💙
@CaraCBCEO
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Huge thanks and goodbye to the military personnel who’ve been supporting us for the past month. Your help was
invaluable during the second wave of the pandemic, carrying our general duties on wards and units.
Read our news release here
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On this day in 1932, the doors to the RUH opened for the first time, here at Combe Park. 📍🏥
Whilst the history of the hospital goes back much further, today marks the 87th birthday of the Royal United Hospital Bath as we know it on this site.
🎉🎁 Happy birthday to us! 🎁🎉
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💬 “The test saved my life, it’s a simple as that."
Mum of three Nyssa Edwards, whose smear test identified she had cervical cancer, is urging women to make sure they take up the offer of a cervical screening test. 🧵👇
#CervicalCancerPreventionWeek
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Congratulations to RUH consultant Professor Tim Cook on his OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for service to Anaesthesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. 👋👋
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The RUH, like other hospitals, is facing increasing COVID-19 pressures. You can help reduce pressures and stop the spread:
▶️ Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives
▶️ Come to us if you need emergency care– we’re here for you
▶️ Call 111 if you need less urgent medical attention
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our patients and staff
#MerryXmasNHS
#HappyChristmasNHS
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Happy 75th birthday to the NHS 🥳💙
Thank you to all our amazing NHS colleagues - past, present and future - for making a difference every day.
#NHS75
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Well done to the Surgical Enhanced Care Unit team for winning Team of the Month. The unit was established to support elective surgery when patients need high dependency unit care. The service was opened in just three months, and cared for 107 patients 👏
@CaraCBCEO
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Kerry Perkins, Maternity Matron, has won the Midwife of the Year Award from the
@MAMAAcademy
in recognition of her dedication to staff and families.
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Staff Nurse Sheena Brown was among the first members of staff to receive Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine this morning – with hundreds of staff in line to be inoculated in the coming weeks 👏💉
Read more:
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We’re still missing seeing our Pets as Therapy dogs around the hospital, especially in the run up to Christmas when they wear their festive outfits! 🐶🎅 So here's a gallery of
#ThrowbackThursday
pictures from last year with some of our furry friends. 😄🎁
#ProudOfTheRUH
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Well done to Jessica Brawn, Senior Sister on Forrester Brown ward, for receiving a CEO Customer Care Award today.
Jessica's recognised for her sensitivity & attentiveness. She provides outstanding care to her team, as well as patients, ensuring everyone is heard👏
@CaraCBCEO
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A big hello and welcome to all our
#JuniorDoctors
joining the RUH today 👋
Thank you for choosing the RUH, we're so pleased to have you with us 🏥 💙
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A much loved night porter from the RUH, who was known for keeping up staff morale by giving out sweets and treats, is retiring after 17 years in the role – with staff raising an incredible £2,500 as a farewell gift. 👏🍫
▶️ Read more:
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Look at all these lovely messages colleagues and patients have been leaving for staff!
#MerryXmasNHS
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Oncology nurse specialist Emma Girling is celebrating being voted ‘Best Nurse Teacher’ by medical students from
@BristolUni
🤩👏Emma worked with students who went on to graduate early, ready to support the
#NHS
during the worst of the
#COVID19
pandemic.
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We’re overwhelmed with the lovely thank yous and messages of support that we've received through social media, emails and letters, from our local community and members of staff to each other. 💌
We've put together a little selection for staff to see... 😍👏
#MondayMotivation
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We're offering all our colleagues a free meal each week until the end of January to say thank you for all their hard work. 🍽️
Staff wellbeing is one of our top priorities & we hope that this small gesture will go some way towards showing our staff how valued they are.🤗
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A new window display has popped up in the centre of Bath to celebrate 2020 being the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. 🏥
The eye-catching display in Milsom Street reflects the changing face of nursing through the years.
Find out more:
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✨Thank you to
@waitrose
for the kind donation of comfort packs to some of our departments so staff can shower and change their uniform before leaving work. Packs included toiletries 🧼 toothbrushes 🦷 and even chocolates! 🍫
#ThankYouThursday
👏
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Check out our new rainbow ramp 😍This is the first of six ramps our
@LGBTQRUH1
staff network is working to install on-site as a further signal to staff and patients that the RUH is an open, non-judgemental organisation that is here for everyone
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
🌈
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Today we're celebrating National Operating Department Practitioners’ Day, a chance for us to say a big thank you to our ODPs for their important work 👏😍 Many of our ODPs, like Chloe Book, have been redeployed to other areas of the hospital in response to COVID-19.
#ODPday
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Rupert enjoyed his second official visit as a PAT dog yesterday 🐶🐾
Thanks Rupert 👍😊
@PetsAsTherapyUK
#PetAsTherapy
#PATdogs
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Our Pharmacy team have new uniforms!😷✨
The new uniform is a black tunic and trousers embroidered with the pharmacy symbol.➕
This replaces their previous smart business attire to help staff, volunteers, visitors and patients identify Pharmacy staff all around the hospital.👏
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It’s the International
#YearoftheNurseandMidwife
, marking 200 years today since
#FlorenceNightingale
was born. Keep an eye on our social media today for lots of photos and videos to celebrate🎉
Some of our fantastic nurses and midwives told us what the profession means to them…
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We are delighted to announce that the large vaccination centre in Bath will open its doors on Monday 25 January at Bath Racecourse.
Please read the press release for further information:
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Across the RUH, staff like Charlotte Harmer have been volunteering to be redeployed to other roles to support the hospital during the coronavirus pandemic 🏥🚑👏
You can read their stories here:
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This International Day of the Midwife, we'd like to say a huge thank you to all of our maternity staff for the exceptional care they have continued to provide during this unprecedented time 👏
#ThankYouMidwives
#IDM2020
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It's
#LoveYourPetDay
🐾😍 We always love seeing our
@PetsAsTherapyUK
dogs around the hospital and would like to say a big thank you to all our volunteers and their furry friends for the positive impact they have on our environment when they visit. 🐶❤️
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The first patient to be scanned by our new gamma camera – the first of its kind in the country – has praised the camera as an ‘amazing machine’. 👏 The new camera reduces scanning time for patients and creates clearer images to help with diagnosis.
More:
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Well done to our very own Home First Team - nominated for
@NHSEngland
#NHS70
Parliamentary Awards! Read on ⬇️
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Dr Andy Georgiou, consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at the RUH, will be speaking at TedxBath’s event on 19 November about his experience of working in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit at the height of the Covid pandemic
▶️ Read more:
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September’s Team of the Month was the Discharge Hub team! 🏆
The team were praised for their ‘can do’ attitude for setting up the hub in just 14 days last winter! In less than 5 months, over 2,100 patients were discharged via the hub, saving 47 bed days per month. 👏
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Today is
#InternationalNursesDay
and a time to shine a light on our nursing colleagues and the incredible role they play. 👏
Throughout the day we'll be celebrating our amazing RUH staff and thanking them for the contributions they make to patients throughout our community.
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Today, staff have showed support for
#endPJparalysis
getting patients out of their PJs & dressed to aid a speedier recovery
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A huge
#ThankYou
to all of our Estates volunteers for their fantastic work around the hospital site - gardening, weeding and painting. Their hard work helps to keep the RUH a clean and welcoming environment, looking blooming lovely for our patients, visitors and staff. 👏
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We continue to be overwhelmed by the incredible support from the local community for our fantastic staff - thank you so much! Another
#ClapForOurCarers
event takes place tonight at 8pm, so why not put your hands together again for all of the country's fantastic key workers!👏👏👏
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So proud 🌈💙
If anyone embodies the spirit of the
#NHS
then it's Hayley. A cleaner who's proud to work at the Royal United Hospital in Bath
@itvwestcountry
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Thank you to our Catering team for arranging and delivering thousands of mince pies to teams and departments all across the hospital today, to help bring some festive cheer and for staff to take a moment to enjoy a Christmas treat. 🥧
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Our Maternity services have retained their ‘outstanding’ Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating! 👏
Inspectors found examples of outstanding practice relating to our commitment to continuously improving services, patient experience and the supportive environment provided for staff.
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💙 The Chair’s Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Consultant Anaesthetist Jerry Nolan
Jerry has been a doctor for forty years, and is recognised as an outstanding clinician. But alongside this Jerry has been an international leading light in resuscitation science.
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Extremely proud to be part of this trial. Thanks to our staff and patients 👏👏👏
Thanks to NHS staff and patients who participated in the RECOVERY trial for dexamethasone — from now, we are able to use this drug to dramatically improve
#COVID19
survival for people in hospital requiring oxygen or ventilation. Read more.
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This
#VolunteersWeek
we'd like to say a big
#ThankYou
and celebrate the volunteers at the RUH for all they do. 👏🎉
From litter pickers, to
@PetsAsTherapyUK
,
@RuhFriends
,
@ForeverFriendsA
,
@bathradio
, gardeners, breastfeeding support and many more!
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In just 42 days we transformed a medical ward into a super-modern intensive care unit for treating COVID-19 patients.
Throughout this week we’re sharing memorable moments from the last year and thanking all our staff and community for their amazing dedication and hard work. 👏
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Congratulations to Cardiologist Dr Dan Augustine who has received a national fellowship award from the British Society of Echocardiography, and RUH Clinical Scientist Oliver Slegg who won the Investigator of the Year award at the British Society of Echocardiography conference. 🎉
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Well done to Clinical Site Manager Diana Hadley, who has been presented with a CEO Customer Care Award. 💙
Diana was recognised for always demonstrating a compassionate attitude and for the outstanding assistance she offered to a family during a medical emergency.
@CaraCBCEO
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Our Chief Executive Cara Charles-Barks has been named in the top 50 of health chief executives by the Health Service Journal (HSJ). 👏
Cara praised the 'amazing' RUH staff as the major reason for being named one of the country's top CEOs.
▶️ Read more:
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Congratulations to our
@RUHBath
Project SEARCH class of 2019 - graduating today and headed for the world of full-time work
@VirginCare
@FosseWaySchool
🎉🎉
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Thank you and a big round of appaws... to our Pets As Therapy dog Fudge and volunteer Martin for spreading some Christmas cheer on their tour of the hospital today.
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The latest in scanning technology is being installed at the RUH, reducing scanning time for patients and creating clearer images to help with diagnosis. The Veriton digital gamma camera is the first of its kind to be installed anywhere in the country 😲👍
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Cancer Support Occupational Therapist Dave White was presented with a Chief Executive’s Customer Care Award for going above and beyond to support a very unwell patient who was due to get married.
Thank you Dave⭐👏
@CaraCBCEO
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A second Clap for Carers event takes place at 8pm tonight, so why not put your hands together again, not just our fantastic RUH staff, but for all those key workers hard at work through the crisis, from teachers and delivery drivers to pharmacists and shopworkers!
#ClapOurCarers
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Getting patients out of their pyjamas & into their own clothes to aid a speedier recovery
#endPJparalysis
#homefirst
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"We are so lucky to have the RUH as our local hospital" 💙
Check out this week's compilation of messages and pictures sent to RUH staff in support of their work, featuring an incredible 'We Can Do It!' painting by ED nurse, Hannah 👇
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Today is National Doctors' Day and an opportunity to share a huge thank you to all our doctors at the RUH and to celebrate the amazing work they do every day to provide care and support patients and their loved ones.
#NationalDoctorsDay
#ThankYouNHS
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Today we're celebrating
#WomenInScience
and all the incredible women working throughout the NHS. 👩🔬🏥🔬 Meet some of our RUH colleagues working in the pharmacy, labs and radiotherapy.
Thank you all for your fantastic work 👏😊
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Today marks the official ground breaking on the site where our new Dyson Cancer Centre will be built 🏥🏗️ It's an important milestone in the construction of this 'truly special' building.
Find out more ➡️
@MacmillanSWest
@kiergroup
@ForeverFriendsA
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