Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

📅 | Everyone is welcome to join us at our Annual Members’ Meeting as we look back on some of our highlights from the past year and talk about our plans for the future. 📅 Friday 27 September 🕒 11am - 1pm 📍 TREC, Torbay Hospital Doors open from 10.30am. The event will also be livestreamed online. There will be hands-on demonstrations with our Digital Futures team, which is at the forefront of developing digital healthcare solutions including a 3D virtual patient programme, and virtual AI-powered avatars. Find out more and reserve your place 👉 www.tsdft.uk/amm

🌺 Congratulations to Linda Goodyear, HCSW on Tuner Ward for being our latest Primrose Award winner! Last week Nicola McMinn, Interim Chief Nurse presented Linda with a certificate, badge and some tasty scones, which the team helped her enjoy! Linda was nominated by a patient for her calm, caring nature and her support towards a family who’s relative was on end-of-life care. Her nomination said, “Linda is such a calm caring person who you can see cares very deeply about her job and all the people around her. My relative sadly passed away and Linda was like a rock to me at that time, she sat with me and told me it was ok to cry, gave me leaflets on if I needed addition help and that I could take as much time as needed.” 💙 Thank you Linda for showing such kindness and care to our patients and their families at such a difficult time, we are extremely lucky to have you working with us. Nominate a healthcare support worker who you would like to see recognised 👇 https://ow.ly/ER1Q50T7gHN

👐 | Our maternity teams opened a new dedicated infant feeding room at Torbay Hospital earlier this month as part of world breastfeeding week 👶 The room provides a comfortable environment for staff, patients and visitors to breastfeed, express and store milk. It's equipped with comfortable seating, nappy changing facilities and fridges, and can be found on level 3 of the women’s health unit 📍 Find out more on our website 👉 https://ow.ly/S3eP50T4cIr

Our South Devon Healthcare Library and Knowledge Service is now on Linkedin! 🎉 Follow the page to find out more about what the team does and how they can help 👇 👇

📖 | Read our latest edition of Healthy Futures to find out more about our latest news and updates. Read the August edition 👉 https://ow.ly/Mvkc50T2coH Previous editions 👉 https://ow.ly/KeX750T2coJ

📅 | Everyone is welcome to join us at our Annual Members’ Meeting as we look back on some of our highlights from the past year and talk about our plans for the future. 📅 Friday 27 September 🕒 11am - 1pm 📍 TREC, Torbay Hospital Doors open from 10.30am. The event will also be livestreamed online. Find out more and reserve your place 👉 www.tsdft.uk/amm

📣 Patient Safety and Quality Administrator 👀🔭 We're on the lookout for an administrator to support our excellent patient safety and quality team. If you want to help support our organisation to deliver high quality care, this could be the role for you! 💼 Band 3 🕒 Full time 📅 Apply by 03 September 📌 Torbay Hospital Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/i0xh50SZai0

🌼 | Our lovely Torbay Hospital League of Friends has made a generous donation of £10,000 that means bereaved families will now have a much better experience. The viewing room at the hospital’s mortuary and the service corridor which leads to it have been transformed ✨ 🍃 The viewing room is now a forest glade with a feature wall, comfortable seating and soft furnishings in gentle green tones. 💡 A series of light boxes have been installed in the service corridor that leads to the viewing room, creating a much lighter and more pleasant walkway for grieving relatives. We are incredibly proud of our mortuary's teams commitment to supporting loved ones after death and their families. The League, which celebrates its 70th birthday this year, has helped the team enhance this care 💙

🏥 Did you know our Emergency Department now has a drop off point for NHS mobility equipment? Please return any crutches, frames or walking sticks to the ED waiting room entrance. ♻️ Promoting a greener ED, we want to encourage our public to recycle and reuse NHS equipment.

💙 Our children’s area at Totnes Hospital has been given a makeover thanks to the generosity and kindness of Totnes Hospital League of Friends. 🐟 The new look area has benefited from washable wall stickers which have created an ‘under the sea’ theme. We are very grateful to Totnes Hospital League of Friends for their generous donation which has truly brightened up our children’s area. Featuring in the photo are Alison Davies (Chair of Totnes Hospital League of Friends), Karen Sewell (secretary) and Tracey Cunningham (Matron of Totnes Hospital).