The WOMB (Women’s Outpatients Management Blitz) project ran by our Women’s Health team saw around 440 patients and 480 appointments held across six weeks at the start of this year, in bid to get women the care they need and to help reduce our waiting lists.

We’re providing more support to staff dealing with traumatic incidents by introducing ‘kind hearts’, staff trained in offering psychological first aid to colleagues.

A simple innovation to change the dressing on c-section wounds for new mothers, which reduced infections, has won the Most Effective Contribution to Patient Safety category of the HSJ Partnership Awards.

We rounded off Healthcare Science Week on Friday 17 March by inviting science students to a careers fair at Queen’s Hospital.

We’re delighted to have received a silver award in the Stonewall Workplace Equity Index in recognition of our work to improve inclusion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) staff.

We’ve been recognised nationally for our efforts to support all international nurses and  midwives who join our Trust.

An extra 150 nurses recruited from India will be joining our Trust, starting from next month.

Our Chief Executive Matthew Trainer has ranked in the Health Service Journal’s top chief executives for 2023, revealed on Monday 20 March.

We’re delighted two more of our wards have attained silver and bronze accreditation as part of our ongoing efforts to improve and standardise the quality of care given across our hospitals.

This Healthcare Science Week (13 to 19 March) Funmi Akinlade, consultant clinical scientist in biochemistry, is keen to ensure young scientists know the vast range of careers open to them in the NHS.