Cascade Summer/Autumn 2012 - Plymouth Hospitals
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cascade_summer_<strong>2012</strong>_1.5:<strong>Cascade</strong>_Winter_2011 23/10/<strong>2012</strong> 13:46 Page 3<br />
3News from around the Trust<br />
Level 4 Theatres Staff Room<br />
Back in May, members of the theatres team were<br />
delighted to show Trust Chair Margaret Schwarz around<br />
their staff room which has undergone a complete<br />
transformation thanks to monies from the Charitable<br />
Trust Fund.<br />
Philip Emerson from the Planning Department joined<br />
Kay Adin and Cindy McConnachie as they showed off<br />
the new facilities. Having taken in the now light, airy<br />
and comfortable rooms, Margaret said:” I’m really<br />
pleased that Kay took the initiative and that the<br />
charitable funds were able to help with the refurbishment. This is a Before...<br />
complete turnaround which I hope meets with the approval of staff who use the<br />
facilities.”<br />
Kay said: “Staff have been overwhelmingly delighted with it, the area has been<br />
completely transformed and gives us a really pleasant space where we can<br />
come and have a proper break during the day. If we hadn’t been able to access<br />
the charitable trust funds then this transformation wouldn’t have been possible.”<br />
Philip Emerson added: “It was a real pleasure to work on this project, they were a fantastic team to work<br />
with, their enthusiasm and cooperation ensured that everything ran like clockwork. The feedback has<br />
been fantastic and I believe that we have given the staff who use this area a real boost. We put a lot of<br />
time and resources into improving the patient facilities, and rightly so, but sometimes we forget about the<br />
staff who work in these areas and it<br />
was great to do<br />
something that<br />
improves the<br />
working<br />
conditions for<br />
our colleagues.”<br />
After...<br />
L-R: Kay Adin, Phil<br />
Emerson, Margaret<br />
Schwarz and Cindy<br />
McConnachie<br />
Mayday Mayday<br />
The work of a <strong>Plymouth</strong> <strong>Hospitals</strong> NHS Trust<br />
Neurosurgeon was celebrated at the Drum Theatre in<br />
<strong>Plymouth</strong> in early June. Actor Tristan Sturrock, who was<br />
paralysed in an accident, has written a play to thank the<br />
medical teams at Derriford Hospital who helped him<br />
learn to walk again.<br />
In May 2004 Tristan Sturrock fell 10 feet off a wall as he took a phone call during the May Day<br />
celebrations in Padstow, breaking his neck. Mr Sturrock underwent major spinal surgery and months of<br />
physiotherapy at Derriford Hospital and made an incredible recovery.<br />
In Mayday Mayday, Tristan performs around 20 roles, including himself, his wife, paramedics and<br />
neurosurgeon Tim Germon.<br />
Consultant Neurosurgeon Mr Germon, who had seen an earlier version of the play, said: "It is a great<br />
privilege to do a job which can occasionally profoundly influence a patient's life. At the same time, it<br />
occurred to me that whilst I was in the limelight it was only because of a very large team of dedicated<br />
people who made the performance possible and in that regard it was very similar to the theatrical<br />
performance itself."