Focus Magazine - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Membership card makeoverOur membership card has beenre-designed and is now beingrolled out. The new design isvery distinctive and the cardmuch more hard wearing thanpreviously. Your membershipID is presented as a bar codeas well as a number. The olderversion is still valid and will beuntil further notice as we slowlyroll out our new cards.However, if you are planningto attend any events, or useyour card to claim your discountat one of our hospital diningrooms then please contact themembership office so that youcan be issued with your newmembership card straight away.Your old card is still valid in thedining rooms but for our eventswe would like you to bring yournew card along to any that youattend. We are then able toregister you more quickly andefficiently by simply scanningthe bar code on your card.Bradford Teaching HospitalsNHS Foundation TrustFoundation Trust Memberwww.bradfordhospitals.nhs.ukMembershipbenefitsIf you visit our hospital regularly thenmake sure you take advantage of thediscount available to public and patientmembers of our Trust in our diningrooms at Bradford Royal Infirmary andSt Luke’s Hospital. All you need do isshow your membership card whenordering and you will benefit from thesame discount as our staff.You are aslo eligible to join HealthService Discounts, an on-line site thatprovides discounts, offers and dealsfor NHS staff and their families. To joinjust go through the online registrationprocess and answer ‘Foundation TrustMember’ to the question ‘do you workfor the NHS’. Please visitwww.healthservicediscounts.comWould you like to get moreinvolved as a member?We currently have approximately 2,000 of ourmembers registered to take part in public andpatient engagement activities.Over the years many of ourmembers have taken part ina range of ‘patient and publicengagement’ activities thatinfluence and inform developmentsin our organisation. Members havecontributed to the development ofour corporate strategy, research anddevelopment initiatives, our majornew ward block development,been a part of site inspection teamsand gone ‘behind the scenes’to learn more about our servicedevelopments.If you would like to join thisspecial membership group thenplease contact our membershipoffice and we will send youa ‘membership interestsquestionnaire’ to complete. Aspart of this questionnaire we askyou how you would like to beinvolved - for example, you mightbe invited to complete one or twosurvey forms over the next coupleof years; you might be invitedto read through a patient leafletfor a particular service to makesure that it is understandableand covers what it should; youmight be asked to give yourviews or opinions on a patient’spathway through a service. Bycompleting the questionnaireyou do not immediately committo taking part in any activity youare invited to. If you do receivean invitation to take part in anactivity then you are able tochoose if you wish to do so atthat time.FOCUS August 2013 page 18