Focus Magazine - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chaplaincy team leader and MuslimImam Mohammed Arshad is picturedwelcoming three new chaplains to theFoundation Trust’s chaplaincy team.Joe Fielder, the Christianchaplain, will work full-timecovering all the Christiandenominations, while HoshiarSingh, the new Sikh chaplainand Murari Gupta, the newHindu chaplain, will work parttime.Murari is already a familiarface at the BRI having been achaplaincy volunteer for the pastseven years.All three chaplains agreedthat it was a “great privilegeto help the Foundation Trustimprove the care that it gives toits patients.”Imam Arshad added: ”I hopethat the new chaplains will beable to contribute positively topatients’ experiences as well asplay a part in supporting thestaff.”If you are a patient or a relativeof someone in hospital and wantto talk to a chaplain, please ask amember of staff or call 365819.GIFT: from left, JosieWatson, Sue Barnes, fromSANDS, Julie Cadman,BRI bereavement supportmidwife, and MichelleBarrett of SANDS.Bradford SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity) have madetheir first major donation with the gift of a cold cot to Bradford RoyalInfirmary’s birth centre and labour ward.The cold cot, which is a steel-typemattress that lies under a Mosesbasket, means that more parentswho go through a stillbirth canhave longer to say goodbye totheir babies.Bereavement support midwifeFOCUS August 2013 page 22Julie Cadman, said: “We areincredibly grateful to SANDS andits local members for donatingthis state-of-the-art cold cot to ourmaternity services.“For families who lose a child,the cot will give them moretime to be together with theirbaby and enable them to say apersonal goodbye and will be verymuch appreciated by parents whofind themselves in these tragiccircumstances.”The presentation took place inthe new Snowdrop bereavementsuite which was recentlyrefurbished and which helps to givebereaved families increased privacyand dignity as it enables them tospend valuable time with theirbaby in homely surroundings.“SANDS also donated some ofthe equipment in the SnowdropSuite and we are extremely gratefulfor their on-going support tomaternity services” added Julie.