Heartbeat July 2018

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This amazing photograph of “Matron
Ashworth” and her team outside Trust
Headquarters in 1927 received nationwide
coverage when we re-enacted the snap
with nurses of today.
Stories featured in the Daily Mail, the
Metro, and even the Aberdeen Evening
Express, as well as the local papers, the
Birmingham Mail and the Birmingham Post.
The old photograph, along with others, was
unearthed by two domestic colleagues who
handed them to Electronic Patients Records
Trainer, Sue Woodcock.
Quick-thinking Sue, who has a keen interest
in the history of the hospital, gave them to
the communications team for safe-keeping
and the idea to re-enact the photograph
was born.
Matrons, ward managers and
sisters posed for the snap in
exactly the same place where
the 1927 picture had been
taken – but the two photographs
showed the differences the health
care service had changed over 91
years.
The building had originally been the
Nurses’ home based at Hallam Hospital,
but is now Trust Headquarters, at Sandwell
Hospital.
The photo was recreated with then Chief Nurse, Elaine Newell and
matrons, ward managers and sisters
Marton Ashworth is pictured outside with other nurses outside the
nurses home in 1927
28 SUNDAY MERCURY SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2018
We need stricter
guidelines for TV
I FIND it incredible that for years and
years comedians entertained vast
audiences without u tering a single
swear word or indulging in dirty talk.
By comparison today these
so-called fu ny men and women do
not know how to make people laugh,
other than by pe dling filth and
getting paid quite a lot of money for
their lack of talent.
Audiences, for their part, a plaud
because it is expected of them or
because they are aware of the
presence of television cameras.
If these people laugh and applaud
because they rea ly are enjoying what
they are hearing, then perhaps greater
concern should be shown.
To say that such filth offered up in
the guise of entertainment does no
harm is nonsense. Even the soaps that
are shown before the watershed on
television are now concentrating t o
much on bed-hopping.
Many of these comics have
relatives, including children, who at
some point are going to view these
performances.
If they are not disgusted and
humiliated and actually enjoy what
they s e, then surely alarm bells
should ring, because if the so-called
comics do not respect their audiences,
then you would presume that
they would respect their family, most
certainly their children.
I am aware that there is an off switch
on the television but many viewers
are elderly, disabled and housebound.
Their televisions are their main
source of entertainment.
Peddling filth is not g od entertainment,
and if there is the slightest
evidence that it has a co rupting
influence on people’s attitudes, then I
would go as far as to say that there
should be far stricter guidelines.
Barbara Dunn, Moseley
Sometimes you have
to be cruel to be kind
IN My previous le ters I have twice
said do not wo ry about today’s crime
as it is going to get worse, and with
recent events I don’t think that
anyone wi l argue with my thoughts,
but I wi l say it again anyway, do not
wo ry about today’s crime it is going
to get much worse as there is nothing
to stop it.
We will never get a government
with the guts to ignore the do-gooders
and take the drastic steps to stop it.
I cannot agree with the death
penalty because, despite the introduction
of DNA, mistakes are still
being made. There are some cases
that do not involve DNA, evidence
being wit held in order to get a
conviction.
Before shouting “hang em high”,
take a realistic l ok at what caused
crime to get worse year after year.
Back in the 30s and 40s you could
walk the streets in safety, leave your
d ors and windows open, even leave
your milk money on the doorstep for
the milkman to collect.
So what is the difference today?
Children in the old days were
taught discipline and respect by
whatever means nece sary.
What ha pened then? The dog
oders and MPs got corporal
punishment abolished, t ok away
authority from the police and
teachers, even parents are no longer
a lowed to co rec their child’s
behaviour, resulting in them running
riot and being uncontro lable, which
leads to more and more of them
turning into yobs.
I believe that there is a cure,
although I doub that it wi l ever
ha pen, but for the sake of future generations,
bring back corporal
punishment and give authority back
to the police and teachers. Teach
children respect and discipline from a
young age, a slap on the arm for
young ones and the cane for the older.
I think tha to cure today’s yobs and
criminals, prisons should go back to
being punishment and not rehabilitation,
with hard work and little play, no
choice of meals where, if you don’t
like i then you can go without, and I
think tha the birch should be part of
the punishment for any crime
involving violence.
yobs who a tack firemen and
medics know when they are caught
that they will be told they are naughty
and do not do it again.
Would they still do it if the birch
was waiting for them? Is there any
reader out there who thinks tha the
person who a tacked the defenceless
90-year-old woman in her bed should
not ge three strokes of the birch?
As a young lad I was naughty and I
had the cane time and time again at
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EALTH workers have
marked the NHS’s 70th
a niversary this w ek by
recreating a remarkable
1920 staff photograph
discovered in a broom cupboard.
The original image, showing a
matron, her a sistant and nurses
wearing traditional nursing caps, was
taken at Sandwell Hospital’s headquarters
in West Bromwich in 1927.
That was back in the days when it
was known as Hallam Hospital.
Fourteen staff members at Sandwe l
and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS
Trust posed in a similar line-up outside
what was once the site’s nurses’ home.
Avnash Nanra, ward manager for
the paediatric/adolescent a se sment
unit a the trust, which runs the
hospital, featured in the re-enactment.
“The old picture is truly amazing
and shows a completely different
NOSTALGIA: the NHS at 70 .
mA THEW cOOpER
Staff Reporter
■ Matron Ashworth and Assistant Matron Harding with other staff sisters at Sandwe l Hospital’s headquarters in West Bromwich in 1927, when it was known as Ha lam Hospital, and (right) the recreated photograph showing cu rent staff members
SUNDAY MERCURY SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2018 29
Golden Hi lock sch ol and I thank
them for it as I have never b en in a
speck of trouble since I lef there.
I think you have to be cruel to be
kind.
Ray Rushton, Ha l Green
Rubbish at reservoir
getting out of hand
I WOULD like to make a
complaint abou the
ru bish that is left in
the countryside at
Bartley Green
Reservoir.
It is an eyesore!
Why don’t people
ca l the council
about it and hopefu
ly then they will
take it away.
Sometimes the ru bish
is left on the side of the road.
Is there a chance of the police
coming to check it out before it gets
out of hand?
D Knight, Halesowen
Too easy to blame
working-cla s families
REGARDING the ongoing debate
about overweight children. Is it partly
mi dle-cla s, privileged profe sionals
who are having a go at working-class
families I wonder?
To realists England is one of the
most class-ridden countries in Europe
and anyone who has not noticed that, I
think, needs to get out more.
I do not deny that we have a serious
weight problem. Perhaps the Government
wi l now star taking it seriously?
Max No tingham, Lincoln
‘Stop and search’
appeared to work
WEST Midlands Police previously had
a robust “stop and search” policy
which a peared to work, but a
self-a pointed community
adviser forced the police
officers to scale back
the scheme.
Since then gun and
knife crime has
exploded in the city
and this coupled
with the drug use has
made Birmingham
like a wild wes town.
Fred Copley, Hodge Hi l
I want to
watch good
footba l at Vi la
I AM disa pointed that Aston Vi la
did not go back up into the Premier
League and I think that it is abou time
that they got some players in now
before the season starts.
I think tha the players le the
manager, Steve Bruce down. It is a
shambles down there. I am a pensioner
and I pay my money to go down to
the Vill and I wan to see g od
players. They le the best goalkeeper
go, Sam Johnstone. I think that Steve
Bruce is a g od manager.
Mr John Rouse, Erdington
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Inmates from the EU make up
just 5pc of the jail population
REGARDING the letter
from J Cross in the Sunday
Mercury on July 1, the
wording of the le ter as
published gives the
impre sion tha the 4,6 0
prisoners from the EU in UK
jails make up nearly 50 per
cent of the total prisoners.
That i simply no true. At
th end of 2017 there were
4, 0 prisoners from the
EU in British prisons, and
that is only about five per
cent of the total prison
population of 83,6 0.
To pu that into perspective,
the number of
prisoners from the EU in
British jails is only half as
many as ex-forces prisoners
cu rently in prison
(8,5 0), surely a greater
cause for concern.
If after Brexit we deport
a l the EU prisoners on their
release it wi l not be long
before the remaining 27
states of the EU start
deporting British prisoners
back here, including those
from the Costa del Crime
and the many British
prisoners in the Irish
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NOSTALGIA: the NhS at 70 .
side to the healthcare service,”
she says.
“You can clearly s e how things
have changed over the years.
“I was privileged to be part of
this project and I hope that the
re-enactment wi l be l oked at in
years to come.”
Electronic patient records
systems trainer Sue W odcock
was given the picture and other
images covering the period from
1927 to 19 6 by two ward service
officers.
“I was cha ting to them about
history, and they told me about
how they had found these old
pictures in one of the br om
cupboards,” sh explains. “I was
k en to s e them and so went
along with them to have a l ok.
“I was astonished to find these
very old and interesting
photographs. I have kep them
saf ever since. When I heard that
there was going to be a huge
celebration for NHS70, I thought
these pictures would be perfect.
“It would be a great o portunity
to share them with our co leagues
and visitors.”
■ The hospital i s eking
information abou the staff shown
in the 1927 image. Anyone related
is asked to contact Anuji.evans@
nhs.net
■ Matron Ashworth and A sistant Matron Harding with other staff sisters at Sandwell Hospital’s headquarters in West Bromwich in 1927, when it was known as Ha lam Hospital, and (right) the recreated photograph showing cu rent staff members
Thursday, July 5, 2018 | METRO |
IN BRIEF
Minister apologises for
Universal Credit ga fe
AN EMBARRA SING apology has
b en i sued by the work and
pensions secretary after she was
publicly rebuked by Whitehall’s
spending watchdog.
Esther McVey said she had
‘inadvertently misled’ MPs by
claiming the National Audit
Office had ca led for the
Universal Credit benefi to be
ro led out more quickly.
It came after NAO bo s Sir Amyas
Morse criticised her interpretation
of a report it had produced.
The report said UC – a
replacement for other benefits –
should not be ro led out further
until it was clear the system could
cope with no delays for payments.
Tube ads ‘a powerful
way to deter gropers’
ADVERTS warning against sexual
hara sment on the Tube would be
a ‘powerful’ way to tackle the
problem, minister for women
Victoria Atkins has said.
She told the Women and
Equalities commi t e that
targeted ads in packed ca riages
saying ‘Please don’ think this
gives you the right to grab
someone’, would be effective.
Police recorded more than 2, 0
sexual offences on the London
Underground in the past year.
Ms Atkins also hit out at the
‘offensive’ portrayal of women in
music videos and said she was
researching the impact of online
porn on a titudes to women.
Paedophile footba l
coach gets 20 years
A PAEDOPHILE footba l coach
who worked with Newcastle
United’s youth players and
sexua ly abused boys for
three decades was jailed for
20 years yesterday.
George Ormond, 62, coached a
Newcastle youth team in the ’70s
and ’80s before moving to United
in the ’90s. On Tuesday he was
convicted of 35 indecent a saults
and one of indecency.
Judge Edward Bindlo s told
Newcastle crown cour that
Ormond used his position as
coach to ‘target boys and young
men in his care’. Some never
kicked a ba l again after being
abused, the court heard.
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a PERfECT PiCTURE of hEalTh... whaT a diffERENCE 90 yEaRs MakE
HEALTH workers have marked the NHS’s 70th birthday by recreating a 1920s staff photo found in a br om cupboard. The image showing a matron, her assistant
and nurses in traditional nursing caps, was taken at Sandwe l Hospital’s headquarters in West Bromwich in 1927, when it was Hallam Hospital. Ward manager
Avnash Nanra, one of 14 staff in the new picture, said: ‘The old picture is truly amazing and shows a completely different side to the health care service.’
With a little help . a song for NHS heroes
Vocal su porter: Seal on the mic
World Cup Joy: Jones and
Johnson PICTURES: BRIAN RASIC
STARS including Nile Rodgers, Seal,
Myl ene Kla s and Louisa Johnson
are proving they’re real friends to
the NHS, with a song for its 70th
a niversary.
The singers have teamed up with
health workers to record With A
Little Help From My Friends a the
legendary A bey Road studios.
Also a sisting with vocals were
Danny Jones, Beverley Knight,
Engelbert Humperdinck, R ef,
Marina and The Diamonds, Una
Healy, Alexandra Burke, Rick Astley,
Tony Hadley and UB40.
Proceeds go to NHS Charities
Together, a group of 130 g od causes.
Ge ting behind the mic for the
tribute, cla sical star Kla s said: ‘For
me the NHS is so important. My mum
came over from the Phili pines in the
’60s to be a nurse for the NHS. When
you’re brought up in that environment
you realise the power of it.’
The 40-year-old a ded: ‘I don’t
know anyone that hasn’t used the
NHS, or n eded the support of it.’
Dame Vera Ly n, 101, said: ‘I
remember my mother taking me to
the doctor and having to pay for it.
You wouldn’t go unle s you were
very i l. And those without money
couldn’t go at a l. We are so
fortunate to have the NHS.’
Meanwhile, amid the serious work,
The Voice UK’s Da ny Jones and
Louisa Johnson sti l found time to
fo low the World Cup and were
jumping for joy after England’s
victory over Colombia.
Emilia: Nurses who
cared for my dad
need our help now
by laura harding
MORE than four in five people (84 per cent) said they would be
ha py to pay more tax if it mean the NHS ‘improved a great deal’,
a cording to a survey. The NHS Confederation po l found that 75 per
cent would be willing to stump up to s e slight improvements. And
61 per cent said they would do so jus to ensure services remained
at cu rent levels.
■
GAME OF THRONES star Emilia
Clarke has spoken abou the devastating
experience of losing her ‘darling
dad’ as she praised the care he
received from nurses and ca led for
cuts to their funding to stop.
The 31-year-old, who is a Royal
College of Nursing amba sador,
detailed the expertise and compa
sion of the people caring for
her father in his last days.
Speaking at an awards ceremony
in London, she said nurses were
‘begi ning to smash the old stereotypes
and, for the firs time, performing
operations and running
doctors’ surgeries’, but they had
become ‘an easy target for cuts,
no the priority for investment’.
Clarke a ded: ‘This reality breaks
my heart, as two years ago on
July 10 I lost my darling dad. Our
experience was shaped by the care
he received. I was given the o portunity
to be involved in the intricacies
that made up a day of trying
to save his life and it showed
me with such clarity, not only the
awe-inspiring skill tha the nurses
clearly had, but the emotional intelligence
that came along with it.
‘After a panic at hearing be ls and
bu zers I didn’t understand; the
hug that came my way and the
words that accompanied it both
rea sured and comforted me.
‘I know my dad received the best
care and medical su port from our
nurses that dealt with every second
of those dark days.’
Clarke said: ‘The money the NHS
has to keep our nurses trained and
a the forefront of healthcare has
b en cut in half this year in England.
This has to stop, we have to
make a change.’
She a ded: ‘Nursing is about
more than just medicine; it’s about
engaging with another person on a
human level. Like hugging a daughter
who knows she is abou to lose
her dad.’
Pa sionate
plea: Emilia
Clarke at
the Nurse of
the Year
awards in
London
last night
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Two major engin ering groups
have announced they are joining
forces in a bid to land a multibillion-pound
contract to built new
trains for HS2.
Bombardier Transportation and
Hitachi Rail, which collectively
employ 5,000 people in the UK,
have launched a new joint venture
to submit a bid to design, build
and deliver a fl et of trains for the
high-speed line.
The £2.75bi lion contract on
offer is for a minimum fl et of 54
units that wi l run on phase one of
HS2 betw en London Euston, Solihu
l and Birmingham.
The newly designed ro ling stock
wi l also be able to travel on the
current rail network.
The formal tendering proce s is
due to start later this year, with
contract award in late 2019.
The two companies said the joint
bid would support the Government’s
aims of boosting UK jobs,
ski ls and the British supply chain,
as we l as support its own plants
including Bombardier’s factory in
Derby.
They added that they were
already developing a new generation
of engin ers and mechanical
ski ls and the joint venture would
provide a launch pad for new
investment into education.
Hitachi and Bombardier have
previously delivered one of
Europe’s fastes trains in Italy – the
ETR 1 0 for Trenitalia.
In the UK, Hitachi maintains the
country’s only domestic high
sp ed fl et, the Cla s 395 Javelins,
which it built and introduced
ahead of the London 2012 Games.
Karen Boswe l, managing director
of Hitachi Rail, said: “HS2 will
form the backbone of Britain’s
future rail network and is a major
investment in our future prosperity.
“By joining together in partnership
with Bombardier, we wi l draw
on a huge wealth of UK experience
and the best in modern technology,
including our pion ering bu let
train experience.
“our aim is to deliver a new British
icon that wi l be recognised
around the world – a Spitfire for
the British railway.”
Richard Hunter, managing director
UK of Bombardier Transportation,
added: “HS2 is a once-in-alifetime
opportunity to transform
the nation’s transport network and
we are very excited by the chance
to play a key part in delivering it.
“By joining together in partnership
with Hitachi, we wi l combine
both company’s global high sp ed
expertise with unriva led British
experience and help generate ski ls
and prosperity acro s a number of
UK regions.”
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Major firms in
joint bid to build
‘a Spitfire for the
British railway’
Tamlyn Jones
Political Reporter
Bombardier and Hitachi Rail aim to win
£2.75bn contract for fleet of HS2 trains
NHS staff recreate old photograph
HEALTH workers have marked the
NHS’s 70th anniversary today by
recreating a remarkable 1920s staff
photograph which was found in a
broom cupboard.
The original image, showing a
matron, her a sistant and nurses
wearing traditional nursing caps,
was taken at Sandwe l Hospital’s
headquarters in west Bromwich in
1927.
That was back in the days when it
was known as Hallam Hospital.
Fourt en staff members at
Sandwe l and west Birmingham
Hospitals NHS Trust posed in a
similar line-up outside what was once
the site’s nurses’ home.
Avnash Nanra, ward manager for
the paediatric/adolescent a sessment
unit at the trust, which runs the
hospital, featured in the re-enactment.
“The old picture is truly amazing
and shows a completely different side
to the healthcare service,” she says.
“You can clearly s e how things have
changed over the years.
The hospital is seeking information
about the staff shown in the 1927
image. Anyone related is asked to
contact Anuji.evans@nhs.net
> Matron Ashworth and assistant matron Harding with other staff
sisters at Sandwe l Hospital’s headquarters in West Bromwich in
1927, when it was known as Ha lam Hospital, and (below) the
line-up of cu rent staff
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HEALTH workers have marked the
NHS’s 70th anniversary today by
recreating a remarkable 1920s staff
photograph which was discovered
in a broom cupboard.
The original image, showing a
matron, her a sistant and nurses
wearing traditional nursing caps,
was taken at Sandwe l Hospital’s
headquarters in West Bromwich in
1927.
That was back in the days when it
was known as Ha lam Hospital.
Fourt en sta f members at
Sandwe l and West Birmingham
Hospitals NHS Trust posed in a similar
line-up outside what was once
the site’s nurses’ home.
Avnash Nanra, ward manager for
the paediatric/adolescent a se s-
ment unit at the trust, which runs
the hospital, featured in the reenactment.
“The old picture is truly amazing
and shows a completely di ferent
side to the healthcare service,” she
says.
“You can clearly s e how things
have changed over the years.
“I was privileged to be part of this
project and I hope tha the re-enactment
wi l be looked at in years to
come.”
Electronic patient records systems
trainer Sue Woodcock was
given the picture and other images
covering the period from 1927 to
1966 by two ward service o ficers.
“I was cha ting to them about history,
and they told me about how
they had found these old pictures in
one of the broom cupboards,” she
explains.
“I was k en to s e them and so
went along with them to have a
look.
“I was astonished to find these
very old and interesting photographs.
I have kept them saf ever
since. When I heard that there was
going to be a huge celebration for
NHS70, I thought these pictures
would be perfect.
“It would be a great opportunity
to share them with our co leagues
and visitors.”
A l the pictures, which were found
earlier this year, wi l be on show at
Sandwe l Hospital betw en 10am
and 2pm today, during a tea party to
mark the NHS anniversary.
The hospital i s eking information
about the sta f shown in the
1927 image. Anyone related is asked
to contact Anuji.evans@nhs.net
By MATTHEW COOPER
News Reporter
THEY’RE the NHS angels.
This photo from the Birmingham
Mail archives shows nurses
mode ling new NHS uniforms in
1958.
Ten years after the NHS was
born, 20-year-old student nurse
Gene Wi liams takes centre stage.
And in another historic photo,
below, Health Minister Aneurin
Bevan tours a hospital on the day
the health service was launched in
1948.
News
The NhS aT 70
staff recreate old photo to mark milestone
Matron Ashworth and A sistant Matron
Harding with with other staff sisters
which was taken at Sandwell Hospital’s
headquarters in West Bromwich in 1927,
when it was known as Ha lam Hospital
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Daily Mail, Thursday, July 5, 2018
West Bromwich in 1927, when it
was known as Ha lam Hospital.
Back then it specialised in the
treatment of infectious disease.
The nurses from yesteryear were
lined up outside the nurses’ home,
which had just b en added to the
hospital that year. Typica ly, after
a long day’s work they had to be
back in the nurses’ home by 10pm.
Matron was in ‘loco parentis’.
Back in 1927, George V was on
the throne, Stanley Baldwin was
Prime Minister and it was a time of
great medical advances, with new
va cines for diphtheria, wh oping
cough and tuberculosis.
But nursing wa sti l in its early
years of profe sionalism. Throughou
the 19th century and into the
20th, teaching schools for nurses
were responsible for se ting their
own standards for training.
It was only after the Co lege of
Nursing (now the Royal Co lege of
Nursing) was founded in 1916 that
parliament was persuaded to
bring in regulation. Now, it is an
a l-degr e profe sion – a l student
nurses are educated at university.
Since the 1960s and 70s, the
boundary betw en the work of
doctors and nurses ha shifted,
too. Nurses began to undertake
complex clinical a se sments,
diagnosed i lne s, prescribed
treatment and designed plans of
care, which would have been
unheard of in the 1920s.
Another di ference over the last
seven decades is that health care
workers from abroad have become
increasingly vital to Britain, with
targeted overseas recruitment
starting in the 1930s. In 1949, the
RCN worked with the government
to launch campaigns to recruit
hospital sta from the Caribbean
and Europe, particularly Ireland.
It is estimated that by 1965, 35 per
cent per cent of nursing sta f in
Britain were born overseas.
Fourt en sta f at Sandwe l and
West Birmingham Hospitals NHS
Trust recently posed in a similar
line-up to that from 1927 to re-
create the photo. Among them was
ward manager Avnash Nanra. She
said: ‘The old picture is truly amazing.
You can clearly s e how things
have changed over the years.’
IN their traditional starched
caps and aprons, a group of
nurses pose with their formidable
looking matron in 1927.
Now, after the old photograph
taken at Sandwe l Hospital was discovered
in a broom cupboard, health
workers have recreated i to mark
the NHS’s 70th anniversary today.
The changing face of their profe sion is
plain to s e. Gone, for example, are the
nurses’ caps for k eping hair neatly in
place and like those used by Florence
Nightingale in the 19th century.
The caps went out of fashion in the
1 90s over fears they would a tract bacteria.
Another di ference is the present
day nurses mainly wear trousers.
And while those pictured 91 years ago
were a l women, reflecting the then
prevailing view of nursing as a ‘woman’s
job’, a man is among the ranks of their
21st century su ce sors.
The original photograph was taken at
Sandwe l Hospital’s headquarters in
Matron and her sta f before the NHS
was born but in an era of progre s
1927
today
By david Wilkes
Much more has changed than the outward appearance with nursing now a multicultural and degree-educated profe sion
DOCTORS and nurses wi l be asked for
ideas to slash waste and red tape in the
NHS, Theresa May said last night.
In a me sage to celebrate the 70th anniversary
of the health service, the Prime
Minister warned that NHS bureaucracy too
often ‘gets in the way of care’.
And she said radical reform was n eded to
cope with the twin threats of childhood
obesity and dementia among the elderly.
Mrs May spoke a she invited healthcare
profe sionals to Downing Str e to celebrate
the anniversary just w eks after she
announced plans to boost NHS spending,
funded in part by the ‘Brexit dividend’.
The Prime Minister said the health service
was working on a new ten-year plan to
ensure the money i spent wisely – and
ca led on frontline workers to submit ideas.
‘I have asked the NHS itself to draw up a
ten-year plan to make sur every penny of
the new funding is we l-spent and that leaders
are a countable for delivery,’ she said.
‘Frontline sta f like you wi l be involved in
the plan’s development, so it delivers for
patients and for the health service.
‘I know that you got into medicine and
healthcare because you want to make a difference,
you wan to help people get be ter
or manage their conditions.
‘Ye too often we see bureaucracy ge ting
in the way of care, with proce s being put
before patients. So the plan wi l highlight
what changes we could make so that you
can concentrate on pu ting patients first.’
Mrs May stre sed her support for an NHS
fr e at the point of n ed but insisted reform
was vital, adding the plan wi l also embrace
technology so the health service is fi to
face the cha lenges of the future.
Help us cut waste and boost care, PM
tells medics on NHS’s 70th birthday
By daniel Martin
Policy Editor
From starched caps to scrubs,
the changing face of nursing
Staff recreate picture from 91 years ago – at the same hospital
Denise wins a red letter day
Denise Williams, Out of Hours District
Nurses Team Leader was the lucky winner
of our Star Awards nominations prize draw.
She won a red letter day experience worth
£200, curtesy of Tusker, which she has used
to have a two night break in Liverpool.
Have a fab time Denise!
Denise pictured with her red letter day
experience gift
Colleagues attend special NHS
70 services
Four colleagues attended special NSH 70
services, which were held at Westminster
Abbey and York Minster on 5 July.
Alochol Lead Nurse, Arlene Copland,
Clinical Director for Emergency Care,
Dr Nuhu Usman, Head of Operations,
Caroline Rennals and Clinical Team Leader,
Integrated Care Service, Sandra Kennelly
were amongst the 3,000 NHS staff from
across the country who attended the
services along with representatives of
charities, councils and other key NHS
partners.
Head of Operations, Caroline Rennals
pictured outside Westminster Abbey
Pam wins take a break
Last month we featured our take a break
competition in Heartbeat for the first time.
All correct entries were put into a draw
and Community Gynae Admin Clerk, Pam
Bailey was the named selected at random.
She was delighted as we presented her
with her Love2Shop Vouchers.
Pam said: “I will be sharing these with my
colleague, Claire Francis as we did the quiz
together – we really enjoyed it and will
enjoy spending our prize!”
You can find another take a break
competition on the back page of this
month’s edition.
Pam was delighted with her prize