North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Hanukkah, or Chanukah in Hebrew, is the Jewish festival of light. 🕎 The word Hanukkah means 'dedication' and celebrates one of the greatest miracles in Jewish history. This year it's begins on the evening of Wednesday 25 December and will last for 8 days. It is celebrated with a nightly menorah lighting as well as playing dreidel, singing songs and preparing delicious food. 😊 We would like to wish all our patients, staff, families and the community a Happy Hanukkah! 💙

✨ Merry Christmas from all of us at North West Anglia Foundation Trust! ✨ We're incredibly grateful for the dedication and compassion of #TeamNWAngliaFT staff who work tirelessly, even on Christmas Day, to support our patients and their families. 💙 Wishing everyone a peaceful and hopeful holiday season. 🎅🎄

Thank you to all of our amazing staff who are working during the festive season! 💙 We really appreciate your dedication to providing patient care! 🎅🎄🤶 #TeamNWAngliaFT

Departments across our Family Integrated Support Services have been getting into the festive spirit by participating in a friendly Christmas Tree competition! Teams, including Pharmacy, Pathology and Diagnostic Imaging were tasked with decorating their Christmas Tree in a way that is unique to the services they provide our patients. It is safe to say that their is a lot of creative flair at Team North West Anglia, we absolutely love these trees! Well done to Women’s Health Ward at Peterborough City Hospital and the Rehabilitation Unit at Hinchingbrooke for being crowned our winners!

Olivia Hallam (Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist) has secured an East of England NHSE/ICA Pre-doctoral Bridging award to support her career progression as a Clinical Academic. 👏👏 The programme is for individuals who wish to develop careers that combine research and research leadership along with continued practice and professional development. 💪 Congratulations Olivia and we wish you all the best in your career progression! 😁💙

👨👩🦳🦱 Research Champions can be patients, carers, members of the public or anyone else who has or has not taken part in a research study before - but something they all have in common is that they're passionate about getting more people involved in research so that we can develop better care and treatment for everyone! 💙📊 If you would like to be a Research Champion to engage with and spread the word about health and care research, please contact the Research & Development department by calling 01480 847511 or email nwangliaft.rddepartment@nhs.net! 📧 The team can't wait to meet you!

You can help to get your loved ones home for Christmas. Help us get them home by making sure they have transport to get home, stocking up the fridge, popping the heating on and making sure they’ve got everything they need.

It is fantastic to see new state-of-the-art technology installed in the Interventional Radiology (IR) Suite at Peterborough City Hospital! This technology is helping us to enhance the care we provide, enabling the procedures we offer our patients to be quicker and less invasive. A huge well done to the team for implementing this positive digital enhancement for our patients! https://lnkd.in/eeT7vUuM

People visiting loved ones who will be in hospital over the Christmas period will be able to park for free on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day to make it easier to pop in to see patients to bring a little festive cheer! 🥳🎄 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eCMsvvxm

Congratulations to our Paediatric and Research and Development colleagues who recruited 50 babies to the ‘Febrile Infants Diagnostic assessment and Outcome study (FIDO). 📊 The FIDO study was a large UK-wide study looking at how we can spot sick infants and how we can use tests better to identify those infants that require treatment with antibiotics. Dr Katherine McDevitt, Consultant Paediatrician and Lead Clinician for NICU, Interim Assistant Divisional Director for Paediatrics for the Trust said: “The team have done a fantastic job of recruiting patients to the FIDO study so I would just like to say thank you to them for their hard work and dedication and hope to take part in more paediatric studies in the future.” 💙 The study was run by PERUKI – Paediatric Emergency Research in UK and Ireland.