The Hillingdon Hospitals' Podcast

In this week's episode, Adam Tocock, our Trust's library services manager is joined by Phil Perks, regional manager for BMJ, and Ross Whistler, head of learning and assessment products, for a chat about BMJ learning and what it has to offer for Trust staff. Tune in to hear more about some of the key features of BMJ Learning, how it can help staff prepare for assessments,

We catch up with Godfrey Sahayadass to learn more about Microsoft 365 and the new apps which are now available to Hillingdon Hospital staff.Godfrey, who is the Corporate Applications Service Manager, discusses a range of apps and tools, including Lists, Planner, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Autoagents, with the aim of increasing productivity and efficiency. Thanks for liste

Freddie Mundy shares his incredible story on this week's podcast having been born at Hillingdon Hospital eight weeks prematurely.Freddie, who is now 29, is running the Edinburgh marathon in May to raise funds for the hospital's neo-natal unit.The civil engineer talks to us about his and his family's experience at the hospital, meeting staff years later and his prepar

We catch up with Director of operational Estates and Facilites at the Trust, Steve Wedgwood, to talk about the new incinerator - or Energy Generation Centre as it is now known.Following a two-year project costing nearly £10m, the plant is now up and running and providing heating and hot water for patients and staff at Hillingdon Hospital.Steve discusses the story behind the projec

It's a special podcast this week from our recent Women's Network event workshop, where Leslie Gaudet talks about the importance of self-care and ways to prevent burnout.Leslie is a self-care strategist for female CEOs and their teams, and provide clients with self-care strategies for them to prevent burnout and enhance their quality of life both in their business and beyo

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Following national Moisture Associated Skin Damage Awareness (MASD) Day, we sat down with our Trust's experts, the Tissue Viability Team, to talk about MASD, risk factors, the common causes, and how we can help prevent patients from developing skin damage. Tune in to find out more. Thanks for listening and don't forget to come back for a new episode each Monday!Let us kn

THH Library Services Manager Adam Tocock met up with Helena Delagdo Cohen, Clinical Engagement Lead at BMJ Best Practice, to hear about this point-of-care tools' many features and how it can help busy staff at the point of care or elsewhere.It's freely accessible to all Trust staff on-site via the staff intranet, or remotely via NHS OpenAthens. It's also downloadable

We talk to the chair of our multicultural network, Weli Farah, all about Ramadan and the support on offer to Trust staff during this period.Weli discusses the importance of the month, fasting and what colleagues can do to support those observing Ramadan.Do you have an achievement we should be talking about? Have a story we should be discussing? Or do you want to tell us about your

Join Adam Tocock, library services manager for a conversation with Dr Shveta Khajal and Dr Neil Verma about their recently published research paper, which looks at regional anaesthesia in the UK. Thanks for listening and don't forget to come back for a new episode each Monday!Let us know what you thought of this episode or what else you'd like to hear about from across th