I’m delighted to share that Jamie Miles will be stepping into a new role as the Trust’s Acting Chief Innovation, Improvement and AI Officer (CIAO).
This newly created position reflects our growing ambition to harness digital innovation and artificial intelligence to improve care,
drive productivity, and support our teams in delivering the best possible outcomes for patients.
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This role is about more than technology - it’s about people, partnerships and purpose. He’ll be working closely with colleagues across the Trust, our ICS partners, and national bodies to ensure we stay ahead of the curve while keeping patients and staff at the heart of everything we do. If you’re working on something innovative (or want to), please get in touch with Jamie. He would love to hear from you. What will Jamie do in his role as CIAO?
Dr. Jamie Miles Chief Innovation, Improvement and AI Officer (CIAO)
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Foster a culture of improvement and creativity across clinical and operational teams. Identify and scale digital solutions that enhance safety, efficiency and patient experience, making sure they work for you.
Ensure our use of AI is ethical, evidence-based and aligned with national guidance. Support the delivery of our three-year transformation plan and 2025/26 productivity goals.
Ontheair: MaternityStopSmokingTeam
Our Maternity Stop Smoking Team was interviewed by BBC Radio Sheffield this week – about their achievements in dramatically reducing smoking rates in pregnant women.
The team has cut smoking at the time of delivery (SATOD) from 13.6% in 2021-2022 to 8% in 2024-2025. In August this year, there were 279 births and just nine of the mothers were smoking.
The team, set up in 2014, has worked with Yorkshire Smokefree and the Healthy Lives hospital team to cut smoking rates.
Stop Smoking Midwife
Rebecca Barker was joined for the radio interviews by Kaye Mann, Public Health Principal for the Public Health and Communities Directorate at Barnsley Council, as well as a lady who is currently pregnant and receiving support from the service.
The piece was broadcast on BBC Radio Sheffield this week, and is on the BBC South Yorkshire website.
Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen.
Caused by prenatal alcohol exposure, FASD affects brain and body development. It is a spectrum, with each person experiencing different challenges, often alongside other conditions. At its core, FASD is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, but people with FASD also have many strengths.
To mark International FASD Day on Tue 9 Sep, Walburgh Manhungira and Becky Parkinson hosted a stall in the antenatal clinic, sharing vital information and encouraging conversations about prevention, diagnosis, and support.
The message is clear for anyone planning a pregnancy or currently pregnant: There is no safe time, no safe amount and no safe type of alcohol to drink #Drymester.
The National Organisation for FASD has compiled a guide to help healthcare professionals avoid using stigmatising or blaming language around FASD. Access the FASD language guide
NotjustPatientSafety
The work of the patient safety team in supporting the prevention and d al r
Glenda, Debbie, and Charlie
But did you know our patient safety team are also responsible for Resuscitation training, Human Factors, ReSPECT, Medical Device policy, NatSSIPs, Learning from Deaths and Mortality, just to name a few others?
Jon and Tammy (with colleague)
Despite the varied work, the team consistently achieve and surpass their quality targets.
Bev and Amy
I’m very proud of the varied high-quality work of the patient safety team. By implementing processes that become part of every one’s daily work, the team produce results which have a positive impact on both patient safety and organisational learning.
Tracey Radnall, Associate Director for Patient Safety & QI
In addition, the bereavement office function now sits within patient safety and dovetails the work of the medical examiner’s office.
The bereavement office will contact the bereaved of every deceased adult patient and soon will be providing the initial welfare call for Maternity and Paediatrics too.
Karen and Lorraine
Gemma
This annual event aims to raise global awareness about patient safety and calls for united action on reducing patient harm.
The patient safety team are supporting our maternity, neonatal and paediatric colleagues in this year’s theme “Safe care for every new-born and every child".
Look out for them in person from 9am to 12pm on the day and on social media where there will be tweets and promotions.
Children aren’t small adults. They require individualized safe care.
Safety first, always and in every health care setting.
The most common causes of harm are known.
Safer care depends on safe systems and teamwork.
Movingmessageaboutsecurity
The mother of a young man who died in the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 gave a moving speech during a security award presentation to Barnsley Hospital.
Figen Murray OBE campaigned for six years to push through Martyn’s Law, after her son Martyn died in the terrorist bombing which killed 22 people. The law requires publicly accessible locations to bring in security measures to counter the threat of terrorism.
Figen was speaking about the importance of security as Barnsley Hospital was awarded three prestigious security awards: the Secured Environments Award, the British Standard 7958:2015 Accreditation, and the Secured By Design Award.
Dan Jarvis, Barnsley MP and also Minister of State for Security, praised the hospital security team, saying: “They have done genuinely national-leading work and achieved a unique triple distinction.”
In a hospital powered by digital innovation, IT professionals are the architects of progress. Every system secured, every solution deployed, and every challenge overcome is a testament to their brilliance. Join me in celebrating not just their skills, but their impact. Go Team Digital!!!
Tom Davidson, Director of IT
SOME RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
EPR Upgrade
Paediatrics Go-Live
Inpatients Transformation
EPMA Implementation
The unstoppable march of Paper to Digital TeleTracking Support
Pharmacy Stock Control Enhancements
Clinical Narrative – frustrations faced, progress made
CelebratingyourQuality Improvementprojects
Thank you to everyone who supported the QI celebration event on Tuesday 9 September which showcased some amazing quality improvement work.
The event was very well attended in the newly refurbished lecture theatres, with seven people presenting their projects, and nearly 80 posters of improvement work which had been completed by teams across the Trust.
SPECIAL THANKS to Steph Riding, Charlie Brigg, Claire Lawson, Jo Stone, Shorav Malik Munjal, Lindsay Reynolds, and Liam Wright for presenting their projects
FiveDinners.com
A FREE personalised meal planning tool for NHS Staff, usually costing £86 annually. Eat healthier, waste less, and make life a little easier.
Working in the NHS is rewarding, but it can be seriously stressful. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Five Dinners to take the hassle out of mealtimes.
Choose your healthy eating goals - low calorie, specify allergens, even choose meal plans designed for Peri/ Menopause or mums-to-be!
Whether you’re working shifts, clinical or office based, your new personalised meal plans will help you get organised, eat better, save money and take away the stress of deciding what to cook every night!
The app delivers weekly, personalized meal plans and shopping lists tailored to your dietary needs - saving you time, money, and stress.
Watch Theo explain how it works
Five Dinners is just one of the many Health & Wellbeing initiatives the Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team are planning as part of their new strategy launching this autumn.
I’m Theo Michaels founder of FiveDinners.com - an online meal planning platform.
I’m extremely honoured to be working with Barnsley Hospital in supporting all staff with (free) personalised meal plans to help you eat a bit healthier, save a few quid on shopping and take away the headache of deciding what to cook every night.
It only takes a few seconds to get your free membership which will transform your dinnertimes into something easy and delicious!
ProudtoCareConference2025
Monday 6 and Monday 20 October
In less than a month we’ll be welcoming colleagues to our third annual Proud to Care Conference at the Holiday Inn.
The overarching theme this year is about ‘Working together for the people of Barnsley in a changing world.’
In a time of change, nowhere more so than in
the NHS, it is essential that we all work together as a team and adopt new ways of working in order to continue to deliver the outstanding care to the people of Barnsley, that we are all rightly proud of.
This year’s Conference features sessions on One Team, Person-Centred Care and Embracing Change and Digital to reflect that.
The conference team are really looking forward to welcoming around 200 of you in October for what we expect to be a fun, engaging and informative day.
