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60 seconds Rachel Berry
What do you do to wind down and relax after a hard week at work? I have 3 children (age 10, and 5 yr old twins); we go out on adventures to parks, Gruffalo hunting in the local woods, watch films under blankets, just spend time together as a family.
What is your ideal holiday destination and why? Anywhere I don’t have to cook! Some-where with a beach or pool, and lots to entertain. Here or abroad, I’m not fussy!
Rachel is Deputy Diagnostic Lead for the Hearing and Balance Service and has worked at the Trust for 18 years.
What is your favourite food? Chinese - I worked in a Chinese restaurant after leaving school so got to try everything!
What did you want to be when you were growing up? I’ve always wanted to go into Healthcare, at college I was interesting in Speech Therapy, then changed to Nursing, finally becoming an Audiologist.
What is your favourite film? The Day After Tomorrow
Tell us something we don’t know about you … I love reading but my genre is Zombie or Apocalypse fiction. It’s about the what if, no gas/ electricity, no internet, no petrol! How would we adapt and survive.
Cardiology team provide almost 500 free heart checks at event in Leeds City Centre The LTHT cardiology team offered free heart checks to the public from a pop up bus in the city to mark Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week. Almost 500 people had a stethoscope check on the day, with 25 people having a heart problem detected, enabling them to be referred for further investigations into heart valve disease which could contribute to saving their lives. The team were based near Kirkgate Market on a blue Medtronic ‘Your Heart Matters’ branded bus. Hundreds of people took the opportunity to have a heart
and Heart Valve Voice, the UK’s dedicated heart valve disease charity, to empower patients to access healthcare and raise public awareness of these heart valve conditions.
rhythm and stethoscope check which can detect heart valve disease. The team included consultants, senior trainees, physiologists and specialist nurses who all care for patients with heart valve disease at Leeds General
Infirmary. On the day, anyone who was diagnosed with a heart murmur or irregular pulse was given a letter to share with their GP for further investigations. The team collaborated with Medtronic, a medical devices manufacturer,
Dr Chris Malkin, Consultant Cardiologist said: “The event was a real success and the team were incredibly busy all day, providing education and raising awareness that a simple stethoscope check could identify important heart disease. Our trained cardiologists performed cardiac auscultation and gave immediate feedback to members of the public, which could have helped to save many lives.”
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