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Celebrating Allied Health Professional Day Allied Health Professionals (AHP) make up the third largest workforce in the NHS, and there are more than 1100 AHPs working across many professional groups at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. During AHP Day, on 14 October, Chief Nurse Lisa Grant met virtually with a representative from each professional group to discuss their reasons why it’s great to be an AHP. Lisa was delighted to be part of the celebration and recognised the contribution AHPs make to patient pathways and experience. She was very keen that AHP voices were heard and offered her support to ensure AHPs’ contributions and value are represented in the organisation. Although the group couldn’t meet in person as they have done in previous years, AHPs across the Trust connected with each other and with colleagues across the country using social media to share and celebrate their profession. This year a competition was also held, where AHPs were asked to design a poster or take a creative photo that best represents their profession. There were some great entries which showed not only the pride AHPs have for their profession, but also the care and respect colleagues have for their team members - truly representative of the
Leeds Way values. The top three entries in the competition were: 1st Place - ODPs (“Who you gonna call”)
2nd Place - Paed Radiographers (“Funnybones”) 3rd Place - Orthoptics (“Rainbow vision”) Thank you to Leeds Hospitals Charity who funded prizes for the winners.
Paper Lite delivers Trust-wide benefits Along with many other teams across the Trust, the Covid pandemic has seen the Corporate & Health Records team completely change the way they work. With restrictions around document handling in place, they have quickly adapted to a different way of delivering their service, using digital solutions to help. This approach, known as Paper Lite,
involves digitising paper Medical Records, which are scanned and uploaded into ppm+. Paper Lite is a key step in our digital journey, providing many efficiency and sustainability benefits, and also building upon the investment made in ppm+, contributing to an increasingly rich electronic patient record. Paper Lite has also played an important role in supporting our
Covid Infection Prevention regime by significantly reducing the volumes of documents and people moving around the Trust. The team run a comprehensive Pick-up & Scan Service for all in-patient and outpatient areas, and the Clarendon Wing Library, which was previously full of paper records, has now been closed down.
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