TRUST WINS AWARD
TECHNOLOGY CORNER
The Trust has won a national award for the work staff across the Trust are doing to improve patient safety.
In the Gastro Unit, Gary Ingham is using Capsule Endoscopy as a less-invasive procedure in place of a traditional endoscope.
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LESSON IN LOVE
Learning and Development Manager Alex Goacher married the man of her dreams at Blackpool Town Hall.
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YOUR NEW STAFF NEWSLETTER February 2010
Hundreds for Haiti
THE Trust’s fundraising day for Haiti on Friday February 19th was a huge success as staff from across the sites dug deep for this worthy cause.
and more pouring in
Miss Blackpool, IT Trainer Jess Berry, raided the pockets of the lunchtime crowd at Oliver’s to gain over £100 in just one hour. Poulton raised nearly £200 with their cake sale which was a fantastic effort.
Over in the Sterile Service Department (SSD), the team came together to think about ideas on how to raise money for Haiti, finally settling on guessing the amount of sweets in a jar.
There were many other great fundraising events including the Library collecting fines, another cake sale in Pathology, office staff wearing non-uniform for a donation, collections in the Cardiac Centre, collection buckets in Rendezvous, NAES organising a collection, plus general bucket shaking from the communications team (apologies to anyone we’ve missed).
SSD manager, Dorothy Wardrope, kindly donated the sweets. She said:“It is great to see so many of the Trust’s departments coming together to help fundraise for such a worthy cause.” At least 217,000 people died in the devastating earthquake on January 12th, which also left about 300,000 injured and one million homeless.
A ‘fine’ week for charity in the Library
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Miss Blackpool, the Trust’s Jess Berry, on the fundraising trail in Oliver’s
About three million Haitians have been affected, with over 250,000 homes destroyed. The funds collected from the day,
Pathology cooked up nearly a £100 with their cake sale
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(and subsequent week), will be donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee www.dec.org.uk.
Cardiac Centre had plenty of heart
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