NTHNHS | Health and Wellbeing Magazine - Issue 2, December 2021

Welcome to issue #2

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the second edition of our new look Health and Wellbeing magazine. I hope you have been enjoying the staff generated content featured so far, and continue to enjoy the magazine during your well-earned breaks.

As your Trust Wellbeing Guardian, I am passionate about looking after the pastoral care of every single one of our staff members, both clinical and non-clinical, from all corners of our hospitals and community locations.

I have had the absolute pleasure and honour to work alongside the Trust for 15 years and during this time, my focus has been on safety, quality and patient experience.

However, staff health and wellbeing has a vital role to play in ensuring that we can guarantee those excellent levels of patient safety and experience. A happy and healthy workforce is the important interwoven thread that ties together and ensures these goals can be achieved.

It also ensures that as an NTH family unit we are looking out for one another. That we are making sure our colleagues know where to turn when they need that helping hand or encouraging word to help support them through a tough period.

You have all had your resilience tested throughout this pandemic and I’m eager to understand just how you have been affected by the past year or two, both mentally and physically. It is my hope that by working together, we can continue to improve the level of health and wellbeing support we offer.

A huge thank you for everything that you do every single day, both directly and indirectly, to ensure our patients receive the very best in patient care.

Finally, I would like to wish every single staff member a happy, peaceful and safe Christmas.

Best wishes,

Rita Taylor, Wellbeing Guardian and Non-Executive Director