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💖Watch the moment as Grace finally gets to go home with her family, after spending more than two years at Freeman Hospital 💖
A very special moment for us all - we will miss you Grace!
Turn up the volume and just listen to the incredible sound of our NHS staff, police and fire colleagues acknowledge and applaud each other during tonight’s emotional scenes at Newcastle’s RVI
Thank you 🙏
#ClapForCarers
@northumbriapol
@Tyne_Wear_FRS
@Newcastle_NHS
Hari Shukla, and his wife Ranjan have become the first two patients at Newcastle Hospitals - and two of the first people in the world- to receive the
#COVID19
vaccine
@NHSEngland
Last night, over 3000 people registered to join
@NHSOrganDonor
in 4 hours. ‘Transplant: A Chance to Live’ follows seven people in desperate need of a heart while they wait for a donor heart to become available. Catch up now on
@BBCIplayer
#hearttransplant
Great first morning delivering vaccines at the Centre for Life in Newcastle - the first large vaccination centre for the North East and North Cumbria.
#COVID19
#COVID19vaccine
We are bursting with pride that our Medical Director and Deputy CEO
@AndyWelch13
has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours. Always an advocate for our staff & so well deserved
Well Kit's had a heart transplant and is now back at home playing with his brother, machine free. If mum & dad have let him stay up tonight to watch the show, we’re sending our love & a massive thank you to all the staff & patients involved in this series.
#Proud
#GeordieHospital
We’re delighted to share the news that we can begin offering the vaccine to our patients aged over 80, care home staff and our own staff who are at higher risk from COVID-19 starting this week.
Max and Keira's Law comes into effect today which means consent will be presumed with people having to opt out if they wish not to be a donor. It was named after Keira Ball, who died aged 9 & Max Johnson, now 12, who was saved by her heart & under the care of the Freeman Hospital
Check out our fantastic child friendly visors which are helping put children and young people at ease
@GreatNorthCH
thanks to the fabulous
@UpfrontArtsV
🙏
It's with very mixed emotions we say goodbye to this little one today. After more than two years with us, Grace Westwood is leaving the Freeman Hospital after having a heart transplant but we know she's in good hands with her big brother Josh 😊♥️♥️
The Chairman’s award goes to Head of Chaplaincy Katie Watson, an inspirational leader who cares for patients, family &staff with the utmost respect & dignity. Her compassion & humanity speaks for itself. The difference she has made in people’s lives is huge
#CelebratingExcellence
Massive thanks to staff who fought their way into work through the snow today & to community staff who have been out to see patients. We’ve heard of commutes that took hours & people making enormous efforts to get to patients & they will be doing the same tomorrow
@ChronicleLive
And finally, we had a very special surprise for our two
@NUFC
fans Akbar and Craig…..a huge thank you to
@alanshearer
for signing these shirts - as you can see they were both over the moon!
#GeordieHospital
We’re aware that there are some social media posts circulating about the hospital being ‘locked down’. This is not the case. Please don’t circulate social media posts unless they come from reliable sources.
#ThankYou
After 9 months, little Joseph Nicholson has finally got to go home from hospital following a life-saving double lung transplant. In a UK 'first' doctors used an 'ECMO' machine as a bridge while he was waiting for a donor. Read his brave journey
@NHSBT
We are delighted to announce today that Sir James Mackey has been appointed as our new Chief Executive and look forward to welcoming him to Newcastle Hospitals.
Delighted to open a new fruit & vegetable stall in partnership with local greengrocers, Passion 4 Fruits, outside the RVI to give staff, patients & visitors greater opportunity to get their five-a-day 🍇🍓🥦
@JackieDanielNHS
@MCushlow
@lisaguthrie_406
:
Our night shift this evening is powered by this very generous donation from
@waitrose
. Our Exec medical director
@AndyWelch13
and our theatre teams really appreciate your kindness.
#ThankYou
We wanted to share the great news externally that Maurya Cushlow was appointed as the Trust's Executive Chief Nurse. She will be responsible for the overall leadership/development of our 6,500 nurses, midwives, AHPs & healthcare assistants & a further 1,000 patient services staff
Congratulations to our fantastic
@CNOEngland
Award winners who received 6 Silver medals and one very special Gold medal awarded to
@SuzanneMedows
as she retires following 40+years outstanding service
@NewcastleHosps
Thank you Ruth May for making this an extra special event 🙏🏽
Happy birthday NHS and a huge thank you to all our staff and colleagues who keep the wheels turning 24/7 on this extraordinary institution.
#NHS72
#NHSBirthday
Our very worthy winner is Asif Hasan who has dedicated his whole life to saving the lives of children & adults born with the most complex heart problems and defects. Surgery that only a few years ago would have been deemed impossible is now a reality.
Huge thank you to
@SuzanneMedows
who delivered the first patient covid vaccines with care & compassion. Suzanne retired last month following a nursing career of over 40 years. She returned to work to help deliver the vaccine and was recently awarded the gold award by
@CNOEngland
We have a WINNER!! Huge congratulations to
@KarenMarshall02
Nurse Consultant
@NewcastleHosps
who has scooped Respiratory Nurse of the Year Award
#BJNAwards2019
- so very much deserved!! We are delighted for you Karen 🥇🎉🎉🎉
Dr Chris Johnson, Consultant Anaesthetist at the RVI, helped a runner who became critically ill during the
#GreatNorthRun
on Sunday. After accompanying the patient in an ambulance to hospital, he went back to finish the race! Listen from 1:10:
Sincere thanks to everyone who made Transplant: A Chance to Live possible - our fantastic staff, awe inspiring patients and families, partners, and superb supporters
@CHUFOfficial
@UniofNewcastle
@NHSBT
#hearttransplant
Dedicated to Claire and David ❤️❤️
We’ve had a brilliant and busy first day at our first large vaccination centre for the region! We’ve vaccinated hundreds of older people plus local health and social care staff.
Today we bid farewell to one of our most well respected consultants - Dr Stephen Louw - as he begins his well earned retirement.
To help us say goodbye, one of his many close colleagues, Dr Anand Dixit has written this tribute.
We wish Dr Louw all the very best.
A Newcastle patient has become the first in the UK to receive ground-breaking cell therapy, in a new phase of clinical trials looking at effective treatment for advanced metastatic melanoma - skin cancer that spreads to other parts of the body.
Our Clinical Team of the Year is the Emergency Department who despite growing demand & service pressures introduced a range of improvement projects to improve patient care & flow. They worked tirelessly to meet the 4-hour access target in-year, just 1 of a small number nationally
Congratulations
@chrisharding123
recently awarded
@BAUSurology
Golden Telescope recognising his significant, lasting contribution to urology in his first decade of consultant practice - first urologist in Newcastle to do so - check out for more
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Experts at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital soon to feature in a groundbreaking documentary showing pioneering heart transplant surgery - BBC2 Monday 14th May - 9:00pm. Incredible staff - inspirational stories. Don’t miss it.
#NHS70
#NHSHeroes
🎉Healthcare assistant Doreen Hutton had a lovely surprise at the end of her shift this morning - she started working at the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital 50 years ago today. A true inspiration, Doreen still provides compassionate care at our Birthing Centre 🌟
#GoldenGirl
🌟
It's been a year since the Passion4Fruit team opened their stall at the RVI. Since then they have keep our staff and patients stocked up with fruit and vegetables and now have a second stall at the Freeman Hospital
Two of Newcastle’s leading immunologists - Professors
@Muzz_Haniffa
and Sophie Hambleton recently joined the prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship in recognition of their exceptional contribution to world-leading translational research 👏👏👏
We're delighted to share that Alyson Laws, a specialist nurse for continence in the community, has received the 'Queen's Nurse' title for her commitment to high standards of patient care, education & leadership...
@MCushlow
@lisaguthrie_406
@lizharris1697
For the first time in our history, our newly qualified doctors are taking part in an online graduation ceremony before they start work in the
#NHS
. Join them to celebrate their achievements as they read the Hippocratic Oath
#NCLgrad
#wearencl
#unisupports
The Chief Executive’s Award goes to
@ParejaCebrian
who has been an ever-present force and constant source of reassurance for staff, enabling them to work in the knowledge that their safety – and that of our patients – is paramount
#CelebratingExcellence
Lovely news about Geoff - he and his team (including volunteers) were some of the unsung heroes who continued to keep us all fed and watered during lockdown including handing out more than 40,000 packed lunches to staff day and night.
On behalf of everyone at the Trust, we are incredibly saddened by the news of Her Majesty The Queen. We send our sincere and heartfelt condolences and thoughts from all at Newcastle Hospitals to the
@RoyalFamily
at this very sad time.
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
In partnership with
@NorthumbriaUni
we have appointed
@AnnetteHand13
as our Clinical Academic Prof in Nursing - one of the 1st joint academic / nursing posts of its kind in the UK. It's a really important day for nursing education, research and practice
Dr Joanne Lewis, Consultant Clinical Oncologist
@NcccOncology
says “To be designated by the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission is a great honour for the team. Recognition of our "human centred culture of kindness and compassion" was the highest compliment we could have wished for”
💙 Our Women’s Heath Team surprised very special colleague Jane Wren today as she celebrates working 51 years at the RVI just days before her 75th birthday. Jane pioneered the Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinic becoming the first nurse to scan patients. An inspiration to us all 🙏🏽
We’re a little early but it’s been a very unusual year & we’re already up in lights - to all our Newcastle family, friends, patients & everyone who has weathered this Covid storm this year - here’s to a brighter 2021. 😊❤️
Congratulations to
@surashsurash
who was highly commended for 'ground-breaking researcher of the year' in the
@BAME_HCA
Awards for his key role in the comprehensive pay-gap & workforce review carried out in the Trust. It's thoroughly deserved.
@BameNuth
Consultant surgeon Colin Wilson starts his day with 3 Weetabix as he prepares for a live donor kidney transplant involving 2 sisters - Kimberley and Debra. "It's a big day for me but huge for them, you need to make sure they're aware you're on top of your game"
#GeordieHospital
If you go out this weekend, you might catch more than the sun. All of our favourite places will still be here to visit when this is over but for now please stay at home. Be safe, take care & protect our NHS ☺️
#Coronavirus
#StayHomeSaveLives
Surgeons in Newcastle have become the first in the world to pilot a new robotic surgery telementoring system.
This new tech means clinicians can work more collaboratively and support each other, particularly during more complex cases. Find out more here
Consultant & cancer lead, Dr Ian Pedley assures patients that all our services
@NewcastleHosps
continue to run safely. “We encourage anyone who is concerned that they may have cancer symptoms such as passing blood, feeling a lump, or weight loss to contact their GP.”
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Next Monday (17 January) you can follow some of our amazing staff & patients during a shift across our hospitals as we introduce you to episode 1 of the new
@Channel4
series
#GeordieHospital
at 8pm. Look out for the trailer from today & find out more here
Today we are making history by vaccinating one of the first patients in the world against
#COVID19
Thank you to Dr and Mrs Shukla for letting us capture this significant moment in history
@NHSEngland
Dr and Mrs Shukla will shortly be the first patients in
@NewcastleHosps
and among the first in the world to receive the
#COVID19
vaccine this morning. We’re so grateful to everything that Dr Shukla has contributed to
#raceequality
in the North East
#LocalHero
@matthancock
We’ve welcomed the local media to
@NewcastleHosps
this morning to talk about preparations for our Nightingale Hospital. All filming and photos took place with full social distancing and precautions so that we can share our story and keep everyone safe.
We've been working with the BBC today, filming day four of our
#Covid19
staff vaccine trials. Hundreds of staff have now volunteered to play their part to try and find a vaccine. A huge thank you to everyone involved
@chrisjaduncan
@davidashprice
@BBCFergusWalsh
Proud to share the news this morning that our Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) has become the first radiotherapy centre in the UK to offer cutting-edge radiosurgery technology to treat patients with brain cancer.
@JackieDanielNHS
We are pleased to announce that
@StephEdusei
has been appointed as a non-executive director to our board of directors. She will join Newcastle Hospitals Board on 1st August 2021.
“I think it is safe to say I have never felt prouder to work within the NHS and grateful for all the support given by all the colleagues I have worked with during the pandemic." Consultant physician in infectious diseases
@davidashprice
reflects on the last 18 months
#NHS73
📣 Pls RT: We fully support the Government’s message to self isolate during
#COVID19
. However our experts
@GreatNorthCH
are concerned that we aren’t seeing as many unwell children as we usually do because parents and carers are worried about coming into hospital. Pls watch 🙏 ⬇️
Dr David Nylander who has dedicated his time & expertise to helping others overseas, has been awarded an MBE. David has been sharing his expertise in gastroenterology overseas, travelling to the West African Coast to deliver training in endoscopy:
Today we bid Terry Mason a fond farewell as he retires from Central Operating after 44 years - to the day - working at the Freeman Hospital. He will be greatly missed by all his colleagues who wish him well for the future with his family including Wendy who he met and married 💙
Huge congratulations to Dr Mark Anderson who was our first
@GreatNorthCH
runner home in an awesome 1 hours and 27 minutes (so quick that we missed him😳). Well done Mark!
@greatruns
#GreatNorthRun
🇬🇧Many staff on our wards raised special decorations to join in today’s
#Coronation
celebrations - one ward in particular was decorated by the super talented paediatric nursing assistant
@HannahLittler
- the Freeman’s children’s heart unit. Majestic! 🤩 Share your ward’s pics 💫
Dr Gavin Spickett, consultant immunologist, retires from the Trust at the end of July - he has worked in the NHS for more than 40 years. His knowledge and support for his colleagues patients will be very much missed and we wish him well for his well-earned retirement.
Hannah is a nurse at the RVI. Her boyfriend had planned a trip to Dublin but it was cancelled. It didn’t stop him pulling out all the stops on the Quayside this morning. With a little help from their son George.
@itvtynetees
A huge thanks to all our staff working this evening & supporting our patients many of whom will be tuned into the TV just about now…we think there’s a football match on somewhere 😊
New research from Newcastle Hospitals and
@UniofNewcastle
highlighting our extensive testing programme to support staff. Great work from our clinicians + lab team who made this possible; Coronavirus: Test data 'reassuring for frontline healthcare workers'
To mark the 10th
#clapforcarers
this evening, the NHS and keyworkers in the city have recorded this Geordie anthem to say thank you to the North East for everyone’s efforts to protect the NHS and stay safe
Surgeons Colin Wilson & Naeem Soomro make their final preparations in different theatres for the live donor transplant “It’s about timing. It’s about getting the donor operation right, the implantation right & bringing these 2 things together at the right time"
#GeordieHospital
In recovery Amelia has just woken up after a 4 hour operation and Andy shows her the x-rays of her straight spine: “Oh my gosh, that’s amazing, thank you so much.” The transformative surgery has fixed Amelia for the rest of her life.
#GeordieHospital
Today we pay tribute to Ethel Armstrong MBE who has died aged 90. Ethel joined the RVI as a nurse cadet in 1948 - the year the NHS was founded - & joined us when we celebrated
#NHS70
. She worked as a radiographer & played a key role in establishing the NHS Retirement Fellowship.
We've been proud to take part in the
#EndPJParalysis
campaign. Tom is a long stay patient on ITU and is currently weaning from ventilation via a tracheostomy. He enjoys being able to get into his own clothes and go on trips outside, especially for an ice lolly in this weather!
🎉 We wish paediatric physio Liz Clayton a very long, happy & healthy retirement following over 40 years service to the NHS. As colleague
@Vic_mitchinson
says she “puts the fizz in physio”. Enjoy a much deserved break Liz 🍾 💙
Today we had the privilege of spending some time with lovely Grace Westwood & her mum Becci. Grace, who is currently awaiting a heart transplant, is the 1st child in the UK to have a mobile Berlin Heart driving device fitted by our Freeman team. Dr Emma Simpson explains more ⬇️
Research matron Aileen Burn oversees early-phase and late-phase research trials and today shares some of the work the team have done around COVID-19 vaccine research
@theRCN
Three of our wonderful matrons from Women's Services became grandmothers for the first time in December. Their daughters came to visit the
#RVIs
#NewcastleBirthingCentre
today with their gorgeous sons - feeling a different kind of love on St Valentine's Day 🥰
#BabyLove
“My mam was rushed into hospital with suspected COVID-19. I honestly can't thank A&E and Ward 30 enough for what they did for my mam. We didn't think we would get her back home when she left in the ambulance.”
Read this heartwarming review
@careopinion
👉🏽
Neonatologist Nick Embleton has been promoted to Professor
@UniofNewcastle
@AndyWelch13
says: 'This is a great tribute to him and his neonatal team - at the forefront of clinical practice developing innovative treatments for our patients and families'
@NeoResearch_Net
#research
Helen Lamont, the Newcastle Hospitals’ director of nursing and patient services retires today after a long and varied career which has taken her from a student nurse in the early 70s to the top nursing role in one of the country’s best performing Trusts.
Wow! In just one day over 1400 staff
@NewcastleHosps
have pledged to wear their 🌈
@RainbowNHSBadge
with
#Pride
showing that we’re so much more than open, non-judgemental and inclusive - we are immensely
#Proud
to stand up for and support our LGBT+ community
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