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The Microbiology team at Nottingham University Hospitals, which sits in West Block at the Queen’s Medical Centre, have been the hidden heroes driving forward the Trust’s testing machine during the Covid-19 pandemic, and have now completed their 100,000 Covid-19 test.

We spoke to Alison, a ward manager on our Medical Ambulatory Care Unit (MACU) and our Acute Medicine Receiving Area (AMRA), about her experiences over the last nine months or so.
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We spoke to Bridget and Linda, two personal assistants at Nottingham University Hospitals, who between them have almost 50 years of service to the NHS.

We asked them to tell us of their experiences over the last nine months or so, and tell us what their messages to their colleagues and the people of Nottinghamshire are.

The collaborative work of the Estates & Facilities Team, Information & Insight Team and Service Improvement & Transformation team at Nottingham University Hospitals have been highly commended in the Royal Statistical Society’s Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Data Analytics.

The award, named after the celebrated nurse and statistician born 200 years ago this year, celebrates data analyst teams in the health and care sector whose work demonstrably delivers better outcomes for patients. It’s presented by the Royal Statistical Society and supported by the Health Foundation - an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.   

Chesterfield Royal Hospital has become the sixth NHS Trust in the East Midlands to go live with a system that allows the region’s hospitals to share patient images, scans and x-rays regardless of which hospital they were taken in.

Known as the PACS Portal, the cloud-based image sharing system is good news for patients, allowing clinicians to access scans and images from other trusts, in real time and at a distance, to make critical decisions about a patient’s care quickly and safely.

Renal researchers at NUH are the first in Europe to successfully offer patients a new treatment for a rare kidney disease which affects just 100 people in Nottingamshire.