#TeamBartsHealth blogs

Martin Patrick Griffiths discusses the importance of younger people being educated about Covid-19 vaccines and understanding that they are still at risk of Covid-19 despite their age. 

Barts Health is implementing the standards of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative, which is about infant feeding and relationship-building within new families - and to mark this we're sharing 73 baby feeding tips this week! Keep an eye on the page during the week as we add more tips.

Geraldine Cunningham, associate director of culture change, has been awarded the prestigious Royal College of Nursing fellowship.

HRH The Prince of Wales thanks hospital radio volunteers. The programme will be available on Sunday 4^th July at 2pm via the station’s website www.wxhr.org.uk and on mobile devices at wxhr.org.uk/player as well as on smart speakers via the TuneIn radio app.

As part of our staff survey campaign we are continuing to shine a light and address key areas that are raised by staff year after year. One being the limited number of BAME staff promoted to senior levels

For this we caught up with Amina Osman who has currently been seconded to the role of Matron in in the medicine division and she talks to us about her journey of progressing to band 8A role.

An update from youth empowerment squad.

The Youth Empowerment Squad meet every month to discuss their future projects and priorities. 

Dr Andrew Kelso, Medical Director at Newham Hospital, discusses the importance LGBTQ+ expresion and why 'gayness saves lives' is his new slogan. 

“I joined the Trust nearly two and a half years ago. With any change in environment, no matter how ‘out and proud’ you are,"

“I have been working at Barts Health for 7 years now and I am pleased to see many changes have occurred in this time. When I walk the corridors I now see many more rainbow badges and lanyards and my colleagues wear them with pride as allies.