#TeamBartsHealth blogs

To mark Volunteers' Week on 1-7 June, we spoke with Harris Nageswaran, a medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and a volunteer at The Royal London Hospital.

Diana Markham, clinical lead dietitian at Newham Hospital shares her experiences of working in the Dietetic Department during the Covid-19 pandemic.

My name is Heena Patel and I’m an orthoptist at Whipps Cross Hospital. I’m based in the Eye Treatment Centre and have been working here for 9 months now.

To mark Volunteers’ Week on 1-7 Jun, we spoke to Ellie Williamson from Canning Town who, after being furloughed from her job, decided to volunteer at her local hospital to offer help during the pandemic.

To mark Volunteers' Week on 1-7 June, Kitty Murdoch, an A-Level Chemistry teacher from Stratford, blogs about what made her choose to become a volunteer at Newham Hospital and why she loves the job. 

Many of our staff selflessly stepped up and volunteered themselves to be redeployed into new departments across the trust and this included clinical nurse specialist Carmen Zerafa.

Alex is a foundation year doctor, who is based at the Royal London Hospital. He is working alongside all of our amazing frontline staff, to help fight Covid-19.

As a way of saying ‘thank you’ and to support those who need it most, Soapsmith have gifted bars of luxury hand-made soap to staff at Whipps Cross Hospital. For every bar of soap they sold during their campaign, they donated a bar to an NHS hero.

A donation of £20,000 from Barts Charity will leave a legacy of improved health and wellbeing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital beyond the coronavirus pandemic, including funding training courses for mental health first aiders across the site. 

In this blog, senior charge nurse at St Bartholomew’s, Liam Tobin, reflects on how nursing and therapy teams on ward 3A West adapted to provide rehab care to patients after long stays in the intensive care unit.