#TeamBartsHealth blogs

Reflections on the Royal London 14/15th floor expansion

Dr Maria Vidal, Clinical Psychologist at Newham Hospital writes about the works she has been doing to support staff wellbeing during the covid-19 pandemic and includes her top 5 tips to looking after your mental health. 

Now more than ever, during these strange and difficult times, it is important that we are kind to one another and take time to look after our own wellbeing. The Theatre Wellbeing Project, a grassroots, multidisciplinary initiative which has been running for a number of years, aims to do just this, by promoting self-care and compassion within the theatre team. 

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we spoke to Michelle Ainsworth, resuscitation officer and Mental Health First Aider at Newham Hospital, about the importance of self care.

Nikki Abbot, nurse on East Ham Ward at Newham Hospital, talks about her journey into nursing and her experience being redeployed to the Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU). 

In this 60 second interview we speak with the ICT team who were tasked with implementing the core ICT infrastructure to the new critical care unit at the Royal London Hospital.

For Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 we caught up with Marufa Begum. Marufa is a Volunteer Coordinator here at Barts Health, and, on top of this, she is also a mental health first-aider which means she provides mental health support to those that need it.

Sister Myleen Bucsit and staff nurse Mark Dukes from the Respiratory Covid ward on the 13th floor at The Royal London Hospital reflect on the last eight weeks and how it brought their team together.