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Rainbow scrubs have been brightening up our Whipps Cross corridors and wards, as staff opt to wear the brightly coloured donated designs.

Last week, we received the delivery of a very special bench in memory of Jeff Edwards, a porter who worked at Whipps Cross for over 35 years, who sadly passed away at the beginning of the year.

Pop-up skin clinics have been a huge success at Whipps Cross Hospital and the Royal London Hospital with many staff members receiving help for PPE related skin conditions.

Whipps Cross Hospital's ophthalmology team has been selected as a case study for Health Education England's e-learning module ‘Environmental sustainability in healthcare’.

PReCePT, a national quality improvement initiative involving clinicians from Whipps Cross Hospital, has been shortlisted for Workforce Initiative of the Year at the 2020 Health Service Journal Awards.

The winner of the Whipps Cross Hospital Star of the Month award for January 2021 is Matteo Marino.

On Thursday 11 February 2021, there will be a memorial service broadcast live from the Whipps Cross Hospital chapel – an opportunity for people of all faiths and beliefs to remember together those we have loved and lost over the past year and to give thanks for their lives.

The winner of the Whipps Cross Hospital Star of the Month award for December 2020 is Anna Bray, who was nominated by Zebina Ratansi for her role in leading the fit testing program at Whipps Cross.

Covid-19 has highlighted a number of health inequalities in ethnic minority populations. Also, ethnic minority populations are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 as they are more likely to have front line jobs, more likely to live in multigenerational households with older relatives and themselves more likely to have health comorbidities.

We caught up with Natalie, who balances her time as a wellbeing prescriber at Whipps Cross Hospital alongside her existing responsibilities as Organisational Development Practitioner for the Trust's Organisational Development Team.