South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as one of the CHKS 40Top Hospitals for the thirteenth year running. The 40Top award is given to the 40 top performing CHKS client trusts and is based on the evaluation of 22 key performance indicators covering safety, clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully formally committed to becoming a dementia friendly organisation. The trust is committed to address the five conditions to becoming dementia friendly after being accepted by the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) and South Tees is the largest trust and one of the first to have committed formally to the DAA’s ‘Call to Action’.
The dementia team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is urging people to dig out their photographs of local scenes from years gone by. As part of an on-going project to make the trust more dementia friendly the team have invested in five digital interactive screens from My Life Software™.
Do you know a nurse or midwife who has gone above and beyond the call of duty? South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is inviting patients and their families to nominate staff who have gone that extra mile for a Nightingale Award.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is urging hospital visitors to ‘Say NO to NOrovirus’ this winter. Better known as the winter vomiting bug, norovirus is the most common stomach bug in the UK, affecting people of all ages.
Installing a remote answering system on the Victoria ward at Richmond’s Friary Community Hospital is saving 39 hours of staff time over a year.