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Thank you,
Michele Moran, Chief Executive and Caroline Flint, Chair

We are delighted to announce that our Trust has been shortlisted for two national awards at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards 2024. Our teams have been shortlisted for the ‘Patient Safety Award’ and the ‘NHS Communications Initiative of the Year’, recognising outstanding contribution to healthcare services.

The judging panel, made up of a diverse range of highly influential and respected figures within the healthcare community, have shortlisted us from hundreds of outstanding applicants from across the country.

Interested in staying up-to-date with the latest news from the Trust? 

We regularly upload news stories to our Trust's website, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

Our East Riding and Hull 0-19 Integrated Public Health Nursing Teams have been awarded the highly coveted UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Award. This is the first year the Hull team have applied for the award, and we are incredibly proud to say that they achieved it first time.

UNICEF UK’s Achieving Sustainability standards are designed to help services to embed Baby Friendly care for the long term. When services are assessed as not only meeting all of the criteria, but demonstrating them being truly embedded within their practice, they can be accredited as a Gold Baby Friendly service. Gold is the highest level of accreditation and celebrates excellent and sustained practice in the support of infant feeding and parent-infant relationships.

Our Trust recognises the importance of supporting and celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week, an awareness week held annually from August 25-31. 

This year’s theme is ‘Listen Up! Reclaiming our narrative and centring stories for breastfeeding justice’. The theme recognises the power of narrative shift and amplifies story telling as a key catalyst for equality and justice in lactation.

We invite you to share your stories and experiences as our Trust’s 0-19 ISHPN/IPHN service, East Riding of Yorkshire Council Children Centres and York St Johns University team up to deliver a webinar, 28^th of August 2024 between 1-2pm. We have invited a panel of black professionals from key health and education services who will facilitate the webinar, listen to your stories, and answer any questions you may have. The aim of the webinar is to give black women a voice and so that professionals can listen and begin to understand what is needed to address inequalities in breastfeeding support and services.

Book to attend the webinar here: We Are Listening Tickets, Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

For more information, please contact: ISPHN/IPHN Infant feeding leads 01482 689689 (ER) of Hull on 01482 259600

Our Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College has expanded its digital offer to reach more young people with the creation of an engaging, youth-focused podcast series called “On the couch with…”.

The podcast episodes are hosted by Mez Sanders-Green, Senior Youth Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner at the Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College. You can now listen to episode 1 on our YouTube channel. It highlights how young people have worked with practitioners to shape mental health support work at their school and influence the delivery and practice across Hull. This episode is entitled, “I was an iceberg but now that’s melted away…” and can now be viewed on our YouTube channel here.

Our Trust held the first HumberFest event on Sunday 11 August 2024 with over 200 staff members and their families attending the fun day. The event set out to thank staff for an exceptional staff survey result this year and fundraise for Trust Charity Health Stars.

Offering families a wide range of fun activities including hook-a-duck and coconut shy stalls, face painting, bouncy castles and tug of war competitions. There were also a range of food and drink options, with tickets providing all attendees with a tasty lunch from the BBQ.

The inaugural event was held at Mercure Grange Park Hotel in Willerby on one of the sunniest days so far during this summer holiday. Attendees enjoyed the variety of stalls and the chance to meet colleagues in an informal environment. One attendee said, “What a fantastic event, the weather definitely helps, but I have loved the opportunity to meet with colleagues and my children have thoroughly enjoyed all the games and stalls”.

Friends and Family Test

The Friends and Family Test (FFT) is an important feedback tool that supports the fundamental principle that people who use NHS services should have the opportunity to provide feedback on their experience. It provides a mechanism to highlight patient experience and is vital in transforming NHS services, supporting patient choice and implementing changes based on your feedback.

Each month we will be sharing patient experiences from our different services, alongside a patient comment.

94.87%

of respondents thought staff were friendly and helpful Humber Primary Care in July.

"As always, excellent service and very caring staff."

Keeping You Well

Engagement Opportunities 

Humber Youth Action Group (HYAG)

Do you know of any young people that might like to help us shape and improve our services at Humber through co-production? If so, please encourage them to join HYAG where young people aged 11-25 come together and tell us their thoughts, ideas and opinions about our services - they are truly making a difference.

By joining, young people can interview new staff members, design new websites and marketing materials, develop their C/V, make new friends, and understand how the NHS is ran and funded.

We understand joining a new group can be scary, that's why our Engagement Manager and Assistant for Children's Services can meet young people before choosing to join to ease any anxiety that they may have and answer any questions before their first meeting.

If you would also like to bring any co-production projects or ideas to the group or need help from the HYAG, please email Bethia (Engagement Manager) at bethiadennis@nhs.net or Flick (Engagement Assistant) at felicity.hague@nhs.net.

The Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College (11-18)

Who are we?

The Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College is a community for those aged 11–18 living in Hull and the East Riding. The provision is led by young people through co-production and explores creative and empowering ways to improve wellbeing through nonclinical digital and face-to-face sessions, mentorship, podcasts, and team building activities.

How to engage?

What we do: We are a young person led service, exploring empowering ways to improve wellbeing.

Get involved in fun, engaging and creative face-to-face sessions:

Our face-to-face and nonclinical sessions take place in various locations where young people are, for example within young person community hubs, schools, colleges, and our own NHS children's services. You can see them here.

In these youth led sessions young people are encouraged to explore mood, emotion, relationships, confidence, and celebrate their individuality in non-judgemental environments through creative and nonclinical methods.

Session examples include:

· Lyric writing

· Poetry/Short Stories

· Art & Crafts

· Journaling

· Sport

· Team building

Sign-up to our digital offer:

Our digital platform is where young people can register with our service and gain access to our offers. Young people can self-refer. They can create profiles that then enables them to track their mood, build personal development through our learning modules and take part in our exciting youth podcasts called ‘On the Couch With.’

It is the digital platform where young people can register for the face-to-face sessions.

Sign-up for free: NHS Humber Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College (humberrecoverycollege.nhs.uk)

We are champions of co-production!

The provision prides itself on co-production meaning that all opportunities are designed by young people and delivered in collaboration with experienced youth practitioners and other NHS professionals as well as educational providers and creative persons or community hubs.

The Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College has a key ethos: we celebrate diversity and inclusion providing safe environments and platforms for young people to grow and gain new experiences.

For more information about the Youth Recovery & Wellbeing College please email: hnf-tr.youthrecoverycollege@nhs.net

Health Stars

Join the Health Stars Dream Team and run the Humber Bridge Half Marathon.

We are very excited to announce that Health Stars is the exclusive charity partner for this year’s event and are looking for runners to join our Half Marathon team on Sunday 29th September. Run for us and together we will provide better healthcare and brighter futures for everyone using services provided by Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, across Hull, East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

Sign up for just £14 to our team today and you'll receive:

• A FREE Health Stars running vest
• A finishers medal
• Support from a dedicated Fundraising Team
• The best Cheer Team on the route!
• The feeling of immense joy and pride whilst helping support patients, their families and those that are caring for them.
  
  What are you waiting for? Sign up today Humber Bridge Half Marathon | NHS HEALTH STAR (healthstars.org.uk)

Volunteering

Why Volunteer?

Volunteering is a powerful way to make a difference in the world around you. Whether you have a few hours to spare each week or are looking for a meaningful way to contribute to society, there's a volunteering opportunity waiting for you. By volunteering, you can:

1. Create Lasting Connections: Build connections with like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a difference.

2. Develop Skills: Gain valuable experience and skills that can enhance your personal and professional growth.

3. Make a Positive Impact: Contribute to causes you care about and help make the world a better place.

Become a Member. Sign up today!

Being a member of our Trust provides the opportunity to become involved and have a say in how our services are developed. Membership is free and you can be involved as much or as little as you would like. 

Council of Governors and Public Board Meetings

Our next Public Trust Board meeting will be streamed live today, Wednesday 25 September 2024 on the Trust YouTube Channel between 9.30am - 12.00pm.

Watch our latest Trust Board meeting.

Join us for our next Council of Governors meeting at 2:00 - 4:00pm on Thursday 17 October 2024 at Trust HQ Lecture Theatre, Willerby Hill.

For more information and to register your attendance, please contact the Membership Office:

Telephone: 01482 389132

Email: katie.colrein@nhs.net

Governor Profile

In my commissioning role, I have worked alongside commissioning colleagues and clinical staff at a local, regional and national level. I was vice-chair of the England HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group and a member of the national HIV Action Plan Implementation Group. From 2020 I was also part of the local public health response to the Covid pandemic, liaising with residents, schools, care homes and businesses, and volunteering at vaccination and testing centres.

I have lengthy voluntary experience of being a committee member, including with the National Childbirth Trust, as a school governor, and member of my church parish council and finance committee.

I believe communication is a key skill for a Governor and I am comfortable in a wide range of settings from one-to-one conversations on the street to speaking at national conferences.

I am passionate about improving health for all and want to continue to contribute to the development of local health services, and feel the Governor role at Humber NHS Foundation Trust is an ideal opportunity to achieve this. 

I have been a resident of Hull for 37 years. I am aware of the existing health inequalities faced by the people of Hull and value this opportunity to represent the population of the city to promote, protect and improve health for all.

I volunteered with Hull City of Culture in 2017 and I’m still proud to wear the blue uniform as an active HEY volunteer. My hobbies include walking, gardening, reading, Sudoku and crosswords, and days/meals out with family and friends."

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Upcoming Awareness Dates

Know Your Numbers Month: 1 September 

International Day of Charity: 5 September

QI Week: 9-13 September

World Suicide Prevention Day: 10 September

World Sepsis Day: 13 September

Falls Prevention Week: 16 - 20 September

World Patient Safety Day: 17 September

Youth Mental Health Awareness Day: 19 September

If you are interested in getting more involved in these awareness dates, please contact the communications team at HNF-TR.communications@nhs.net

You can also keep up to date with the latest Trust news on our website and our social media channels which can all be accessed here and below.

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