Staff Newsletter – Summer 2018
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SUMMER 2018 www.nhsforthvalley.comStaffKeeping News NHS Forth Valley staff informed Happy Birthday to Us! NHS 70th Anniversary Special p11-15 A WELCOME CUPPA P5 WHAT MATTERS TO YOU WIN A SET OF WALKING P6 POLES P20 News GAME OF A LIFETIME BUCKET A Falkirk based mental The team, which includes staff and LOADS health football team, run in service users from Woodlands Resource partnership with NHS Forth Centre and Bellsdyke Hospital, promotes positive mental health and Valley, Caledonia Services and train twice a week at Stenhousemuir OF FUN Stenhousemuir Football Club, football club with support from coach Our Health Promotion were given a rare opportunity Danny Newbiggings. service has been helping to play on the hallowed turf of As well as regular games, the team Clackmannanshire nurseries Hampden. provides opportunities for individuals and primary schools enjoy Last year’s winners of the SFA Mental with mental health difficulties bucket loads of fun through Health and Wellbeing League to socialise and mix with other the Play Mentor programme Championship Cup, they were invited people interested in football in an which they have been to take part in a tournament at the informal setting with qualified health running in partnership with stadium with three other teams, professionals. All team members’ the Aberlour Child Care ahead of this year’s Scottish Cup final physical health and fitness have Trust. between Celtic and Motherwell. Falkirk improved as a result of taking part. Nine successful graduates of the Users Soccer Experience (Fuse) won The team is pictured with their new programme celebrated with family five of their six games. sponsor and strips. and friends recently at an awards ceremony at Forth Valley College’s Alloa campus. Play Mentor runs for 10 weeks and gives young women SPREADING THE WORD an opportunity to study play and child development at college and A member of staff who is Mum undertake work placements in to a young boy with a rare Clackmannanshire primary schools genetic mutation was invited to and nurseries. go to Westminster to talk about the impact of mental health on Mary Scott Watson, from NHS Forth Valley’s Health Promotion parents and carers of children Service, said: “The Play Mentors with serious conditions. have done a fantastic job. Some Stacey McPherson, surveillance data of them are about to start manager with the Infection Prevention volunteering for play and childcare and Control Team, is pictured with organisations and others are Stirling MP Stephen Kerr. moving onto college or stepping up to new responsibilities in their Her 11 year old son Calum has been high schools. We are all really diagnosed with CHAMP1 and uses a proud of them.” special iPad app to communicate. Stacey has created her own website www.champ1gene.com 2 Staff News EveryoneNews Matters BLIND CHEF COOKS UP A FIRST In what is believed to be the first is why I wanted to teach other people course of its kind in Scotland, a to cook and give them confidence.” blind chef has started to offer David takes on two pupils at a time cookery lessons to others with and can turn out lentil and leek and sight loss or people with a potato soups, chopping up his own learning disability. David Black, vegetables with a chef’s knife. He’s a totally blind since childhood, dab hand at curries and pasta dishes says not only is he showing his and bakes a mean scone. His signature students how to rustle up a dishes are sold in the cafe at the Centre. variety of dishes from spaghetti Chef David Black with pupil Lee Russell and Community Food Development Workers Peter Marriott and Sonya and meatballs to courgette cake, Kaila-Tierney The cookery courses last for four to six weeks and run under the guidance of but he is also giving them the “That is why I cannot work in a NHS Forth Valley Community Food confidence to cook their own restaurant, it would be too hazardous. Development Workers Sonya Kaila- food, eat healthily and stave off People walking up and down, Tierney and Peter Marriott. They future health problems, such as bumping into folk, walking into an believe that introducing people with diabetes, in later life. open cupboard door, or knocking over sensory impairments to elementary a pan of boiling water. David works in the kitchen at the Forth cooking skills introduces them to good, Valley Sensory Centre in Camelon. He “I’m proud of myself when I make fresh food, rather than fast food which uses talking scales and thermometers, something. I want to get rid of the they may tend to favour as they think and has what he terms little ‘bumps’ negative rubbish that people with it is easier to manage. Fresh food also on his cooker and microwave so he special needs ‘can’t do’, and hear the helps stave off future health problems can operate the controls. “Everything words ‘can do.’ Some years ago I got such as Type 2 diabetes with its danger has to have its place” he explained. depressed but cooking helped so that of diabetic retinopathy. GRAVEN IMAGES SCULPT Gravestones may not be the YOUR BODY usual source It is fun, super quick and effective, of inspiration and designed to shape and sculpt for budding the body and lead to rapid weight photographers. loss. It is known as Kettlercise, a fat Indeed burning workout that is a big hit cemeteries are with staff from Clackmannanshire often somewhat and Woodlands Resource Centre in ignored by Falkirk. Linked to Healthy Working people despite Lives, classes are being held at the loved ones end of the working day. and important Health Promotion Officer Aileen figures in history Schofield says using the kettlebells being buried there. But visiting the graveyards surrounding is hard work but the class is fun, Stirling Castle prompted theatre scrub nurse Ann Bollen to motivating and energising and benefits capture some of the images on camera. both physical and mental health and wellbeing. Ann began by sharing her photographs on Facebook then moved to Instagram and subsequently created her own website. Now, with the Classes are due to resume in late July/ help of Lumphanan Press, she has published the pictures in a book Tiptoe August, so look out for the flyer for more Through the Gravestones: Stirling. details. Ann explained: “The idea is to make people see these places in a different way. People kept saying I should try to do something with my photographs so the book, which is on sale on Etsy, is the result. It contains 30 black and white photographs and is very simple with minimum text.” Ann has been busy with an assessment for her part-time university course but is now hoping to promote the book more widely and hopefully sell single prints of her pictures. She says publication has been a steep learning curve! www.nhsforthvalley.com 3 News ON YER BIKE IN TRAFFIC Need the confidence to cycle in traffic? Three of our staff took part in an essential cycling skills training course designed to give participants practical tips, support and the confidence to cycle in traffic. Pictured are health visitors Jacqueline MacDonald and Janey Bommer, together with instructor George Callaghan, cycling officer at Falkirk Council. Charmaine Blaize, Information Analyst with NHS Forth Valley, who also undertook training said: “It was a great session. I pushed myself more than I thought, plus I cycled back home and did some back road cycling on David’s Loan with confidence. Thank you for the encouragement. I really enjoyed the session.” Anyone interested in taking part in FREE Essential Cycle Skills training in the future, should contact Margarita Kaneen [email protected] GOOD HEALTHDee Marshall, ISstudent nurse (front left), Megan Raine, student nurse (front right), Lynne Paterson, Care Home Education Facilitator (back left) and Theresa Connor, WEALTH Community Charge Nurse, Learning Disability (back right) A timeline through the decades was just one of the ‘attractions’ at Forth Valley Royal Hospital to celebrate National Nurses Day. The theme for this year’s event was linked to the message ‘Good Health is Wealth – invest in you’ and focussed on wellbeing with a competition to win a fruit and pamper hamper and fifteen minute walks to get some fresh air, setting off from the atrium. Afterwards the Nurses Choir was in full voice, inviting people to listen and sing along, and rounding Rosario Walshe, SCN ward A31, met Prince Charles at a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace for this year’s Nurses Day off a well-attended event. celebrations 4 Staff News EveryoneNews Matters RVS SAYTHANKS FOR NEW CAFE A ceremony took place recently Allan Dewar, Chair of The Friends of to thank the local organisations Stirling Community Hospital, whose whose generous donations grandfather John Gray started The have helped transform the Society of Friends of Stirling Royal Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) Infirmary in 1948, said: “The Friends of Stirling Community Hospital are cafe at Stirling Community delighted to contribute to such a Hospital. worthwhile project which has made The Friends of Stirling Community such a difference to patients, visitors Hospital, a local charity which supports and staff and created a much better a wide range of initiatives across the environment for the Royal Voluntary hospital, donated £150,000 to help Service volunteers.” the Royal Voluntary Service completely The Royal Voluntary Service has been refurbish and relocate its existing café providing services on the Stirling to a larger, more prominent hospital site since 1968. location within the hospital. As well as preparing and This funding was matched by serving food and drinks, NHS Forth Valley as part the trained, caring of a wider £2 million volunteers signpost investment programme older people to to upgrade the other services outpatient clinics and in their local healthier eating in all four RVS hospital main reception areas.