Just some of our amazing Microbiology staff who are supporting our services. These are the faces of the people currently testing patient samples to detect
#COVID
-19. Testing is increasing day by day. Thank you to all of our Diagnostics & Pathology staff across NCA
@NCADandPGroup
Today we say an emotional farewell and thank you to our Group Chief Nursing Officer Elaine Inglesby-Burke CBE who retires today after an incredible career in the
#NHS
spanning 43 years. Thank you for everything you have done for the NHS.
#ThankYouElaine
We're incredibly saddened to hear that our colleague and friend Professor Donal O'Donoghue OBE passed away last night.
Our thoughts are with his wife, family and colleagues. He will be sorely missed by all our
#NCAfamily
and beyond.
NEWS: Our Pennine Acute Hospitals turn major corner after CQC rate Trust as ‘Good’ from ‘Inadequate’ within 3 years under NCA Group. Of the service areas inspected by the CQC, 90% are either Good or Outstanding. Staff being recognised and thanked - read
Thank you
@MayorofGM
@AndyBurnhamGM
for visiting our Salford Royal site today to meet with some of our staff - to understand the demand & pressures our teams and the NHS in GM are currently experiencing to care and treat patients in our hospitals. Our focus is on supporting staff
Two of our fantastic nurses Wendy Clapham and Cath Fitzsimmons have been honoured in the New Year’s Honours list 2021 in recognition of their roles throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They have both been awarded the British Empire Medal. We are so proud!
Our NCA Group CiC Board publicly recognise and congratulate our Chief Nurse
@elaineinglesby
on being awarded the first NHS England Chief Nursing Officer’s Gold Award for
#Nursing
by newly appointed CNO
@RMayNurseDir
#teamCNO
. Elaine was presented at
#CNOsummit2019
It is a huge pleasure to have
#SirAlexFerguson
as a special guest at our staff awards tonight to thank staff across the NCA for all the hard work and dedication they show each and every day.
#NHS
#NCAStaffAwards
NEWS: Northern Care Alliance NHS Group appoints new Chief Executive to lead exciting ‘new era’ for its group of hospitals and community services.
Read about this exciting news on our website
👇
#NCAfamily
A big shout out & thank you to our staff teams, clinical & non-clinical, for your skill, professionalism, positivity, teamwork and everything you are doing to care for our patients and those who need our services at this challenging time across our hospitals and in the community
NEWS: Staff delighted to receive positive report
@CareQualityComm
showing huge improvements across our hospitals & services. Now no services rated Inadequate. Major improvements in maternity & A&E services both now Green; Fairfield is Green. Read more at:
Rochdale Infirmary has been remodelled to enable life-saving cancer surgery during
#COVID19
The first emergency procedures have already been carried out on site, with successful outcomes for a number of patients now recovering at home.
Find out more:
When Kerry and Terry realised their vaccine appointments clashed with their wedding day, they didn’t let that stop them getting their jab! They looked fab. We wish them all the best
#VaccineHero
#CovidVaccine
@tandgicft
As we come together again to recognise &thank our
#NHS
staff and teams for the continued hard work, commitment & courage, these images over our
@SalfordRoyalNHS
sum it up. A picture paints a thousand words. Very poignant. Very powerful. Very beautiful.
#ClapForTheNHS
#clapforNHS
We are proud to announce that we are the only
#NHS
organisation in the UK to receive a prestigious national award for exceptional commitment to learning and development.
The Trust was named winner in the 2023 Princess Royal Training Award through the City and Guilds Foundation.
86 year old Ted Jones was the first patient vaccinated for
#COVID19
in GM today at Salford Royal. He said: “It is a momentous occasion, I feel like a celebrity!” Ted can’t wait to be back working as a volunteer at Salford Royal.
Read more:
#COVID19Vaccine
Happy Birthday to the
#nhs
and thank you to all our colleagues across the NCA for everything you do to keep the public safe and healthy!
#NHS72
#HappyBirthdayNHS
Congratulations to two
#NCA
senior nurses, Elaine Inglesby-Burke CBE and Fiona Murphy MBE who have both been awarded honorary doctorates from
@BoltonUni
We're so proud of you!
To find out more visit:
STAFF: Following this week’s announcement by the government that more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to Covid, the NCA invites all of our colleagues to observe a one minute silence tomorrow (Thurs 28 Jan), at 1pm across all of our sites. Please share with colleagues.
Thank you to everyone who joined in recognising all of our incredible
#NHS
& social care staff working around the clock across our hospitals and in communities to help those who need it most in these challenging times. The best way you can help us -
#StayHomeSaveLives
#ClapForNHS
Help our NHS
#COVID19
heroes by acting responsibly when pubs re-open this weekend and only come to A&E in a genuine emergency!
Ahead of
#NHS72
our emergency doctors and nurses are asking the public to help us, help you.
Read more:
When the Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth May drops in for one of your MS Teams calls… and hands out prestigious Chief Nursing Officer Silver Awards to three of our amazing nurses. Congratulations to Julie Wallace, Victoria O’Loughlin & Beverley Brookes Nwokeochar.
#IND21
Not a half bad view from our (nearly) complete helipad at the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital at Salford Royal!
With a 26x26m footprint and a support structure in aluminium, manufactured by
@MissAluminium
, it's going to be a major part of our region's new lifesaving hub
Raj Jain, Chief Executive of the Northern Care Alliance has released a statement in support of those who continue to stand up against all forms of racism in our society and want to see it eradicated completely. We are with you!
#BlackLivesMatter
#NCAfamily
Today we come together to say a big Happy 75th Birthday to the
#NHS
! 🎈
We want to take this opportunity to thank all our NHS colleagues and volunteers, past and present, who have made the organisation what it is.
#NHS75
NEWS: Finally reunited with his wife and newborn son - our amazing intensive care doctor at The Royal Oldham
@OldhamCO_NHS
who left home for five months to fight
#coronavirus
& keep his family safe. Congratulations to you both &thank you
#NCAFamily
Happy
#EasterSunday
. Thanks to our staff working this
#BankHolidayWeekend
looking after patients in our hospitals & in the community and particularly those with
#COVID19
requiring specialist treatment. Our staff are working incredibly hard with commitment and professionalism
#NHS
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA) has confirmed the appointment of Libby McManus from
@TeamQEH
as its new Chief Nurse.
We look forward to welcoming Libby to the
#NCAfamily
in September.
For full details on Libby’s appointment visit:
NEWS: Greater Manchester’s
#COVID
-19 vaccination centre for appointments only set to open on Monday as part of region’s
#COVIDVaccination
programme following partnership between local NHS, public & private sector and voluntary orgs. Read more at -
@GM_HSC
Today is the third anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with everyone affected. We think of the 22 people who died and remember them.
#WeStandTogether
Colleagues across the NCA are invited to observe a minute silence at 2pm. 🐝 ❤️
Thank you to our IT colleagues & staff teams across our Care Orgs & hospitals who worked tirelessly together today to implement our service business continuity plans in response to IT problems. Our plans ensured our services & patients remained safe; continuity of care maintained
Our Group Committees in Common (CiC)Board & Council of Governors have today announced the appointment of Raj Jain as our new Chief Executive for the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (
#NCA
), overseeing Salford Royal and Pennine Acute Trusts. Read more at:
A huge congratulations to our cancer nurses at
@OldhamCO_NHS
who have won the GM Cancer award for Outstanding Care.
Their project ‘Teaching patient and carers to inject chemotherapeutic drugs in the comfort of their own home’ was recognised for improving patient experience.
Happy
#InternationalNursesDay
to our wonderful nurses!
2020 is the first ever
#yearofthenurseandmidwife
in recognition of the important role they play in people’s lives and we will be sharing stories from our nurses & midwives around their pride in their profession all week.
Fairfield General Hospital is leading research for a ground-breaking
#COVID19
ventilation study comparing the effectiveness of three new ventilation methods, including one manufactured by F1 giant
@MercedesAMGF1
Find out more:
NEWS: Our pioneering Chief Nurse Elaine Inglesby-Burke retires after 43 years
#NHS
service today!
Read more about Elaine's incredible nursing career - along with some great tributes on our website.
⬇️
#ThankYouElaine
The Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital is scheduled to open in October and will care for trauma patients across Greater Manchester, many with life threatening or life changing injuries. There’s a lot of work to do to get there – but we’ve got the team to do it!
#Health
Professor Heather Iles-Smith has been appointed as the Northern Care Alliance and the University of Salford’s inaugural Chair of Nursing. In the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we are delighted to welcome Professor Iles-Smith.
For more info:
Group CiC Board members told that
@SalfordRoyalNHS
Emergency Dept. has been recognised nationally that it has received some of the best positive patient experience in the country. This is a really important quality indicator. Staff should be very proud.
News: Fit and strong truck driver spent five days fighting for his life in hospital with
#coronavirus
. Recognition and thanks to our superb staff at The Royal Oldham Hospital
@OldhamCO_NHS
#oldham
Our last award is the Chairman's Unsung Hero Award sponsored by
@ANSgroup
- Congratulations to the Police/Nurses 'SWAN Squad' Bereavement Team for your immeasurable support for victims and their families
#Manchesterattack
#PAHTStaffAwards
@gmpolice
Congratulations to our virology team at The Royal Oldham Hospital who have been named as the winners of The Royal College of Pathologists’
@RCPath
Achievement Award – Innovation in Pathology Practice for 2020.
#RCPathAchievementAward
Read more on this:
Our first award of the day is the NCA Chairman’s Outstanding Achievement Award.
The award goes to Dr Jay Naisbitt, ICU Consultant at Bury and Salford Care Organisations. Well done to Dr Naisbitt pictured receiving the award from NCA Chairman Michael Luger!
#NCAStaffAwards2021
Today we've hosted a Nursing Associate Celebration Event at Fairfield General Hospital for our first cohort of newly qualified
#nursingassociates
Well done to everyone involved!
#TNA
Thanks to all our staff working incredibly hard dealing with current increased demand pressures at our hospitals
@PennineAcuteNHS
&
@SalfordRoyalNHS
. Patients should attend their hosp appointment as normal unless they hear otherwise directly from us. Read:
Our Board has approved investment & support plans to create The Geoffrey Jefferson Institute for Brain Research
@SalfordRoyalNHS
-an exciting & pioneering partnership arrangement with
@OfficialUoM
. It will be the largest and leading brain research institute in the country
#NCACIC
Positive day for our North Manchester General Hosp site
#NMGH
following visit from Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
& Health Sec
@MattHancock
to meet some of our staff & patients. Great news about the investment announcement to progress the ambitious plans for the future of the site
2020 will be the first ever International Year of the Nurse and Midwife! We couldn’t be more thrilled and excited to see our nurses and midwives given this recognition! Throughout 2020 we will be showcasing how special it is to be a nurse/midwife at the NCA
#OurNurseMidwife2020
NCA neuroradiologist Hannah Stockley went viral last week with a tweet about a life-saving operation at 2am following a stroke.
Using a "game-changing procedure" (
@TheStrokeAssoc
) Hannah and her team were able to remove this clot from a patient's brain.
Our Chief Executive Raj Jain has urged all staff to continue to 'look out for one another' in a personal letter of thanks to colleagues across our NCA Group to highlight the range of Health and Wellbeing Support that is available should they need it.
#TeamNCA
#NHS
#COVID19
In his opening remarks Chair confirms that as previously announced Group Chief Nurse
@elaineinglesby
will retire end of next week after an incredible 43yr NHS career. Mr Potter said Elaine will be a ‘massive loss’ to
@SalfordRoyalNHS
,NCA & NHS. Thanks for everything you have done
We are calling on everyone in Greater Manchester to play their part this weekend. It could not be easier to do. Stay at home.
#StayAtHomeGM
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
Dr Rafik Bedair has been appointed as the NCA’s Chief Medical Officer.
A consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Dr Bedair will join us in Feb 2023 from his current role
@StGeorgesTrust
We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Bedair to the
#NCAfamily
Staff: All our staff can now access the free
@Headspace
guided meditation app.
It is important that our much valued NHS staff remember to take breaks and rest mentally and physically in challenging times. Find out more:
We say goodbye to our Chief Executive Sir David Dalton who has retired after 18 years at Salford Royal and the past three at Pennine Acute Trust.
Thank you to all our staff who came along to the celebration events across our sites to pay tribute to his fabulous leadership!
Thanks to our
#BBCJuniorDoctors
Howra and Sofia who have taken some time out from the intensive care unit at
@SalfordRoyalNHS
to share some important messages in relation to
#COVID19
. In this short clip, they explain why you should stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Over 𝟯𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 have now had a
#COVID19vaccine
as part of our NCA Vaccination Programme. Thank you to our
#NCAfamily
for your fantastic effort and hard work in making this happen.
🤩 Our final award of the evening is our Patient’s Choice Award.
Nominations for this award were made by members of the public.
The winner is Lynette Cook!
Thank you to all our attendees.
#NCAawards23
Charlotte Towell, from the Assessment & Accreditation team at
#SalfordRoyal
and Tracey Radatsz, clinical educator in
#Bury
, have been named Queen’s Nurse by
@TheQNI
, to recognise their high level of commitment to patient care & nursing practice.
We are very proud of you! 🙂
A personal message from Raj Jain, our Group Chief Executive of the NCA, following today’s positive CQC inspection report for Pennine Acute hospitals which have been rated Good.
A
#historic
plaque honouring
#nurses
who died in
#WW1
and during the Spanish
#flu
epidemic of 1918-19 has been given pride of place at
#NMGH
. Read our press release:
There's a Farmers Market at Salford Royal, in Hope Building Gardens today.
Farmers Markets will be held each month at our Care Organisations with a selection of fresh fruit and veg and provide affordable, nutritious alternative food options based on our colleagues' feedback! 🍓
Today is the 5th anniversary of the
#ManchesterArenaAttack
. Our thoughts are with everyone who was affected & whose lives changed forever that night as we remember the 22 people who tragically died and those who were injured. Support is available
We would like to wish our staff, patients, partner agencies & Twitter followers a
#HappyNewYear
. We are looking forward to an exciting 2018 as we join forces with our colleagues
@SalfordRoyalNHS
as part of our new Northern Care Alliance
#NCAllianceNHS
-
CEO Raj Jain confirms that the NCA (SRFT) has been nominated Lead Provider for Greater Manchester for the National
#COVID19
vaccination programme to work with the Army and partners in establishing a mass vaccination site and using our estate and pharmacy expertise on distribution
Yesterday we proudly helped kick start the Greater Manchester
#COVID19
recovery vaccinating 86 year old patient and Salford Royal volunteer Ted Jones – the first patient vaccinated in GM.
Read our press release here:
#NHS
#COVID19Vaccine
#CovidVaccine