North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust provides hospital and community services for people living in north central London. Supported by
@RoyalFreeChty
Our super sleuths have scoured the evidence and identified that
@SpursOfficial
's amazing Danny Rose is our incredibly generous mystery donor.😍
Here he is saying a *huge thankyou* to NorthMid and other NHS heroes.
And wash your hands, stay indoors, and help the NHS stay safe.
With greatest sadness, we can confirm the death of our much-loved and valued colleague Cheryl Williams.
Her family, friends and colleagues will miss her more than words can describe.
Please respect their privacy at this difficult time.
We're delighted to be providing some maternity and antenatal services from
@SpursOfficial
's stadium, starting from Tuesday 14 April. Our teams worked their (football) socks off over the weekend to move equipment and fit out the stadium space. Fans of all teams welcome.🤰🤱👶
Our focus now turns to supporting our NHS, with the stadium transformed this weekend to house
@NorthMidNHS
Women’s Outpatient Services and COVID-19 testing.
So pleased to see Fahima, 12, ring the End of Treatment Bell as she finishes treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia.
Congratulations Fahima, such a great way to spend Friday afternoon! 😁
We gave life-long
@SpursOfficial
Betty a special surprise by arranging a video call with centre back
@AlderweireldTob
.
Huge thanks to Toby for donating tablets to help patients contact their loved ones and to Anna, our volunteer, for helping surprise Betty.
#VolunteersWeek
Congratulations to one of our paeds patients Gulsen who rang the bell yesterday signifying end of treatment! Gulsen has been with us since Dec 2018 after being diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia) at the age of 4. We wish Gulsen and her parents all the best.
We're delighted to confirm that
@nosuji01
will be our new chief executive from this summer. Trust Chair
@cedifrederick1
said "Nnenna’s strong experience as a leader & clinician will bring significant strengths to North Mid."
Please join us in giving her a warm North Mid welcome.
Dr Andy Heeps begins his new role as interim Chief Executive today.
He has been our chief operating officer for over two years and more recently, our deputy chief executive.
Say 👋 if you see him out and about around the hospital and our community sites.
We are really pleased to announce that Shola Adegoroye has been confirmed as our chief operating officer following a rigorous recruitment process.
Read more:
Big congrats to our Trust Chief Executive
@MariaKaneNHS
who has been appointed an OBE in the Queen's
#BirthdayHonours
.
She said "I am clear that I am accepting it on behalf of some many colleagues and partners, without whom none of the local care and services would happen."
The news reports often talk about “doctors and nurses” tackling the challenge of
#Covid_19
. It might be shorthand but it doesn’t reflect the vital contributions of AHPs, midwives, payroll staff, HR, cleaners, receptionists, IT techs, etc. Thankyou all.
#OneNHS
#OneTeam
We'd like to congratulate Colette Datt, our wonderful associate director of nursing, for being awarded an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).
We're proud to have you as part of
#TeamNorthMid
.
Read more:
@Annareporting
Thanks for explaining this. We will definitely follow up with staff, as there is national guidance that all NHS trusts should follow which states that emergency care at an A&E is not dependent on NHS number, British passport or GP registration. ^GA
"Wonderful. The care here has been wonderful".
A happy moment as Savas leaves hospital after spending nearly four months in our care. The team on S2 gave him a round of applause to mark the occasion. ❤️
So much pizza we needed a wagon! The North Mid team had to use a delivery trolley to get 500
@DominosUK
pizzas out to teams while still piping hot! Huge thanks to
@SpursOfficial
's Danny Rose for his incredibly generous donation yesterday.🍕⚽😃
It is with great sadness that today we say goodbye to our Chief Executive
@MariaKaneNHS
. We'd like to say the biggest thank you to Maria for her dedication, commitment and passion over the last 3 years. You will be missed!
📣 We are pleased to announce that Dr Victoria Jones(
@drvic
) has been confirmed as our medical director following a competitive recruitment process.
Find out more:
@Annareporting
As other replies have stated, emergency NHS care through an
#EmergencyDepartment
is not impacted by immigration status.
The remark you’ve described from a member of staff is not reflective of our Trust views, and we will follow up to look into this. (2/2)
We are sad to learn of the death of our much loved and respected colleague Lee Seager earlier this week.
Sending our sincere condolences to his family and friends, as well as to all the colleagues he made such a massive impact on throughout his career.
(Posted with permission.)
Today we say hello to friends from the airline industry who have come in for a couple of weeks to create a first class lounge experience in our canteen for
#TeamNorthMid
.
#ProjectWingman
Team work makes the dream work!
The
@SpursOfficial
and
@NorthMidNHS
teams did a first-class job, and we're looking forward to welcome antenatal clinic attendees from tomorrow.
Quite the transformation of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
#thfc
for
@NorthMidNHS
and equipment installed for drive-through
#coronavirus
testing for
#NHS
staff and families
We’ve got some news… 🌟🏆🥳🎈💙
Our neonatal ward has received a Gold Accreditation - the second ward in our Trust to do so. Such an amazing achievement which is shown in the emotional celebrations
#whoisnext
💙
We're so proud to have
@MariaKaneNHS
as our Chief Executive.
She received her OBE for services to healthcare last week which she has dedicated to "every single member of our local NHS".
Read more:
We are incredibly proud to announce that one of our wonderful nurses has been crowned a winner at the prestigious NHS Parliamentary Awards.
Belinda Okyere has been announced as the regional winner of the award in London and has also been shortlisted for the national award 🙌👏💙
🎉 We are so pleased to see Keyan, aged 4, ring the End of Treatment bell after being in our care with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
So happy for you and your family.
❤️❤️❤️
Our celebrations for the NHS’s 72nd anniversary are continuing today with a lovely, spirited performance from North Mid’s choir. Happy birthday NHS and thank you from us to our communities, partners, donors and volunteers for your support over the past few months.
Congratulations to one of our paeds patients Jakub who rang the bell today signifying end of treatment!
10 year old Jakub has been with us since October 2020 having been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
We wish Jakub, his brother and mother all the best. 💙
A huge thank you to
@SpursOfficial
for their generous donation of £100,000 to our hospital charity
@NorthMidCharity
. These funds will be used as a thank you to our staff who have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.
To mark
@captaintommoore
contribution to
@NHSCharities
which has given over £230k to
@NorthMidCharity
and to commemorate his 100 years of life and service during our Centenary year we’re naming our new ward the Captain Sir Tom Moore Centenary Ward
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last few months.
Here are some of our staff saying thank you in different languages which reflects the diversity of people working in our hospital and our local community.
Happy 72nd birthday NHS!
#TeamNorthMid
would like to express their gratitude to Ummah Welfare trust for their donation and snacks. All our staff are grateful for your generosity
@UWT_UK
We are aware of a video that is circulating which shows two women fighting in a restaurant/café claiming to have taken place at ‘North Middlesex Hospital’.
This is factually incorrect and this incident did not take place at our Trust.
Today we launched our new nursing and midwifery strategy which sets out 10 ambitions that help us achieve our objective of providing outstanding care to local people. Throughout the week we will be sharing what our colleagues love most about their job
#TeamNorthMid
Thrilled to say that we have
#vaccinated
10,000 local people with their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine
@EnfieldCouncil
’s Dugdale Centre.
A huge thanks to all members of our vaccination centre team for their amazing work!
#NorthMidInTheCommunity
More than 3,500 work as part of
#TeamNorthMid
and at least 1,000 will be working an
#ExtraHour
tonight when the
#ClocksGoBack
.
Take a minute to give them a shout out. 🙌🙌🙌
Today we launched our Staff Expressing Room for colleagues who have recently returned from maternity leave, to express breastmilk for their infants.
Some of our
#NorthMidFamily
opened the room this morning including some who are currently on maternity leave and
@abc_parents
🥰💙
We are so proud to be awarded the prestigious Baby Friendly Award from
@UNICEF
for the care we provide local women giving birth with us.
Read more about the international recognition:
We are sad to learn of the death of our much loved and respected colleague Alan Makepeace this week.
Sending our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all colleagues.
A book of condolence is open in the hospital's Education & Learning Practice development office.
(1/2) We’re thrilled to announce that North Mid is partnering up with
@uclh
and
@WhitHealth
, to run a fun, uplifting but informative event in June for hundreds of children and young people living with sickle cell and their families at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
@SpursOfficial
📢 We are really proud of Dale, our chief nursing information officer, who has been shortlisted at the
#NursingTimesWorkforceAwards
for his work to improve equality, diversity and inclusion for patients and staff across North Mid.
👉
Meet our new Interim COO,
@SholaAdegoroye
. Shola is no stranger to the Trust having previously worked as a performance improvement consultant and she is pleased to return in her new role. If you have yet to meet her, find out more about her on our website:
Our chief executive Dr Nnenna Osuji spoke to
@BBCLondonNews
about
@NHSEnglandLDN
's united voice condemning violence and aggression towards staff.
Read the open letter from NHS leaders in London:
We are pleased to announce that we've opened a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the heart of Enfield Town
@The_Dugdale
.
Huge thanks to the teams and volunteers who have helped to make this a success.
#NorthMidInTheCommunity
cc
@EnfieldCouncil
We are proud to commit to paying the application fee for any of our EU staff who want to apply for 'settled status' when the scheme opens to health and care staff later this month.
#NorthMidFamily
📣 We're thrilled to be shortlisted for two
@HSJ_Awards
!
🌟 Dr Andres Izquierdo-Martin, clinical director for emergency care, for Clinical Leader of the Year.
🌟 Our service improvement team for the Staff Engagement Award.
We've all got our fingers crossed!
Congratulations to our wonderful X-Ray and CT radiographers, who were crowned London’s Radiography Team of the Year for 2022 👏
The team received the award last week at the deferred Society of Radiographers awards ceremony - well done team 🙌💙
Tristan Simpson aged 9 from Chingford came to our hospital today to see our new Children's Ward with a bit of help from our friend
@StumpyCatBooks
and lots of lovely people who work here. Watch the video, written, produced and directed by Tristan himself.
“I’ve got a lot of history here... and what keeps me going is knowing that i'm helping people".
In the latest edition of My North Mid Life, we interview Dr Arvind Shah, who talks about his 30 year career here as a consultant paediatrician.
Read the full piece on My North Mid
📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that Sarah Hayes will become our new chief nurse at the end of the year.
Looking forward to having you on board
@SarahHa88622902
🎉
Read more:
We want to say a huge congratulations to Nelia Cardoso who has been awarded a prestigious
#CavellStarAward
for her outstanding professionalism and compassionate care for children.
She has worked at North Mid for nearly eight years and we are so proud of her.
@CavellTrust
And here’s consultant paediatrician and deputy medical director
@drvic
in a suitably festive red frock with HR director Mark - also suitably festive but not in a frock - handing over some festive goodies to colleagues with a massive Thankyou to all. 🙌🙌🙌
"When I think of the NHS, I feel a deep sense of pride..."
Watch our chief executive,
@nosuji01
, talk about what the NHS, and North Mid, means to her.
#NHS75
We're proud that 85% of our staff who are promoted are from Black and Minority Ethnic heritage.
We're proud to have one of the few NHS trust chairs who is Black.
And we're proud to celebrate
#BlackHistoryMonth2020
.
The future follows where we lead.
#OnTheShouldersOfGiants
A beautiful poem in memory of our colleague Tracy, one of our nurses on our Children's Day Unit, (who we sadly lost last year).
Written by budding poet Muntaha, 8 from Belmont Junior School in Tottenham, one of our young patients and proudly framed and displayed on our ward.🤗
Say hello to Pearl Ward!
We've spent the last few weeks refurbishing one of our wards, formerly called Michael Bates Ward, and today our team held the grand opening.
#TeamNorthMid
#OnTheUp
💙
For Occupation Therapy (OT) week this year,
@theRCOT
have launched a new campaign to tackle health equity - which ensures everyone has the same access to healthcare.
Throughout the week, we will be showcasing how
#TeamNorthMid
OT’s are tackling health equity.
#OTsForEquity
We are deeply saddened that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died. We want to extend our deepest condolences to the Royal Family on behalf of everyone at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
A huge congratulations to
@vikkihowarth
and Tom for being awarded a
@CavellTrust
Star Award for their work champion organ donation and improve our end of life care.
We're so proud to have you as part of the
#NorthMidFamily
💙💙💙💙💙
Congratulations to Lily who rang our treatment bell this week.
She was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in October 2017. We were closed to visitors due to Covid-19 when she was given the all clear so she celebrated now.
We wish Lily and her family all of the best!
Proud is an understatement. Our very own Belinda Okyere representing North Mid at this year's NHS Parliamentary Awards to pick up her well-deserved Nursing and Midwifery Award.
Read more about Belinda's incredible
@abc_parents
work on the news section of our website 🙌👏💙
Today we have taken the difficult decision to pause all non-urgent & elective services, to allow our staff to carry on safely caring for patients who need urgent, emergency and covid-19 care.
Time-critical cancer & diagnostics will continue.
More here 👉
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Mary Murphy from our physiotherapy team who is retiring from North Mid after 17 years of service. We wish you all the best, Mary 💙
Thanks to Captain Sir Tom Moore’s incredible fundraising and contributions to
@NHSCharities
, North Mid has received £230,000. The money raised has provided support for staff including the appointment of a psychologist for 6 months to help them deal with the impact of the pandemic
Today's the day! We'll be streaming the virtual event live from
@SpursOfficial
's stadium and you can watch live from 5pm on our YouTube channel:
If you're joining us, we'll be using
#OurStaffAwards
so look out for that later!🌟
After two years of treatment, 11-year-old Stejsa got the best early Christmas present she could have wished for as she rang our oncology bell with her friends, family and our paediatric oncology team last year 🥰💙
The North Mid team wish her and her family all the best 🙏
Beautiful scenes on
#InternationalNursesDay
today.
This truly sums up North Mid - all different cultures, working and coming together and today recognising and celebrating what a fantastic job they all do day in day out 💙
We’re helping the
@BBC
make a programme about the impact of knife crime on a local hospital.
@hann_gayle
explaining to
@ayeshanayyarlaw
how our staff look after children and young people affected by violence. It’s why we’re committed to (1/2)
We’d like to echo this👇
All the clinical staff in the world can’t do this alone, and our support staff, partners, volunteers & other colleagues rarely get the credit they should for their invaluable contributions. Thankyou. 🙌🙌🙌
#Covid
-19 We are
#OneTeam
@WeAreNorthMid
. 💙💙💙
Spare a thought for the hospital workers who are about to step up like never before:
cleaners
porters
kitchen staff
clerks
nurses
pharmacists
respiratory therapists
social workers
laboratory teams
volunteers
technicians
PSWs
PTs and OTs
EMS
security
MDs and PAs
chaplains
Congratulations to 8-year-old Meleka who recently rung our end of treatment bell.
Meleka had Wilms tumour, a rare kidney cancer that affects children. She got the all clear in September - 10 months after it started.
The North Mid team wish her and her family all the best 💙
Our Chief Executive Maria Kane highlighting our achievements over the last year including a £3 million A&E redevelopment. We are now the most improved Trust on the 4-hour standard in London in 2018/19, she highlights at our AGM.
Our hero of the week goes to Daniel, who rang our oncology bell after completing his chemo treatment last month.
Daniel was applauded for being incredibly brave and strong throughout his seven months of treatment. We all wish Daniel and his family all the best in the future 💙
North Mid is proud to be at the heart of a strong, diverse, and talented community.
Our staff are local, our patients are local, we are local. We are of and for our local community. (1/3)
@isleofiona
@BumbleCricket
@SpursOfficial
Hi Ruth, we checked that he was happy for us to post that we'd heard a little bird saying he was our mystery benefactor! But we're happy to receive anonymous donations too. 😊
We're so proud of
@datt_colette
for her starring role in yesterday's
#IND2022
service & equally proud of all our other amazing nurses, midwives, & support staff - thankyou for being part of
#TeamNorthMid
. Find out more 👉
Picture credit: Dean of
@WAbbey
🙌A huge congratulations to Bimal Patel, our deputy chief executive/chief financial officer and finance
#TeamNorthMid
, for winning the Havelock Award at the Healthcare Financial Management Association Awards 2023.👏
👉Read more -
#HFMA2023
📣 Hot off the press 📣
We are thrilled to announce that Cedi Frederick will be joining us as our new Chair from Monday.
We're looking forward to you being part of
#TeamNorthMid
!
Find out more:
We're hugely proud to be shortlisted in the 2020
@HSJ_Awards
for our work with
@SpursOfficial
to ensure our local community could continue to have confidence in getting safe, timely antenatal and women's outpatient care during
#Covid19Pandemic
wave 1.