SOME of the Christmas celebrations by people working in district mills of yesteryear have been recalled by a Bradford photographer. Ian Beesley has shared his collection of festive images of people from mills, across the Bradford district from the 1970s and 80s. He would visit these workplaces around Christmas time that he would regularly capture the rest of the year, to see them in all of their festive glory.
Festive high jinx captured by Ian Beesley The images include Yuletide scenes at tinsel-clad Salts Mill in Saltaire and Drummond Mill in Lumb Lane in Manningham. He has also included a couple of festive shots of workers at the Tetley s factory in Leeds.
IN the first of a series of profiles of honorary professors of the University of Bradford, we look at the work of Professor Dinesh Saralaya, who is putting Bradford on the big pharma map and giving the district a health check Prof Saralaya recalls that when he was young, despite the family being Hindu, his mother sent him to a Catholic school in Madras (now known as Chennai), essentially to broaden his horizons. The Consultant Respiratory Physician at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has certainly done that. He is director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) patient recruitment centre in Bradford.
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Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary had tests in the summer which implied that he probably had Covid without symptoms early in the pandemic. But last week he had a swab test that came back positive. So were those earlier test results misleading, or has he now had it twice?
Last weekend I was due to visit my 89-year-old dad. I had seen him only once this year, during the summer lull, and we were both excited to be reunited. He had a heart attack during the first wave of the pandemic and is now about to have cancer surgery during the second wave, so my visit was a precious one. The omnipresent virus, however, had other plans.
Among the new projects to receive funding is the CANDID study, which will look at the impact of Covid-19 on critical care and redeployed nurses, focusing on work-place stress.
University of Aberdeen researchers will use a model of occupational stress called Job Demand Resources to better understand stress in nurses working in critical care during the pandemic.
For the study, nurses working in 23 adult critical care units in Scotland and England will be asked to complete a questionnaire and take part in an in-depth interview.
A second study, by the Bradford Institute for Health Research, will look at the impact of redeployment during Covid-19 on nurse wellbeing, performance and retention.
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14 December, 2020
A six-step toolkit was developed to support frontline teams to collect and use patient experience feedback. It was tested over a year on six wards to improve care
Abstract Listening and responding to patients is essential but healthcare organisations struggle to do this effectively. This article describes a project to create the six-step Yorkshire Patient Experience Toolkit, which supports teams to collect and use patients’ feedback to improve care. Six wards trialled the toolkit and found that, while it addressed complex patient needs, the teams needed skilled support and collaborative processes.
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Nursing Times [online]; 117: 1, 39-43. Authors: Claire Marsh is senior research fellow, Bradford Institute for Health Research; Rosemary Peacock is research fellow, School of Medicine, University of Leeds; Laura Sheard is associate professor, York Trials Unit; Rebecca Lawton is professor, Bradford Institute for Health Research; at the time o