Look back on our journey through 2024 with us at Queen Victoria Hospital

We’re almost there; 2024 is sort of over, and what a 12 months it has been for all of us at QVH!

Because the clock turns in direction of one other new 12 months and 2025 beckons on the stroke of midnight, let’s take a look at a number of the highlights of the previous twelve months right here at our implausible hospital.

We’ve picked out simply a number of the unbelievable achievements of the previous 12 months, and we all know this barely scratches the floor of the work our individuals do day in time out to offer world class take care of our sufferers, so thanks to everybody.

• This brings us to an excellent place to begin – in 2024, our sufferers mentioned we have been the most effective within the nation within the CQC Grownup Inpatient Survey. Queen Victoria Hospital finest at school in nationwide survey – Queen Victoria Hospital
  Thanks to our sufferers for giving us a 5 star assessment!
• Our employees assume we’re doing properly too, proven by the outcomes of the 2023 NHS Workers Survey which got here out in March – Workers say QVH is without doubt one of the high specialist hospitals to work in – Queen Victoria Hospital
  Look out for 2024 outcomes early subsequent 12 months.
• Persevering with with our implausible leads to surveys, our Most cancers sufferers give us thumbs-up in nationwide survey – Queen Victoria Hospital, saying we have been the most effective in nation. One other huge thanks to our sufferers for offering the entire helpful suggestions for us.
• We’ve been a world famend hospital, identified for innovation and excellence in care, for many years and on a late August day in 2024, we held an occasion to recognise this – QVH celebrates eightieth anniversary of C-Wing – Queen Victoria Hospital.
  There may be now a Canadian maple tree planted near the principle entrance to commemorate the particular relationship we can have perpetually with our Canadian buddies.
• We’re pushed to offer excellence in care, and that’s why we should at all times look to put money into the most effective medical gear – Hospital invests £750,000 to enhance entry to diagnostics – Queen Victoria Hospital.
• We even went throughout the water to France. Ward Supervisor Kim heading out to Paris with ParalympicsGB – Queen Victoria Hospital Kim Brinkworth, who can often be discovered on C-Wing, was the Lead Nurse for ParalympicsGB, the place she met up with Will Bayley, who narrowly misplaced his gold medal match on this 12 months’s Paralympic Video games. QVH Charity ambassador Will does QVH proud in Paris. – Queen Victoria Hospital

• It’s additionally been a busy 12 months for QVH Charity as we enhance consciousness of the charity model and proceed to develop partnerships with native companies. Our charity ambassadors have helped us in doing this, however lots of our colleagues have additionally been supporting – Hospital consultants and QVH colleagues get on their bike for Charity – Queen Victoria Hospital
  They and others helped elevate 1000’s for the charity in 2024. Thanks to everybody who supported our magnificent seven!
• We’re at all times eager to recognise and assist consciousness days that happen all year long, and this 12 months we teamed up with different blue mild providers for a extremely essential day QVH joins forces with hearth and rescue providers throughout the area for Nationwide Burn Consciousness Day – Queen Victoria Hospital
  This was the primary time this had occurred throughout the area and the partnership work was highlighted on native tv.
• We’ve additionally celebrated different days reminiscent of Worldwide Nurses Day and World AHP Day, and moreover taken time to have a good time our particular person and collective achievements with our annual Star Awards ceremony.
• We’ve mentioned goodbye to previous buddies, welcomed many new faces and wish to the long run too, with our new technique plans for the subsequent 5 years being ratified QVH new technique to go earlier than Board – Queen Victoria Hospital
• To achieve our ambitions, 2024 additionally noticed the launch of our new imaginative and prescient and values.
  Our imaginative and prescient is to be a centre of excellence that rebuilds lives and helps communities for a more healthy future. Our new values are:

We’ll do that at this time, the final of 2024, and tomorrow, the primary of a brand new 12 months, and we are going to proceed to attempt for excellence on daily basis, as we at all times have.

Blissful New 12 months to all sufferers, colleagues, supporters and buddies.