SWAST Paramedic wins category prize in NHS 75th photography competition
Huge congratulations to Paramedic Joe Cartwright for winning the ‘Our Environment’ category of the Fujifilm NHS 75th photography competition. Joe’s beautiful photo was taken in South Devon, during the Beast from the East winter storm. It shows that no matter what the challenge, SWAST staff will always do their best to help the communities they…
Buying scheme to help save on energy bills open for applications in Wiltshire and Swindon
Wiltshire Council is offering people living in Wiltshire and Swindon an opportunity to save on energy bills and generate electricity by getting solar panels, battery storage or electric vehicle charge points, whilst also helping the council’s ambition to reach net zero carbon emissions across the county. Solar Together is a group-buying scheme which enables households…
Three GWH winners in regional NHS Parliamentary Awards
Two incredible individuals and one fantastic team from Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have won the regional NHS Parliamentary Awards and will now all go forwards as finalists in the national awards in July. The Swindon Integrated Care Alliance Coordination Centre have been recognised in the Excellence in Urgent and Emergency Care category, Consultant…
Health and care organisations in BSW say thank you to the Windrush generation
Organisations in BSW have taken the time to acknowledge the remarkable contribution made by the Windrush generation to the development of health and care services across our area over the past 75 years. Windrush Day took place on Thursday 22 June and this year marked 75 years since the ship HMT Empire Windrush arrived at…
How much do you know about BSW Together Integrated Care System? Survey results
Back in the May issue of #BSWTogether, we included a survey aiming to find out how much our colleagues working across BSW partner organisations knew about BSW Integrated Care System and what we could do to drive up that understanding. Thank you to everyone who took part. We didn’t have a massive response rate –…
Teams from across BSW take part in military cross-NHS training exercise
Teams from across BSW including the Salisbury Hospital, the Royal United Hospital, Great Western Hopsital and BSW ICB and were put through their paces on Dartmoor recently as participants in an annual inter-NHS challenge event known as Operation Medical Endeavour. The exercise is organised annually by the 243 Field Hospital and the Wessex Reserves and…
BSW Academy Leading the way
The cross-BSW initiative to roll our training on Learning Disability and Autism through the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme is now underway, with over 250 colleagues completing the programme so far. The first training session was delivered by Rebecca Wise, BSW Lead Trainer and William Ash, co-trainer with lived experience of Autism at Salisbury District…
BSW colleague entries shortlisted in NHS 75 photo competition
The shortlisted photos from the ‘Our NHS at 75’ competition have been announced and includes images supplied by people working for BSW Together ICS from Jenny Anila Potaszni and Miriam Yacomeni from the RUH in Bath, Jowe Cartwright from SWAFT and Jason Dimmock from Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. Both Jenny and Jason’s images were shortlisted…
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training – book your place today
You can now find out more information about this training and book a place by visiting https://bswtogether.org.uk/academy/oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training/ The Health and Care Act 2022 has introduced a requirement that all regulated CQC registered service providers must ensure their staff receive training on learning disability and autism that is appropriate to their role. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory…
Got a prepayment meter? Act now or you’ll miss out on up to £400 of energy support.
Do you, or someone you know, top-up electricity using a prepayment key or card, also known as a traditional prepayment meter? If so, did you receive your £400 energy bill vouchers, which you should have received in instalments between the months of October 2022 and March 2023? There is still time to claim if you…