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Beer treatments and care for more people
Supporting staff
From mental health support to funding
key roles, improving sta昀昀 wellbeing is
one of our key strategic objectives.
The Retreat
Thanks to a £10K grant from the Kusuma Trust, we
have been able refurbish, decorate and equip The
Retreat: a comfortable, private space for staff who are
emotionally distressed. One-to-one support from the
Wellbeing Hub team, staff psychologists or the new
staff social worker is available for anyone feeling upset
or overwhelmed.
It’s so hard to
measure the value of
how we make patients and families
feel, o昀琀en when they are going through
the unimaginable. It’s easy to think it’s
just our job or that we are somehow
immune to the emotional toll it takes.
But nurses are human too.”
– Margaret Finnegan (pictured above), Head of Nursing (Speciality
Medicine), Chartwell ward, Princess Royal University Hospital
Creating a culture of support
Staff in the PRUH’s Chartwell Unit can struggle with
the emotional burden of caring for cancer patients.
Our investment of £18K in 2021 and a further £6K
in 2023 enabled senior staff to implement monthly
clinical supervision sessions to support staff wellbeing
and encourage communication and collaboration. We
are delighted to report that due to its overwhelming
success, which not only improved staff retention and
morale but also patient satisfaction and outcomes,
the Trust is exploring how such a programme could be
applied more widely across other hospital sites.
Our experience in Chartwell has
been absolutely amazing, we couldn’t
have asked for more, your teams are
thorough and e昀昀ective.”
– Patient feedback response
King’s Stars
We were delighted to celebrate and recognise
outstanding care, dedication and long service by
NHS staff in our King’s Stars Awards. With incredible
nominees in every category, the winners were
presented with a framed certificate, trophy and prize.
Making the best care possible
To meet the needs of current and future patients, we
help King’s go beyond what the NHS can provide.
Ageing Well with Sickle Cell
The Strategic Crown Fund
King’s treats a third (c.5,000) of all sickle cell disease
patients in the UK and we are proud to have committed
£150K to ‘Ageing Well with Sickle Cell’, an innovative
project that aims to improve care and treatment pathways
for those living with the disease. Thanks to our Strategic
Crown Fund grant, the brilliant team from King’s and King’s
Health Partners Haematology is working closely with
sickle cell patients to improve access to existing care and
increase awareness of the unique challenges they face.
The Strategic Crown Fund is dedicated to
transforming care at King’s where it is most
needed. In 2023, we pledged to invest £300K
in projects that enhance support for frail or
vulnerable patients. We worked hard to promote
the Fund to staff, liaising with hospital teams to
generate ideas, as well as create an interview
panel to review and refine those ideas.
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