Annual Report and Accounts - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS ...

24.
Working together
Working together
● Education
Primary schoolchildren from Huddersfield
and Halifax helped our paediatric team
with a new poster aimed at putting
youngsters and their families at ease.
Children were invited to draw little sketches
of hospital life to decorate the border. The
poster will now go up at all NHS centres in
the region where children are treated.
We work closely with local schools and
colleges and last year this included a special
“question time” event. Business studies
pupils at Rastrick High School asked if they
could interview senior directors and the Trust
arranged for a special panel to get together.
The school pupils also gave us valuable
feedback about our new Membership Council
application form and this was very useful as we
are hoping to boost the membership among
younger people in the coming years. The Trust
also continues to provide dozens of work
placements for pupils across the region.
We also work very closely with Huddersfield
University and this includes staff secondments
between both organisations as well as
placements for student midwives, nurses and
therapists. We are currently looking to develop
a pharmacy course and carry out research with
the university. The Trust also has strong links with
Leeds, Bradford and York medical schools and
takes students on placement from all three.
‘The school
pupils also gave us
valuable feedback about
our new Membership Council
application form and this was
very useful as we are hoping
to boost the membership
among younger people in
the coming years.’
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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust