Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13 - Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital

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Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13
Senior managers served afternoon teas and cakes, and for patients with dement
our nurses made memory cards with images of Queen Elizabeth to prompt
rnoon teas and cakes, discussion and for and patients recognition with dementia, of this special occasion. All staff on duty on 5 th June w
rds with images of Queen offered Elizabeth a free cupcake to prompt courtesy of the catering service. Over 3,000 individual ca
f this special occasion. were All baked staff on by duty chef Angela on 5 th June Jones. were
sy of the catering service. Over 3,000 individual cakes
ones.
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Summer 2012
The summer of 2012 was one to
remember for the whole of the
country, as we hosted the Olympics
and marked the Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee. Staff and patients were
involved in both the preparations and
the celebration for our summer of fun.
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Being in hospital did not prevent our
patients from being able to join the
national celebrations of the Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee on Tuesday 5 June 2012.
Patients on the Kenn and Bovey wards
at the RD&E Wonford hospital helped
staff make paper chains and bunting in
readiness for the big day. Many of the
people on these wards were around
for the Queen’s coronation and were
able to join the Jubilee celebrations
with a tea party on the ward.
He was nominated to run with the Oly
Ilfracombe by his father. Thomas was
received from the thousands of people
Senior managers served afternoon
tea and cake, and for patients with
dementia, our nurses made memory
cards with images of Queen Elizabeth
to prompt discussion and recognition
of this special occasion. All staff on
duty on 5th June were offered a free
cupcake courtesy of the catering
service. Over 3,000 individual cakes
were baked by chef Angela Jones.
The pop of non-alcoholic Bucks
Fizz corks could be heard in the
haematology and cancer day case unit,
where the waiting lounge was decked
out in bunting and a buffet spread was
Fund charity.
laid on for patients and their relatives
by the Exeter Leukaemia Fund charity.
Torchbearer
Matron Julie Vale serves sandwiches RD&E on consultant Kenn and musculoskeletal Bovey Ward rad
Inspirational RD&E hospital renal
patient Thomas Hack savoured every
moment when he was an Olympic
torchbearer. The 19-year-old, who has
received his renal dialysis treatment at
the RD&E for the past two years, was
diagnosed at the age of seven with
a form of tissue death (necropathy)
and his kidneys failed when he was
17. Thomas has not let his health
challenges get in the way of throwing
setting charity working up of for specialist a month in Kenya. imaging service
The pop of non-alcohol Bucks Fizz corks could He was be nominated heard in to run the with haematology the
competing in the 2012 Olympic and and P
Olympic torch through his home
cancer day case unit, where the waiting lounge town was of Ilfracombe decked by his out father. in bunting and a
serves sandwiches on Kenn and Bovey Ward
Thomas was bowled over by the
buffet spread was laid on for patients and their fantastic relatives support he by received the Exeter from the Leukaemia
s Fizz corks could be heard in the haematology and
the waiting lounge was decked out in bunting and a
patients and their relatives by the Exeter Leukaemia
Olympic Imaging Services
himself into major projects including
thousands of people who lined the
streets and cheered him on.