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Special hospital visitors Pringle and Widget spread a little festive cheer!

Special hospital visitors Pringle and Widget spread a little festive cheer!

Penguins Pringle and Widget have been delighting staff and patients at two of our community hospitals today.

While paying a visit from their home at Heythrop Zoological Gardens in Oxfordshire the Humboldt penguins, Pringle (aged 12) and Widget (aged 7), popped into North Cotswolds Community Hospital in Moreton on Marsh this morning, before waddling over to Tewkesbury Community Hospital in the afternoon – much to the delight of hospital staff and patients.

Deputy Service Director of Community Hospitals, Juliette Richardson, thanked Matron Julie Ellery for organising the special visitors, saying: “Seeing the happiness on the faces of patients and colleagues was just incredible.

“Thank you, and thank you to the League of Friends for making this happen.”

Stroud’s Princess Anne Unit’s refurbishment

Stroud’s Princess Anne Unit’s refurbishment

The theatres and endoscopy units at Stroud General Hospital’s Princess Anne Unit are reopening next week after some major refurbishment work. Some endoscopy and theatre activity took place at other sites over the past six weeks to enable the renovation, which included...

Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework Update

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Approximately 40 people joined a workshop held to talk about the Trust’s approach to the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF). The event, at Churchdown Community Centre, was an opportunity for Trust colleagues, service users, carers, Experts by Experience...

Colleagues saddle up for E-bikes trial in Cheltenham

Colleagues saddle up for E-bikes trial in Cheltenham

Colleagues in Cheltenham are leading the charge towards sustainable travel with a two-year trial of Trust e-bikes. Five new e-bikes were delivered to Leckhampton Lodge at the end of November which will be trialled by six colleagues in Children and Young People’s...

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