Inside Northumbria Healthcare

Featuring Liesl Richardson, national DAFNE trainer and quality assessor. Liesl has been a diabetes specialist nurse since 1999 and a DAFNE educator and peer reviewer since 2005. Liesl talks about her great aunt who cared for people with diabetes in the 1920's and how far we have come since the introduction of insulin to care for people with Type 1 diabetes.

As part of Sexual Health Week, we chatted to Merci a nurse advisor from our one to one center in Shiremoor, discussing how her role and the service has been impacted due to the pandemic, as well as spreading the important message of seeking help and support from our free, friendly and confidential service when you need it. Our teams are here to help, not judge.

As part of our Inside Northumbria Podcast, we spoke to Consultant Urological Surgeon at the trust as well as Newcastle Hospitals Trust, Matthew Shaw, who is also the Urology Clinical Lead. With September being Urology Awareness Month, Matthew lets us know more about his role, how COVID has impacted his day-to-day working life, as well as going through what you should know surrounding urology.

As part of Inside Northumbria's podcast series, this is a limited edition episode where we spoke to Lead Dietitian at our Northumbria hospital, Alex Fiddes and Kielder Marathon Ever Present runner, Tony Allen regarding the upcoming Kielder Marathon, due to take place in October 2021 for the 11th year.

Our next episode in our podcast series focuses on how GP's have been impacted due to the pandemic. We spoke to Alex a GP at Priory Medical Group in North Sheilds and Medical Director at North Tyneside CCG.

As part of Dietitians Week we spoke to Heather, one of our fantastic Dietetic Assistants to hear how their role was impacted by the pandemic

COVID Reflection - showcasing our brilliant people and their incredible resistance

We talked to one of our amazing volunteers, James, as part of Volunteers Week, to see how his role was impacted

COVID Reflection - showcasing our brilliant people and their incredible resistance

We talked to one of our amazing practice development nurses, Faye, as part of International Nurses Day, to see how her role was impacted

COVID Reflection - showcasing our brilliant people and their incredible resilience

We talked to one of our amazing student midwives, Kerry, to see how the pandemic impacted her role.