If you smoke, quitting is an important part of looking after your health 🚭

Quitting reduces the risks from flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, as well as COPD, heart attack and stroke!

We’re here to help.

Visit 👉 freshquit.co.uk 👈 for support to quit.

📢 JOBS KLAXON! 📢

Fancy joining Team STSFT? Check out some of our latest vacancies...

➡️ Trainee Paediatric Emergency Nurse Practitioner
➡️ Healthcare Assistant
➡️ Administrator

Or click here 👉 bit.ly/3Pm77Tv 👈 to view the full list of jobs currently available!

Do you give blood? If not, have you ever considered it?

Today is World Blood Donor Day and we'd like to pay tribute to all donors for the incredible difference they make.

Read how you can sign up here ➡️ orlo.uk/Ml5pB

#GiveBlood #SaveLives

If you’re pregnant, you can trust the NHS-approved emails from Start for Life 🤰

They can help you every step of the way through pregnancy and beyond.

➡️ bit.ly/3MlleXe

🚫 EXIT ROAD CLOSURE - 18TH & 19TH JUNE 🚫

Urgent road resurfacing will take place on the 18th & 19th June which will require us to close the Chester Road exit route.

In the meantime the entrance road will be open as a 1-way system.

🚨 TWO WEEKS TO GO! 🚨

Step into Health is open to all service leavers, veterans and their families.

We'd love to discuss career and development opportunities within the NHS with you.

📩 Sign up by email: [email protected]

A head and neck cancer information event for patients and families was held at Bede Tower in Sunderland today.

Here's Rachael Bannister Young, head and neck Macmillan clinical nurse specialist and lead cancer nurse at Sunderland Royal Hospital, to explain more.

Gateshead Talking Therapies attended the Gateshead Carers Gala yesterday.

The event was hosted by Gateshead Carers Association as part of Carers Week. Organisations who support carers in the community were there.

This year's #CarersWeek theme is 'Putting carers on the map'.

If you’ve ever served in the UK Armed Forces, are struggling with your mental health and live in England, Op COURAGE is here to help.

Op COURAGE is a dedicated NHS mental health service developed by veterans, for veterans.

Visit ➡️ nhs.uk/opcourage

The 2024 Patient Safety Conference is complete!

A huge thank you to all who attended, and to all of the outstanding keynote speakers who shared their expertise.

There are lots of brilliant learnings which will be taken away and utilised by everyone who was present.

#PSConf

“Civility Saves Lives is a movement where people across the world talk about the impact their behaviour has on their individual and team performance.”

Dr Chris Turner, consultant in emergency medicine, runs Civility Saves Lives.

We caught up with him at the #PSConf .

“The important thing for me about this conference is that all our staff learn something, but more importantly they take that back into their practice.”

Debbie Cheetham, our Head of Patient Safety & Patient Safety Specialist, discusses today’s Patient Safety Conference.

#PSConf

Have been keenly following the #CivilitySavesLives work for a few years now so delighted to finally hear from Chris Turner himself in person

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust #PSConf

Here is Professor Brian Dolan, one of our keynote speakers at today’s #PSConf .

Thank you for your brilliant insights and experience today, Brian Dolan OBE, RMN, RGN!

Continuing the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust #PSConf journey with a powerful story from Carolyn Cleveland illustrating the roles that emotion & compassion play in #PatientSafety

⭐️ S4. E8: Changing Futures ⭐️

Changing Futures is a multi-million pound partnership aimed at reforming health and wellbeing for those most in need.

Find out all about Changing Futures and how our Alcohol Care Team play a key role.

Listen➡️ spoti.fi/4bNri5r

Gateshead Council