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Making an Impact
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity is delighted launch the new Impact Fund. The Impact Fund will help fund the projects and services that our patients and staff need the most. Our hospitals, like so many, are still under incredible pressure and we are determined to make a difference and support those working in and using our hospitals every day.
By choosing this Impact Fund, you will be making a huge difference and supporting departments from across our hospitals. Our Impact Fund will prioritise three key areas within the hospital, absorbing the funds in our existing General Fund which has supported some amazing projects in the last few years.
Supporting the Impact Fund will enable us to fund even more projects like these:
Objective 1: Improve patient care and experience
We supported the purchase of “Mind Maze”, which is a new AI driven technology for supporting patients with neurological conditions. It focuses primarily on rehabilitation, but it can also be used for clinical assessment. Staff can use the movement based digital solution to observe the patient physically interact with engaging and gamified content designed to holistically train and assess motor and cognitive function.
Objective 2: Support staff to make a difference
We have supported 2 large scale staff engagement events in summer and winter for the past few years. This has enabled us to support our teams by saying thank you, engaging with team bonding, promoting cross team working, It has also enabled us to provide staff with the opportunity to work together to understand our different cultures and ways of working to create a better way of working together.
“We are incredibly grateful for the charity who have given us support to fund our staff engagement events. These events give our staff a voice, one that is heard and that counts, as well building a compassionate culture. It also helps us to value, recognise and celebrate our staff”. Jennie Jones, Head of Staff Engagement/Health & Wellbeing
Objective 3: Enable Innovation for the benefit of our patients
We supported our Anaesthetics team to purchase an Orsim Device, which is a new piece of equipment to support staff training in fibre optic bronchoscopy, which is used particularly in head and neck cancer patients, patients who are having an anaesthetic or can’t open their mouths very well. Enabling staff to practice on a simulator first, will greatly improve experience for our patients and reduce any trauma.
Prayal Kajekar, Consultant Anaesthetist at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital said, “Thank you for the ORSIM , it has been immensely useful for our airway teaching. This device allows the procedure to be done on patients more skilfully as the simulator fine tunes their skills. This will make it much more comfortable for patients.”
This fund will benefit patients and their families and we hope that everyone will support us in continue to fund some of these amazing projects which truly make a difference.