June 2015 . Issue 14
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Pride Taking
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For staff, members, patients, visitors & volunteers
Get healthy, stay healthy
Imagine how fit you would be if you could climb Ben Nevis or Kilimanjaro while at work. Well, given the number of steps we have in our hospitals, you very nearly can. If you climb from level 1 to 5 at the Royal Derby Hospital just four times - which some staff will do in one day - you will have scaled the height of London’s Millennium Dome. There’s 96 steps from top to bottom of the Royal Derby Hospital. This means that 87 full climbs would have put you on top of Ben Nevis. Just under 400 climbs - very possible over the course of a year - and you’d be standing on top of Mount Kilimanjaro: the world’s highest freestanding mountain. In this issue of Taking Pride we look at how everyone can keep fit and active. We’ll look at what’s on offer for staff and what colleagues across the Trust are doing to improve their wellbeing, while caring for our patients and service users.
In this issue
The best way we can continue to take pride in caring for our patients is to keep all our staff healthy and happy too.
Meet our new Workforce Director
Free health checks
Senior Sister loses five stone
Wellbeing Services guide
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