#TeamBartsHealth blogs

This International Day of the Midwife, Susan Palmer, safeguarding midwife at Whipps Cross, speaks about journey of progress in her career.

We spoke to Kate about her role and what she enjoys the most, highlights from the past year and being awarded Star of the Month.

We caught up with Megan Bingham, new co-chair for the LGBTQ+ network at Whipps Cross, about this new appointment, the difference she wants to make in this role and some of the things the network has been up to recently.

We spoke to Joey, advance nurse practitioner in Urology, about his work at Whipps Cross, highlights from the past year and being a winner of the Star of the Month award.

Four weeks into his new role, Tris tells us how he’s getting on.

As many as 20 different roles are involved in caring for patients on critical care. We speak to some of those in these different roles. 

Lorenzo Boccuzzi from the building/maintenance team at Whipps Cross Hospital contributed greatly during the peak of the pandemic by installing screen protections, signage, posters and hand sanitizer dispensers.

Megan Yeoman, a physiotherapist from the therapies team at Whipps Cross, worked throughout the pandemic and cared for lots of Covid-19 patients.

George Huntington, who joined ICU as a junior doctor, describes his experience working on an intensive care unit before and after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines.

To mark World Optometry Day 2022, we talked to optometrist Nina Marcus – who has 20 years of experience under her belt – about her profession, the things that she enjoys the most and the importance of raising awareness of this profession.