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Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England, paid a visit to Northwick Park Hospital on Thursday 29 April. She was on-hand to present the prestigious Chief Nursing Officer Awards to three members of staff who each won silver awards: Akua Seinti, Randall Jones, and Sarah Gould. A special long service award was also presented to Fiona Coogan.

I’m writing to offer my support to those of you who have friends or family in India and other countries severely affected by the pandemic at the moment.

You will undoubtedly have seen national news coverage of the pandemic overseas, and particularly in India, which has seen a record number of cases in recent days.

‘Women don’t stop giving birth because of a pandemic’ says maternity Divisional Head of Midwifery Danny O’Leary amid the department’s biggest refurbishment in the past 16 years.

Pop star Tunde Baiyewu has made a personal appeal for people to have their covid vaccination.

It is vital that we continue our work to make our organisation fairer, more transparent and more inclusive, particularly in respect of race.

The evidence is clear: NHS staff members from ethnic minorities have worse experiences of the workplace than their White colleagues, and are more likely to face barriers as they move forward in their careers.

Patient care pack founder Katherine Mills delivered her 5,000^th pack at Northwick Park Hospital this week.

Upkar Drubra’s parents initially discouraged nursing as a career but the plucky teenager decided to apply anyway.

Sonal Popat was shown the basics of how to prone a patient in the morning and found herself working in intensive care later the same day.

May Hamilton enjoys a bracing seaside walk which is just as well as the plucky pensioner plans to complete 40 lengths of the world’s longest pier in aid of charity.

They call themselves the prone rangers and have been helping those less fortunate than themselves during the pandemic.