North Mid’s Radiography Team are one of the many teams being celebrated and recognised as part of the Trust’s celebrations for this year’s Allied Health Professions (AHP) Day.

The team were recognised in this year’s Radiography Awards after being crowned as London’s Radiography Team of the Year for 2022.

For the sixth annual AHPs’ Day, recognising success, recent achievements and raising awareness of roles and opportunities for AHPs is this year’s theme and focus at North Mid.

Throughout the day, teams have been shining a light on the third largest workforce in the Trust and in the NHS.

AHPs at North Mid all play crucial roles in delivering first-class care to our patients and all live our Trust values every day.

AHPs celebrating

Their roles are varied and range from dietitians, physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers, and speech and language therapists.

Representing the very best of North Mid is not hard among our AHPs whose recent achievements have highlighted why they are ranked among the best AHP workforce in the capital.

Alongside the Radiography’s achievements, dietetic assistant Ozlem Yavuz also wrote her name in the North Mid history books by proudly becoming the first-ever dietetic assistant to attend the first and only university in the UK providing a dietetic degree apprenticeship. A fantastic achievement worth shouting about and a first all-around for the Trust.

Colleagues at the Trust are always looking for opportunities to develop and enhance their skills and experience at the very top standard.

This is including Nicky Gilbody (speech and language therapist) and Shelly English (consultant radiographer) who have both been accepted onto the Health Education England Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) accreditation programme through their new e-portfolio route.

Sarah Hayes and AHPs

Over the course of the next year, they will be busy collecting evidence to show their advanced skills across the pillars of clinical practice, research, education and leadership in their respective roles. There was a high volume of applications for the opportunity and the Trust is really proud that they have been accepted and wish them luck collecting the evidence and training to an advanced level of practice.

All the Trust’s AHPs put the patients at the forefront of their jobs and are always looking for new and different ways to care for them.

From implementing new prioritisation tools help colleagues in the Acute Speech and Language Team to help patient flow across the hospital to our SLT team introducing a new Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) service earlier this year.

FEES is already proving to be a beneficial addition to the SLT toolkit and has been carried out across general medical wards, on the stroke unit and in outpatients.

Once fully integrated, the SLT team will be able to offer a flexible, swift service to the benefit of patients across the hospital, optimising swallow intervention and facilitating patient flow.

Our exective team have been visiting AHP teams across the Trust today with goody bags and more.

One of those visiting teams was Sarah Hayes, Chief Nurse at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, who said the Trust’s AHP workforce are a credit to the organisation.

She continued: “At North Mid we are very lucky and proud to have many AHPs in our team. They are a vital part of our workforce who are so passionate and focused on providing the best care to our patients every day.

 “I wish all our AHPs a happy AHPs' Day and a big thank you for all the hard work they put in day in day out.”