A poem created by OUH Poet, Beth Calverley, in collaboration with staff working at the Trust.
Developed by artlink, the Trust’s arts programme, funded by Oxford Hospitals Charity.
Beth Calverley has been co-creating poems with staff teams across OUH since January 2021.
In January 2022, she brought her Poetry Machine onto hospital sites to write poems with staff individually. She also welcomed contributions via an online form and talked to staff online. This poem has been inspired by all these conversations.
Contributors were given opportunities to feed back and make changes.
Beth would like to thank...
Collaborating teams:
Microbiology, CTCCU, Tissue Viability, Play Specialists, Dementia Leads, Horton F Ward, NOC Ward E, Vaccination Team, Day Treatment Unit, Rainbow Shielders...
...and all staff who have read lines from the poem in this video:
Terry Roberts | Chief People Officer
Geraldine Mazise | Trainee Nursing Associate, AGM, JR
Bill Frizzell | Project Officer, Capital Programmes
Marcus Morgan | Biomedical Scientist, Microbiology
Jane Edwards | Senior Specialist Nurse Practitioner, Tissue Viability
Uma Avaidya | Medical Student
Michael Robinson | Porter, G4S, Churchill Hospital
Rainer Buhler | Divisional Director of Operations, Surgery, Women’s and Oncology
Emma Walduck, Anaesthetic Sister, NOC Theatres
Lawrence Eadle | Equipment Lead, NOC Theatres
Sarah Cox | Domestic Team, G4S, NOC
Yolanda Jacob | Operations Manager, Horton General Hospital
Callum McDowell | Restaurant Manager, Belota Restaurant, Horton General Hospital
Adam Newberry | Therapy Assistant, Horton General Hospital
Michele Beesley | Therapy Assistant, Horton General Hospital
Lucy O’Connor | Delivery Suite Coordinator, JR
Edward Gerring-Brown | Trauma/ED Advance Practice Physiotherapist, JR
Olivia Freeman | Sister, Robin’s Ward, Children’s Hospital, JR