Another successful Santa Watch

ON Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day we ran our annual Santa Watch webcam. This year we had a few issues with the Chimney view, as the mount was damaged in the storm just before Christmas along with this years Covid19 restrictions, we opted to use the WeatherCam. The WeatherCam which is currently being upgraded then let us spot him flying over Merseyside. With thanks to our friends at:- EmailSanta.Com, we were to get some advance notice so that we could capture footage of the big man in red, as he made his rounds. Unlike in previous years, we also had another new experiment. This was to use YouTube as us broadcast, worldwide, our live footage. All this could not have been achieved without the help of this year's webcam sponsor, the fantastic local, independent jigsaw shop, Mind Games on Hill St, Southport, (PR90PF).

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We hope that in 2022 we might get a chance to capture him fully on camera, but are are told that on the YouTube video footage, we did manage to capture the Volans Rangifer Tarandus (Flying Reindeer)!

North West NHS Trust team receives national award for diabetes campaign

2021 marks 100 years of insulin, which is a hormone produced in the pancreas to assist your body when using glucose for energy. Sometimes, people with diabetes are unable to produce their own insulin or it does not manage glucose levels in their blood accurately. Therefore, they must take it as medication.

St Helens and Knowsley Diabetes Team joined with Dr Williams, the Trust's Deputy Medical Director, and the Pharmacy department has been given the Excellence Award for their campaign stressing the importance of insulin safety, highlighting insulin milestones from the last 100 years, and emphasising the '6 rights.'

Beating the other 15 entrants, the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust team accepted the Insulin Safety Week award via live-stream at the Quality in Care Diabetes Awards, held at Sanofi head office on 14 October 2021. The programme was made possible with sponsorship from Sanofi and they stress that they had no editorial control over its contents.

Their Insulin Safety Week campaign consisted of wearing:- 'Ask me about insulin' badges, using social media to share interesting historical insulin facts and host a diabetes takeover on twitter, an insulin devices and storage workshop, and a promotional video from Dr Williams. They also used the opportunity to advertise their imminent Insulin Medicine Binder.

A total of 516 sites took part in the annual Insulin Safety Week which intends to increase understanding of insulin safety and is aimed towards health care professionals.

Becky Reeve, Head of Professional Relations at Sanofi Diabetes and Cardiovascular, said:- "The devotion, passion, and innovation displayed by the St Helens and Knowsley Diabetes Team in their campaign was exceptional. All of the hard work they put into Insulin Safety Week was outstanding and clear to see, it shows just how much they care for their patients with diabetes."

Emily Mayhew, Campaigns and Events Manager at Orange Juice Communications, was tasked with deciding the winner. Emily said:- "Congratulations to St Helens and Knowsley Diabetes Team for running such a significant and impactful campaign, the amount of effort that went into it was amazing. Awards like this are so important to recognise all the work diabetes teams do to help others and improve care."

The runners up included Western Health and Social Care Trust, Oxford University Hospitals, and Northampton General Hospital.