Thanks to the generous support of The Blythe Family Trust, we are delighted to be funding several key projects designed to significantly enhance the experience of patients and their families, with a particular focus on those in our inpatient wards who require more specialist and long-term care.

“It’s nice, we like it down here. This is our wee domain, our wee hidey-hole.”

“It’s a lovely staff room – I sit in the comfy seat – there’s the big windows – it’s quite therapeutic, just sitting and chilling and reading your phone.”

“Five minutes ‘me time’.”

“I sit in the cab if it’s raining, have the radio on, play about with my phone. But if it’s a nice sunny day, I’ll sit out on a bench or go for a wander and sometimes part down at the beach, so sometimes I walk along the beach.”

“I’ve got a Keepcup, so that when the consultant arrived for the ward round impromptu and you’ve just made your cup of tea and you are about to do your paperwork you could put it down you could do the ward round and you come back and your tea was still warm, Honestly, it’s made such a big difference to my life.”

“And it’s mine, it’s nobody else’s. It belongs to the hospital but it’s my space.”

The East Lothian Palliative Care Team have introduced ‘Bunny Buddies’ to provide a source of comfort and help families dealing with loss and grief start difficult conversations.

We have continued our programme of art and therapeutic design to improve patient experience at East Lothian Community Hospital. The latest project has created bright, stimulating Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) rooms to support children on their communication journey.

Everyone has a story to tell and our colleagues at NHS Lothian are helping their patients tell theirs. Thanks to […]