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Freddie Mundy shares his incredible story on this week's podcast having been born at Hillingdon Hospital eight weeks prematurely.

Freddie, who is now 29, is running the Edinburgh marathon in May to raise funds for the hospital's neo-natal unit.

The civil engineer talks to us about his and his family's experience at the hospital, meeting staff years later and his preparations for the marathon in the Scottish capital.

If you would like to sponsor Freddie, you can through his JustGiving fundraising page
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We catch up with Director of operational Estates and Facilites at the Trust, Steve Wedgwood, to talk about the new incinerator - or Energy Generation Centre as it is now known.

Following a two-year project costing nearly £10m, the plant is now up and running and providing heating and hot water for patients and staff at Hillingdon Hospital.

Steve discusses the story behind the project, the incineration process, what it means for patients and what the future holds ahead of the new hospital being built.
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It's a special podcast this week from our recent Women's Network event workshop, where Leslie Gaudet talks about the importance of self-care and ways to prevent burnout.

Leslie is a self-care strategist for female CEOs and their teams, and provide clients with self-care strategies for them to prevent burnout and enhance their quality of life both in their business and beyond in their personal life.

The workshop goes into detail about the significance of self-care in our lives - particularly for those in high stress roles in the service based industry - and how to recognise and prevent the four stages of burnout.
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Following national Moisture Associated Skin Damage Awareness (MASD) Day, we sat down with our Trust's experts, the Tissue Viability Team, to talk about MASD, risk factors, the common causes, and how we can help prevent patients from developing skin damage. 

Tune in to find out more. 
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THH Library Services Manager Adam Tocock met up with Helena Delagdo Cohen, Clinical Engagement Lead at BMJ Best Practice, to hear about this point-of-care tools' many features and how it can help busy staff at the point of care or elsewhere.

It's freely accessible to all Trust staff on-site via the staff intranet, or remotely via NHS OpenAthens. It's also downloadable as an app.



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