Every year – at the start of January – it’s tradition that a mass thank-you goes out trust-wide to everyone at CHFT for coping under the extreme pressures which winter brings.

This year it’s thank you as never before!!

We’re surviving an incredibly tough time. As this photo shows we’ve had an ambulance jam at the “front end” waiting to drop off patients needing our care.

And, at the other "end", colleagues have coped supremely well with discharges, working as best they can with partners in social care.

At times we have been challenged by an acute shortage of beds yet through it all – and despite the delays -  our patients have received the care they expect and deserve.

So it’s a very simple, but never more heartfelt...... Thank-you to everyone

Helen Barker, Chief Operating Officer