Author: Sharon Kidd, Patient Experience Manager (ULHT)

Welcome to the Academy of FAB Stuff
A repository of inspirational ideas!
It’s OK to have dreams. For as long as I can remember I have been dreaming of a time when all the good things, ideas, innovations and concepts, that are the backbone of the NHS, could be shared. The Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff is proof; dreams can come true.
The NHS is full of enthusiastic, clever, keen, passionate people with a strong sense of vocation. They want to do the right thing and to do things right. The Academy is the place to share ideas about doing it right, boast about the good stuff and if you have a problem, the place to search for an answer. The NHS is so much better than it gets credit for, is so much more efficient than people think. And, is keen to share, be collegiate, find the good stuff and pass it on.
I want to make the Academy the first port of call to show off (why not), to make us proud and put a smile on the faces of the people working right across the NHS; to make services better, more efficient and above all fun. If you have a problem you can bet someone else is facing the same challenge. You can almost guarantee, somewhere in the NHS somebody has an idea or a solution that will help. The Academy will only work if we share the good stuff and I’m guessing we want to. Five years of writing editorials for nhsManagers.net has filled my in-box with people offering readymade solutions, ideas and answers to the questions we all face. It’s time to pass them on.
The ideas don’t have to be huge and service wide, they can be local, niche ‘the way you do it’. If they have worked for you, you can bet they will work for someone else. The web-site has been designed to be easy to add to and easy to access. Please have a look, share and search. The NHS is so much stronger and so much better when it works together, walks in step and shares the best stuff.
The Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff is an opportunity to turn dreams into action.
Roy Lilley
February 2015

How it works
We’ve made The Academy of Fabulous Stuff an easy and friendly site to use.
You can search and browse fab stuff freely without logging in. If you would like to submit a share, you need to become a contributor and register first. You can then submit your fab stuff – 500 words and up to 3 pictures. It’s as simple as that!
They then review and will notify you when the share is live. They then actively promote the share on social media and email, and optimise it for search on the web and our internal search. As a contributor, you can also reply to questions on your share through the share’s comments section, and also give your feedback to others on their shares.
As a contributor you can edit your profile and enter an optional short biography snippet and links to your Twitter and Linked-In profile.
To receive regular email updates from Fab Stuff you need to separately subscribe to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe at any time.
The site admin can be contacted via the contact us page or tweet at @FabNHSStuff.
Thanks for reading. Now go and get involved – we want you to share your fab stuff!
Have a browse and don’t reinvent the wheel
https://fabnhsstuff.net/
How to post
Its really simple!!
#UltimateULHT
On the FAB website, ULHT has a hashtag so don’t forget to search #UltimateULHT and see what others having been sharing from the trust
FabAmbassadors
We are volunteers with a highly diverse skillset whether that be a clinician, a NHS manager, a university academic, or anything in between.
Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming. Fab Ambassadors see tomorrow coming.
We lead for the future.
We are trailblazers.
We brim with enthusiasm, positivity, knowledge and hope.
We see everything, we share everything. We are beacons of best practice.
If you have a problem, we have ideas and proven solutions.
We can connect you with others locally.
We can connect you with others nationally.
We can work with you as individuals, with your teams, with your wards and departments, with your entire NHS Trusts to share best practice and innovation.
We are here for you every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
We love our NHS.
We are Fab Ambassadors.
There are 5 FAB Ambassadors with 2 being Regional Coordinators for Lincolnshire.
Sharon Kidd
Patient Experience Manager ,ULHT
Sharon.kidd@ulh.nhs.uk
@boroshaz
01476 464560 or 07799 868206
Donna Phillips
Clinical Lead, Scotter Ward, LCHS
Donna.Phillips@lincs-chs.nhs.uk
@scotterwardlchs
01427 816500
Jennie Negus
Deputy Chief Nurse, ULHT
Jennie.negus@ulh.ulh.nhs.uk
@negusjennie
01205446298 or 07920450527
Sam McCarty-Phull
Clinical Education Nurse, ULHT
@mccarthy_ph
01522 597773
Tracey Pemberton
Ward sister, Ward 6, ULHT
@sisterpembo
01476 464263
FabChange70 shifted the focus from pledging to do something in the future, to sharing what people, services and organisations were doing now, in the 70th year of the NHS. #FabChange70 was a way to demonstrate the significant difference that can and is being made to aspects of healthcare such as patient experience; leadership and staff wellbeing; patient safety and the development of service improvements by sharing your good stuff and allowing others with replicate what you are doing well on a national level.
Here’s just few of the FABChange70 shares from #UltimateULHT this year
Fire drill time on Ward 1 #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/fire-drill-time-on-ward-1-ultimateulht
Swan care bags at #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/swan-care-bags-at-ultimateulht
Interactive board games for hire #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/interactive-board-games-for-hire-ultimateulht
Speed dating.....#UltimateULHT Finance Team style
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/speed-datingultimateulht-finance-team-style
Yellow sticker in A&E #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/yellow-sticker-in-ae-ultimateulht
Survival kits for newly qualified nurses at #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/survival-kits-for-newly-qualified-nurses-at-ultimateulht
SWAN Ambassadors #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/swan-ambassadors-ultimateulht
Developing Ambulatory Emergency Care pathways at #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/developing-ambulatory-emergency-care-pathways-at-ultimateulht
New garden space #UltimateULHT Grantham Hospital Outpatients Department
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/new-garden-space-ultimateulht-grantham-hospital-outpatients-department
Hot toast rounds on Ward 6 #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/hot-toast-rounds-on-ward-6-ultimateulht
Love your bones #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/love-your-bones-ultimateulht
Medicines management safety #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/medicines-management-safety-ultimateulht
Site sister fire grab bag #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/site-sister-fire-grab-bag-ultimateulht
Swan light …Ward 6 #UltimateULHT
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/swan-light-ward-6-ultimateulht
#UltimateULHT Ashby Ward – new Specialist Outreach Discharge Liaison Nurse
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/ultimateulht-ashby-ward-new-specialist-outreach-discharge-liaison-nurse
Virtual ward meetings on Ward 2
https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-stuff/virtual-ward-meetings-on-ward-2
FAB Awards
The annual Fab Awards are no ordinary awards. They set out to reward and recognise fab people and teams bringing great innovation and best practice to the NHS. The award categories reflect the fab work involved. To make it extra special, these awards winners for both the bi monthly and annual are voted for by you all
FabChange70 Individual
The FabChange70 Champion Individual award will be presented to the the individual whose energy, leadership and vision has single-handedly made a difference in inspiring and empowering colleagues that they work with to work together to put their ideas into action and make a difference.
FabChange70 Organisation
The FabChange70 Champion Organisation award will be presented to the Trust or organisation whose energy, leadership and vision has empowered staff to put their ideas into action and have embedded QI as ‘the norm’ throughout their organisation.
The Piccalilley Award
Each week Roy and Terri choose a Piccalilley, the share from that week that has particularly resonated with them. At the awards we will announce our overall Piccalilley.
Mary Poppins Award
This award has been chosen by children and young people, from all the CYP shares on the Fab Stuff website. The winning share resonates with them and they are going to explain why...
The 4 Candles Award
The 2 Ronnies, featuring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker, first broadcast their ‘4 Candles’ sketch in 1976. It features a shopkeeper, played by Ronnie Corbett, becoming increasingly frustrated by a customer, played by Ronnie Barker, because he continuously misunderstands what he is requesting. At Ronnie Barker’s memorial service in Westminster Abbey, the cross was accompanied up the aisle by four candles instead of the usual two. If your project has relied on an ability to listen and respond to feedback from any source, then the 4 Candles award could be yours!
The Rosa Parks Award
On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42 year old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery City, Alabama and took a seat in the row behind the 10 seats at the front reserved for white people. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled and when a white man entered the bus the driver (following standard practice) insisted that Rosa and her 3 other black passengers just behind the white section give up their seats in order to accommodate him. Her 3 fellow travellers complied. Rosa Parks did not – and fuelled a civil rights movement. If you have been brave enough to reject mindless conformity and find a new, inspiring and effective means of doing something, then this award is for you.
The TNT Award
The author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once said "too often we underestimate the importance of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring – all of which has the potential to turn a life around". We agree. Often the biggest impacts are made by the smallest actions, and the Academy of Fab NHS Stuff wants to recognise, share and celebrate everything, no matter how small – hence the TNT or Tiny Noticeable Things’ award for a project or person that has embodied this sentiment.
The Penguin Award
Sometimes a problem or issue is too challenging or substantial to be overcome by just 1 person. Penguins have known this and demonstrate the most extraordinary teamwork so as to protect themselves from adversity – from forming dense gravity-centric groups to defeat the worst of an Antarctic winter to combining with effortless grace and coordination to outwit a prowling killer whale. You decide whether your team has delivered something worthy of the Penguin Teamship Award!
The Hartly Larkin Award
On the night of May 7th 1765 Hartly Larkin, a dockyard foreman at Chatham marine docks was deeply troubled. HMS Victory was to be launched the next morning in a fanfare ceremony and he had just had a terrible thought. At first light he hurried to the dock with a tape measure and his dire worry was confirmed – Victory was 9.5 inches wider than the dock exit. Acting entirely on initiative, he convened a gathering of shipwrights and carpenters who set to work cutting away the docks timbers. Victory launched on time, squeezing through the narrowest gap. Larkin and his team, quite simply, had done what needed to be done. If this has resonated with you via the parallels with your recent project, then a fanfare could be yours!
The 5127 Award
Absolutely committed. Fiercely determined. Brim-full of self-belief. Refusing to compromise. Dedicated to perfection. If you win the 5127 award you will have demonstrated all of these attributes. 5127 refers to the number of prototypes that Sir James Dyson developed before finally marketing his first Dyson ‘Cyclone’ vacuum cleaner. If you have seen a project through from start to finish, hurdled obstacles, converted nay-sayers and delivered ultimate success, then you might be in the running!