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Today is World AIDS Day, which is celebrated to spread awareness about HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and commemorate the ones who died of HIV. Dr Helen Iveson, consultant in Sexual Health at our hospital, as part of the Wiltshire Sexual Health team, offers advice on HIV testing and treatment.

Each of our seven Directors is spending time shadowing staff in services across the hospital as part of their ‘Executive back to the floor’ sessions. They're also blogging about their visits. This blog is from our CEO Stacey Hunter who visited colleagues in our Gynaecology department.

Appointments for a COVID-19 booster vaccine can now be booked as soon as an eligible person has waited five months since the date of their second vaccination. However, booster vaccines can still only be given after a six-month interval (182 days), but allowing appointments to be booked at five months means people can get their jabs booked in early.

Each of our seven Directors is spending time shadowing staff in services across the hospital as part of ‘Executive back to the floor’ sessions. They're also blogging about their visits. This blog is from our new Chief People Officer, Melanie Whitfield. She and Nick Beasley, Head of Organisational Development & Leadership, met Jenny Baillie, Laboratory Manager in Histopathology and her team (pictured above).

Following the derailment in Salisbury on Sunday night, 31st Ooctober,13 casualties were treated at Salisbury District Hospital. Four of these casualties were admitted. We are pleased to report that the patients who were being treated in the hospital following the derailment have now all been discharged, so we’re no longer treating anyone from the incident.