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Poet Beth Calverley has written a poem for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, co-created with over 50 of our staff.
Trust Poet Beth Calverley has written a poem for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, co-created with over 50 of our staff. The poem includes their stories.
Beth has been writing poems with our teams - from Microbiology to Dementia Leads, Psycho Oncology to Tissue Viability - since 2020.
In January 2022 Beth brought her Poetry Machine to all hospital sites to write poems with individual members of staff.
All Kinds of Bright includes words and stories from team poems, individual poems and focus group discussions to create a poem that reflects the experiences of staff and the distinctive character of our hospitals.
Below is a film of the poem spoken by 18 members of our staff.