The well loved ‘ The Badger Set’ willow sculptures in Main Courtyard was launched recently. The playful Badgers were created by Emma Parkins and sit alongside Elaine Lim Newton’s beautiful ceramic ‘Night Blooms’ flowers. It’s been great watching the badgers develop and good to have...
On 15 May, we officially opened our new ‘Healing Garden’ at the Royal Derby Hospital. This calm and peaceful courtyard area has been sensitively landscaped to provide an area for people to plant bulbs in memory of loved ones who have sadly died at our...
[gallery link="none" size="full" ids="730,729,731,733"] We are really excited about our new murals at London Road Community Hospital. These were created by Stephanie Cole to enhance the new Specialist Rehabilitation Unit at the hospital. Stephanie worked on a brief devised through consultation with patients and staff at the...
Last month saw the launch of the second edition of ‘colour me, read me’; a booklet filled with short stories written by our wonderful staff and illustrated in detail to allow for some serious colouring in. The books were launched during patient experience week at...
We are pleased to announce that we were shortlisted for 2 National Patient Experience awards through the Patient Experience Network this year and received runner up in the partnership working category, and finalist in the insight for improvement category. The awards day took place on a very snowy 1st March in...
We are preparing for the launch our latest arts exhibition - Alchemy. In collaboration with MORPH creatives we have curated a series of new works to be installed throughout RDH and LRCH. Launch event takes place on 19 March (take the main Lifts and follow the signs) –...
On 6 February, Laura Waters from Air Arts gave a lecture to a group of arts in health researchers at Derby University. Laura talked about the challenges in bringing arts and culture into the hospital environment and embedding it within clinical routines and working I...
On 20 December 2017, the Royal Derby Hospital got in the mood for Christmas as a flashmob of musicians and singers performed a beautiful rendition of ‘O come all ye faithful’. The main entrance has the most amazing acoustics and the sound carried all the...
This month sees us busy preparing for the launch of BrighTEN - our latest arts exhibition, which has been created by our staff. Our lovely curator Fi and the team have selected over 200 new works to be installed throughout RDH and LRCH to brighten...
