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Renal's Don
leaves behind a model for others to follow
Renal staff gave Don Keir a send-off he’ll
never forget at his leaving do in June.
I F Don Keir’s time with the trust was
relatively short, it was long enough for him to make a significant impact.
He joined the trust’s renal unit in 1999 and has spent two of the past
seven years seconded to the Department of Health.
He began his career in renal in the late 1970s and after seven years as a
charge nursed joined Charing Cross Hospital for seven years before moving to
Brighton.
Here, as renal care centre manager, he earned praise for his leading role and
"brilliantly co-ordinating" the development of the Sussex Kidney Unit
that is regarded nationally as a model for others to follow.
His retirement, brought about by trust restructuring, was celebrated in the
unit last month when colleagues from his former hospitals joined past and
present Brighton staff at his leaving party (continued later in the Bristol
Bar).
His many gifts included a sundial and a vine to plant in his garden, bottles
of his favourite white wine and an engraved silver bowl from the consultants.
Judy Morgan, Dr Holt’s PA, made a spectacular cake for the occasion
appropriately depicting Don reclining on a settee with a nearby glass of white
wine and his black cat.
Don says he plans to spend time in his garden as well as undertaking
consultancy work.
D OZENS of past and present staff said
farewell to payments manager Pat Grant at a retirement party in Audrey Emerton
restaurant last month.
As well as current trust directors, two former chief executives and a former
finance director were also there to wish Pat well in her retirement to live in
Hampshire.
Pat began her NHS career 32 years ago working in the old Central Sussex
Finance Department in Preston Road, Brighton.
But it was not just her work in Finance that made her well known. For 27
years Pat served as a member and more recently chair of the staff side and the
trust council.
She also earned the thanks of the trust board for her contribution to the
board whose meetings she attended as staff representative.
David Dumigan paid tributes and presented leaving
gifts to Pat Grant at her retirement party in Audrey Emerton last month.
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Judy Morgan with the cake she made
for Don Keir’s farewell.
F ORMER Brighton Health
Authority staff will be interested to learn of the retirement of Terry James.
Terry began working in Brighton as a clerical officer in
Supplies in 1966.
He has stepped down after 40 years, most recently as joint head
of procurement for South Downs Health and the former West Sussex Health and
Social Care trust.
WELCOME to Dr Daniel Richardson,
new consultant in GU medicine. He joined the trust on 12 June replacing Dr
Williams.
CONGRATULATIONS to David
Bowden, retiring chairman of the Friends of Brighton Hospitals and former
district administrator for Brighton Health Authority.
David has been co-opted to the committee of Sussex County
Cricket Club.
As older readers and former colleagues will remember, David
is a keen sportsman who excelled at both cricket and football.
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The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton