Photographs & Presentations from Formal Event: 28th October 2023

Current staff, former staff and guests with an association with the rehabilitation hospital were invited to a formal event on 28th October 2023 with the programme including planting of a tree in the grounds to commemorate 100 years of the Astley Ainslie Hospital.

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Current and former staff gather for the event

Current and former staff gather for the event

Nicola Stuckey and Mary Ramsay catch up

Yvonne Jones catches up with current and former colleagues

Catherine Dowell, Lesley Moffatt, Moira Little, Billie Flynn, Marion Reilly

Heather Tait, Hospital and Hosted Services Manager, chairing the event

“Past Presentation” – Dr Brian Pentland, former Clinical Lead

“Present Presentation” – Vicky Mayer, Clinical Team Coordinator Speech and Language Therapy – Inpatient Service

Audience show their appreciation for the presentations

“Future Presentation” – Dr Philip Milburn-McNulty (Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant), Richard Allan (Trainee Clinical Scientist) and Megan Maxwell (Senior Charge Nurse)

“Future Presentation” – Richard Allan, Trainee Clinical Scientist

“Future Presentation” – Megan Maxwell, Senior Charge Nurse

“Future Presentation” – Dr Philip Milburn-McNulty, Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant

Thanks on behalf of NHS Lothian – Professor John Innes, Non-Executive Director for NHS Lothian

Presentation to presenters – Dr Brian Pentland (former Clinical Lead), Professor John Innes (NHS Lothian Non-executive Director), Heather Tait (Hospital and Hosted Services Manager)

Audience enjoy the presentations

Dr Alasdair FitzGerald (Clinical Lead), Yvonne Jones (Office Manager), Morgan Smith (Modern Apprentice – Orthotics and Prosthetics)

Dr Alasdair FitzGerald, Clinical Lead

Dr Alasdair FitzGerald (Clinical Lead), Morgan Smith (Modern Apprentice – Orthotics and Prosthetics), Yvonne Jones (Office Manager)

Attendees watch the tree planting ceremony

Morgan Smith (Modern Apprentice – Orthotics and Prosthetics), Yvonne Jones (Office Manager), Dr Alasdair FitzGerald (Clinical Lead)

Dorothy Cyster on the memorial bench for her father Lt Colonel John Fraser, late Medical Superintendent in AAH

AAH 100 years cupcakes

AAH 100 years exhibition

AAH 100 years exhibition

Current and former colleagues catch up over lunch

Speakers at the event (Richard Allan, trainee clinical scientist missing)

Current and former medical staff

Current and former neurorehabilitation staff

Current and former SMART Centre staff

Current and former Cardiac Rehabilitation and Heart Manual staff

Occupational therapists who have previously worked in AAH

Current and former speech and language therapists

Current and former nurses

Current and former admin staff

Current and former clinical psychologists

Current and former physiotherapists

Mike Massaro-Mallinson (acting Chief Officer), Heather Tait (Hospital and Hosted Services Manager) and Helen FitzGerald (Lead Partnership Rep) – representing Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Catering staff working at the event

Former colleagues catch up

Morag Medwin, former Stroke Managed Clinical Network Co-ordinator, signs the visitors’ book

Sheena Muir, former Hospital and Hosted Services Manager, and Louise Taylor, Heart Manual Lead, look at the exhibition