~ Ryde at our Best
From 10-14 November 2025, NSW Health is again holding its annual Gathering of Kindness event. The event coincides with World Kindness Day, and it gives a great opportunity to continue to focus on the provision of kindness and compassion in the delivery of healthcare in Ryde Hospital. A wonderful thing to reflect on is that kindness benefits both the giver and the receiver. When our work is challenging or stressful, showing kindness to a colleague, patient or carer can lift our mood as well as theirs.
This year’s theme is “ One care, many voices–because kindness lives here”.
We know that every day throughout Ryde Hospital there are thousands of examples of kindness being shown. Our patients and visitors provide feedback about the actions of our staff, some are exceptional acts but most are smaller actions like the way staff speak to them, all making a difference to how they feel and their overall experience in our hospital. For every reported incident there are many more that are not reported to management but certainly they are not unnoticed by the recipients. These kind acts are shared with family and friends when they tell them about their experience in our hospital and become magnified in how positively the community feels about coming to Ryde. This year we will be hosting a stall in the main foyer on 10 th & 11 th November and inviting you to tell us about an act of kindness you have given or received. The aim is to fill our noticeboard with kindness. We’ll also have a few other exciting items and activities to celebrate the day.
Please come along and play a part in making Ryde Hospital an even kinder place to be. It’s not hard. It really is as simple as trying to live by that old age of treating others how you’d like to be treated yourself, then responding to the smiles!
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