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3.4 Trust-wide Achievements
3.4.1 What we do well
Section three of this report has presented quality and safety achievements
for the Trust realised throughout 2011-12.
There are several sources of valuable external feedback regarding what
the Trust does well. Our Quality Report and our measurements have been
informed by:
National Patient Survey feedback (Appendix 2)
Trust Patient Experience Survey (Appendix 3)
CQC Trust Quality and Risk profile 2011-12.
Areas identified for improvement from each of these sources are included
in the Trust Improvement Action Plan 11-12.
3.4.2 Infection Prevention and Control
Continuous monitoring is undertaken by the Trust to ensure that it remains
compliant to regulations in relation to cleanliness and infection control.
This involves a rigorous programme to prevent MRSA, C. Difficile, and
other serious infections in the Trust. This work is championed by our
Nurse Consultant in Infection Prevention and Control. The Infection
Prevention and Control Team believe that service user involvement in
infection prevention and control is crucial to ensure that they are actively
involved in this important agenda. Examples of service user involvement
include auditing practices on wards such as hand hygiene, cleanliness of
environment and equipment, undertaking unannounced spot-checks at the
Trust, contributing to policy and patient information leaflet development.
The Trust is required to report on MRSA bacteraemias on a monthly basis.
There have been no instances during 2011-12.
3.4.3 National Award-winner
For the second year running the Trust won a prestigious Nursing Times
Award – this time in the ‘Nursing in Mental Health’ category.
The award, which recognises individuals or teams who have developed
initiatives that have improved the delivery of mental health care, was
presented to Advanced Practitioner in Personality Disorder, Gary Lamph.
Gary has developed an ambitious Personality Disorder Strategy, which
sets out to develop strong seamless links between mental health services
and the wider system for the benefit of people with Personality Disorder.
The design and implementation of this revolutionary and entirely unique
low-cost multi-agency model was led by Gary.
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