Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

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• Labour Party Constituency Meeting.
• Patient Experience Forum which included representatives from the patient experience
fora and local voluntary organisations.
• A Women’s Group at Sandwell College of Adult Learners (at a session in Cape Primary
School).
• Voluntary Sector Organisations event.
The key themes arising from these groups are:
• The ability of City Hospital to cope with increased demands for beds, facilities such as
birthing pools and car parking which was mentioned by 3 of the groups.
• The distance some women may have to travel to City Hospital was an issue for 2 of the
groups.
• Staffing - with questions about access to training for midwives, the working time
directive and staff numbers being asked across 3 of the groups.
The Sandwell Patient Experience Forum through their questionnaire response noted: “We
agree with the proposals 1 & 2 believing option 3 to be too risky of things (going) wrong. Option
2 is preferred by the membership and we accept that services at City are superior to Sandwell.
We are concerned that an increase from 4k to 6.5k births at City will put extra pressure on soft
facilities such as parking, catering etc. We accept that the clinical increase at City may be well
covered but access to City for visitors (particularly evenings & weekends) is poor from many
areas previously accessed at Sandwell.”
6.6 Other Stakeholders – Heart of Birmingham
The Public and Patient Involvement team at HOBtPCT provided information on the key themes
arising from presentations given to the following:
• Arya Samaj a city-wide Hindu organisation.
• Aston and Nechells Patients Network.
• Ladywood and Summerfield Patients Network.
• Lozells and East Handsworth Patients Network.
• Lozells and East Handsworth Ward Sub Committee.
• Soho Patients Network.
• Soho Ward Sub Committee.
• Soho Finger and Gib Heath Neighbourhood Forum.
• Sparkbrook Ward Sub Committee.
• Third Sector Assembly – voluntary and community organisations.
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