Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

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In addition, members of the PPI team attended the Newtown Neighbourhood Management
Programme Open Day.
The key themes arising from these meetings were:
• The ability of City Hospital to cope with any additional demands.
• What will happen to existing staff?
• Concerns about travelling times particularly in emergencies.
• Concerns that “New communities don't understand current system let alone a
community birth centre model.”
• How will patient experience issues be dealt with?
• How is the review going to deal with the high infant mortality rates.
• Why can’t services be kept at both sites?
6.7 Staff engagement
This section contains the report on Maternity Staff Engagement Events conducted by Sandwell
and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.
Introduction
A number of staff engagement events were held within SWBH NHS Trust as part of the public
consultation process for ‘improving services for giving birth’. The events were held on both City
and Sandwell Hospital sites in November 2009 and followed on from staff engagement events
held in the pre-consultation phase of the review. The 3 main events were open to all staff and
run by the Trust Service Redesign Team in co-operation with the Divisional Management Team
for Women’s Services. In addition smaller specific events were held in December and January
with staff from the Imaging Department, the Maternity team based at Sandwell and paediatric
consultant staff.
Purpose
The purpose of the events was to seek the views of staff regarding (i) the three short listed
service options for Maternity Services, (ii) ascertain their views on how the Trust might manage
the medium term transition of services and (iii) how staff want to be engaged in the process of
planning implementation of the changes.
Attendees
Over 70 staff attended the staff engagement events with representation from the wide range of
professional groups and specialities involved in delivering maternity services. The table below
shows this representation in more detail.
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