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Annual Report & Accounts 2010/11 - James Paget University Hospitals

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Mothers and babies<br />

Helping women and their families during<br />

pregnancy and birth is one of the health<br />

service’s most important responsibilities.<br />

We strive to continually improve the service<br />

we provide to meet the individual clinical<br />

and emotional needs of mothers and their<br />

families.<br />

Appropriate staffing levels ensure that<br />

all women and their families will have<br />

continuity of care with a midwife that they<br />

know and trust. Arrangements are in place<br />

for co-ordination and ongoing midwifery<br />

support should the known midwife not be<br />

available.<br />

With the support of NHS Great Yarmouth<br />

& Waveney we have been able to increase<br />

our Midwifery and Support Worker<br />

establishment to provide services that are<br />

needed in our community. A specialist team of midwives has been set up to<br />

work with marginalised groups of women and their families to support them in<br />

making life changes. Additional Midwives are also working on the Delivery Suite<br />

to ensure that everyone receives 1:1 care when in established labour.<br />

Eliminating mixed sex accommodation<br />

Every patient has the right to receive high quality care that is safe, effective and<br />

respects their privacy and dignity.<br />

This Trust is pleased to confirm that we are compliant with the Government’s<br />

requirement to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, except when it is in the<br />

patient’s overall best interest, or reflects their personal choice.<br />

We have the necessary facilities, resources and culture to ensure that patients<br />

who are admitted to our hospitals will only sleep in individual rooms, or in bays<br />

with other patients of the same sex, with same-sex toilets and bathrooms that<br />

will be located close to their bed area. Sharing with members of the opposite<br />

sex will only happen when clinically necessary (for example where patients need<br />

specialist equipment such as in ICU or when patients actively choose to share e.g.<br />

renal), all of which is in line with national guidance<br />

If our care should fall short of the required standard we will report it internally<br />

and externally to our commissioners. We will also set up an audit mechanism<br />

to make sure that we do not misclassify any of our reports. We will publish the<br />

results of that audit at the Trust’s Board of Directors.<br />

www.jpaget.nhs.uk <strong>James</strong> <strong>Paget</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Hospitals</strong> NHS Foundation Trust <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong>/<strong>11</strong> Page 15

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