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