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LATEST NEWS World first gives gift of life to Grandfather A grandfather from Cheshire has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a new minaturised heart pump controller by doctors at UHSM after it was decided he was too ill to undergo transplant surgery at this time. Sixty year old Barry Wade has responded so well to the procedure - which involved implanting a mechanical device which is attached to his heart to circulate blood around his body - that he went home to Chelford, near Macclesfield within a few days. Barry, who has four children & five grandchildren, says his health problems began in 2004 after a scuba diving accident left him with advanced heart Volunteering at UHSM UHSM is looking for volunteers to help out at our Wythenshawe Hospital & Withington Community Hospital sites. Gill Pratt, Volunteers Manager says: “Volunteers are an incredible asset to the NHS and are present in most hospitals nowadays. They provide that extra bit of help and care that really makes a difference not only to our patients but to the thousands of visitors who walk through our doors every week.” Volunteers tend to give up about 3 to 4 hours a week to do all sorts of things including working in tea bars, on wards, the Trust Wide Patient Group, the Editorial Board and UHSM’s Dinning Companions Group where volunteers are trained to assist in feeding patients, helping unwrap food and generally chat to patients. “At the moment we need some extra volunteers to work in our Outpatient Clinics at Wythenshawe Hospital, which would involve meeting & greeting patients, keeping patients up-to-date with waiting time information, assisting patients with directions and taking them to other departments.“ failure. Surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital decided to try the heart pump after exhausting all other options, including a pacemaker and corrective heart surgery. The mechanical device, known as Heartmate 2 cost £100,000 and includes a Titanium pump that weighs just over 12 ounces and rotates nine times faster than an electric drill. It has been developed in America and works by being connected to the left ventricle of the heart, either directly or by a tube. It removes oxygen-rich blood which is pumped to the large artery, the Aorta, and then on to the rest of the body. An external, wearable system that includes a small controller and two batteries is attached by an external driveline, and is either worn under or on top of clothing. UHSM is one of only 12 centres across the world chosen to trial the device and the only one in the UK. Professor Nizar Yonan, Director of Transplant at UHSM, says that HeartMate 2 could be used to support patients and improve their quality of life while they wait for a donor heart to become available. “We kept Barry in hospital for a couple of days for observation and tests, but we are really pleased with his progress.” “We also need volunteers to join us at Withington Community Hospital to assist our patients and visitors on the Information Desk, based at the front entrance.” Rod Tattersall has been doing volunteer work since his retirement and says: “I’ve been a volunteer at Wythenshawe Hospital for just over a year now. I come in once a week and go on to the wards speaking to patients and doing surveys to find out what people think about their hospital and their treatment. It’s really quite fun and I enjoy being able to chat to people.” If you would like to give a few hours of your time to volunteer, please call 0161 291 5962. 4 Your Hospital www.<strong>uhsm</strong>.nhs.uk
LATEST NEWS Communities Minister talks about MediPark Staff at Wythenshawe Hospital were delighted to meet with Olympics Legacy and Growth Minister Bob Neill MP who was in Manchester for Team GB’s first football game at Old Trafford. He met with the Trust’s Chairman, Felicity Goodey and Chief Executive, Julian Hartley where they talked about the MediPark project in particular. In 2011 Manchester was confirmed as the location of one of the UK Government's Enterprise Zones. A significant part of the enterprise zone’s success is the growth and development of the Manchester MediPark project which will see the land between Manchester Airport and Wythenshawe redeveloped to house biomedical, technology & pharmaceutical companies. MediPark will be an internationally significant health and biotech commercial enterprise directly linked to UHSM and the leading edge research and innovation of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre. It will create a catalyst for growth within the Manchester City Region and make a significant contribution to the UK’s science & innovation agenda. Mr Neill told UHSM colleagues that he thought MediPark was “a very exciting project", and he was particularly struck with the way the various partners UHSM celebrates a year without MRSA after successful campaign from Manchester Airport, the City Council and the hospital had come together to work to create a unique critical mass. "My visit is timely, with the Olympics having just taken place. We are determined that the Games will leave a legacy and I can see how this very exciting project has the potential to drive the local economy and to leave a legacy of jobs, wealth and opportunities for the people of Manchester and beyond." Felicity Goodey said "We were delighted to update the Minister on MediPark as we believe this is a unique proposal and an important element in a partnership which will see new jobs, infrastructure and wealth creation not just for the South of Manchester but for the whole of the City and the North West." nurses, cleaners, porters and managers sing and dance their way into the record books with Britain's Biggest Hand Wash and versions of Michael Jackson's Beat it! and a re-work of the Village People hit YMCA into MRSA. Six thousand staff and volunteers at Wythenshawe Hospital were celebrating on Thursday August 02 after clocking up 365 days free from the superbug MRSA. It follows a hugely successful campaign to highlight the importance of clean hands in cutting the rate of hospital-associated infections, which has seen doctors, Chief Nurse Mandy Bailey admits the approach has been unusual but says the success of the campaign demonstrates that all staff, no matter who they are or what their role, are needed to help prevent infections. She explains: “Anxiety among the public regarding contracting infections in hospitals is understandably high, and while patient safety is always a priority for us, preventing infections now has a much higher awareness amongst staff than ever before following our campaign.” “To go a whole year without a single case of hospital-acquired MRSA is quite extraordinary given the challenge we were facing a couple of years ago. We have shown that as a team infection prevention really has been, and continues to be, everyone's responsibility.”
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