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Artist’s impression of what the new BRI entrance might look like
NEW WARD BLOCK DECISION By Keir Shillaker
The joint bid of Children’s Services and
Medicine has emerged as the preferred
option for the new £28 million ward
block being planned for the BRI.
The public was asked to join staff, patients
and governors of the Foundation Trust
in deciding whether cancer services or
children’s services should be housed there.
As a result of the consultation, the ward
block panel recommendation to the Board
of Directors that the children’s facility /
Medical Admissions Unit should be the
preferred option was accepted. If the build
goes ahead, existing accommodation for
cancer services will be refurbished.
The children’s unit in the new block would
replace wards 16 and 17. The new block will
also house a redeveloped entrance.
The development
of a new Medical
Assessment Unit will
deliver improved single
sex accommodation,
better patient flow from
A&E and the ability to
deliver more outpatient
assessment clinics.
For Children’s Services,
the development
will improve High
Dependency Care and
patient safety, provide
better accommodation
for children and their parents/carers and
ensure the service is well placed to cope
with an increasing childhood population
over the coming years.
Artist’s impression of a children’s
ward side room
No decision will be made regarding
construction until final approval at the
Board of Directors in April 2012.
TELEWOUND MANAGEMENT
IN BRADFORD
Nurse consultant, Kath Vowden,
is leading a team of researchers
looking at improving wound
care for patients in nursing homes. The
project, funded in part by Regional
Innovation Funding from Yorkshire and
Humberside Strategic Health Authority,
brings together technology companies,
O2 Health, Longhand Data and Smartcare
ADL, and health care teams in Bradford
and Sheffield along with patients and staff
from 30 nursing homes in the two cities.
The trial is designed to look at potential
cost savings and improvements in patient
outcomes that could be derived from the
introduction of new technology. Patients
in half the homes will receive their normal
care while those in the remaining nursing
homes will see nurses record symptoms
and signs using digital pens and paper
technology developed by Longhand Data
and the Wound Healing Unit in Bradford.
This will be linked to digital pictures of
wounds taken using a mobile phone with
specially developed software which allows
the images to be upload and securely
stored on an NHS server. These images
and the uploaded patient details will
be reviewed by Nurse Consultants Kath
Vowden in Bradford and Brenda King in
Sheffield, who will then phone or email
their counterparts in the nursing homes
with instructions for treatment.
After months of careful preparation the
project has just gone live with Research
Nurse Wendy Jepson visiting the local
nursing homes to provide training on the
use of both the camera phone and digital
pen technology. Kath presented details of
the study both locally and nationally, most
recently at the Healthcare Innovations
Expo in London where the project
attracted widespread interest.
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