Annual Report 2010-11 - Southern Health and Social Care Trust

southern health and social care trust
Providing safe high quality care
Official opening of
Gillis Memory Centre
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael
McBride officially opened Gillis Memory
Centre, the Trust’s dementia assessment unit
which cares for 24 patients, in December. Dr
McBride said: “About 19,000 people aged over
65 suffer from dementia in Northern Ireland
and with an ageing population these figures
are expected to rise to as many as 23,000 by
2017. Early diagnosis allows people to receive
treatment, care and support, to maintain their
independence and to plan for the future. That
is why the work of this centre is important. It
will make a significant difference to the lives of
many who suffer from dementia, as well as to
their families and carers in the Southern Trust
area.”
Staff now located at Mullinure Health and
Wellbeing Centre include the Domiciliary Care
Team, Integrated Care Team, Intermediate
Care Team and Specialist Memory Service
Team. There are also Specialist Primary Care
Services, including Cardiac Rehabilitation,
COPD, Continence, Diabetes, Enteral Feeding,
Epilepsy, Heart Failure, Older People Nurse
Specialists, Palliative Care, Parkinsons and
Tissue Viability. The Stroke Team for Armagh
and Dungannon is also based at the Centre.
Other services at Mullinure Health and Wellbeing
Centre include the day hospital with 15 places
for older people, rapid access clinic, community
dental service clinics, nurse-led Minor Injuries
Unit and GP Out of Hours Service.
Trust hosts
International Cardiology
Conference
In July the Trust hosted an international
conference for cardiac specialists.
Approximately 100 doctors and consultants
attended the event which included the latest
updates in structural, coronary, electrophysiology
(rhythm management) and paediatric heart
disease. In addition to an extensive panel of local
experts, international speakers also attended the
event.
Attendees also watched and interacted with
operators directly via live audiovisual link into
the cardiac catheterisation laboratory (cath
lab) at Craigavon Cardiac Centre as coronary
angioplasty and ablation procedures are taking
place.
Dr Ian Menown, Consultant Cardiologist and
Director of Invasive Cardiology for the Southern
Trust commented: “The Trust was delighted to
host this international update for the second time.
Our cardiology team at Craigavon has a strong
focus on education, training, clinical research
and the introduction of new technologies to
help our patients. A combination of lectures and
demonstrations of the latest techniques in the
cath lab setting ensured that Northern Ireland
cardiac specialists were kept well up to date with
the latest developments. We would like to thank
our guest lecturers, expert panelists, commercial
sponsors who helped to support the meeting and
particularly the patients who participated in the
live cases.”
Improving record keeping
The official opening of Gillis Memory Centre
Trust staff including ward managers, are leading
a record keeping improvement initiative within
the non-acute hospitals and mental health inpatient
wards. The programme aims to improve record
keeping in four areas – mandatory requirements,
admission and risk assessment, care planning
and discharge planning. This is a regional initiative
and results so far have indicated significant
improvements in the quality of record keeping.
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