Issue 46 - December 2012 - Southern Health and Social Care Trust

Excellent!
The High Dependency Unit implementation group led
by Dr Charlie McAllister and Dr Shane Moan were
overall winners of this year’s Trust Excellence Awards.
The team which features the first ‘Telepresence
Robot’ to be used in a UK hospital in the Unit at Daisy
Hill also won the category for Excellence in Service
Creativity and Innovation at the awards ceremony in
Craigavon Civic Centre.
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Pictured at the awards are: Chair, Roberta Brownlee, Acting Assistant Director of Acute Services – Surgery
and Elective Care, Trudy Reid, Health Minister Edwin Poots MLA, Acting Assistant Director of Acute Services
– Medicine and Unscheduled Care, Mary Burke, Clinical Lead for the High Dependency Unit, Dr Shane Moan,
Chief Executive, Mairead McAlinden and Non-Executive Director, Elizabeth Mahood.
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Quality Award 2012
Inside...
The Trust’s Domiciliary Care Service won the HSC
Quality Award 2012, beating stiff competition from
across Northern Ireland. The award was presented
by Minister for Health, Edwin Poots at the IHM annual
conference at the Titanic, Belfast. The Trust has
reformed the service to ensure it provides a quality
service fit to meets people’s needs. The service
supports 3,000 people every day with personal and
practical care to live independently in their own homes.
Pictured with the award are: Angela McVeigh, Director
of Older People & Primary Care, Pearl Kerr, Monitoring
Officer, Andrew McCormick, Permanent Secretary, Mel
Byrne, Domiciliary Care Manager, Melanie McClements,
Assistant Director of Older People. Front row Geraldine Rushe, Domiciliary Care Manager, Claudine
McComiskey, Head of Domiciliary Care and Valerie Magowan, Domiciliary Care Manager.
New Antenatal Clinics page 2 You’re Hired page 2 Recovery in Action page 5

Trust at a Glance
You’re Hired!
Better Cancer
Information
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A new three year Macmillan funded
project to support the development of better cancer
information within hospitals, GP surgeries and
community health venues began recently. Pictured
are Siobhan Edgar, C.A.B, Louise Magee, Bryson
Energy and Sharon Clarke, Trust Macmillan Cancer
Information Project Manager at an information event.
The Apprentice challenge in the Dungannon
store.
We have raised an impressive £10,000 for
the Southern Area Hospice through an
‘Apprentice’ style challenge where three
teams of Trust staff competed to raise
money and stock for hospice shops in
Newry, Banbridge and Dungannon for a day.
The challenge, organised as part of our
‘Trust in Community’ initiative,
saw the teams demonstrate
their entrepreneurialism
through a range of innovative
fundraising activities.
New Antenatal Clinics
Charity Food
Operation
Ruth Wright and Andrea Cushnahan, Staff Nurses
from Main Theatres, Craigavon Area Hospital
recently presented food hampers and meat vouchers
to several local charities. Donations were made
by medical and nursing staff from the Theatre and
Recovery Department.
New midwife-led antenatal clinics began in
Portadown Health and Care Centre. Previously
these clinics were held in Craigavon’s Antenatal
Outpatients Department. Midwives Sadie Porter
and Sharon Platt with Candace and Stuart Davison
at a recent antenatal appointment along with Chief
Executive Mairead McAlinden and Brenda Kelly.
Santa Fun Run
Liam Mulholland, Receptionist at John
Mitchell Place in Newry took part in
the Santa Fun Run in aid of PIPS
Newry & Mourne and the Newry
& Mourne Gateway Club. Liam
was awarded the prize of best
dressed Santa!
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Trust at a Glance
Insider View of Radiography
On World Radiography Day, 8 November, radiography staff
hosted an Open Day in Craigavon, South Tyrone and Daisy Hill
Hospitals to raise awareness of their services amongst patients
and visitors. Radiography staff Julie McBride and Bronagh
McCauley with Chief Executive, Mairead McAlinden at the
Craigavon Open Day.
Walk Ten, Belfast
Well done to the staff from the Acute and Mental
Health Booking centres at Craigavon Area Hospital
who took part in the Walk Ten, Belfast and raised a
total of £1,611.50 for Marie Curie.
World Hospice and
Palliative Care Day
On 12 October, Palliative Care staff held
Information Roadshows throughout Trust facilities
to raise awareness and to improve staff’s
understanding of palliative and end of life care.
Hospice
Coffee
Morning
The Acute Information
Team would like to
thank all the staff who
supported their coffee
morning in aid of
Southern Area Hospice.
The team presented a
grand total of £540 to
Tracey Muldoon from the
Hospice (front centre).
Visit from Chief
Nursing Officer
Acting Chief Nursing Officer, Mrs McLernon met
with staff from specialist primary care services and
heard about the work of the community palliative
care team, multi-disciplinary specialist diabetes
team and the implementation of insulin pumps for
patients with type 1 diabetes.
Other teams including the fracture liaison nurse
specialist, older peoples nurse specialists, heart
failure and COPD teams also provided information
on their services as well as a demonstration on
remote tele-health monitoring.
Staff at Daisy Hill Hospital Roadshow
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Success & Achievements
Craigavon’s Maternity
Team Delivers MUM
Award
The maternity team at Craigavon
Area Hospital recently won the MUM
(Maternity Unit Miracles) award for the
Northern Ireland region at an event held
in London’s Rainforest Café. Janice McCarron is
very appreciative of the care and treatment she and
baby Alice received in Craigavon which led her to
nominate the team of Obstetricians, Anaesthetists,
Midwives, Neonatal staff and others for a MUM
award to recognise their outstanding work. Alice and
her mum joined the award winning maternity team at
the celebrity-filled event in London on 6 November.
Lean Workshop
“...
the
award winning
maternity
team...”
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L to R Midwife Sinead Quinn, Midwife Catherine
Dromey, Anaesthetist Karen Goddard, Midwife Valerie
Edgar, Janice and her daughter Emily, Una Toland
sister NNU, Patricia McStay Head of midwifery &
Gynaecology, Consultant obstetrician Beverley
Adams, Sister Margaret Gilpin.
Congratulations to the Cancer Specialist Nurses,
Haemovigilance Team, Operational Support
Leads and the Administration Team who have
successfully completed the Lean Practitioner
Training Programme. To date, a total of 574
staff have completed individual Lean e-learning
modules.
The programme is designed to support staff to feel
more confident and ambitious in their approach
to change, building capacity and capability and
ultimately improving the patient experience as well
as increased quality and added value. For more
information contact: Jacqueline Morton Head of
Continuous Improvement on 028 3861 4157.
NIPEC success
Trust staff receiving certificates at the Lean
Practitioner Workshop
Post-
Graduate
Success
Dawn Ferguson (2nd from right) and Carol McCorry
(3rd from right) from the Practice Education Team
presented an abstract at the Northern Ireland
Practice Education Council 10th anniversary
conference and were placed runner up in the
‘practice’ category.
Epilepsy Nurse
Specialist Sandra
Wylie has completed
a Professional
Diploma in Epilepsy
at Leeds Metropolitan
University.
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Success & Achievements
Experienced Manager of the Year
Alexis Davidson, Head of Diagnostic
Services, received a joint runner up
prize in the category of Experienced
Manager of the Year Award. Alexis
has over 30 years of experience in
radiography. In her current role she
led the implementation of a new shift
system within radiography and an
extension to the working day, so that
patients are provided with the best
possible 24/7 service.
Professor Peter
McBride, Chief
Executive of Niamh;
Joint runner up Alexis
Davidson, Head of
Diagnostic Services,
Southern Trust and
Hilary McConnell,
Organisation and
Workforce Development
Manager, South Eastern
Trust along with Health
Minister, Edwin Poots.
Recovery in Action film
Karl Hughes, Project Manager, Mental Health
Forum; Ingrid Stewart, Mental Health Wellbeing
& Inclusion Specialist, Southern Trust; and Gordon
Higham, Advocacy Manager, Northern Ireland
Association for Mental Health, at the launch of the
‘Recovery In Action: living with a mental illness’ film
in Iveagh Movie Studios, Banbridge.
Wear It Pink Breast
Cancer Campaign
The Bannvale House coffee morning fundraiser
organised by Tracy Griffin was a great success.
Supported by colleagues in Mental Health, Learning
Disability and Older People and Primary Care, the
event raised £137.
Nurse donates Kidney to Husband
Bernie Fitzsimmons, Surgical Nurse at Daisy Hill
Hospital is encouraging people to sign up to the
donor register after she successfully donated a
kidney to her husband Ian. Bernie who is now
back at work says: “Living without a kidney has
made no difference to my life apart from the need
to attend an annual check-up. To find that I was
a match was a great relief and thankfully we are
no longer living with the stress of waiting and
hoping for a donor. I would definitely do it again if
I could.”
To join the NHS Organ Donor Register log on to
www.organdonation.nhs.uk or call 1300123 123.
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Meet the Trust’s
BSTP Change Lead, Valerie Clarke
What is your role
To ensure that staff are prepared for the
changes taking place under the Business
Services Transformation Programme
(BSTP). This major modernisation of
corporate services throughout the HSC
regionally will affect every member of staff.
The introduction of new automated Finance
and Human Resources systems means that we will
be using new web based systems to complete many
routine tasks like ordering goods, applying for leave
and claiming travel.
What is the biggest challenge in your
job
The Project Board has been preparing for this
mammoth task for months. We need to ensure that
systems are in place, staff understand what they
need to do, are trained and have access to PCs to be
ready for ‘go live.’
What gives you the most job
satisfaction To know that I am part of one of the
biggest changes in health and social care in years.
We will be going live with Finance Systems in early
2013, followed by Human Resources and Payroll in
Summer/Autumn 2013. Hopefully it will be satisfying
when staff see the advantages e.g. reduction of
manual systems; ability to
Help Me to Help You
“To
ensure
that staff are
prepared...”
Gemma Malone has just completed six months with the
Integrated Physical Disability Team through the Trust’s Disability
Action Plan Placement Scheme which helps people with a
disability back into a workplace setting.
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immediately
update personal
information; and managers should benefit from
immediate access to quality information.
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Get to know your colleague in 30
seconds!
Favourite Hobby – Floral art
Favourite Song – Skyfall by Adele
Night in or out – Saturday evening watching
Strictly Come Dancing
Favourite Film – Best Exotic Hotel Marigold
How would you like to be remembered Someone
who wants to get the best out of people.
Describe yourself in 3 words - Logical, levelheaded
and lovely!
Ideal holiday – Around the World in 80 days
What can you not live without – My diary
What was the last book you read - What colour is
your parachute
Ideal dinner guest Richard Haslem, floral designer
and author
“I supported the team by answering telephone calls, staffi ng the
reception area and meeting visitors. I drafted minutes for staff,
typed letters and organised photocopying. I also maintained
the telephone contacts book and completed spread sheets
on community access activity. Finding out about the work of
Gemma Malone and Angela Hawkins
the Physical Disability Team was really interesting and there
was never a dull moment. Everyone was so understanding and
I really enjoyed my time at Manse View in Newry. I’m interested in volunteering with people who have
physical disabilities as a result of my contact/experience with the team.”
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Transforming Business Services
A ‘Change Network’ has been set up to help
implement the Business Services Transformation
Project (BSTP). Each Directorate has a representative
on the Network to update you on progress and ensure
we are ready for the introduction of new web based
finance systems in December followed by Human
Resources in Spring.
Heather Ellis, Head of Education,
Learning and Development is
leading the Training Strategy to
minimise service disruption and
prepare staff for this major change.
Latest details on training on the
new Finance and HR systems are
on the home page of the intranet under Business
Services Transformation Project.
Richard O’Grady is ensuring that
we have the hardware, software
and skills so that we are ready
for the changes under BSTP. He
is making sure that all staff have
the IT skills needed and PCs are
available for those who do not
have individual Desktops. These will be allocated
in central locations to allow staff open access.
Charity of the Year!
The Trust Change Network
Voting will begin in the New
with Chief Executive Mairead
Year McAlinden for the Trust Charity of
the Year 2013. This is the first
year of what we hope will be an
annual initiative under Trust in
Community. Nominations were submitted early this
month and the top five that meet our criteria will
go forward for staff to vote for the charity that they
feel we should support as an organisation.
Energy Saving Tips...
A PC monitor left switched on overnight
wastes enough energy to laser print 800
A4 pages.
Child Protection
The Child Protection Nurse Specialist Team offers an
open door to all Registered Nurses and Midwives,
advising and supporting on safeguarding issues.
The team helps nursing staff to identify children and
families in need of support or protection; advises on
how to help families to cope with difficulties affecting
safety and wellbeing; and signposts to appropriate
services. The Nursing Policy and Procedures for
Safeguarding Children and Young People is available
on the intranet under Governance: Nursing and
Midwifery. For further information contact: Anne
McNally, Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
Tel: 028 3834 1431 or Emily Roberts Acting Named
Nurse for Safeguarding Children Tel: 028 3741 2082.
A typical computer (including monitor)
left on for 24 hours can use £60 or more
of energy a year. Turning off at night and
weekends will reduce the bill to £15 a year.
Turn your monitor off if you are away
for more than a few minutes. Left on all
the time, a monitor will cost on average
£40 a year to run.
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The Trust Child Protection Nurse Specialist Team.

Meet the Trust’s
Practice Education Team
Who is in the Team
A Practice Education Coordinator, seven
Practice Education Facilitators and a
secretary work across every Service
Directorate. The team is made up of
nurses and midwives who are part
of the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery
Governance Team and they report to Lynn n
Fee, Assistant Director Nursing Workforce
Development & Training.
Role of the Team
The team’s key role is to implement the regulatory
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards to
support learning and assessment in practice (2008).
The team does this by providing professional support
and facilitation to mentors, practice teachers, ward
sisters, charge nurses and team leaders. The team
also participates in key Directorate workstreams
and works in partnership with Approved Education
Institutions, other Trusts and the DHSSPSNI.
“...
webbased
mentor
register...”
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clinical supervision. In addition, the team
has successfully introduced a web-based
mentor register (Easy Information
Management System) to provide
assurance to the NMC.
Challenges
The implementation of the new under
graduate nursing curriculum from September
2012 and the support needed for mentors will
be the focus in the coming months. The team
recognises the challenge of increasing awareness
of the vital contribution that mentors fulfil when
assessing student nurses to meet the regulatory
requirements. The Team is mindful of the imminent
changes in practice as a result of the implementation
of Transforming Your Care and the support it will
provide to clinical colleagues and mentors.
Achievements
Achievements include increasing the number of
mentors and sign off mentors trained; increasing
the support provided to ward sisters, charge nurses
and team leaders; and the implementation of clear
structures, systems and processes to support
and develop mentors. This includes developing
the knowledge and skills of mentors regarding
all aspects of the mentorship role through a wide
range of teaching strategies, including the use of
Energy Saving Tips...
Practice Education Team staff: (standing) Jacqueline
Clarke, Maggie Bennett, Katherine Martin, Carol
McCorry (front row) Emma Kane, Dawn Ferguson,
Dympna Magill, Sharon Burnside and Gerry Guy
A photocopier left on overnight wastes
enough energy to make 5,300 A4 copies.
Insulating your loft can save you
between £60-70 per year on your heating
bills
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As we are now in the
middle of our busy
winter season and
want to do everything
we can to reduce
pressure on services,
we are encouraging
staff, particularly those
with direct patient
or client contact to
have their flu jab. We
have a duty to protect
Flu Fighters - Chief
Executive Mairead
McAlinden with Midwives
Sharon Platt and Sadie
Porter
our patients by protecting ourselves. Staff can
make an appointment with the Occupational
Health Department or the team will go out to your
workplace for groups of 10 or more. Tel: 028 3741
2473 or 028 3861 2616.
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