May 2012 - Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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10 Features May 2012 Jackie was a familiar face to generations of families across Bury after she started at Fairfield General Hospital 36 years ago . After her training she worked on the special care baby unit caring for the smallest and most poorly babies . She eventually became the manager and senior midwife on the unit . The unit opened in 1963 as the premature baby unit, changing its name to special care baby unit in the late 1970s, before becoming the neo natal unit in the 1970s . Just three managers have been at the helm since then, with Jackie taking charge 24 years ago . She said: “It has been an honour to be involved with families at such an important time in their lives . To be able to offer the support and care that they require when their babies are so vulnerable has been a privilege . “Technology has made a massive difference . The field of neonatalogy is one of the most rapidly advancing areas and there is a lot more sophisticated equipment now available . Babies are surviving that we wouldn’t have expected to survive 25 years ago . “Quite a lot of practices have changed over the years too . In the past, babies were on the unit a lot longer, as they used to have to stay until they weighed 5 .5lbs, regardless of their age or A conference for health professionals and members of the PCTs for Bury, Oldham, Manchester, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale was recently held at Fairfield . Aimed at those involved in bowel cancer screening, the event, which was hosted by Pennine Bowel Cancer Screening Centre was hailed a success . During the afternoon Dr Roger Prudham, clinical director for NHS BCSP - Pennine, delivered an interesting speech about the importance of the various streams reliant on making the bowel cancer screening programme a success, both inside the Trust and nationally . These include not just colonoscopic intervention, but also high quality imaging, hub activity, specialist screening practitioner clinics in the community, screening centre administration, public health, advertising and social marketing, all with the Quality Assurance agenda driving the high standards forward . Micro speeches were delivered by Dr Milan Sapundzieski, consultant radiologist, who has recently taken up an additional role as QA lead for radiology within the National Bowel Years of caring A sister who has helped to care for 7,200 babies is now embracing her new role at North Manchester General Hospital. Sister Jackie Blease has moved from Fairfield’s neonatal unit to North Manchester, as part of the changes around the Making it Better programme. Here she looks back on her time at Fairfield and the history of the unit. well being . Now they are discharged sooner and can be supported by the community team . “There is also more focus on family care . In those days, parents weren’t particularly encouraged to visit whereas now there is a greater emphasis on their involvement .” Around 10% of babies require support from neonatal teams and life on the unit can be tough . Jackie continued: “Some babies don’t survive and if it didn’t affect me, then I wouldn’t be in the job . The skills I have developed over the years and the experience helps me to understand and support the family, but it’s important to remember that every family is different .” Jackie is now the senior midwife on the neonatal unit at North Manchester . Transferring over on 5 March, along with 21 members of her team, she found that the staff at North Manchester were very welcoming to the Fairfield team . “The merging of two teams is obviously going to be challenging on both sides, but we are here to provide the same level of care and skill which we have always delivered to the mothers and babies of Bury . We have brought with us many years of experience, expertise and skills which we will now provide from our new base at North Manchester,” she added . Interesting event hosted on bowel screening programme Cancer Screening Programme . Also contributing were Dr Sadhna Bhatnagar, consultant histopathologist; Caroline Shockledge, public health and liz Heaton, North West BCSP QA coordinator . Members of the audience commented that it was an excellent interesting and informative event where a lot of knowledge was gained about the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme .
News - Trust stories CAU and UCC one year celebrations MORE than 5000 patients have been treated at Rochdale Infirmary’s clinical assessment unit since it opened last April . To help celebrate the successful first year in operation, the unit, along with the Urgent Care Centre held a first anniversary event (pictured bottom), which gave staff the opportunity to call into the unit and enjoy refreshments prepared by the team and take part in an Easter raffle . The 12-bedded short stay unit provides rapid patient assessment and treats patients who are referred directly from their GP, from the community or the Urgent Care Centre . Sister lou Harkness-Hudson, the nurse in charge of the Clinical Assessment Unit (CAU) at Rochdale, said: “The CAU is the only one of its kind and it has proved very successful because everyone in the team has had a hand in making it so . We are very proud of what we have achieved in our first year and are constantly thinking of ways to improve the service . The standards we have adopted to maintain our success are simple, we treat everyone with dignity and respect, care and compassion, knowledge and expediency, good manners and a smile . “We have had some excellent feedback from patients, visitors and relatives and have to date seen and treated over 5000 patients . We want to maintain the continued support that we receive from the public and help them to move on from the old Rochdale Infirmary and welcome and embrace the new . ”We have just set up a direct referral pathway for the heart specialist nurse and The Royal Oldham Hospital’s A&E department to refer patients to us via the triage line, and have extended the service to receive patients from the day surgery and community matrons departments .” Simon Roberts from Castleton (pictured right) was referred to the unit by his GP . Undergoing tests to check if he had got a DVT, Mr Roberts was impressed by the CAU . He said: “I’ve been to the unit a couple of times now . I think that it is brilliant . The staff make you feel very welcome and they ensure that you are as comfortable as possible whilst you wait to get your results . They offer a whole package of care and treat you as an individual . “It’s great that this service is offered at Rochdale by a very good team . They work well together and communicate exactly what is going on . This really builds your confidence as you know that you are being dealt with by a team of professionals .” Ninety-three-year-old Edith Bradbury from Delph (pictured below) was admitted to the unit for two days following a fall at her home . Excited at the prospect of the ward celebrating its first birthday, Edith said: “All the staff are hard workers . They work together and nothing is too much trouble for them . Everything from the clean ward, to the staff, to the meals, are very nice and I couldn’t wish for anything more .” Staff nurse Jodie Cutler is happy that the CAU service is still provided at Rochdale . She said: “Patients are able to attend their local hospital to get rapid assessment and treatment . We can get patient referrals from GPs to undertake investigations such as blood tests, chest x-rays and CT scans and then give the patients their results the same day . This cuts down on a lengthy stay in hospital and the speed at which they are seen, assessed and treated is a very positive thing for them .” POLICIES POLICIES Payment of travel expenses 11 THE Trust has recently agreed a new policy for the payment of travel expenses . The purpose of this policy is to ensure that staff are appropriately recompensed for travel, when in the course of Trust business as well as to ensure that proper control is exercised through the authorisation of the claims process . Some key points of the policy include: Making correct and complete claims within two months of inccuring the expense . The Trust has and will use the right to refuse backdated claim forms so managers and claimants must ensure that they are submitted in time . Staff whom the Trust requires to travel in the course of its business will be reimbursed at standard user mileage rates for all official journeys made . Regular user rates will only apply to existing employees who have been classified by their manager as being a regular car user previously . Since the implementation of Agenda for Change in October 2004, managers should not classify any member of staff as being a regular user . Any questions or concerns regarding the content of this policy should be referred to the appropriate divisional HR link or alternatively the payroll department .
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