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8 Electrics 11 New theatres and endoscopy The changing face of Lister hospital 2 Gynaecology 5 10 Cardiology New ward block 9 New emergency department 1 We are often asked “What’s happening? Where?”. So Grapevine thought a quick summary might help. New £16.4 million maternity and neonatal units: Opened fully on 19 October 2011, which is also when inpatient births and special care baby services transferred from the QEII. Features a co-located midwife and consultant-led service, obstetric theatres and day assessment unit. Also features a refurbished ward area. Ante and postnatal outpatient services are retained at QEII and Hertford County hospitals. Trust’s gynaecology service now on 2 £2.2 million ward 11A: 19 October also saw the Trust’s new combined inpatient gynaecology service open on the new ward 11A in the Lister’s tower block. Having opened on 30 September, when the Lister service moved on to the ward, it was joined by the QEII team and patients when they transferred over on 19 October. Features a co-located early pregnancy unit and gynaecology emergency unit. This is a temporary move until it goes to a new home on ward 7A. Lister Surgicentre now operational: 3 The new £47 million Lister Surgicentre, built and run by Clinicenta, started treating adult day case and short stay surgical cases in September, followed by all adult ophthalmology services – including an urgent eye clinic – in October. Clinicenta provides adult ophthalmology outpatient services from the QEII and Hertford County hospital sites. Children’s services remain with the Trust, with day case surgery taking place at the QEII and an urgent eye service at the Lister. £7.9 million Lister multi-storey 4 car park: A key enabler for the Our changing hospitals programme, the new car park opened to schedule on 2 September. It has sufficient spaces to cope with public parking demand right through to the planned final bringing together of all remaining inpatient and emergency services at the Lister by 2014. Hertfordshire cardiology centre: 5 The Trust’s new £4.5 million cardiology service located in Hertfordshire opened in early November. The two-floor building features two cardiac catheterisation laboratories on the ground floor, with all outpatient and multi-disciplinary team services based upstairs. The new centre represents a further stepping stone in achieving a 24/7 heart attack service – currently the Trust is authorised to offer a limited daytime hours service, Monday to Friday. 6 Grapevine
1 Maternity 7 Stroke unit 6 Inpatient coronary care 4 Car park 3 Surgicentre Inpatient coronary care services: 6 In August 2011, coronary care services were brought together at the Lister on ward 9B, which is now the main base for the Trust’s inpatient cardiology services. Stroke unit created: August 2011 also saw 7 the Trust create its first-ever full stroke unit on the Lister’s ward 6A, following the transfer of the acute rehabilitation service that up until then had been based on the QEII’s Bayford ward. Upgraded electrical infrastructure: 8 Since 2009, the Trust has been upgrading the Lister’s electrical infrastructure. This includes a new electrical ring main, the hospital’s own dedicated link to the national grid and new emergency back-up generators, the latter due for completion by end December 2011. Work has also just got under way on installing the Lister’s new combined heat and power plant, which should be ready before the end of 2012. New emergency department: 9 The £19.3 million full business case for the Trust’s new emergency department – a key element of phase four – has been approved by NHS Hertfordshire and NHS Midlands and East. It is now with the Department of Health and HM Treasury for final approval. Work on the new unit is expected to start in 2012, ready for opening in early 2014. New ward block 10 and New theatres and endoscopy unit: 11 These are the other two major projects within phase four. The full business case is being developed and is expected to be ready for approval by the end of 2011. The timetable sees both buildings being completed in early 2014. Emergency surgery changes: With the Surgicentre open, during October the Trust made changes to where emergency surgery happens. Since 3 October 2011, all of the Trust’s emergency general, gynaecology and trauma surgery now takes place at the Lister. At the same time, all of the Trust’s remaining day case surgery now happens at the QEII in Queens Wing, with the hospital’s Princes Wing now the Trust’s dedicated fractured hip surgery centre. Both of the latter will move back to the Lister once its final redevelopment (phase four) is completed by early 2014. Other phase four projects still to come: Critical care expansion. Wards 10A and 7A refurbishment Chemotherapy. Mortuary. Health records. Pathology – hot laboratory on site, with a solution linked to the regional pathology project. The Trust would like to say a big thank you to all those involved in the changes so far and in the future. Grapevine 7
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