July 2012 - Sydney Local Health District

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Message from the Chief Executive Dr Teresa Anderson Sydney Local Health District Chief Executive On 1 July, Sydney Local Health District celebrated its first birthday! It has been quite a year of new challenges and hard work. Thank you to all our staff who have made our District, its hospitals, all the clinical networks and our extensive services work so well for our patients. Especially while we are making really significant changes to our business at a local level as part of health reform in NSW. These reforms give us greater local responsibility for services, better networking and partnerships, improved transparency and oversight through the establishment of Boards. In the last 12 months, this Local Health District has worked tirelessly to achieve excellence in healthcare for all. The next step is Funding Reform. For the first time in NSW our Local Health District will be allocated funding using a combination of patient activity and block funding grants. Patient activity refers to funds paid to the LHD on the basis of the number of patients treated including Acute inpatients, Emergency Departments, Outpatients and Mental Health and Sub Acute patients. Block funding will resource us for things like teaching and research, community and population health. This new approach will help the LHD spend our healthcare dollars more openly, allowing the community to understand how their healthcare dollars are being spent, enabling district’s like ours to plan services more efficiently. Activity Based Funding does not mean there will be additional Federal health funding. Federal money allocated to healthcare in NSW will remain the same until mid 2014. The State budget continues to fund over 70 per cent of our budget. Funding Reform focuses on improving the way we manage the cost of providing care to our patients. It means we all need to work together to provide the most effective and innovative services possible. Sydney Local Health District has a proud history of innovation in healthcare delivery. The new funding arrangement will help provide us with further opportunities for developing strategies to improve the care we provide to patients. The funding reform does mean Sydney Local Health District staff will have to work together to implement the changes. We will continue drawing advice from a number of experts within our Hospitals and our consultants. Going forward, we will be hosting a series of information sessions within the District to help explain the new funding model to all staff and our community. Notification of these sessions will be placed on our website and intranet. Message from the Chair, District Board The Hon. Ron Phillips Sydney Local Health District Board Chairman Every single day in Sydney Local Health District, staff come together across all of our services to touch the lives of so many people in the community. These patients are at the centre of every decision made and will continue to be our number one priority over the coming year. July marks the beginning of the Sydney Local Health District’s second financial year in operation. As well as strengthening our Governance arrangements and putting plans in place to continue to nurture and grow our well established reputation for excellence, this District has witnessed the implementation of significant strategic goals. We finalised and launched our Strategic Plan in April, outlining the District’s vision to achieve excellence in healthcare for all. The plan reiterates our CORE values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment. We have launched a new website that aims to be inclusive and interactive to help inform the community about the District and its services. This website will continue to grow and evolve – I encourage you all to visit the site to see the latest news, videos and publications at www.slhd. nsw.gov.au. We have also set up new mechanisms for community feedback and for our staff to be recognised for their daily contribution. In the next financial year the Board will oversee the District’s implementation of the new funding reform model, the launch of the Research Plan in August as well as the Education and Training Plan, Sustainability Plan and Community Participation Framework later in 2012. We will begin planning for clinical services and continue to focus on how we can improve the way we deliver care to our community. From 1 July 2012, SLHD has been allocated funding under the new funding model using a combination of funding based on patient activity (Activity Based Funding), and block funding grants. For the first time this means how we fund our health services will be far more transparent. Clinicians, Boards, staff and communities will have greater understanding of how our hospitals are funded, where the money is spent and be able to participate in, and contribute to, decisions about the right resourcing of our system. The Budget presents the District with new challenges, but we are confident that the expertise of our staff and our relationships with partner organisations will see the organisation remain on track. The Budget will be made available on our website in the coming weeks. I’d like to congratulate staff on their achievements and look forward to working with you as we face the challenges the new financial year will bring. 2 HealthMatters Sydney – it’s your local health district
The art of healing Artist Simon Fieldhouse, (left), NSW Governor Marie Bashir and SLHD Director, Operations, Gary Miller. The architectural grandeur and social significance of some of SLHD’s historical buildings were featured last month at the opening of an exhibition of paintings by acclaimed painter Simon Woodhouse. NSW Governor, the Hon Marie Bashir, was special guest at the RPA event, where the series of pencil and ink paintings were unveiled. The series include paintings of RPA, Balmain, Canterbury and Concord Hospitals, the King George V building, the Dame Eadith Walker Hospital, the Sydney Dental Hospital, the historic gates of Thomas Walker Hospital (Rivendell) and the historic gates of Callan Park (the former Rozelle Hospital). SLHD Director, Operations, Gary Miller, said the paintings were a way of celebrating the social and architectural significance of the District’s facilities and its long history of excellence in healthcare delivery. “Not only are some of them outstanding examples of period architecture and design and considered to be of the highest heritage value, they have continuously served the health care needs of their communities for several decades, in some cases for more than 130 years,” Mr Miller said. “All will proudly continue to do so for many years to come.” Simon Fieldhouse is a prodigious Australian architectural artist based in Sydney, who has sketched virtually every historic Australian building of merit, as well as several great buildings in London, Paris, New York, India. To view photographs and a video of the opening, and to view the paintings with accompanying texts, go to http://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/media_ photo.html People Matter – NSW Public Sector employee survey In July 2012, the Public Service Commission will conduct a sector-wide employee survey in NSW. For the first time, all employees within the NSW public sector will have an opportunity to “have their say” on their perceptions on values and the workplace culture in their organisation. Information will be posted on the SLHD intranet. New uniform supplier announced NSW Health is introducing a new range of comfortable and functional uniforms for staff that will be standardised across the state. Following a comprehensive tender process, Parsons Logistiks has been selected as the provider. It is anticipated that frontline clinical staff will wear a ‘scrubs style’ uniform and, to assist in the final design of the style, HSS has recruited volunteers through the Uniform Implementation Project Steering Committee (PSC) and NSW Nurses Association to participate in a uniform wearer trial. Each volunteer will be allocated three different uniform styles in three different fabrics for 30 days. Trial participants will wear the uniforms while undertaking their everyday duties, and at the completion of the trial will complete an online survey. Survey results will be provided to the Uniform Working Party, which will document recommended changes to the styles and fabric and submit to the PSC for approval. This process should be completed by September. Staff should continue to order their current uniforms and can be confident there are adequate supplies available. For information about uniform ordering, sale items and stock availability, contact Bisley Corporate Customer Service on 1300 656 440. Click on the below link to take you to the NSW Health Uniform order forms: http://intranet.hss. health.nsw.gov.au/hss_uniforms HealthMatters 3
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