2000 - 2001 - Central Manchester University Hospitals - NHS ...

Clinical Director: Dr J Walter (until 31.3.01)
Dr M Bone (from 1.4.01)
General Manager: Mrs J Shaw
Budget: £16.75 million
Staff: 512
2000/01 was a successful year with significant achievements.
These included:
● Developing new nursing roles with the aim of improving the
quality of services provided for children. We appointed:
Key developments in the Medical Directorate in 2000/01
included:
● Centralising the Paediatric Intensive Care services on to the
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital site, where 15 beds are
provided.
● Establishing a Critical Care Unit at Booth Hall Children’s
Hospital to ensure the safety of patients admitted to Booth
Hall.
● Opening a day unit for cancer patients at Royal Manchester
Children’s Hospital. This will reduce the incidence of cancer
patients having to be admitted to other wards in the hospital
and will ensure day patients can receive their chemotherapy
as required.
● Funding our third Macmillan Nurse.
● Developing a multidisciplinary nutritional care team at Booth
Hall Children’s Hospital. This team supports the
gastroenterology patients and their families.
● Developing home intravenous therapy for children with cystic
fibrosis. This reduces the number of hospital admissions for
children with this disease.
● Developing a managed clinical networking arrangement with
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for children requiring
interventional cardiology procedures. New recommendations
made by the British Paediatric Cardiac Association prevent
interventional cardiac catheterisation procedures being
performed at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Children
requiring these procedures are now admitted to Alder Hey
Children’s Hospital and treated there by their consultant from
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
New appointments:
Dr A Akobeng, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist
Dr E Estlin, Macmillan Cancer Relief Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Dr C Hall, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist.
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- A Nurse Consultant/Head of Nursing Practice. This post
spans the Paediatric Accident & Emergency Services at
both Manchester Children’s Hospitals and Manchester
Royal Infirmary.
- Two Surgical Nurse Practitioners to establish a preoperative
assessment service for surgical patients. Prior to
admission, children are assessed by the Nurse Practitioners
to reduce pressure on the junior doctors.
- A Practice Placement Nursing Officer with the aim of
supporting nursing students in their clinical placements.
This supporting role will assist in reducing the number of
students who drop out of the nurse training programme.
- A Practice Educator who supports newly recruited ‘D’ and
‘E’ grade nurses to develop individual portfolios.
- Ten full time Nurse Practitioner Teachers, who are ward or
unit based, to look specifically at continuing professional
development of registered nurses and student nurses.
- One of our Clinical Nurse Managers to lead the
development and implementation of the National Booked
Admissions programme. This involves agreeing prearranged
appointments for children for outpatient
attendances and elective surgical admissions at a date that
is convenient for the child and the family.
The Department of Clinical Practice went on line on lst
September 2000. This Department will support the
development and expansion of the clinical governance and
shared governance agendas.
A new drug error framework was introduced to manage drug
errors. This will support the investigation of drug errors with
the aim of learning from any mistakes.
The leadership programme ‘Thinking Leadership’ which we
developed in partnership with the University of Leeds, and
which our Continuing Education Department is licensed to
Annual Report 2000 ~ 2001
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