Focus Magazine - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

AchievementsPlansAwards and AccoladesBradford Teaching HospitalsNHS Foundation Trust‘Together, putting patients first’Our Headlines explains what we have achieved during 2012/13 as part of ourjourney to become the safest NHS organisation in the country.We’re really proud of our progress, which includes maintaining low mortality rates,keeping more patients free from harm, opening new facilities and introducing newequipment for our patients, visitors and staff.Enhancing Patient CareModern, fit for purpose facilities and equipment■ A new HeidelbergRetinal Spectralisscanner providesfaster assessmentsand more precisetreatments forhundreds of eyepatients sufferingfrom conditionssuch as wet agerelatedmacular degeneration (wAMD).■ We became only the second centre in the region toobtain a £2m da Vinci surgical robot to perform criticaloperations on our patients. Robotic keyhole surgeryhas many advantages over traditional forms of opensurgery, including reduced blood loss, less pain, reducedrisk of complications and faster recovery times.■ Our £1.2 million Birth Centre opened its doors in Novemberand recently celebrated its 1000 th birth. The seven-beddedbirth unit, for women with low-risk births, has two birthingpools and speciallydesigned ‘homefrom-home’rooms.Our adjacent 13-bedconsultant-led labourward also receiveda full refurbishmentas part of thedevelopment.■ Wards 23 and 29 atthe BRI, which werespecially re-designedto improve the hospitalenvironment for elderlypatients suffering fromdementia, won the2012 Building BetterHealthcare award forbest interior designproject.■ The BRI’s children’s assessment unit went from ‘drab tofab’ thanks to an artistic spring clean from local artists,schoolchildren andvolunteers after patientfeedback concludedthe area needed tobe brighter and more‘child-friendly’.FOCUS August 2013 page 11