Focus Magazine - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Enhancing Patient CareA nationally recognised centre of excellence foreducation and applied health research■ Pioneering research taking place at our hospitals, which aimsto find new ways of diagnosing a pre-dementia conditioncalled mild cognitive impairment, has been selected toreceive a share of £22 million of government funding.■ Patients in Bradford are at the forefront of the IVAN eyeresearch trial which early results show could save the NHS£84 million a year if doctors switch to a cheaper drug to treata leading cause of blindness.■ The Head and Neck research team have become universallyrecognised after winning the International Research prizefor the CRUK LIHNCS trial at the 8 th International Conferenceon Head and Neck Cancer. The team has also presented 30abstracts at British, European or world meetings.■ Sue Williamson and Clive Nicholson from the Yorkshire StrokeResearch Network (based at the Foundation Trust) havebeen named as ‘team of the year’ by the UK Stroke ResearchNetwork.■ A Born in Bradford study revealed that eating crisps and chipsduring pregnancy can lead to major health problems forbabies. Babies exposed to high levels of acrylamide, commonlyfound in crisps and chips, can have a lower birth weight andsmaller heads, which leads to a higher risk of heart disease,diabetes and delayed development.■ Dr Dinesh Saralaya and his BIHR team continue to recruitto major commercial trials and have achieved a global ‘firstpatient’ into a trial which is testing the safety of a newbronchodilator in treating patients with COPD. This is thesecond global ‘first patient’ the team have recruited fromBradford in successive years.A specialist centrefor West Yorkshire■ Bradford Teaching Hospitals has been named asthe new national centre for the innovation ofwound management prevention and treatmentfor England. The new facility will form a centre ofexcellence for the research and development ofnew products for the benefit of patients and beled by renowned wound health expert, ProfessorPeter Vowden, who will act as the HTC’s clinicaldirector alongside nurse consultant, Kath Vowdenand their experienced medical and nursing team.Our plans for 2013/14■ A £513,000 ‘dementia-friendly’ face lift forthe public areas at St Luke’s Horton Wing.■ A revamped £2m neonatal unit.■ A new £2.3m catheter lab to supportpatients with heart problems.■ We became the first hospital in the worldto take delivery of the quickest and mostdetailed CT scanner which allows patientsto watch TV while they are being scanned.FOCUS August 2013 page 14Our Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13can be found on our websitewww.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk