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Playlist<br />
for Life<br />
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Nurse &<br />
Midwife of<br />
the Year<br />
RESEARCH<br />
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Research<br />
development<br />
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Car parking changes<br />
<strong>SPRING</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
NEWS!<br />
<strong>NUH</strong><br />
rated<br />
good by CQC.<br />
Turn to pages 8, 9, 10 and 11<br />
for the full story.<br />
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Foreword<br />
Peter Homa,<br />
Chief Executive<br />
The future<br />
is bright<br />
The last few months have<br />
seen two of the most<br />
significant developments of<br />
the last decade for <strong>NUH</strong>.<br />
Our ‘good’ CQC rating is an<br />
excellent result and one that gives<br />
our patients and local community<br />
confidence in the standard of<br />
care they can expect to receive at<br />
our hospitals. Our staff received<br />
the recognition they deserve for<br />
their unwaivering commitment to<br />
doing the best job for patients.<br />
The second announcement<br />
was <strong>NUH</strong> being named the<br />
preferred partner to merge<br />
with Sherwood Forest Hospitals<br />
NHS Foundation Trust (SFH),<br />
marking an important milestone<br />
for the future of healthcare for<br />
Nottinghamshire patients. Our<br />
ambition is a clear one, which is<br />
to ensure the new organisation is<br />
at least consistently CQC ‘good’,<br />
and longer-term, ‘outstanding’,<br />
because our patients deserve<br />
nothing less.<br />
This year we celebrate 10 years<br />
of <strong>NUH</strong> (see page 4). As we<br />
look ahead, the future is bright.<br />
I look forward to working more<br />
closely with our colleagues at SFH<br />
to develop services that deliver<br />
consistently high standards of<br />
care and where staff can thrive.<br />
A new era!<br />
<strong>NUH</strong>’s proposed merger with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (SFH)<br />
will make the new organisation one of the biggest in the country.<br />
Arrangements for what needs to<br />
be done to facilitate the proposed<br />
merger and how <strong>NUH</strong> and SFH Trust<br />
Boards will oversee the process<br />
are being finalised following the<br />
announcement of <strong>NUH</strong> as the<br />
preferred partner.<br />
We hope the unified Trust will be created<br />
in <strong>2016</strong>/17, though the precise timing will<br />
be influenced by external factors, notably<br />
necessary approvals from the Competition<br />
and Markets Authority and our Regulators.<br />
We do not envisage any early<br />
reconfigurations of clinical services.<br />
Longer-term services may change in scope<br />
and location, as they would whether or<br />
not there was a merger. We will engage<br />
patients and commissioners fulsomely<br />
in such proposals should any significant<br />
changes be considered in the future.<br />
Peter Homa, <strong>NUH</strong> Chief Executive, said:<br />
“This is a unique opportunity to further<br />
improve patient care and services and<br />
help achieve sustainably high quality<br />
care and services for patients across<br />
Nottinghamshire.<br />
“Bringing together the best of the<br />
expertise from across the East Midlands<br />
creates better career and development<br />
prospects for staff, along with enhanced<br />
opportunities for teaching and research.<br />
“From April, more <strong>NUH</strong> staff will be visible<br />
on-the-ground at SFH to further embed<br />
and accelerate recent improvements in the<br />
areas highlighted by the CQC. SFH have<br />
already made progress in many of these<br />
domains.<br />
“<strong>NUH</strong> has a stable, experienced senior<br />
leadership team with a strong track<br />
record of delivering excellent care and<br />
improving performance across a number<br />
of areas. We seek to build on longstanding<br />
relationships with SFH and bring<br />
together the best of both Trusts in a new<br />
organisation.”<br />
We are developing a dedicated merger<br />
website for patients, partners and staff<br />
to access the latest information. In the<br />
meantime, you can send your questions to:<br />
nuhcommunications@nuh.nhs.uk or<br />
LTP@nuh.nhs.uk.<br />
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SpotlightOn<br />
CaseStudy<br />
Playlist<br />
for<br />
life<br />
Anyone who has a relative suffering with Alzheimer’s disease<br />
knows the confusion and distress it brings into people’s lives.<br />
When 84-year-old Bill* was diagnosed<br />
with the disease his family hoped to<br />
be able to look after him at home, but<br />
he became increasingly agitated and<br />
confused and needed full time care in<br />
a nursing home.<br />
At times no one could get through to<br />
him or calm him down – until his wife<br />
and daughter volunteered to take part<br />
in the Playlist for Life scheme when Bill<br />
was admitted to QMC.<br />
Bill’s daughter created a playlist for Bill,<br />
finding music from different points in<br />
Bill’s life.<br />
When she and Bill’s wife approached<br />
him with the headphones they were<br />
concerned that he would not tolerate<br />
them. He had been tearing out his<br />
hearing aids and throwing off his bed<br />
clothes. But when he heard the music<br />
he immediately became calmer and<br />
less agitated.<br />
“This is the calmest we have seen him<br />
in weeks,” his wife said, when Bill<br />
began clicking his fingers to the music.<br />
“He looks like the old Bill.”<br />
After the headphones were removed<br />
Bill said “Nice music” and even spoke<br />
to the occupational therapist about<br />
where she was from. His wife said:<br />
“That’s the first two-way conversation<br />
he’s had in weeks.”<br />
*not his real name<br />
At <strong>NUH</strong> we have wards dedicated to providing<br />
healthcare for older people and treat many<br />
patients who experience profound agitation and<br />
confusion while they are in our care.<br />
Recently our therapists tested an innovative approach<br />
to treating these patients using personalised music to<br />
trigger memories and make them feel more comfortable.<br />
Research suggests the use of music with people with<br />
dementia aids memory function, increases social<br />
interaction and improves communication.<br />
The Playlist for Life scheme, which was first developed in<br />
Scotland, gives patients access to personalised music on<br />
iPods.<br />
The first ward trial involving 12 patients has delivered<br />
outstanding benefits. <strong>NUH</strong> Occupational Therapist Rachel<br />
Prescott, who led the project, said: “Playlist for Life is<br />
truly patient-centred and is a simple intervention that<br />
we can offer our patients. We have had many positive<br />
responses from both patients and carers. For the patients<br />
this has not only provided something meaningful for<br />
them to engage in during<br />
their stay with us, it also<br />
offers comfort when they<br />
are disorientated and a<br />
distraction from the noise<br />
and bustle of a busy ward.”<br />
We are now looking to roll<br />
out the project across all our<br />
wards that care for older<br />
people.<br />
Contributed...<br />
£43,000 +<br />
Towards Playlist For Life<br />
Twiddle muffs!<br />
Patients with dementia are being<br />
kept calm on Ward C5 at QMC<br />
thanks to knitted twiddle muffs.<br />
Twiddle muffs are knitted bands with<br />
added buttons, ribbons and fabrics.<br />
They provide a sensory experience to<br />
help comfort and calm patients giving<br />
them something to focus on.<br />
Denise Yates, a Healthcare Assistant on<br />
C5, said: “For patients with dementia<br />
everything around them can be<br />
confusing. The twiddle muff makes such<br />
a difference to the patient experience.<br />
I gave one to a patient and her whole<br />
face changed, she relaxed, she smiled,<br />
she went to sleep cuddling it.”<br />
Patients keep their twiddle muffs so<br />
donations are always welcome to ensure<br />
a constant supply.<br />
If you would like to knit a twiddle muff<br />
or donate knitting materials please get<br />
in touch with the ward on<br />
0115 9249924 ext 69005.
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SpotlightOn<br />
We're celebrating<br />
10 years of <strong>NUH</strong><br />
Email nuhcommunications@nuh.nhs.uk to order your free<br />
copy of our promotional DVD and/or promotional booklet<br />
charting highlights of <strong>NUH</strong> life in our first decade<br />
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FeatureStory<br />
I just felt this pain<br />
like I’d never felt<br />
before. I couldn’t<br />
move my arm at all.<br />
Spare rib<br />
surgery is<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> first<br />
A teenager is now pain-free after<br />
a groundbreaking operation to<br />
remove a 'spare rib' that she was<br />
born with.<br />
Charlie Wright, 15, lived with the extra<br />
rib, near her collar bone for many years<br />
without it causing any problems, after<br />
being diagnosed with it when she was a<br />
young child. The only tell-tale sign was a<br />
small, bony lump near her neck.<br />
But in December 2014, as she pushed<br />
herself up out of her bed, she felt intense<br />
pain surge through her body which would<br />
not go away.<br />
Charlie said: “I just felt this pain like I’d<br />
never felt before. I couldn’t move my arm<br />
at all.”<br />
Her mum Sammy said: “She was just<br />
screaming and shouting. She was in<br />
absolute agony. It was so sudden.”<br />
At first Charlie and her parents did not<br />
link it to the extra rib, but after x-rays<br />
and scans were carried out it was clear it<br />
was the cause. The tests revealed a rare<br />
complication; the extra rib had a hinge-like<br />
joint in it which was trapping blood vessels<br />
and nerves, causing severe pain.<br />
It is a condition that is sometimes seen<br />
in much older patients, but doctors had<br />
never seen it in someone of Charlie’s age.<br />
William Tennant, Consultant Vascular<br />
Surgeon based at QMC, explained:<br />
“Charlie was born with an extra rib, called<br />
a ‘cervical rib’. Lots of people have them,<br />
but not as big as Charlie’s.<br />
“The extra rib was joined on to an<br />
abnormal lump of bone on her first (top)<br />
rib, and there was a joint in the middle.<br />
“The major nerves leading to Charlie's left<br />
arm, and the artery supplying it with blood<br />
were being squeezed very severely by the<br />
extra rib, which, I think, had bent at its<br />
joint when she pushed herself up from bed<br />
causing sudden onset of severe pain and<br />
numbness.”<br />
For the next three months Charlie required<br />
strong painkillers and was regularly in<br />
and out of hospital as doctors monitored<br />
the extra rib and determined the best<br />
treatment option.<br />
In March 2015, the day before her 15 th<br />
birthday she underwent the operation. It<br />
was a nerve-wracking time for Charlie and<br />
her parents.<br />
Charlie said: “I didn’t want an operation<br />
and I was really scared about it because<br />
I am terrified of needles. I don’t really<br />
remember much about what happened,<br />
but I know that the first thing I did when<br />
I came round was take a selfie and put it<br />
on Snapchat! I wanted to show everyone<br />
what I’d been through.”<br />
Sammy said: “We were in the recovery<br />
area and she kept asking me and the nurse<br />
where her phone was and we wondered<br />
what she was talking about. When we<br />
gave it to her she lifted her arm straight<br />
up in the air, something she wouldn’t have<br />
been able to do before, and took a selfie!<br />
“I think the painkillers she was on<br />
probably helped, but it was quite amazing<br />
to see.”<br />
Mr Tennant said the operation was<br />
extremely tricky, but a great success: “We<br />
had to very carefully move the blood<br />
vessels and nerves out of the way to find<br />
the extra rib. Even the smallest slip could<br />
have left Charlie paralysed in that arm, or<br />
with reduced circulation.<br />
“Once that was done, we cut the rib away<br />
with its joint and the lump of bone on her<br />
first rib. When the rib was removed, all<br />
of the nerves and blood vessels relaxed<br />
back into their normal place without any<br />
pressure.”<br />
Charlie is now pain-free with no ongoing<br />
symptoms.<br />
She said: “When I look back I can’t really<br />
believe everything that happened, it<br />
doesn’t feel real. Everyone who looked<br />
after me at the hospital was great. I spent<br />
so much time here and everyone from the<br />
surgeons to the nurses on the wards really<br />
looked after me.”<br />
Sammy said: “Me and Charlie’s dad can’t<br />
thank the team enough for what they’ve<br />
done.”
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SpotlightOn<br />
We’ve had a record<br />
response for this year’s<br />
Nurse and Midwife of the<br />
Year Awards with over<br />
150 nominations.<br />
Mandie Sunderland, <strong>NUH</strong> Chief Nurse<br />
said: “This competition is a highlight of<br />
the nursing and midwifery calendar and<br />
a great way to remind ourselves and our<br />
patients what a wonderful, dedicated<br />
team we have.<br />
“I’m particularly pleased that we have<br />
been able to expand this year’s awards<br />
to recognise the invaluable contributions<br />
of our international staff, students and<br />
Healthcare Assistants.”<br />
There are seven categories in this year’s<br />
awards, plus a special one-off award to<br />
recognise 10 years of caring (in the year<br />
we celebrate a decade of <strong>NUH</strong>):<br />
• Adult Nurse of the Year<br />
• Children’s Nurse of the Year<br />
• Midwife of the Year<br />
• Student Nurse or Midwife of the Year<br />
• International Nurse or Midwife of the<br />
Year<br />
• Healthcare Assistant of the Year<br />
• Nurse or Midwife Leader of the Year<br />
• 10 Years of Caring – a special award<br />
for an individual, chosen by the Chief<br />
Nurse, to mark 10 years of dedication<br />
and exceptional patient care<br />
The awards are run in partnership with the<br />
Nottingham Post and Nottingham express<br />
Transit (NET), who will name a tram after<br />
the overall winner.<br />
Mike Sassi, Nottingham Post Editor, said:<br />
“We love Nurse and Midwife of the Year.<br />
It’s a tremendous event – and a fantastic<br />
evening. The Post is very proud, on behalf<br />
of our readers and their patients, to pay<br />
tribute to <strong>NUH</strong> nurses and midwives. They<br />
deserve our thanks. But they also deserve<br />
the headline billing and very public pat<br />
on the back that these awards rightly give<br />
them.”<br />
Jamie Swift, NET’s Head of Marketing,<br />
said: “This award scheme is all about<br />
recognising the commitment and<br />
talent within Nottingham’s nursing and<br />
midwifery community.<br />
“Our links to <strong>NUH</strong> and, in particular QMC<br />
with its dedicated tram stop are important.<br />
We are happy to have forged such a<br />
strong association with this initiative. The<br />
city’s hospitals and their highly dedicated<br />
nurses and midwives are a vital part of our<br />
community.”<br />
Judges met at the end of March to decide<br />
the shortlisted candidates in each of the<br />
categories voted for by the public and you<br />
can see the full shortlist at www.nuh.nhs.uk<br />
Voting closes on 29 April and winners are<br />
announced on 19 May.<br />
Here are a selection of nominees, and<br />
what it meant to them.<br />
RACHEL GREGORY<br />
Rachel Gregory, Long-Term Ventilation<br />
Nurse Specialist at QMC's Nottingham<br />
Children’s Hospital, was nominated for<br />
the Children’s Nurse of the Year by the<br />
family of one of her patients.<br />
Julie Potter-Tate, whose son is treated<br />
by Rachel and her team, said: “She has<br />
gone above and beyond and without<br />
her I don’t know where I’d be.”<br />
Rachel said: “You feel a bit humbled<br />
really – it’s nice to have the boost and<br />
get recognition for the good things<br />
you do and the care you give.”<br />
Nominated<br />
Children's Nurse of the Year<br />
JOSH DOWNEY<br />
Josh Downey, Midwife on Bonington<br />
Ward at City, was nominated for a<br />
second time in three years. Diane<br />
Shepherd, of Arnold, nominated him<br />
after he looked after her during a<br />
stay on the ward after suffering with<br />
abdominal pains during pregnancy.<br />
She said: “Josh has restored my faith<br />
in hospitals and proves that there<br />
are brilliant, caring and considerate<br />
midwives around.”<br />
Josh said: “It’s lovely to be nominated.<br />
Pregnancy is fascinating and it’s nice<br />
to care for women and their families. I<br />
have great support from the team on<br />
the ward. They are a great team.”<br />
HOLLY FOWLER<br />
Holly Fowler, Staff Nurse on C51,<br />
QMC, was nominated for the Adult<br />
Nurse of the Year by colleague Hayley<br />
Ford. Hayley, a student nurse, said:<br />
“Holly is my mentor and is very<br />
knowledgeable and always happy to<br />
answer questions about a patient’s<br />
care. She treats every patient with care<br />
and respect.”<br />
Holly said she was delighted, and<br />
surprised, to be nominated.<br />
Nominated<br />
Midwife of the Year<br />
Nominated<br />
Healthcare Assistant of the Year<br />
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JENNY CONIBEAR<br />
Jenny Conibear, a student nurse, is<br />
currently on placement on B48, QMC,<br />
and was nominated by the family of<br />
a patient who said: “She treated my<br />
mother-in-law with great kindness and<br />
patience during a very difficult time.<br />
On all of our visits she was cheerful<br />
and upbeat.”<br />
Jenny, who is in her first year, said<br />
she is thoroughly enjoying her <strong>NUH</strong><br />
experience so far: “The staff are really<br />
nice. They make you feel at home. It’s<br />
been brilliant.”<br />
EMILY MULVANEY<br />
Emily Mulvaney, Deputy Sister on<br />
Ward C5, QMC, was nominated for<br />
one of this year’s new categories –<br />
Nurse and Midwife Leader of the Year.<br />
Her nominator, a fellow staff member,<br />
praised her work to develop a preoperative<br />
bay on the busy ward and<br />
with elderly patients with dementia.<br />
He said: “Emily is a very motivated<br />
and passionate nurse leader, putting<br />
patients at the forefront of her care.”<br />
Nominated<br />
Student Nurse of the Year<br />
Nominated<br />
Nurse or Midwife Leader of the Year<br />
DANIELA RUSSO<br />
Daniela Russo, a Staff Nurse on Toghill<br />
Ward at City, was nominated for<br />
International Nurse of the Year by<br />
her colleague Sarah Toulson, after<br />
joining the Trust from Portugal two<br />
years ago. Sarah said: “Daniela has<br />
shown herself to be a caring and<br />
compassionate nurse for patients and<br />
relatives. Nothing is ever too much<br />
trouble for Daniela. She is friendly and<br />
attentive and cares for the staff as well<br />
as patients.”<br />
Daniela said: “It’s amazing to<br />
be nominated and nice to be<br />
recognised.”<br />
NUALA HUGHES<br />
Nuala Hughes, Clinical Trainer on<br />
C4, C5 and C6, QMC, was one of<br />
the first to be nominated for this<br />
new category. Colleague Catherine<br />
Price-Hazlehurst said: “Her passion<br />
for caring for patients is admirable<br />
in what can only be described as a<br />
busy and highly-pressured working<br />
environment. She is a fantastic team<br />
player and valued by staff on all three<br />
of <strong>NUH</strong>’s trauma wards.”<br />
Nuala said: “I was really shocked when<br />
I found out I was nominated but it’s a<br />
real honour; definitely a nice surprise.”<br />
Nominated<br />
International Nurse of the Year<br />
Nominated<br />
Healthcare Assistant of the Year<br />
To get involved on social media use the<br />
hashtag #LoveNottmHospitals and keep an<br />
eye on facebook.com/nottinghamhospitals<br />
for the latest updates.<br />
To see the shortlist<br />
and how to vote visit<br />
www.nuh.nhs.uk<br />
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SpotlightOn<br />
CQC information<br />
A team of over 60 inspectors visited<br />
QMC, City and Ropewalk House and<br />
community facilities where we deliver<br />
services (announced and unannounced) in<br />
September 2015.<br />
They closely examined 8 pathways:<br />
• Urgent and emergency care<br />
• Medicine and surgery<br />
• Critical care<br />
• Children and young people<br />
• Maternity and gynaecology<br />
• Outpatients and diagnostics<br />
• End of life care<br />
The CQC assessed five domains:<br />
• Safety<br />
• Caring<br />
• Well-led<br />
• Effectiveness<br />
• Responsiveness<br />
and rated <strong>NUH</strong> in each area (and overall).<br />
We’ve received a ‘good’ overall rating<br />
from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> was rated as 'outstanding' in the well-led domain,<br />
and good in the caring, effective and responsive domains.<br />
The CQC’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike<br />
Richards, said: “Overall, <strong>NUH</strong> provides good care to the<br />
population it serves. The trust can be proud of the services<br />
that it manages and we were impressed by most areas we<br />
visited.<br />
“We found staff to be dedicated, kind, caring and patientfocused.<br />
Overwhelmingly, staff were positive about<br />
working at the trust and they talked about being proud of<br />
their workplace, the facilities they had and about the care<br />
they delivered.”<br />
We are disappointed that we 'require improvement' in<br />
the safe domain. The CQC found a strong safety culture<br />
across our hospitals, including a good reporting culture for<br />
safety incidents/near misses. However, they had concerns<br />
about some relatively localised staffing and specialist<br />
training issues. We were aware of these ahead of the<br />
inspection and have accelerated our action plans.<br />
Peter Homa, <strong>NUH</strong> Chief Executive, said: “The CQC praised<br />
our staff for working together in the best interests of<br />
patients and delivering kind and compassionate care. They<br />
found <strong>NUH</strong> to be an open and honest organisation, with<br />
outstanding leadership and a strong patient safety culture;<br />
all of which are important hallmarks of <strong>NUH</strong>.<br />
“As an organisation committed to continuous<br />
improvement and learning, we will celebrate the areas of<br />
good practice (not least our caring and proud staff) and<br />
importantly, use this inspection to further improve patient<br />
safety, care and experience for those we serve.”<br />
The CQC identified a number of areas where we must<br />
take rapid action:<br />
• Strengthen training and empowerment of staff in<br />
non-specialist (ward) areas to give the best end-of-life<br />
experience to patients, their families and their carers,<br />
and ensure we fully, and clearly, document Do Not<br />
Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) decisions<br />
• More consistently apply the principles of the Mental<br />
Capacity Act<br />
• Improve compliance with checks of emergency<br />
equipment<br />
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This report shows that patients and their relatives are happy<br />
with the care they have received, highlights an open and<br />
honest culture, strong patient safety and outstanding<br />
leadership. This is something that Nottingham can be<br />
very proud of.<br />
Councillor Ginny Klein, Chair of Nottingham City Council’s Health and Scrutiny Committee<br />
Glad to see the CQC have rated<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> as ‘good’ – testament to the<br />
work of committed and caring<br />
NHS Staff. Congratulations to all<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> staff.<br />
Lilian Greenwood, Labour MP for Nottingham South<br />
It brings a sense of pride both for staff and local people, particularly in the current climate. The<br />
feedback reflects well on the management and the staff at all levels in the trust in that patients are<br />
seen and treated in such a good manner.<br />
Martin Gawith, Chairman of Healthwatch Nottingham, which represents patients in the city
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SpotlightOn<br />
Facts<br />
23 areas<br />
of outstanding practice<br />
highlighted by the CQC across <strong>NUH</strong><br />
During the course of their<br />
visit inspectors from the CQC<br />
identified many areas of<br />
outstanding practice across<br />
our hospitals – ranging from<br />
excellence in dementia care to<br />
innovative staff training. Here<br />
are a selection of the areas<br />
they highlighted:<br />
Surgical Triage Unit<br />
Our Surgical Triage Unit helps patients<br />
who are admitted for potential emergency<br />
general surgery receive a quicker service,<br />
avoiding unnecessary admissions to<br />
hospital.<br />
There is a new triage line for GPs and<br />
other healthcare professionals to give a<br />
specialist surgical assessment of patients.<br />
Theses clinicians now speak direct to a<br />
senior doctor in advance of any admission.<br />
This means more patients are receiving<br />
emergency care in the right place first<br />
time.<br />
Elective Orthopaedics<br />
Our £12.5million operating theatres that<br />
opened in 2015 are making a difference<br />
for those who need orthopaedic surgery.<br />
The new theatre complex houses<br />
four theatres and a recovery unit and<br />
admissions lounge. An additional 850<br />
operations will be performed each year.<br />
The theatres will soon have audio visual<br />
equipment installed to allow live surgery<br />
filming for training purposes.<br />
Patients who have had minor procedures<br />
are cared for in the theatre admissions<br />
lounge, reducing pressure on our<br />
inpatient wards.<br />
Inspectors identify<br />
outstanding work<br />
Theatres safety programme<br />
Theatre staff have successfully<br />
standardised practices and processes at<br />
QMC and City to ensure safe ways of<br />
working and reduce cultural differences.<br />
The theatres safety improvement<br />
programme implemented a variety<br />
of safety projects and ensured that<br />
all theatre staff were trained on team<br />
working and consistent working<br />
practices.<br />
This emphasised safety, mutual<br />
respect, effective communication and<br />
accountability. As a result, our theatres<br />
are safer and more efficient.<br />
Listening to Patients’ Voices<br />
Working with patients, the Theatre Patient<br />
and Public Involvement Group used short<br />
surveys to capture the experience of<br />
patients after surgery. The CQC considered<br />
this to be innovative practice.<br />
Previously there was no way of monitoring<br />
feedback until long after a patient had<br />
left hospital. The Listening to Patients’<br />
Voices project introduced new cards for<br />
staff to get ‘real-time’ feedback which has<br />
informed improvements.<br />
The group produced a DVD to show<br />
patients what to expect when coming to<br />
theatres to help reduce fear and anxiety.<br />
Their work was recognised at the 2015<br />
Nursing Times Awards.<br />
Right place first time<br />
An innovative service for local GPs is<br />
ensuring more patients are cared for by<br />
the most appropriate specialist in our<br />
hospitals.<br />
The web application gives GPs access to<br />
urgent advice lines in our hospitals. This<br />
gives family doctors an option to discuss<br />
a patient’s medical condition with an<br />
appropriate specialist consultant and make<br />
sure patients are seen in the ‘right place,<br />
first time’.<br />
It has reduced the number of unnecessary<br />
hospital admissions from 28 per cent to 5<br />
per cent since its launch, and is improving<br />
patient experience.<br />
Think Drink<br />
Traditionally, patients are asked not to<br />
eat or drink from midnight the night<br />
before their operation. Despite emerging<br />
evidence revealing that excessive fasting<br />
results in negative outcomes and delays,<br />
this practice still continues across the<br />
NHS.<br />
The Think Drink project was set up to<br />
minimise the time patients went without<br />
a drink before their operation.<br />
The introduction of new guidance,<br />
education and better communication led<br />
to excessive fasting times reducing from<br />
nine hours to less than four hours. There<br />
is still work to do in order to bring the<br />
waiting time down to the target of two<br />
to three hours, but significant progress<br />
has been made.<br />
IMPS<br />
Our Injury Minimisation<br />
Programme for Schools (IMPS)<br />
teaches more than 2,300 children<br />
a year about first aid and<br />
resuscitation skills.<br />
Children aged 10 and 11 from city<br />
primary schools visit QMC for a<br />
morning and spend time in the<br />
children’s Emergency Department<br />
and elsewhere in the hospital,<br />
learning vital life-saving skills. The<br />
programme is run by the hospital’s<br />
Department for Research and<br />
Education in Emergency and<br />
Acute Medicine (DREEAM) team<br />
and funded by Nottingham City<br />
Council’s Public Health team, with<br />
extra support from Nottingham<br />
Hospitals Charity. It<br />
began in 2001 and<br />
in 2015 taught its<br />
40,000th child.<br />
Contributed...<br />
£14,000+<br />
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Kindly<br />
sponsored by<br />
#lovenottmhospitals
SpotlightOn<br />
Facts<br />
11<br />
8,000<br />
downloads of the Pocket Midwife app<br />
since its launch in May 2015<br />
Pocket Midwife<br />
The Pocket Midwife app, written by<br />
our own midwives, is a first for any UK<br />
hospital.<br />
The free app for mums-to-be, funded by<br />
Nottingham Hospitals Charity, contains<br />
general pregnancy information, useful to<br />
all prospective parents and their families,<br />
but also information specific to <strong>NUH</strong>,<br />
such as the Trust’s own maternity leaflets<br />
and contact telephone numbers.<br />
Other features include a pregnancy<br />
calendar, which describes the baby’s<br />
development and changes to the<br />
woman’s body. A contraction counter<br />
supports women and their birth partners<br />
in early labour, and a selfie gallery allows<br />
women to log the progress of their<br />
growing bump.<br />
The app was developed<br />
with feedback from 100<br />
pregnant women.<br />
Contributed...<br />
£30,000<br />
Contributed...<br />
£35,000+<br />
Ice cream for older patients<br />
Getting the right food and fluid is essential<br />
to patient’s recovery during their time in<br />
hospital. That’s why nurses on Ward F20<br />
now serve ice cream to older patients who<br />
are not getting enough calories.<br />
The ice cream project is one of a number<br />
of initiatives we have in place to help<br />
patients meet their nutritional needs.<br />
The idea started as a pilot project with<br />
23 male and female patients in February<br />
2015. The group included patients with<br />
a range of ailments including dementia,<br />
osteoporosis and fractures. Within just a<br />
few weeks the average calorie intake of<br />
the group increased by 10 per cent.<br />
Shared Governance<br />
Nottingham is home to the most<br />
advanced programme of Shared<br />
Governance in any UK hospital trust<br />
and is fast developing a reputation as<br />
a leader in this field.<br />
Shared Governance places power<br />
in the hands of frontline nurses and<br />
midwives, giving them the chance to<br />
influence decision-making as close to<br />
patients as possible.<br />
Wards and departments are supported<br />
to create their own councils, who feed<br />
in to senior teams.<br />
Over 25 councils have been set up,<br />
with more in the pipeline, and in the<br />
summer of 2015, <strong>NUH</strong> hosted its own<br />
Shared Governance conference with<br />
international visitors.<br />
Our Shared Governance programme<br />
also won the Improving Staff<br />
Experience category at the 2015<br />
Nursing Times Awards.<br />
Trent Simulation and<br />
Clinical Skills Centre<br />
Our doctors and nurses keep their skills up<br />
to date at our Trent Simulation and Clinical<br />
Skills Centre at QMC.<br />
Since the Centre opened in 2004, more<br />
than 10,000 staff have used the facility to<br />
develop skills ranging from communication<br />
techniques to advanced surgical<br />
procedures.<br />
The specially adapted building allows staff<br />
to realistically simulate clinical settings<br />
using patient actors and mannikins.<br />
The centre has two floors which house the<br />
simulation suite and clinical skills rooms,<br />
where staff experience hands-on training<br />
in procedural skills and resuscitation as<br />
well as communicating with patients in<br />
complex circumstances.<br />
Wrist bands for patients<br />
with respiratory illnesses<br />
We’ve had great feedback from patients<br />
with respiratory problems about a simple<br />
idea that can make a big difference to<br />
their lives.<br />
Nurses on our respiratory wards give<br />
out coloured wristbands to patients that<br />
highlight the kind of oxygen they need if<br />
they become ill.<br />
The bands look like charity bracelets and<br />
have been designed to discreetly wear out<br />
and about as well as in the hospital.<br />
The idea gives patients confidence to<br />
know that first-responders will have the<br />
right information to administer potentially<br />
life-save treatment. They also help our staff<br />
to know how much oxygen patients need<br />
at a glance when they are in hospital.<br />
Dementia care<br />
Dementia care training has been<br />
expanded to a wider range of<br />
staff, including porters, cleaners,<br />
chaplains and volunteers. All<br />
clinical staff are trained during<br />
their inductions.<br />
CQC inspectors were particularly<br />
impressed with initiatives like the<br />
About Me booklets, which are<br />
completed by relatives and friends<br />
of patients with dementia and<br />
give an overview of the person’s<br />
life, what was important to them<br />
and their likes and dislikes.<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> uses an electronic system<br />
to capture information for all<br />
patients over the age of 75<br />
admitted as an emergency. This<br />
enables us to screen these patients<br />
for dementia, thereby improving<br />
the care we deliver to them and<br />
their families/carers.<br />
Each ward has a staff member<br />
who is a ‘dementia<br />
champion’, and the<br />
hospital also has a<br />
dedicated dementia<br />
ward – B47.<br />
Contributed...<br />
£470,000<br />
Kindly<br />
sponsored by<br />
#lovenottmhospitals
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NOW RECRUITING<br />
nurses &<br />
midwives<br />
Visit www.nuh.nhs.uk/nmjobs<br />
Find out about...<br />
opportunities to develop your<br />
career at the region’s major acute<br />
teaching hospitals. We have<br />
vacancies across our hospitals in<br />
all specialties.<br />
We offer…<br />
• Support from Clinical Educators within each area, as well as<br />
preceptorship and rotation opportunities<br />
• Access to courses such as the seven-day acute care skills<br />
preceptorship programme<br />
• Protected learning time in the first year of practice<br />
• Flexible working conditions<br />
• The chance to take part in the UK’s most-established programme<br />
of Shared Governance – which puts power in the hands of frontline<br />
nurse and midwives<br />
• On-site nurseries and childcare vouchers<br />
• The chance to live and work in a vibrant city at the heart of the UK<br />
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<strong>News</strong>Bites<br />
Car parking changes<br />
Our<br />
car parks are all too often<br />
congested, impacting on the experience<br />
of our patients and visitors. To tackle<br />
this, we have reallocated staff parking<br />
permits.<br />
We will soon introduce (Spring <strong>2016</strong>)<br />
financial penalties for staff, visitors and<br />
patients for inappropriate parking. Such<br />
parking creates problems for emergency<br />
vehicles and other patient transport trying to<br />
access our sites.<br />
This includes penalties for parking outside of<br />
designated car parks, on grassy areas and on<br />
yellow/red lines and those who park without<br />
displaying a valid staff permit or blue badge.<br />
The fine will be £50 reduced to £25 if paid<br />
within 14 days, in line with arrangements<br />
for inappropriate parking in the city centre.<br />
More details to follow via our website and<br />
local media.<br />
Stronger<br />
enforcement<br />
coming soon<br />
Traveltoworkinformation<br />
A range of discounts and benefits<br />
are available to help our staff to<br />
decide how to get to work.<br />
These include:<br />
• Money off tram passes – £400<br />
(£33.33 per month) – Save £75<br />
per year compared to annual ticket<br />
without <strong>NUH</strong> Discount!<br />
• Discounted bus tickets – only £35 a<br />
month for unlimited travel – 7 days<br />
a week<br />
• Save money when you buy a brand<br />
new bike<br />
• Secure bike storage<br />
• A new car sharing scheme<br />
www.nuh.nhs.uk/research<br />
@nuhresearch
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SpotlightOn<br />
Who is your<br />
<strong>NUH</strong>onours is how we celebrate our exceptional staff and<br />
your hospital heroes, whether on the frontline or behind<br />
the scenes, and this year we also celebrate 10 years of <strong>NUH</strong>.<br />
Nominations for <strong>NUH</strong>onours <strong>2016</strong> open<br />
23 May. If someone has made a difference<br />
to you or a loved one then a <strong>NUH</strong>onours<br />
nomination is a great way to say thanks and<br />
give that person recognition for their work.<br />
The overall winners will be decided at an<br />
awards celebration night on 25 November.<br />
Chief Executive Peter Homa said: “We<br />
know how much these awards mean<br />
to staff. They really do boost morale,<br />
strengthen teamwork and reward those<br />
who go above and beyond to provide<br />
caring, safe and thoughtful care.<br />
“Please take the time to nominate a team<br />
or member of staff at our hospitals who<br />
you feel have ‘gone the extra mile’ in their<br />
daily work and are true to <strong>NUH</strong>’s ‘we are<br />
here for you’ values.”<br />
We have revamped the categories since last<br />
year, including a special contribution award.<br />
Once nominations close judging panels –<br />
one for each category – will sit to create<br />
a shortlist of three for each award. We<br />
include patients in our panels to ensure all<br />
voices are heard in making this decision.<br />
This year’s categories are:<br />
Divisional Awards – This Award goes to<br />
the individual /team in each Division who<br />
has ‘gone the extra mile’ to improve patient,<br />
carer or staff experience. There will be one<br />
winner per Division<br />
• Cancer and Associated Specialties<br />
Division Award<br />
• Clinical Support Division Award<br />
• Medicine Division Award<br />
• Surgery Division Award<br />
• Family Health Division Award<br />
Behind the Scenes Award<br />
The Trust has Corporate Services working<br />
behind the scenes to ensure the smoothrunning<br />
of the organisation. This award<br />
is to recognise an unsung hero or team<br />
amongst the support staff that consistently<br />
performs above and beyond the call of duty<br />
in carrying out their day-to-day work.<br />
Estates and Facilities Award<br />
Recognising colleagues in our Estates and<br />
Facilities team (includes cleaners, porters,<br />
chefs, linen and laundry) who have gone<br />
above and beyond to deliver excellent<br />
patient experience.<br />
Patient Champion of the Year Award<br />
Recognise patients who have made<br />
outstanding contributions to <strong>NUH</strong> in the last<br />
year.<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> public members, who have been<br />
patients in the last year, can also be<br />
nominated under this category.<br />
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Volunteer of the Year Award<br />
This Award is for an individual or team<br />
(either registered <strong>NUH</strong> volunteers or ‘other’<br />
volunteers) that has worked in partnership<br />
with <strong>NUH</strong>, giving up their unpaid time for<br />
the benefit of patients, carers and staff.<br />
Nottingham Hospitals Charity<br />
Champion Award<br />
This Award recognises staff who<br />
have dedicated their time and energy<br />
to fundraising activities that benefit<br />
Nottingham Hospitals Charity. They have<br />
done this to support the Charity’s mission<br />
to be at the heart of caring, for the benefit<br />
of patients and the staff who have cared for<br />
them.<br />
Research Impact of the Year Award<br />
For an individual, team or service that has<br />
raised the profile of research.<br />
Nominations should include evidence of at<br />
least one of the following:<br />
• Research taking place in a new part of<br />
the organisation<br />
• Leading campaigns that have increased<br />
research participation by patients<br />
• Working with the Life Sciences Industry<br />
to deliver high quality research<br />
• Initiatives to improve the patient<br />
experience when taking part in research<br />
• Service improvements, improved patient<br />
outcomes and/or transformed routine<br />
clinical practice by implementing clinical<br />
research study findings<br />
Team of the Year Award<br />
Awarded to an outstanding team (clinical<br />
or non-clinical) working anywhere within<br />
the Trust, who deliver exceptional results<br />
for patients/their colleagues/their service by<br />
working together as a team to achieve their<br />
goals.<br />
Better Futures Award<br />
Recognises individuals/teams who<br />
demonstrate a commitment to the<br />
community through:<br />
• Environmentally-friendly initiatives<br />
• Education, teaching, training and<br />
learning opportunities<br />
• Creating employment opportunities<br />
• Community partnership<br />
Outstanding Contribution<br />
to Patient Care Award<br />
In the year we celebrate 10 years of <strong>NUH</strong>,<br />
we recognise an individual who has made<br />
an exceptional contribution to patient care<br />
over the last decade. The winner of this<br />
award will be chosen by the <strong>NUH</strong> Chief<br />
Executive, Peter Homa.<br />
Celebrating our staff<br />
Ela honoured at national NHS<br />
apprenticeship awards<br />
An NHS apprentice has been recognised<br />
for making an outstanding contribution<br />
to <strong>NUH</strong>.<br />
Ela Roe, an apprentice working in<br />
our HRdepartment, was one of 12<br />
apprentices across England, each<br />
representing a health region, who were<br />
invited to meet Health Minister Ben<br />
Gummer as part of the national NHS<br />
apprenticeship awards in Westminster.<br />
Ela said: “I really enjoy working at <strong>NUH</strong><br />
because of the amount of support I<br />
receive from my colleagues and the<br />
huge amount of opportunities I have<br />
been given. The apprenticeship has<br />
given me a practical insight into the job<br />
Nottingham<br />
Hospitals Radio is<br />
multi-award winner<br />
Congratulations to<br />
Nottingham Hospitals<br />
Radio for multiple wins at<br />
the <strong>2016</strong> National Hospital<br />
Radio awards.<br />
that I would like to pursue in the future.<br />
I am learning, while gaining valuable<br />
experience.”<br />
Nottingham doctor commended<br />
for commitment to research<br />
A consultant physician and Director of<br />
Research and Innovation at <strong>NUH</strong> has<br />
been presented with a special award for<br />
his significant contribution to commercial<br />
research in the NHS.<br />
Dr Steve Ryder was one of five researchers<br />
in the UK recognised by the National<br />
Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for his<br />
outstanding contribution to commercial<br />
research over the past ten years.<br />
The station won the<br />
Bronze award for Best<br />
Programme with Multiple<br />
Presenters with The Jake<br />
and Julie Show, Bronze<br />
Award for Best Specialist<br />
Music Programme with The<br />
Country Store (presented<br />
by Stephen Hall) and<br />
Winners from our 2015<br />
<strong>NUH</strong>onours Awards night<br />
Silver Award for Best Male<br />
Presenter – Rajiv Hasan.<br />
The awards saw Rajiv go<br />
one better than last year<br />
when he won bronze for<br />
the same award. Rajiv said<br />
he is “delighted with the<br />
results”. Fingers crossed<br />
he’ll win the gold in 2017!<br />
Midwives win national award<br />
Staff from <strong>NUH</strong> have won one of the UK’s<br />
top midwifery prizes at the Royal College<br />
of Midwives’ (RCM) Annual Midwifery<br />
Awards.<br />
Midwives Josh Downey and Katie Jones<br />
picked up the RCM I-Folio Award for<br />
Partnership Working on behalf of the<br />
Trust. The award was given for improved<br />
team working in maternity services,<br />
through the introduction of Shared<br />
Governance.<br />
Shared Governance sees frontline<br />
midwives forming ‘councils’ with<br />
decision making powers about services.<br />
The councils work in collaboration<br />
with managers to help bring about<br />
improvements.<br />
He said: “Commercial research provides<br />
patients with access to many new drugs<br />
and treatments, which can achieve better<br />
clinical outcomes and potentially benefit<br />
all NHS patients in the future. It has been<br />
a real privilege to be involved in these lifechanging<br />
studies.”<br />
A further five researchers, based at <strong>NUH</strong><br />
and The University of Nottingham were<br />
also recognised at the event. They were<br />
Professor Philip Bath, Professor Stephen<br />
Chan, Dr Patrick Davies, Dr Christopher<br />
Gough and Professor Nikola Sprigg.<br />
Sponsors <strong>2016</strong><br />
Healthcare Science award<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> has been named Healthcare<br />
Scientist Provider Organisation of the<br />
Year at the annual Chief Scientific<br />
Officer Healthcare Science Awards.<br />
The award is presented to those<br />
provider organisations that support<br />
and recognise the contribution of<br />
healthcare science to high quality<br />
patient services, not only within<br />
healthcare science itself but more<br />
broadly across the organisations with<br />
multi-disciplinary teams and projects.
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Feedback<br />
Yourviews<br />
Some of your feedback from social media, NHS Choices<br />
and Patient Opinion websites...<br />
Facts<br />
@nottmhospitals<br />
24%<br />
more Twitter followers<br />
in 2015/16<br />
I had excellent care at QMC last night.<br />
There were enough staff to deal with the<br />
many patients you would expect on a Friday<br />
night. I was seen by various nurses in<br />
different areas within A&E and never left<br />
for more than 30 minutes. I was there for<br />
three hours in total, which I consider to<br />
be perfectly acceptable for a Friday night.<br />
The staff were professional, caring and<br />
did a wonderful job. Thank you NHS.<br />
We arrived in plenty of time (9.55) and we proceeded to<br />
find a parking space. After 15 minutes of driving round<br />
and round the campus I still could not find a space so I<br />
dropped dad at the door of the urology department.<br />
I then drove round for a further 45 minutes and was<br />
still unable to find a space.<br />
I was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer having<br />
surgery and radiotherapy. The staff were knowledgeable,<br />
friendly and empathetic. However the radiotherapy<br />
could’ve been quicker, as I had it three months after<br />
surgery.<br />
Social media<br />
@nottmhospitals You really need to do more to stop people<br />
smoking at QMC entrance. Walking through a smoke cloud to get<br />
to hospital is awful.<br />
Looking for a particular bit of @nottmhospitals and every single<br />
member of staff I walked past asked if they could help me. Good<br />
work #NHS.<br />
Cannot fault the efficiency, patience and kindness of the ED staff<br />
at @nottmhospitals last night. Thank you.<br />
@nottmhospitals the staff of Fleming Ward at the City have been<br />
absolutely first class helping my mum in these, her final days.<br />
Visited @MaggiesCentres @nottmhospitals with a friend yesterday -<br />
fantastic place, making a big difference to patients.<br />
@nottmchildrens @nottmhospitals @<strong>NUH</strong>Charity you changed my<br />
little girl’s life for the better. I will be eternally grateful you helped<br />
us.<br />
My son and I recently attended Ward D34 for a two night<br />
stay after he was involved in a road traffic accident. I<br />
cannot praise the nurses enough on that ward they work so<br />
hard. The care my son received from all the staff members<br />
involved was brilliant.<br />
I honestly cannot thank the team on A23 enough for getting<br />
me back on my feet. I'm 8 weeks pregnant and suffering<br />
from hyperemesis which left me severely dehydrated. I feel<br />
relieved that I finally have someone that understands and<br />
knows the right things to do to get me back on track. The<br />
team couldn't do enough for me despite being busy and the<br />
facilities have vastly improved since my last pregnancy<br />
four years ago. Thank you all so much!<br />
@nottmhospitals such fantastic experience today in antenatal scan.<br />
Appointments all on time and staff just so friendly and efficient.<br />
GetIntouch<br />
Your feedback on our services is so important to us. If you’ve had a<br />
good experience or feel there is something we could be doing better<br />
there are a number of ways you can let us know.<br />
• NHS Choices<br />
www.nhs.uk<br />
• Patient Opinion<br />
www.patientopinion.org.uk<br />
• Tweet us<br />
@nottmhospitals | @nottmchildrens<br />
• Facebook<br />
www.facebook.com/nottinghamhospitals<br />
@nottmhospitals<br />
facebook.com/nottinghamhospitals
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Charity<strong>News</strong><br />
Facts<br />
68%<br />
more Facebook likes<br />
in 2015/16<br />
Hello<br />
Robin<br />
Meet Robin – Nottingham Children’s Hospital‘s brand new logo! The logo, which is designed to help raise<br />
the profile of the Children’s Hospital and help with fundraising, was designed by local graphic design<br />
artist Geoff Hill, whose wife Abby is a nurse in our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.<br />
It was funded by Nottingham Hospitals<br />
Charity and launched with a fun-packed<br />
day in and around QMC, with cakes,<br />
mugs, bags and pens with the Robin<br />
logo on all selling like hotcakes.<br />
We will be continuing to sell branded<br />
merchandise from the charity’s office in<br />
the Children’s Outpatients Department,<br />
at QMC, and Robin will be making<br />
an appearance at fundraising events<br />
throughout the summer. Keep your eyes<br />
peeled.<br />
UPCOMING EVENTS<br />
Fancy doing something fun for Charity?<br />
A calm place for<br />
Head & Neck<br />
cancer patients<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> Charity has raised £12,000 for<br />
a project to provide a beautiful and<br />
serene courtyard garden at the Ear,<br />
Nose and Throat (ENT) unit, for the<br />
benefit of inpatients, outpatients<br />
and staff.<br />
The ENT Department at QMC sees<br />
more than 3,500 patients every year. A<br />
small but significant number of these<br />
patients will receive the devastating<br />
diagnosis that they have a cancer of the<br />
mouth, nose or throat. Some patients<br />
may find out that their cancer has<br />
returned, some others that they are in<br />
remission, and some may be given the<br />
welcome news that their cancer has<br />
been successfully treated. Treatment<br />
for head and neck cancer can take a<br />
long time and can involve repeated<br />
stays in hospital.<br />
With your help we will be able to<br />
transform an unused outdoor space<br />
into a fully accessible garden, including<br />
water features and sensory areas<br />
to aid relaxation and stimulation,<br />
where patients and families can find a<br />
peaceful, reflective space.<br />
Thank you for donors and supporters<br />
for making this possible.<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> Charity have got lots of fun events taking place this Spring and Summer.<br />
Whether you fancy testing your nerves and throwing yourself from a plane<br />
or you would be more interested in rowing along the Trent in a dragon boat,<br />
there's an activity to suit you.<br />
Dragon boat challenge<br />
Saturday 23 April, Trent Bridge, Nottingham<br />
A day of fun, excitement and furious<br />
paddling, with teams of up to 17 people<br />
racing against each other in 30 foot<br />
dragon boats. Crews will race a minimum<br />
of three times. There will be prizes for<br />
the top three crews, as well as the best<br />
dressed and the crew that raises the most<br />
for Nottingham Hospitals Charity. Come<br />
along for a day of fun for all the family,<br />
including face painting and quizzes.<br />
Asda Foundation Nottingham 10k<br />
Sunday 15 May, City Centre, Nottingham<br />
Take part in Nottingham’s newest mass<br />
participation running event, the latest<br />
addition to Run For All’s ever-popular Asda<br />
Foundation 10K Series. With a stunning<br />
start and finish in Old Market Square, the<br />
course takes in the Park Estate, Castle,<br />
Victoria Embankment, Meadow Lane, the<br />
canal and the Lace Market.<br />
Full information about all our appeals is available on our website.<br />
Stay up-to-date with the charity and latest news on Facebook and<br />
Twitter (@<strong>NUH</strong>Charity).
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Facts<br />
RESEARCH<br />
9,000+<br />
people participated in<br />
research trials in 2015/16<br />
“If I can help<br />
a little bit,<br />
that means<br />
the world<br />
to me”<br />
www.nuh.nhs.uk/research<br />
@nuhresearch<br />
Pioneering DNA study could revolutionise treatment<br />
and diagnosis of cancer and rare diseases.<br />
For Helen Cawthorne, competitive<br />
sport and fitness were a central part<br />
of her life. Working as a full-time PE<br />
teacher, she competed at national and<br />
international level as a triathlete.<br />
But all that changed in February 2011<br />
when the 54-year-old went for a<br />
Valentine’s Day swim – a day she won’t<br />
forget.<br />
“I had a cardiac arrest minutes after<br />
climbing out of my local swimming pool,”<br />
she said. “I woke up in hospital to find<br />
out I had practically died for 17 minutes.<br />
It was incredibly scary.”<br />
Helen was rushed to City Hospital where<br />
she was diagnosed with a rare heart<br />
Factfile<br />
The 100,000 Genomes Project will:<br />
• Better understand the cause of rare<br />
diseases and cancers<br />
• Discover why some people get ill<br />
and others don’t<br />
• Learn the best way to use genetic<br />
codes to help people in the NHS<br />
• Support doctors and healthcare<br />
companies to develop new<br />
treatments and ways of diagnosing<br />
disease<br />
condition known as Arrhythmogenic<br />
Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).<br />
“When I left hospital I wondered if my life<br />
would ever be normal again. It took me a<br />
long time to get my confidence back.<br />
“At first I would walk with my partner to<br />
a metal gate at the opening of our local<br />
park and back. I was too scared to go on<br />
my own. Life has changed as a result of<br />
what happened.”<br />
Today, Helen works as a part-time biology<br />
teacher at Carlton Academy and was one<br />
of the first people to sign up to a major<br />
national initiative that aims to transform<br />
treatment for patients with cancer and<br />
rare diseases.<br />
The 100,000 Genomes Project will decode<br />
the complete sets of genes from 100,000<br />
patients to find trends between the genes<br />
of people with the diseases and, as a<br />
result, find better treatments and forms of<br />
diagnosis.<br />
In 2014, NHS England announced a<br />
partnership between <strong>NUH</strong> and hospitals<br />
in Cambridge, Norfolk and Leicester,<br />
known as the East of England NHS<br />
Genomic Medicine Centre (NHS GMC).<br />
It is one of eleven designated centres in<br />
England which will lead the nationwide<br />
100,000 Genomes Project.<br />
Dr Brian Thomson, 100,000 Genomes<br />
Project Lead at <strong>NUH</strong>, said: “This is the<br />
first step in a new and exciting journey<br />
for our patients and staff. The 100,000<br />
Genomes Project will provide an entirely<br />
new basis for medical practice at our<br />
hospitals and allow us to develop safer<br />
and more effective treatments for each<br />
individual patient.<br />
“For the first time we will also be<br />
able to discover the cause of many<br />
rare but important diseases, and so<br />
provide better care for patients and<br />
their families. It is a wonderful example<br />
of using the best and most advanced<br />
science to improve the outcomes of<br />
medical care and we are proud to be at<br />
the forefront of this project.”<br />
Researchers are aiming to recruit 70<br />
patients per month with a variety of<br />
very serious conditions and will take<br />
blood samples from each person to be<br />
analysed for trends and patterns in the<br />
genes.<br />
Helen said: “If anyone gets the heads up<br />
early that they’ve got a condition, they<br />
can hopefully manage it or somehow in<br />
the future there might be interventions<br />
or diagnostic testing to help. That’s why<br />
I signed up. If I can help a little bit that<br />
means the world to me."<br />
Factfile<br />
What is ARVC?<br />
ARVC is a rare, inherited disease of the<br />
heart muscle passed through families<br />
caused by a mutation in one or more<br />
genes. Symptoms include palpitations,<br />
light-headedness, fainting, abnormal<br />
heart rhythms and swollen ankles, legs<br />
and abdomen.<br />
Though there is no cure for ARVC,<br />
research has shown that with proper<br />
treatment and follow-up, most people<br />
with ARVC are able to control their<br />
symptoms and live a normal life.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
www.bhf.org.uk<br />
For more information about<br />
the 100,000 Genomes Project<br />
and/or to get involved<br />
please talk to your hospital<br />
doctor or contact Nicola<br />
McMaster:<br />
0115 969 1169 ext 56509<br />
nicola.mcmaster@nuh.nhs.uk<br />
www.eastgenomics.org.uk<br />
@nottmhospitals<br />
facebook.com/nottinghamhospitals
DiaryPage<br />
Facts<br />
19<br />
430<br />
people attended our<br />
members events in 2015/16<br />
Membersnews<br />
It's been a busy time for<br />
membership over the past six<br />
months with a wide range of<br />
member events.<br />
Themes have included the <strong>NUH</strong> Charity,<br />
<strong>NUH</strong>’s financial challenge, a tour of<br />
our hearing Biomedical Research<br />
Unit, cancer services awareness in<br />
the community, food in our hospitals<br />
and dementia and the health of older<br />
people.<br />
Feedback reports on all of these events<br />
can be found on the Members' section<br />
of the <strong>NUH</strong> website. If you have any<br />
ideas for events and what you would<br />
like to learn about <strong>NUH</strong> then please get<br />
in touch with me.<br />
Over the next few months we are<br />
looking to recruit more young members<br />
(between the age of 16- 21).<br />
If you, or you know of someone who is<br />
interested in helping to shape membership<br />
for young people e.g. events, the ways we<br />
communicate and volunteer opportunities,<br />
please either email me at aimi.townsend@<br />
nuh.nhs.uk or telephone 0115 9249924 ext.<br />
76242.<br />
Opt-in for hard copy of <strong>NUH</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
Carers Event<br />
In support of national Carers<br />
Week <strong>2016</strong>, we will be holding an<br />
information event for carers. If you<br />
are a local carer or someone that is<br />
cared for please come along to find<br />
out more about the services and<br />
support available to you.<br />
Wednesday 8 June, 10-12pm<br />
The New Art Exchange, 39-41<br />
Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham.<br />
NG7 6BE<br />
We face our toughest ever financial challenge. To help close the gap we have<br />
taken the decision to reduce the number of hard copies of <strong>NUH</strong> <strong>News</strong> we print<br />
and post to members.<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> <strong>News</strong> is available online and via our monthly member e-bulletins.<br />
Only members who ‘opt-in’ to receive a ‘hard-copy’ version will receive a copy in<br />
the post. If you would like to register for a ‘hard copy’ please contact us.<br />
Long Service<br />
awards<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
Thanks to the sponsorship from the<br />
League of Friends QMC and the<br />
League of Friends City Hospital, this<br />
year’s Long Service Awards will be<br />
held at the Nottingham Conference<br />
Centre on 1 July.<br />
The celebratory dinner and certificate<br />
presentation will be hosted by Peter<br />
Homa and Louise Scull. Long Service<br />
Awards recognise those dedicated<br />
colleagues who celebrate 25, 30<br />
and 35 years of service with us. Look<br />
out for our communication and<br />
social media campaign highlighting<br />
the journeys of some of these staff<br />
members.<br />
UPDATES<br />
& EVENTS<br />
See the internet for more info<br />
www.nuh.nhs.uk/members<br />
<strong>NUH</strong> Technology and your care<br />
Thursday 5 May, 4-6pm<br />
Room B128, Medical School, QMC<br />
In today’s world, technology plays an<br />
important role in every industry as well as<br />
in our personal lives. Please come and see<br />
how the use of technology is transforming<br />
healthcare at <strong>NUH</strong>: hear about our<br />
innovations, opportunities and challenges;<br />
see presentations and demonstrations of<br />
the tools we are using to improve clinical<br />
practice and patient care.<br />
This event will give you an opportunity to<br />
reflect on technology used in healthcare<br />
today and make you think about future<br />
technology innovations.<br />
NEXT<br />
TIME<br />
The latest on our<br />
proposed merger<br />
with SFH<br />
We are involving patients<br />
and staff at <strong>NUH</strong> and SFH<br />
in our plans and design of<br />
the new organisation<br />
Nursing Development<br />
Thursday 7 April, 4-6pm<br />
Postgraduate Education Centre, QMC<br />
Learn about our journey to excellence<br />
in nursing and midwifery care. Hear<br />
from key members of our nursing<br />
team on innovations such as Pocket<br />
Midwife and initiatives including our<br />
new international scholarship scheme.<br />
We will also have presentations from<br />
our advanced nurse practitioners and<br />
student task force. The event will<br />
include several information stands on a<br />
variety of nursing development themes<br />
including tissue viability, nursing and<br />
midwifery research and preceptorship.<br />
This event is kindly sponsored by the<br />
League of Friends QMC.<br />
Booking is essential for<br />
members' events as places<br />
are limited. Please register<br />
your interest by emailing<br />
ft@nuh.nhs.uk or calling<br />
0115 9249924 ext. 76242.<br />
Celebrating our<br />
long-serving staff<br />
In response to staff feedback,<br />
this summer we re-launch<br />
Long Service Awards to<br />
recognise and celebrate our<br />
staff.<br />
Join the discussion...<br />
...at our ‘<strong>NUH</strong> Members’ Facebook<br />
group and receive the latest news,<br />
information on events and learn<br />
how to get involved. Please visit<br />
www.facebook.com/groups/<br />
<strong>NUH</strong>members/<br />
To update your details<br />
or find out more about<br />
becoming a member,<br />
please email<br />
ft@nuh.nhs.uk or call<br />
01159 691169 ext 76242.<br />
Priorities for<br />
<strong>2016</strong>/17<br />
We set out our main<br />
priorities – in response to<br />
patient and carer feedback<br />
– for improvement in the<br />
coming year.<br />
SUMMER ISSUE OUT JULY<br />
New maternity<br />
video tours<br />
Mums and dads-to-be can now take<br />
a virtual tour of our maternity units<br />
on our website. A series of videos,<br />
covering City and QMC, and a range<br />
of different aspects of maternity care,<br />
are available on www.nuh.nhs.uk.<br />
Simply go to ‘Our Services’ and click<br />
on ‘Maternity’.<br />
Nutrition and<br />
Hydration Week<br />
Our hospitals recently celebrated<br />
Nutrition and Hydration Week with<br />
a range of activities designed to<br />
draw attention to the importance<br />
of keeping patients well fed and<br />
watered. Events included a Trustwide<br />
afternoon tea party, mocktail<br />
making, a hydration quiz and<br />
staff from all areas of the hospital<br />
volunteering as ‘dining companions’<br />
and helping to serve meals to<br />
patients. Even Chief Executive Peter<br />
Homa donned an apron and got<br />
involved!
Sponsors <strong>2016</strong><br />
COMING SOON