Imperial College Healthcare Charity Impact report 2015/2016

Helping to improve A&E
Patients who visit the emergency
department at St Mary’s Hospital are
set to benefit from £3.5 million worth of
renovations funded by the charity.
Dr Ali Sanders, chief of service for emergency
and ambulatory care at Imperial College Healthcare
NHS Trust, said: “The layout and design of St Mary’s A&E
department needs to keep pace with demand. Last year,
we had a 15 per cent increase in patients arriving via emergency
‘blue light’ ambulance. The upgrade will provide more spaces for assessment and treatment
of our most critically ill and injured patients and a more efficient working environment for staff.
This will mean faster pathways for patients, in better surroundings and with greater privacy.”
The charity is paying for the emergency department to be reconfigured to provide
additional resuscitation bays, an improved assessment area and paediatric assessment unit
within the existing building.
These improvements will increase capacity, assist more efficient working,
improve patient outcomes and provide a better patient experience.
Upgrading outpatient areas
The charity has awarded £7.2 million to transform outpatient clinics at three of the
Trust’s hospitals after the Care Quality Commission highlighted a number of
areas that could be improved.
Refurbishments are taking place in the clinical and waiting areas used by day case
patients at Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals. This includes main outpatients and
renal outpatients at Hammersmith, ENT, ophthalmology and main outpatients at Charing
Cross. Work is expected to finish in March 2017.
We will be looking outside of this project to support improvements at St Mary’s
and Western Eye hospitals.
Main outpatients at
Hammersmith Hospital before
work started
Redeveloping Riverside Theatres
The Riverside Operating Theatres at Charing Cross Hospital are set to be redeveloped
thanks to a £1 million grant from the charity.
The Riverside Theatres are currently outdated but these
improvements will produce the full set of facilities required
for elective short stay surgery in one unit: waiting area;
patient consent rooms; four theatres compliant
with modern air handling requirements; recovery;
improved changing rooms and quiet room for
patients; and improved storage to maximize the
use of the theatre facility.
Helping doctors in the fight
against antimicrobial resistance
multiplatform application is set to make it easier for doctors to check Public
A Health England (PHE) guidelines when prescribing antimicrobials such as antibiotics
and antifungals.
The charity awarded funding to develop a Point Of Care Antimicrobial Stewardship Tool,
known as POCAST, which can be used on a desktop or mobile device and will be kept up-todate
with the latest PHE advice. Professor Alison Holmes, director of infection prevention and
control at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: “Antimicrobial management is a key
aspect of patient safety and of clinical care. Appropriate prescribing is essential for successful
treatment and to prevent unwanted consequences of toxicity, Clostridium difficile-associated
disease and antimicrobial resistance. The bulk of antimicrobials are prescribed in the
community and antimicrobials are often prescribed inappropriately. Research has shown that
providing doctors with access to antimicrobial prescribing data, together with patient education,
can reduce antimicrobial prescriptions, saving the NHS money.
“We are working with doctors in the community to ensure effective antimicrobial use across
the whole patient care pathway, not just in hospitals. With GPs and primary care prescribers
working together with Public Health England, we can really tackle the problem of AMR.”
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