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Cash boost transforms cancer care for our patients MEDICINE AND EMERGENCY CARE More than half a million pounds will be pumped into improving cancer services for our patients. Our organisation and Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are thrilled to have secured £543,000 funding from Macmillan Cancer Care. The money will help to transform services for people living with and beyond cancer across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We are one of only a few areas in the country to secure this level of investment. The funding will be used to implement the Macmillan’s recovery package across the cancer healthcare community. It is a model of care that puts greater emphasis on identifying people’s health and wellbeing needs and finding ways to address them through the provision of person-centred care, with patients empowered to self-manage where possible. Cancer Services Manager, Jenny Donovan is putting a team together, which will consist of five roles, including a manager, cancer support worker, admin support officer, practitioner and facilitator who will be based in primary care. Figures for the West Midlands show the number of people living longer than 20 years with cancer was 159,700 in 2010 and will increase by 50 per cent to 310,300 by 2030. However, mortality rates for cancer locally are higher than many areas of the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on how people are supported in the future. This new initiative will deliver a more consistent and effective service with improved access to support for those living with and beyond cancer. Dr Diana Webb, Lead Cancer Clinician said: “This is an important step for us in driving forward our plans to make sure that anyone attending our hospitals for cancer care receives the best possible outcomes. “We have a dedicated and experienced cancer workforce here, who are consistently striving for excellence in cancer care delivery and ensuring patients and their carers have the best possible experience. Jenny Donovan, who is putting together the Living with and Beyond Cancer team, which is funded by MacMillan Cancer Care “Already performing consistently on our cancer waiting times, we are currently working on plans to deliver optimal cancer pathways to ensure patients receive a faster diagnosis less than a month after their GP referral where cancer is suspected by 2020. “This new additional funding will see us continue our close working relationship with Macmillan, SWB CCG, Cancer Research UK and our primary care colleagues to ensure that a personalised, patient-centred approach remains at the heart of our care. “By embedding the Macmillan recovery package alongside our clinical care pathways, our patients will benefit from holistic needs assessment and care planning and have access to health and wellbeing events which will promote independence and healthy lifestyles. “Patient treatment summaries and GPled cancer care reviews will see improved communication and understanding between our primary care and acute specialist care colleagues, and new approaches to personalised cancer follow-up will see patients empowered in their recovery after treatment, and beyond.” Dr Nick Harding, Chair at NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, added: “We are delighted to secure this vital funding to help improve the experience of people living with and beyond cancer in Sandwell and West Birmingham. “The impact of cancer doesn't suddenly stop when treatment is over and we are committed to transforming services so that our patients benefit from high quality cancer care that supports them in their long-term recovery. “Our aim is to ensure that everyone receives the personalised care and support they need, when they need it, to live a happy and healthy life. “This important programme builds on our strong track record of making a step change in health through partnership and innovation. “Working in partnership with local GP practices and the Trust, we have already delivered pioneering initiatives such as the Primary Care Commissioning Framework (PCCF) scheme. “This has helped to save the lives of people with diabetes, reduce the number of strokes in Sandwell and West Birmingham by identifying over 1,000 people with atrial fibrillation (AF) and increased the number of people undertaking cancer screening.” 16
Leading professor joins AMU team for pioneering research This year promises to bring a wealth of exciting opportunities to the acute medicine unit (AMU) as they welcome Professor Dan Lasserson to the team, whose aim is to help bring their research ambition to life. Professor Dan Lasserson, Chair of Ambulatory Care at the University of Birmingham, has joined the AMU team as an honorary consultant in ambulatory medicine. Speaking about his new role, he said: “I’m delighted to join the organisation and excited to work with the team. “I will be working closely with Dr Sarb Clare to build up academic activities in acute medicine and contribute to innovations in acute care models. My particular interest is in acute ambulatory care, and in supporting more acute medical care to be undertaken in community settings, using point of care technology. This organisation is one of the leading trusts in the West Midlands for the use of point of care echo and ultrasound The single point of access (SPA) service is to expand and become a seven-day operation following its success. The initiative, which was launched in November, has seen a total of 1,210 patients sent to the right clinical area. Colleagues attending a quality improvement half day dedicated to the service, heard about how the system works for paediatrics, surgery, medicine and gynaecology. It was also revealed how it would be rolled out across the organisation to other specialties. Dr Nuhu Usman said: “Our next phase is to expand the programme so that SPA can be available seven days a week and incorporate hot clinics into the project. This means that we will be able to book patients to see specialists at the earliest convenience, so that they can be seen by the right team and given the right treatment in the first place. “Today has been successful as we have a very good mix of attendees, including colleagues from AMU, surgery, Honorary Consultant in Ambulatory Medicine, Professor Daniel Lasserson has recently joined the AMU team and so is the natural partner for acute care innovators and researchers.” Dr Clare, Acute Medicine Consultant and Deputy Medical Director, added: “We are Seven day expansion for new SPA service Dr Nuhu Usman; Mr Ugo Otite, Consultant Urologist; Aliya Kaaba from the improvement team and local GP, Dr Tarig paediatrics, medicine, GPs, and the clinical commissioning group.” Hannah Ship, Commissioning Manager from Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG has been part of the project since its launch and has been working closely with the team and GPs to ensure this project’s success. She said at the event: “It’s good to be at the event today and meet our partners as well as teams at SWBH. “The performance has been very positive MEDICINE AND EMERGENCY CARE privileged to have Dan join our team. His knowledge and skills will help us carry out extensive research in ambulatory care, so that we can develop a new way of working, which will hopefully enable us to see patients more quickly and more importantly enable prompt diagnosis and treatments. “Our vision is to bring ambulatory care to the community and upskill our partners, such as GPs and paramedics, so they can carry out ultrasounds and point of care diagnostics to examine and treat patients more quickly. With Professor Lasserson’s help, I truly believe that we will achieve that ambition. “In May we will also welcome our first research fellow in acute medicine to support us in delivering our research projects.” and the CCG is very pleased with the progress. The project has our strong support as we can see the benefits for patients. “Our role is to ensure that it works well between primary care and secondary care. We also encourage GPs to start changing the way they work so they can use SPA more effectively. “Our experience of working with SPA team has been very positive as they always keep us informed and engaged throughout the project. We look forward to continuing working with them in the next phase.” Janice Barrett, Clinical Lead for SPA, added: “The outcome from the event was very positive. It was a great opportunity to receive feedback from the teams and will help us to improve the service further. “We’re glad that SPA has made a huge difference to patients and helped reduce the pressure for many service. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved.” 17
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