Pennine News 83 - June 2010 - Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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pennine news Core Brief - May 2010 STanDarDiSeD MOrTaLiTY Based on CHKS 008 standardisation modelling, the Trust has achieved its objective for 009 in reducing its standardised mortality by 5%. The Trust’s crude mortality rate (trend) has continued to show an improvement over the last three years and has mirrored its peer group, which is made up of approximately 90 other trusts. Within this overall downward trend the peer and Trust average mortality rate peaked significantly during December 009 and January 010. The Trust and peer group are looking into the reasons for this. More information: contact Dr Ruth Jameson, medical director, on tel. 45461. PaTienT SafeTY cOMMiTTee A new Patient Safety Committee, which reports to the Clinical Governance and Quality Committee, held its inaugural meeting on 30 April. The group, chaired by Dr Ruth Jameson, medical director, meets monthly and includes clinical leaders and patient safety project leads. Its main purpose is to ensure that the Patient Safety Improvement work is delivered using improvement methodology in accordance with the Trusts key outcome measures. It will be looking at end of life strategy, coding and evidence-based care bundles. Care Bundles are packages of evidencebased interventions that are applied to selected patients. More information: contact Dr Ruth Jameson, medical director, on tel. 45461 fOUnDaTiOn TrUST UPDaTe The next version of the Trust’s Integrated Business Plan (IBP) which sets out the organisation's five year business strategy as an aspirant Foundation Trust has been sent to the Strategic Health Authority. One of the key elements is the “mini-IBPs” which are being developed within divisions. The Trust is soon to commence a membership recruitment campaign to encourage the public and partner agencies to sign up as FT members. Further information on the staff membership process will be issued shortly. finance - Year enD 2009/10 The Trust successfully achieved its financial duties for 009/10 and ended the year with a small surplus of £6 0,000 (0.1 % of budget) before technical adjustments. Trust expenditure was £5 6,30 ,000 in the year (£1.4million per day). More information: contact Robert Chadwick, director of finance and IM&T, 5469. The core brief should be included in everyone’s team briefing following circulation, which takes place the week after Trust Board meetings. These are held the last Thursday of the month. if you need more info, then each article contains contact details. Some of the items on this page have been edited slightly for space reasons. for a full copy of the core brief either click on the communications page of the intranet or ask your manager. reDUcing HeaLTHcare acQUireD infecTiOnS The Trust has achieved its target for reducing MRSA and Clostridium Difficile (CDT) for 009/10. The target set for MRSA bacteraemia in 010/11 is no more than 14 post 48 hour cases – effectively a maximum of one hospital-acquired MRSA case per month. Hand washing remains the single most important procedure for preventing the spread of biological contamination. Staff are reminded to use the 7-step procedure when hand washing and to contact their hospital site infection prevention nurse if they have not already had this year’s training and 010 ‘tick’ sticker. More information: to receive mandatory training and this year’s sticker, contact: ROH – Liz Wilson ext. 78771, Lorraine Durham ext. 719 , Pat Gallagher ext. 719 3 NMGH – Michael Beesley ext. 4 935, Mark Ronan ext. 47945 FGH – Sylvia Maxfield ext. 8 4 8, Cheryl Wood ext. 8 91 Rochdale – Anne Taylor ext. 56150, Marie Boswell ext. 56151 PerfOrMance - Year enD 2009/10 The Trust achieved a number of national and other performance standards in 009/10. � 36 MRSA bacteraemias were recorded during 009-10, against a target of 38. � 394 C Difficile infections were recorded during 009-10 compared to 47 for 008-9 � Cancer research performance at the Trust has seen considerable success this year in exceeding all of the research targets set by the National Cancer Research Network (NCRN). Fifteen per cent of the Trust’s cancer/pre-malignant patients participated in a NIHR study. � Declaration of compliance with same sex accommodation requirements. � 80% of staff had a personal development plan review during the year. � Successful registration with the Care Quality Commission with no conditions. � Achieving rapid access to chest pain clinics in weeks The Trust achieved the overall national 18 weeks admitted and non-admitted standards. Within the overall Trust figures some specialities did not meet the 18 weeks standard, including orthopaedics, general surgery, plastic surgery, urology and neurosurgery. Action plans for these specialties to meet the standard have been developed and are monitored by the Scheduled Care Group. nHS nW reSTricTeD cLearing HOUSe fOr BanDS 1-9 An NHS North West restricted Clearing House for Bands 1 – 9 posts came into effect on 1 April 010. All such vacancies will initially be advertised via this clearing house to ensure NHS staff who may be affected by organisational change throughout the North West region have the opportunity to apply for vacant posts first. This has required several changes in the recruitment process. Stage of the clearing house process is open to any existing NHS employee working within north west NHS Trusts to apply on their substantive The Trust achieved the cancer week access target. However, only 83.8% of symptomatic breast patients where cancer is not initially suspected were seen within weeks against the 93% target. The Trust also fell below the national Cancer 6 day target from GP referral to treatment and the Cancer 6 day screening service referral to treatment target. An integrated cancer performance improvement plan is being monitored by the Trust’s Cancer Committee and Scheduled Care Group. The plan focuses on care pathway redesign, enhanced monitoring, and increased capacity. The Emergency Care Access Standard requires at least 98% of patients to be seen, treated, admitted, transferred or discharged within fours hours of attendance at an A&E department. The Trust achieved 96.6% in 009/10. This is a key national target and Trust wide and site based plans to achieve the target have been developed following recommendations made by the Department of Health’s Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST). As part of this work North Manchester General Hospital has introduced fast flow wards on E5 & E6 with the aim of providing a focused environment for patients with an expected date of discharge of less than 7 hours. This commenced Wednesday 5 May 010. Ward-based Internal Professional Standards (IPSs) and similar IPS for gynaecology and radiology have been produced. These can be viewed on the intranet and will be displayed on sites. (permanent) band/salary (i.e. individuals cannot apply for a promotion at Stage of the clearing house). Once a vacancy has been processed through the clearing house, and if no one applies or is appointed, the vacancy will be placed on the Trust vacancy bulletin following normal recruitment procedure. More information: for more details and to apply for vacancies visit online at www.jobs.nhs.uk/internal/in/northwest.html page 10 …To provide the very best care for each patient on every occasion…
A golden year as Northern Air celebrates 50 years ‘cOngraTULaTiOnS’ will surely be a popular request title as northern air Hospital radio achieves its 50th anniversary of broadcasting in June this year. The radio station has evolved since 1960 from the initiative of Stanley Langer and Norman Mendelson who devised the idea of screening films to patients at North Manchester General Hospital and later covering all the local hospitals. Backed by The Rotary Club, Stanley also established a hospital radio service and every Thursday would broadcast record requests and dedications direct to the wards. Marshall Gellman, disc jockey and Sidney Wander MBE also joined in those early days. Half a century later, Marshall still entertains patients with his daily music show and Sidney continues to produce a classical show. Northern Air Hospital Radio is now a 4/7 service produced and delivered by 5 volunteers. Stanley’s son, Dave Langer still has some involvement, assisting Joe Sambrook, station manager and Dave Bee, programme controller. Joe Sambrook, said, “I have seen Northern Air Hospital Radio grow from strength to strength during my 0 years as a volunteer and in the 15 years as station manager. The future is looking very positive with the station about to start broadcasting on line very soon. To coincide with our 50th birthday, we have completely re-fitted Studio . “After 15 years as the station manager, I have decided to hand over the reins to someone younger with the idea of taking Northern Air forward into the next 50 years. However, I will POLICY NEWS ... POLICY NEWS … POLI Absence policy - career grade medical and dental staff THE absence policy – career grade medical and dental staff has recently been updated and is now available to view on the Trust’s intranet site. The main amendments to the policy are amendments to the study / professional leave flowchart to reflect the addition of leave forms and expenses claim forms as appendices - 4. Reference is made to the new appendices within the text of the policy and there is also the inclusion of the approval process for clinical directors. This document is designed to set out the Trust policy relating to medical and dental absences for consultants, associate specialists, staff grade doctors, speciality doctors and Trust equivalent career grade posts as well as hospital practitioner and clinical assistants in The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. It contains information about the processes for requesting annual and study leave, who should be still be a part of the team and continue as a volunteer with Northern Air.” Although staffed solely by volunteers, Northern Air Hospital Radio offers a range of programmes to the North Manchester General Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital communities that would be the envy of any professional broadcasting organisation. This includes regular broadcasts of the Halle Orchestra, live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The volunteers are proud of the fact that they can play virtually any record request from the station’s vast record library. News is broadcast every hour via a satellite and sports shows and regular sports updates are a high priority at the weekend. The Northern Air volunteers and invited guests are looking forward to their 50th Anniversary celebration to be held at The Fairways Lodge, Prestwich on 6th June. Happy birthday Northern Air hospital radio and a big thank you from all our patients and staff. � The radio station has also been enjoying a celebration of a different kind when it was recognised at the Hospital Broadcasting Association annual conference and national hospital radio awards 010. Nominated in the best speech package and male presenter of the year, programme controller and breakfast show presenter Dave Bee, went to Scotland to pick up the silver prize for the male presenter of the year and was commended in the best speech category. notified, who authorises the forms and where they should be sent on completion. It also contains references to policies and procedures relating to all types of absence which may necessitate absence from duties, with the exception of sick leave where staff should refer to EDH0 7 for the Trust’s attendance management and sickness absence policy. Staff should familiarise themselves with the content of the policy, which can be found on the Trust’s intranet site under documents/non clinical/HR policies & procedures. Line managers should ensure that appropriate staff who do not have direct access to the intranet have a hard copy of the policy available locally to review. For further information or advice please contact your divisional HR team/medical staffing or divisional absence manager where appropriate. …To provide the very best care for each patient on every occasion… Thought for the month Lots of questions and answers by chaplaincy co-ordinator Rev John Hall pennine news WHEN we talk about the term ‘Spiritual Care’ there are often a number of questions that are raised to do with what ‘Spiritual Care’ means. Some people think they know straight away and offer an immediate answer whilst others ponder and need time to work out an answer that they are happy to stand by. When I am taking induction training with new staff I like to ask the question to whoever is there and the variety of answers never fails to impress me. I reassure those attending that I am not looking for the ‘right answer’, whatever that is, for the point of the whole task is to try and see ‘Spiritual Care’ as something that includes everyone, those from all belief groups and those who prefer not to align themselves with any particular belief group. Yet questions always arise and when you think about those who are inpatients who are feeling very uncertain about themselves due to a change in their own lives those big questions about life tend to emerge. In the recent general election lots of questions were raised yet no one political party gained an overwhelming backing of the public as people were divided on what they thought the main questions should be and how you try to answer those questions. Who knows what has happened since then but it could be a lot of constructive listening and working together with people of different view points and different backgrounds in order to try and offer something positive to the general public. Good constructive times of questions and discussions are an important part of our work as well as in other areas of our lives. Good spiritual care allows very difficult questions to be asked, to be properly listened to and to be taken seriously. Some questions come from a faith perspective, at times questioning why things happen in the way that they do, some questions are left hanging in the air, never neatly answered but all the better for being asked. When we are being told not to ask questions, that I believe is the time to be concerned. Many of us of faith ask our own faith traditions awkward questions. At times those questions remain unanswered, but again we feel better for being heard. As a team we want to encourage those opportunities to question, for patients, staff, and relatives as we welcome the time to listen. page 11
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