Issue 12 - Kettering General Hospital

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Issue 12
Sign up today – that’s the message from liver
transplant patient Amanda Dowling – see pages 6-7
Chief Executive’s
Mike Smeeton
Acting Chief Executive
Contents
Acting Chief Executive’s Reflections
2
Dementia box – can you help?
3
Our stroke services get a good review
4
Joint paediatric nephrology clinic
5
Why you should sign up to
NHS Organ Donor Register
6-7
Planning for every emergency
8
Finances update
9
Paediatric Gynaecology award
and cardiothorasic award
10
Tilt table and Falls Week
11
Arrhythmia Awareness and
Heart Failure Awareness
12
Annual Review
13-16
Golden Heartbeat and Summary
Care Record
17
Superman visits KGH and
Rocket golden wedding donation
18
AS KGH heads into the choppy seas of
financial restraint it is easy to forget just
how much progress we have all made in
the last 18 months.
You will read in this edition of KGH Together
(p9) how we are continuing our efforts to make
the cost savings of £12m-£15m we need to
achieve by the end of the financial year.
It is easy for that to dominate our thinking
entirely.
But that would be to overlook the immense
efforts of KGH staff, managers, and our Council
of Governors, in making this hospital a safer and
better place for patients.
On pages 13-16 of this issue we list our
achievements during 2010-2011 in our Annual
Review. If you want to find more details on this
you can also look at our Annual Report at www.
kgh.nhs.uk.
The review is a powerful reminder of the
way in which we have improved the patient
environment by doing things like completing the
Harrowden Floor revamp (remember what these
wards were like before), by opening the Nene
Park Outpatients Clinic and by progressing work
on our £30m development.
This development is vital to our future as a
sustainable acute hospital and its importance
cannot be overstated.
In the near future the NHS will have to
continue to look for big savings and for ways
of sharing costs. For major services to continue
to be based at KGH we need to have strong
state-of-the-art facilities that can provide the
very best care available in the market place.
Patients like Andrew Morgan, Marie Brown,
and Donald Loake (see p13) can all testify
to this after receiving some amazing life
changing procedures at KGH.
In addition we have done important
partnership work – definitely something we
will need to do more of in the future.
This has included our life saving 24/7
primary percutaneous coronary intervention
service, bowel cancer screening programme,
new blood testing service in council premises
and our work with the Think Home First Team
and Community Elderly Care Service (p14).
We have achieved a clean bill of health
from our regulators, fulfilled our promise to
make patient safety improvements and are
looking ahead to develop ways to further
improve emergency care (p15).
And while the financial challenge will
definitely need to be at the top of our agenda
in the year ahead I am sure that KGH staff
will make sure that we continue to make
improvements in all of our wards and all of
our departments.
There are definitely many reasons to look
back with pride at our achievements over the
last 18 months.
Now we need to look forward and face the
challenges ahead together.
KGH cardiologist James Cullen with cardiac
rotablation patient Marie Brown – see p13
Progress on our £30m development going well
– see p26
Faxitron from Crazy Hats and WRVS shop 19
Bansang Hospital update
20
Academic Day and Library Award
21
Equality and Diversity honour
22
Staff Wellbeing events and NVQ News
23
Jayne Tunstall and Sue Almond retire
24
Members Matters
25
Members visit £30m development
26
Infection control event
27
Members events
28
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Contact KGH Together editor/Communications Manager David Tomney by email
david.tomney@kgh.nhs.uk; by phone on 01536-493509; or by letter at Kettering General
Hospital, Rothwell Road, Kettering, NN16 8UZ.
Dementia care high on KGH agenda
KGH has launched a Memory Box scheme
as part of its work to help improve care
for people with dementia.
The Memory Box is a small box which
contains memorabilia which can be used to
help stimulate conversations between patients
with dementia and hospital staff.
The idea has been tried out across the
country by various caring organisations
and charities connected to dementia and
is something KGH has launched as part of
its work to improve care for patients with
dementia or memory loss.
KGH’s disability and sensory impairment
facilitator, Joanne Taylor, said: “A
memory box is simply a box which
contains items which can spark vivid
memories for a person who has
A memory box is simply a
dementia.
box which contains items
“It is something that helps hospital
L-R Jenny Embling, Joanne Taylor, and Leanne Hackshall,
which can spark vivid
staff to engage with a person and talk
with the Memory Box
memories for a person who
about their life and times and find out
more about them.
has dementia.”
“Memory boxes are an idea which came
“This in turns helps staff to make a
out of our Environment Group and they have
better connection with a person, aids
been successfully used in other parts of the
understanding and can help to improve
country.”
“Items can be anything that would spark
the quality of that patient’s care.”
a vivid memory. It could be old photographs,
household items (eg carbolic soap), items of
You can help us fill these
clothing, things related to specific events (eg
a ration book from World War 2) or something
boxes
with a look or texture that could be a
STAFF at a town car wash raised more
KGH already has one box (pictured) but
conversation piece.
than £200 for Kettering General Hospital’s
wants to increase this to ten or more and
“Themes could be things like local towns,
Special Care Baby Unit.
also have some themed boxes for people the boot and shoe industry, sport, the war
The California Carwash in Garrard Way,
with particular interests.
years and hobbies.”
Kettering, offered discounts on washes to
It hopes that local community groups, KGH
Any one interested in donating items for the
customers who put donations into a box over
Members and the public will be able to help by
boxes should contact Joanne Taylor
several weeks.
donating items for the boxes.
on Joanne.taylor@kgh.nhs.uk or 01536Les Burgess, manager of California Carwash,
Joanne said: “The boxes are shoe box size and 493340.
said: “We had a charity box out and for a
we are looking for about 5-10 items per box.
donation customers could get money off the
Builds on other work we are wash.
“We had the box out for about six weeks. It’s
doing
Dementia in Northants
such a good cause.”
THE MEMORY Box idea is just one idea
SCBU manager Christine Brandon-Cox
• It is believed that some 7,000 people
amongst many being developed at
said: “We would like to thank all the staff
suffer from dementia in the county at
KGH to improve care for people with
and customers of California Carwash for their
any one time
dementia or memory loss.
continued support of the Special Care Baby Unit.
• By 2025, this figure is expected to have
KGH’s Deputy Director of Nursing and
“The money will go into our SCBU funds
increased by 50%
Quality, Leanne Hackshall, said: “At KGH we
which we use to buy things such as improved
• Dementia is not a single illness but a
have four working groups which look at ways
equipment for the unit.”
group of symptoms caused by damage
of improving care for people with dementia
to the brain. The symptoms include
and memory problems.
loss of memory, mood changes and
“They look at things like staff education
confusion.
around
dementia, improving the patient’s
• Dementia is caused by a number
pathway
through the organisation, creating the
of different diseases of the brain,
right
environment
for people with dementia
including Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular
and
ensuring
we
have
overall plans that
dementia is the second most common
govern
and
measure
how
well we are caring
cause after Alzheimer’s disease
for these patients.
“
California Carwash raise
money for SCBU
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Stroke team have made great strides in
improving care
New Joint Paediatric Nephrology Clinic
launched
A NATIONAL report into stroke
care shows that KGH has improved
significantly since 2008.
The National Sentinel Stroke Audit 2010 was
conducted by The Royal College of Physicians
on behalf of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working
Party.
It monitors the rate of progress in stroke
care services in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland in a two year cycle.
In 2008 KGH’s overall scores in the audit
placed it in the lower quartile of Trusts in
England.
Now the hospital is in the middle half of
Trusts with scores above the national average
in 23 areas, slightly below the national average
in 8 areas and exactly equal to the national
average in one area measured.
KGH was in the upper quartile in a number
of areas and achieved 100% or close to 100%
in many individual areas of care.
KGH has just launched a new clinic for
the diagnosis and treatment of kidney
disease in children.
The move will reduce the need for parents
and their children to travel to specialist centres
in places like Nottingham and London.
It has been developed by Kettering General
Hospital Consultant Paediatrician Dr Harsha
Bilolikar with the help of Dr Andrew Lunn,
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at
Nottingham Children’s Hospital
and Pearl Pugh, Children’s
Renal Dietician at Nottingham
Children’s Hospital.
This is the first time we have
The clinics will be held
ever had such a clinic in
four times a year and take
Kettering and it will mean
patients aged up to 16 who
we can offer children and
have kidney disease and need
investigations or need to be
their parents a complete
regularly monitored to ensure
care package locally.”
that their condition is being
well managed. There will be
eight to ten patients in each clinic.
How we did in specific
areas
THIS is how we did in some the
specific categories of the audit
compared with the national average.
• % Admission to a stroke unit during stay
(95% Vs national average of 88%)
• Assessment of visual fields (96% Vs
85%)
• Brain imaging by CT or MRI scan (82%
Vs 70%)
• Occupational therapy assessment within
4 days (95% Vs 83%)
• Setting rehabilitation goals within 5 days
(90% Vs 78%)
• Setting rehabilitation goals at any time
during stay (100% Vs 94%)
• Nutritional assessment within 72 hours
(100% Vs 95%)
• Explaining the diagnosis to the patient
and/or their family (92% Vs 80%),
• Assessing the carer’s needs (85% Vs
76%)
• Teaching skills to care for patient (93%
Vs 80%)
• Follow up after discharge (100% Vs
74%).
L-R Stroke team members Kate Cresswell, Angelie Conti, Dr Khalid Ayes, Jom Makkil, Jeannie Kessell,
Dr Anand SK Chunduri.
“
Overall stroke care at KGH
has improved significantly
over the last two years and
we want to say a public
thank you to all the staff who
have worked so hard to make
this happen.”
KGH standards have
improved
KGH’s dedicated stroke team have
improved the hospital’s stroke care
across the board – according to the
latest national audit.
KGH stroke consultant Dr Khalid Ayes said;
“The aim of the National Sentinel Stroke
Audit is to provide a brief but comprehensive
overview of the quality of stroke services at a
Trust.
“This review shows that KGH has improved
its overall position in terms of the quality of its
care and we score above the national average
in 67% of the clinical standards assessed.
“Overall stroke care at KGH has improved
significantly over the last two years and we
want to say a public thank you to all the
staff who have worked so hard to make this
happen.
“While initial acute care (for up to 72 hours)
is now delivered at Northampton General
Hospital people will still get continuing
stroke care at KGH and we are determined to
make this absolutely first class. The result of
this audit shows we are well on the way to
achieving this.”
Prince’s Trust
Dolphin Ward
donation
TWELVE students from a Prince’s Trust
course at Tresham Institute in Corby
visited a KGH children’s ward bearing
gifts.
The students brought the presents – worth
£300 – to Dolphin Ward because part of
their course involves coming up with ways of
supporting their local community.
They had carried out a variety of fundraising
initiatives to raise the money for the presents
including packing bags in Wilkinsons in Corby
and having their legs waxed.
Student Ben Rojewski said: “Part of our
course is about personal development and that
includes working out ways to support your
local community. We thought a good way to
do this would be to support the hospital by
buying some presents for children who might
be spending time in hospital.”
L-R Students Ryan Crawford, Lauren Angieri,
Michaela Rush and Ben Rojewski with patient James
McKay, four.
“
Why we did it?
Dr Bilolikar said: “The paediatric department
at KGH wanted to establish this new clinic so
that local children with kidney problems can be
seen closer to their home.
“Thanks to Dr Lunn and Pearl Pugh we are
able to have the specialist input of a tertiary
centre here at Kettering General Hospital.
“This is the first time we have ever had such
a clinic in Kettering and it will mean we can
offer children and their parents a complete
care package locally.”
Families like the new service
On May 25 ten-year-old Charlotte Currie,
accompanied by her father Lyndon, was the
new clinic’s second patient.
Lyndon, from Kettering, said: “Charlotte
has a smaller than normal kidney which is
not working normally so she has high blood
pressure and scarring on her kidney.
“Previously we were travelling to
Nottingham every three months for regular
monitoring and specialist advice on diet and
lifestyle which is very important for Charlotte.
“We didn’t mind getting the train to
Nottingham but for many people travelling to
Nottingham or London for this sort of thing
would be very inconvenient.
“Now we have the clinic here in Kettering it
The new Joint Paediatric Nephrology Clinic (L-R) patient Charlotte Currie,
10, her dad Lyndon, KGH staff nurse Fiona Reid, Children’s Renal Dietician
at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Pearl Pugh, consultant paediatric
nephrologist at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Dr Andrew Lunn, and Dr
Harsha Bilolikar, consultant paediatrician at Kettering General Hospital.
is much easier for Charlotte and I to attend and
it means that Charlotte misses less school.”
Providing care closer to
home
Dr Lunn said: “There are outreach clinics for
paediatric nephrology in South Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, the East
Midlands and East Anglia but there has
never been one at Kettering and Dr Bilolikar
wanted to change that to benefit patients in
Northamptonshire.
“In line with National guidance we seek to
provide care closer to people’s homes and we all
agreed this would be a good way to do that.”
Rushden Mission Band donate £1,934
to Children’s Sensory Appeal
RUSHDEN Mission Band have raised an
amazing £1,934 for the KGH children’s
wards sensory room appeal.
The Band decided to raise money for KGH
following a visit to the wards last summer.
The money was raised through the sale of a
Band CD “All the fun of…. Rushden Mission
Band” which raised £1,500 and £434 from a
concert held in February 2010 at the Mission
Church in Wellingborough Road, Rushden.
The Band has been fundraising both for KGH
and the Alzheimer’s Society and splitting the
proceeds between the two.
On February 2 Band Chair Terry Spencer
and PR secretary Beverley Sanders presented
a cheque to play leader Trish Brigden and play
assistant Louise McKerrall. Terry and Beverley
are pictured with children’s ward patient Karis
Blott, ten, from Corby.
The Band’s CD was fully sponsored by A
Abbott and Sons of Rushden.
Band Chair Terry Spencer with children’s ward
patient Karis Blott, ten, and band member Beverley
Sanders
TWO KGH patients whose lives have
been transformed by transplant surgery
are urging you to sign up to the NHS
Organ Donor Register – today!
Signing up means that - in the unlikely event
of your sudden death - (for example in a road
accident) you would agree to donate all, or
some, of your organs to another person who is
in desperate need of transplant.
90% of people would accept an organ if
they needed it but only 27% of people bother
to sign up.
If everyone signed up the prospects for the
10,000 people who currently need transplants
would be much better.
It is easy to sign up by simply phoning on
0300 123 23 23 or filling in a form online at
www.organdonation.nhs.uk.
Here are the stories of two KGH patients
who helped our Organ Donation Committee
to make a high profile media appeal during
National Transplant Week (July 4-10).
Don’t hesitate! Read this and sign up
Claire receives the gift of sight
Amanda urges you to think of others
AMANDA Dowling was suffering terribly
and had only months to live at the end
of last year.
But now - thanks to the work of NHS Blood
and Transplant - she has had a successful liver
transplant and is able to get her life back on
track.
The 49-year-old, from Kettering, was
diagnosed with liver disease three years ago
and her condition became so serious she
needed a transplant.
Fortunately a donor was found and she
had the transplant at the end of January in
a seven-hour operation at Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Birmingham.
Ms Dowling, who has two children and one
grandson, said: “I had a terrible time with my
illness - I was collapsing and falling all the time
and didn’t have the energy to go out or do
anything.
“I was really lucky in that a donor was
available for me when I needed one –
something which is not true for a lot of people.
“The operation went well and I have been
very well supported by family and friends and
the staff at KGH and Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
“I am urging local people to sign the
register. If everyone did it there would be much
less of a problem of people having to wait for
transplants. In the event of your untimely death
you can give biggest gift anyone can give – the
gift of life.”
Claire Talbot can now appreciate the simple things
in life, like this flower, thanks to her corneal graft
2007 and it has very significantly improved the
eyesight in her left eye. She hopes to have a
second transplant for her right eye before the
end of this year.
Claire, who has three children aged seven,
four, and one, said: “At its worst I had
problems doing every day things like crossing
the road, reading, and being able to go to
work.
“Now I can read books, admire the scenery,
and most importantly see my children’s faces
properly.
“I want people to know how important it
is to sign up to the Organ Donor Register. It
can save or transform people’s lives. You never
know if you – or your family – might need a
transplant at some time in the future.”
Kettering and District MS Society
support our Rocket team
KETTERING and District Multiple
Sclerosis Society have contributed
£500 to KGH’s Rocket team – which
supports people with chronic obstructive
breathing disorders.
The Society made the donation in memory
of Mr Stuart Judd who was looked after by the
Rocket team for a number of years – along
with multiple sclerosis team.
Rocket manager Simon Lee said: “We are
very grateful for this extremely generous
donation in memory of Mr Judd who we
got to know very well during the time we
supported him with his breathing problems.
“The money forms part of our endowment
fund with which we are purchasing a new
spirometer – a device for measuring lung
volumes that will directly help us in the
management of other patients with chronic
lung disorders.”
Sue Judd and Joyce Lawrence from Kettering
and District MS Society present a cheque to KGH
Rocket team leader Simon Lee and his colleagues
Our doctors and
nurses say –
just do it!
KGH lead consultant for organ donation, Jan
Szafranski, said: “Signing the NHS Organ
Donor Register is a very important personal
statement you can make about what you
would like to happen to your organs in the
unlikely event of your premature death through
an accident or fatal illness.
“As well as signing up to the register it is
also very important to discuss your decision
with your close family so that they are aware
of your wishes.”
KGH’s transplant nurse specialist, Angela
Waterhouse, said: “This year’s national
campaign – run by NHS Blood and Transplant –
is called “What Are You Waiting For?”
“And that is our message to local people
too. If you haven’t signed up to the register
now is the time to do it.”
BBC Radio Northampton reporter Carrol Weston interviews Claire Talbot
CLAIRE Talbot has received the gift of
sight thanks to a corneal transplant
operation at KGH.
She is now enjoying the expressions on her
children’s faces, reading books and admiring
the scenery.
All of these things had become extremely
difficult for her because of a degenerative
condition called Keratoconus which causes
the cornea to thin and gradually worsens the
eyesight.
Claire, 30, from Wollaston, started to have
vision problems in both eyes when she was
about 15. By 2007 it had become so bad she
needed a corneal transplant (graft) in her left
eye.
She had the operation at KGH in December
Angela and Jan get the donation message across
L-R Jan Szafranski, Amanda Dowling and Angela Waterhouse
Birthday cake cut to celebrate the 63rd birthday of the NHS
A HUGE birthday cake to celebrate the
63rd anniversary of the NHS was cut and
distributed to hardworking KGH staff.
The cake was provided by the public service
union, Unison, to thank KGH staff for all of
their continuing hard work and commitment.
It was cut in the hospital’s main reception by
KGH Chairman, Steve Hone, and former Unison
Branch Secretary, Glenda Weston.
Glenda Weston, a retired Nurse from
Kettering General Hospital and now an
elected Governor on the hospital’s Council
of Governors, said: “I think it is appropriate
to commemorate the 63rd Birthday of our
wonderful NHS.
“In doing so we recognise the value of the
staff past and present who have contributed
to the growth and development of Kettering
General Hospital. The Health Service is an
example of the public sector at its best. Let us
focus on this event and pledge to ensure that
the NHS, free at the point of need, continues
for ever.”
Steve Hone said: “The NHS is now 63 years
old but we all hope it is a very long way from
retirement because it is one of our nation’s
greatest assets.
“Here at KGH we try to adopt all of the
NHS’s values and put patients at the centre of
everything we do.”
Former Unison Branch Secretary Glenda Weston and
KGH Chairman Steve Hone cut the cake to celebrate
the 63rd birthday of the NHS on July 5
KGH prepares for every emergency
KGH is reviewing and upgrading its
major incident plans to help it deal with
any emergency – however unlikely.
This is something that all NHS hospitals,
police, councils and other emergency services
have to do on a regular basis.
Over the last four months KGH has set up a
cross functional group to develop its plan to
make sure we are in the best possible position
to respond to any internal or external incident
that requires special arrangements to be
implemented.
Learning from recognised
best practice in other acute
hospitals the cross functional
We couldn’t have learnt so much
group has looked at all stages
about our new plan without
of a response and agreed how
input from staff across the
each area of KGH is involved
Lynda Brown and Helen Fawdon with the team being trained in Chemical
and how they will collaborate
Trust...”
Biological Radiological and Nuclear responses
effectively in a major incident.
This has resulted in the
“It’s one thing to explain to people what
so much about our new plan without input
development of an enhanced major incident
they would need to do, but setting up the
from staff across the Trust during Exercise
plan supported by action cards for all roles
decontamination tents and giving staff the
Greystoke”.
involved in a KGH response.
chance to walk through a scenario step by
It is expected the finalised plan will be
step has enabled us to identify some changes
published
in
the
early
Autumn
prior
to
Testing the plan – Exercise
which will really improve our response in a real
being tested in a major internal exercise on
Greystoke
situation”.
November 1st.
Simon explained that the Trust is now
BY early July our new plan had reached
looking
to increase the number of staff who
a stage where it could be tested as part
Chemical Biological
could
support
its response to a CBRN incident.
of Exercise Greystoke, an East Midlands
Radiological
Nuclear
(CBRN)
He
said:
“We
only need a few trained
wide exercise looking at the region’s
members
of
staff
for any incident but we
training
response to a mass casualty incident
want
a
large
pool
to choose from so we
resulting in more than 100 casualties.
WHILE the Major Incident Plan provides
can
always
respond
quickly”. Details of the
Simon Beesley, the Trusts Head of Resilience
an overall approach to responding
training
session
can
be found on KGH’s staff
and Business Continuity, said: “Exercise
to a major incident, more detailed
only
intranet
KNet
on
the resilience pages or
Greystoke gave us a great opportunity to verify
planning and preparation is required
by
contacting
Simon
by
email or on internal
key elements of our new plan and identify
for managing patients involved in CBRN
extension
1504.
where further developments are required.
(Chemical, Biological, Radiological or
“These will now be actioned before we
Nuclear) incidents.
embark on the next stage which is the training
A key element of this is training staff
and communication of the plan to staff likely to from all areas of the Trust to assist in the
be involved in a major incident response.”
decontamination of self-presenting patients
Simon went on to thank staff involved in
before they are treated.
the exercise saying “We couldn’t have learnt
A series of sessions have been held this
year which have resulted in more than 50 staff
being trained in decontamination procedures
KGH Resilience lead Simon Beesley demonstrates
including the use of the personal protective
the CBRN tent’s shower to Lynda and Helen
suits.
On June 16 a practical training session
took place which saw all of KGH’s equipment
being set up in-situ outside A & E and staff
wearing the protective suits and being
given the opportunity to walk through the
decontamination procedure.
Simon Beesley, Head of Resilience &
Business
Continuity, said: “This session has
The tent and water flushing system used during
Lynda Brown and Shev O’Brien unpack a
been
really
informative
for
all
involved.
CBRN exercises
protective suit
KGH finances update
“
Acting Chief Executive Mike Smeeton leading staff open meetings in June and July – these meetings are
now planned ahead until December
Pay deduction idea is not
going ahead
KGH has decided not to proceed with
a proposal for a hospital wide pay
deduction following the results of a
staff survey released on July 5.
All staff at the hospital had been ask to
consider the option of accepting a deduction
equivalent to half a day per month to help
the hospital achieve essential savings of
£12m-£15m this year, reducing the need for
redundancies.
The survey’s results have shown that the
majority of staff who took part in the survey
wanted the Trust to pursue other ways of
making the savings (520 returns) compared to
the pay option (277 returns).
This, and the fact that only 26% of the
hospital’s 3,312 staff took part in the survey,
(following advice from unions) has led to KGH
withdrawing the proposal.
Instead the Trust will need to pursue other
ways of saving the £2.7m per annum the idea
would have generated.
Acting Chief Executive, Mike Smeeton said
“The purpose of the survey was to look at
a savings idea that affected everyone rather
than one group more than another.
“We have received a clear message that
only a minority of staff within the hospital
would be in favour of this way of reducing
our costs and as a result we are not going to
pursue it. “
Important debate sparked
AN IMPORTANT debate has been
sparked by the pay cut idea and all
future proposed changes will continue
to be discussed in open staff meetings.
Acting Chief Executive Mike Smeeton said:
“If nothing else the controversy around this
measure has highlighted for all to see the scale
of the financial challenge facing Kettering
General Hospital and our commitment to
looking at all of the possible ways of tackling it
by engaging with our staff.
“Since March more than 850 of our staff
have attended open briefings with myself and
the senior management team on how we
tackle the financial challenges that we face.”
Savings gap still needs to
be closed – but safety and
quality of care remain our
priority
KGH still has the extremely difficult job
of coming up with ways to make the
£12m plus savings it will need to make
by March 31, 2012.
It currently has plans for savings of about
£9.9m - which leaves at least a £2.1m gap.
To close that gap KGH will need to look
at other options such as greater numbers of
redundancies, increases in car parking charges
for staff above inflation, changes to terms and
conditions and outsourcing of services.
“All of our planned cost efficiencies are being
carefully worked through and risk assessed to
ensure there is no impact on patient safety or
the quality of patient care.
“This includes a review of each measure by
senior clinicians.
“The Trust is currently working through a
very wide range of possible efficiencies and
changes to the way we work. At this stage
it is not possible to say where, or how many
redundancies, the organisation may need to
make. A lot depends on how successful our
cost improvement programme is.
“However I think it is important that we
have shared with our staff the difficult position
we find ourselves in and engaged them in the
difficult choices that the Trust needs to make.”
“
We have received a clear message
that only a minority of staff
within the hospital would be in
favour of this way of reducing
our costs and as a result we are
not going to pursue it.”
Staff contribute ideas at a brainstorming session organised by the Programme Management Office.
Work of KGH’s PAG service recognised
by European Association
WORK done by KGH’s Paediatric and
Adolescent Gynaecology (PAG) clinic
has been recognised by the European
Association of PAG. Sharon McGreal, trainee Senior House
Officer in obstetrics and gynaecology, and
Mr Paul Wood, Consultant, wrote a paper
reporting on the work the clinic has done at
KGH over the last 15 years.
The article was published in the British
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in its
December 2010 edition.and has now won the
prize for the best European PAGrelated article published in 2010
with a trainee as first author.
Sharon’s prize was for free
It recommended that
registration and accommodation
this approach should be
at the European PAG Congress
in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, on May
encouraged and promoted by
26-29.
those in charge of healthcare
Sharon and Paul’s paper was
policy and provider trusts in
entitled “A study of paediatric
L-R Sharon Mc Greal, Mr Paul Wood, and staff nurse Sarah Hawkins
general.”
and adolescent gynaecology
services in a British district
study which covered the period 1994-2009.
general hospital” and centred on the
It recommended that this approach should
The study found 86% of patients were
designated service at KGH meeting the needs
be encouraged and promoted by those in
referred from primary care and were aged 4-15 charge of healthcare policy and provider trusts
of children with gynaecological problems from
with the average age of 10 years. Sixty percent
a wide geographical area.
in general.
of patients were followed-up, giving a total of
National guidelines reinforce the fact
Mr Paul Wood is currently Chair of the
2,023 appointments.
that children should be seen within specific
British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent
The study looked a common and rarer
paediatric areas in hospital. The paper
Gynaecology and East Midlands Strategic
problems and pathways of care and
reviewed the role of such a service in the
Health Authority Clinical Lead for Safety. He has
concluded that developing a specialist service
context of a British district general hospital
been elected onto the Board of the European
enabled best practice care for children with
looking back over the service’s 15 year history.
Association of PAG and led a successful bid to
gynaecological problems.
A total of 800 patients were included in the
host the next congress in 2014.
“
Our head of nursing has won an award
Head of Nursing for Surgery and Surgical Specialities
Jacqueline Davis
KGH’s new Head of Nursing for
Surgery and Surgical Specialities has
won an award from the Society for
Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain
and Ireland.
Jacqueline Davis won the award after giving
a presentation to the Society’s Forum on the
impact of the national Releasing Time for Care
Initiative.
This is an initiative whereby all aspects of
patient care are examined and streamlined so
that staff are freed up to spend more time with
patients.
Jacqueline won the award just before
arriving at KGH while she was working as a
workforce development facilitator at Papworth
Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
She was asked to repeat the presentation to
a meeting of European cardiothoracic specialist
healthcare professionals at a conference in
Geneva.
She has just received a medal from
the society to mark the achievement at a
celebratory dinner in London.
Jacqueline said: “The Releasing Time to Care
Initiative is also currently underway at KGH
and is having a positive impact on patient care
by releasing more staff time for face-to-face
contact with patients.
“I am very pleased to have received this
award and I am currently helping to inform the
vision for our plans to improve emergency care
provision for surgical patients at KGH.”
High tech Tilt Table will help older people
with fainting problems
A LOCAL charitable Trust has bought a
£27,875 high tech Tilt Table for KGH’s
Cardiac Investigation Unit.
And on June 7 Mr Robert Eden, a trustee
of the Florence Jessie Cleaver Trust, officially
presented the Tilt Table to Mr Ravi Joshi,
consultant in elderly medicine at KGH, and
care of the elderly service manager Carla
Campbell Barker.
Dr Joshi, who will conduct the Tilt Clinics,
said: “We are very grateful to the Florence
Jessie Cleaver Trust for this timely gift. The
equipment will be used to identify the cause
of unexplained faints and falls mostly, but not
exclusively, in elderly people.
“Previously, patients had to
travel to Leicester which is often
difficult, upsetting and disruptive
With this test available
for them and their families.
locally we can provide better
“With this test available locally
Mr Robert Eden, a trustee of the Florence Jessie Cleaver Trust, officially
health services for the local
we can provide better health
presented the Tilt Table to Mr Ravi Joshi, consultant in elderly medicine
services for the local population
at KGH, care of the elderly service manager, Carla Campbell Barker, and
population closer to home.”
closer to home.” fundraising officer Christina Kelly on June 7
KGH is currently in discussions
with the Primary Care Trust regarding the
someone is practically in a standing position.
Cleaver from Rothwell. It is there to make
introduction of this service and hopes that it
This enables people’s physiological responses
donations to good causes which promote
will go live in the Autumn. to standing still to be tested over a period
the well being of, or benefit the lives of, older
To have the procedure a patient is first
of time, without the danger of them actually
people living in the Rothwell, Desborough or
connected to a high tech ECG and real time
fainting and falling over.
Kettering area.”
blood pressure monitor. They then get onto the
Robert Eden, Trustee of the Florence Jessie
Anyone who wants to ask for the support of
tilt table where they are carefully strapped into
Clever Trust, said: “Our Trust was set up a few
the Florence Jessie Cleaver Trust can contact it
place to prevent any possibility of a fall.
years ago after the death of Florence Jessie
by email at cleavertrust@btinternet.com
The table then slowly tilts upwards until
“
Staff trained to help prevent
falls during National Falls Week
DURING National Falls Week (June 20-24) staff from across KGH
were trained in ways of preventing falls and also how help
people who have fallen.
During the week staff had both general falls prevention training and
specialised training around the use of particular devices such as the
Mangar Lift Aid and sensor mats with alarms to alert staff to patients who
get up but are at risk of falling.
The training was part of National Falls Week and also a part of KGH’s
overall focus for the year on patient safety.
Members of the Council of Governors’ Patient Experience Group assisted
with and observed the training.
During Falls Week staff undertook special training including using a Mangar
inflatable lifting aid which enables a person to be lifted up from the floor PEG
Members Jenny Dixon and Joan McDowall with OT Louise Tolley, manual handling
co-ordinator Maryke Gosliga and Kevin Crean-O’Sullivan from Mangar
We help promote Heart Failure
Awareness.
KNOW your pulse! That was one of the
messages from KGH’s cardiac team
during World Heart Rhythm Week (June
8-14).
During the week KGH cardiac staff held an
information stand in our main reception area
to help improve awareness about heart rhythm
problems.
It was just one of hundreds of events
organised internationally by about 300
different organisations during the week.
The aim is help people to recognise
cardiac disorders in their early stages
and prevent sudden cardiac death.
KGH Cardiac Nurse Specialist
Karen Roberts said: “One of the
The aim is help people to
easiest things anyone can do to
recognise cardiac disorders
check for heart rhythm issues is to
know how to check your own pulse
in their early stages...”
and monitor it over a period of time.
“Therefore, as part of the World
Heart Rhythm Week awareness campaign, we
are urging people to learn how to do this.
“Heart rhythm problems are very common
and affect more than a million people in the
UK each year and each year we treat about
600 people for heart rhythm conditions at
Kettering General Hospital.”
“
How to check your pulse
CHECKING your pulse can help you to
identify any possible problems.
Karen said: “One of the easiest places to
feel your pulse is on your wrist just below your
thumb and you should use the forefinger and
Annual Review
Turning our strategy into reality
EACH year KGH produces an Annual Plan and sets itself objectives to be achieved.
During the NHS year March 31, 2010- April 1, 2011, we said we would:
1. Provide safer care
2. Continue to improve the patient experience
3. Be the hospital of choice for you
L-R Healthcare assistant Helen White, CCU manager Karen Roberts, and
Sister Melody Tassell at an World Heart Rhythm Week stand in main
reception at KGH
second finger of your other hand to feel for
the pulsation.
“Your pulse represents your heart beat,
your heart rate and your heart rhythm.
“Being aware of your pulse is important
because it may indicate an abnormal heart
rate or rhythm.
“A normal pulse is between 60 and 100
beats per minute but there are normal reasons
why your pulse may go slower or faster such
as exercise, medicines, caffeine and stress and
anxiety.
“But you may need some medical advice
if your pulse seems to be racing most of the
time, feels irregular and jumping around, or if it
seems to be going slowly most of the time.”
“It is a good idea to try taking your pulse at
various points throughout the day.”
Many heart rhythm problems can be
successfully treated with modern methods and
it is important to identify issues at the earliest
opportunity.
Improving the experience of
patients at KGH
Improved Services
We are constantly improving the services we offer here at KGH. In
2010-2011 we:
Became the second hospital in the world to fit a new MRI scan
safe pacemaker into 17-year-old Andrew Morgan from Corby.
Introduced a new cardiac rotablation procedure which enables
consultants to clear blocked arteries using a tiny diamond tip drill. This
allowed Marie Brown to get back on the ballroom dance floor.
Developed state-of-the-art vascular surgery as Donald Loake
found out when our surgeons saved him from a 9.5cm abdominal
aortic aneurysm that was a ‘ticking timebomb’ waiting to go off.
Successfully pioneered the use of capsule endoscopy
where a patient takes a pill containing a tiny camera which passes
through their bowels photographing problems which were previously
unreachable using normal endoscope tube cameras.
Ellie and Jacob Ivens
Patient Environment
DURING Heart Failure Awareness Day
(May 6) members of KGH’s Cardiac
Team and a community support group
– Heartwise - held a display in the main
hospital reception.
The aim was to increase awareness of what
Heart Failure is and
the many different
ways in which
cardiac patients can
be supported.
Heart failure is not
the same as a heart
attack – but it can
lead to the damage
that goes on to cause
heart failure.
Research has
shown
that the more
L- R Cardiac Manager Maxine White with the Heart Failure Nurse Specialists Seeta
Tiveyand Kathy Simmonds and Heartwise support group member Dyanne Carr.
people know about
their condition the better they can cope with
it – hence the importance of people knowing
about local services.
Dyanne Carr was a patient at KGH in 2005,
she now takes part in the running of the local
heart failure group (Heartwise) in Corby. The
group started three years ago and there are
now 20-25 people in it.
The aim of the Heartwise is to provide
support, friendship, therapy, and a general
social gathering to talk to people who have
experienced the same or similar illness; the
group also go on outings.
The support group works alongside health
professionals to bring the best possible care to
people with heart failure and can be contacted
on 01536-394320.
This quick review of 2010-2011 shows how we
have done this. It also demonstrates some of the
challenges we now face such as improving care
while making very significant cost savings.
Donald Loake
To improve facilities for patients during 2010-2011 we have:
Andrew Morgan
Started work on our £30m new development which is now about
half way to its 2012 completion. The three-storey block will enable us to
double the size of our intensive care unit, allow the children’s wards to
move to a vastly improved new location and provide a new state-of-theart ward.
Completed our £4.7m refurbishment of the Harrowden Wards
improving care particularly for older patients and increasing the amount
of single rooms and ensuite facilities available at KGH.
Opened the Nene Park Outpatients Clinic which will see up to
40,000 East Northamptonshire residents at a purpose built centre close
to their homes rather than having to travel to KGH.
Opened a £78,000 state-of-the-art water birth suite which has
quadrupled the number of mums choosing this natural way of giving
birth. One of the first mums to use it was Ellie Ivens and her son Jacob.
A capsule
endoscope
Marie Brown
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Progress in all areas
Emphasising safety and public involvement
Patient Safety Work
A clean bill of health
from our regulators
Our research shows KGH patients think safety
(making sure everything possible is done to
reduce risks) should be one of our highest
priorities. We have responded by increasing our
focus on this area. During 2010-2011 we have:
Improved Services
Partnership Work
Launched a 24/7 primary percutaneous
coronary intervention service (fitting tiny
metal stents to open up the blocked arteries of
heart attack patients) where KGH is the county
centre for this treatment and provides it at night
and weekends in addition to normal working
hours.
KGH works closely with its partner
organisations and during 2010-2011 it has
helped establish:
Completed the first full wave of bowel
cancer screening for people aged 60-69
and as a result detected cancer in 44 Northants
patients and removed 395 other pre-cancerous
growths. KGH leads the screening programme
for the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and
Rutland area and KGH patient Cecilia Tomlinson
(pictured) helped us to promote the importance
of the programme after having her cancer
spotted and treated early as a result of it.
Completed our £3.4m revamp of the
pathology department to transform and
expand this department which performs
more than 7.5 million blood, urine and other
diagnostic tests for GPs and hospital staff
each year.
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Developed a Patient Safety Project led by
senior KGH staff to look at the different ways
in which we can make the hospital safer. The
Project focuses on getting good measurements
of safety; training and empowering staff to
challenge safety issues; and using the local
knowledge of our staff to bring in practical
improvements.
A new Community Elderly Care Service
– which is making sure older people get
the right care in the right setting - is being
supported by consultants working at KGH.
The service involves older people getting
thorough geriatric assessments on arrival in
hospital which looks at their circumstances
from all angles and enables better decisions
to be made about their care pathway.
A new KGH blood testing service at
Kettering Borough Council’s offices in
the town centre. The new service – thought
to be the first of its kind in the country - is
more convenient for some patients than
travelling to KGH and reduces pressure on the
hospital’s own blood testing rooms.
Recognising Our Staff
Held patient safety walk-arounds where
senior directors, clinicians and managers
walk the wards and departments and discuss
issues with front line staff – One walk around
discovered better disposable slippers could be
used to reduce the risk of falls.
Introduced bar coded and printed wrist/
ankle bands for both babies and adults.
This increases safety because it enables unique
NHS numbers and other details to be easily
cross referenced by staff reducing potential
errors caused by handwriting.
Maintained a major emphasis on
infection control and made significant
progress in this area during 2010-2011 cutting
MRSA down to only one case and keeping C
difficile below our own tough reduction targets
(which mean we have to have significantly less
cases than national targets).
Involving Our Members
A ‘Think Home First Team’ discharge
initiative pioneered at KGH won two
major national awards and involves joint teams
drawn from the hospital, county council and
other NHS organisations. The team works
together at the front line of care to ensure
people who need support get it quickly
and can be discharged either home or to a
community setting.
The amazing work of KGH staff was
recognised at our second annual Employee
Excellence Awards. Individual staff – and whole
teams - received awards to recognise their
work in improving care for patients, innovation,
safety, and outstanding service to KGH and its
partners.
A new five year human resources
strategy was launched to help us develop
our staff to the highest level. The strategy looks
at improving working lives, enhancing training,
fostering talent, embracing equality and
diversity and promoting health and well being
through internal events and initiatives.
Safer disposable slippers have been introduced
KGH has a 39 strong Council of
Governors who represent our 8,100 Public
and Staff Members from across the area served
by the hospital.
Governors work alongside KGH Directors,
managers and clinicians to help make the big
decisions on the hospital’s future direction and
At the beginning of the year KGH was
successfully registered with the health
and social care regulator the Care Quality
Commission (CQC) without conditions.
This means the CQC has carefully studied
a vast amount of evidence provided by KGH
which proves that we are working across all
areas to improve the patient experience, deal
with complaints well and maintain safety and
cleanliness.
The CQC also did its Inpatient Survey at KGH
which showed that we scored in the top 20%
of Trusts in 10 areas of care, in the middle 60%
in 51 areas of care and in the lower 20% in
three areas of care.
Most recently the CQC also inspected
our quality and safety standards for older
people and found the hospital met all its key
standards and that people’s experience of care
was very positive, particularly around attentive
nurses and good food.
New patient wristbands enhance safety
also to get involved with projects that help to
improve the patient experience and how the
hospital is governed.
During 2010-2011 Governors have been
involved with monitoring the performance
of the Trust through the Board of Directors;
providing an input into the Trust’s Quality
Account regarding the areas that the Trust
would focus on in 2011/12; approving the
process for the appointment of the Chief
Executive and re-appointed the Chairman of
the Trust for a further 3-year term of office.
KGH Members have also involved
themselves with the hospital this year through
our Elections to the Council of Governors held
in October 2010 and by attending our very
successful series of public seminars which have
covered things such as cardiac care, arthritis,
diabetes, and ophthalmology.
Our Patient and Public Involvement Topic Group at work Improving emergency care will be challenging
The Challenge –
Improving patient
experience in testing
times
The biggest challenge KGH faced during 20102011 was to see, treat and discharge – or
admit – patients to hospital from A&E within
four hours.
Overall during 2010-2011 we saw 95.8%
of patients within four hours - 95% is the
national target. However while this was the
overall average for the year we did fail to
achieve the target in the last three months of
2010-2011.
The A&E time has been a major challenge for
the Trust and has varied each month according
to the pressures on the hospital – particularly
during the winter months.
We are now devising a new Urgent and
Emergency Care Programme to tackle this key
issue with the help of regional experts.
Improving emergency care – particularly
at a time of financial constraint and growing
population – will be a major challenge.
But it is also an opportunity for us to stand
back and take a fresh look at how we can
design services to reduce waiting, reduce
delayed discharge, and improve the patient
experience while increasing our efficiency and
effectiveness.
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KGH gets Heartbeat Gold Award for
its food production
How KGH spends its money
In 2010-11 KGH had an income of
£182.7m and the pie chart opposite
shows how we spent that money.
The Trust gets the majority of its income –
some 79%– from NHS Northamptonshire.
NHS Northamptonshire is the main
‘commissioner’ (purchaser) of health services
in North Northamptonshire.
This means based on the population size
and demographics of North Northamptonshire
the Government allocates each year its fair
amount to buy the health services required.
Kettering General Hospital gets paid for
providing the hospital services that people in
North Northamptonshire need through a contract
with the PCT.
The remaining 21% of the Trust’s income comes
from various other NHS organisations whose
patients use Kettering’s services with some smaller
amounts from bodies like the Department of
Health and other partner organisations.
These arrangements will be changing from
2013 when GPs start to lead the purchasing of
services from KGH.
KGH has just received the
Northamptonshire Heartbeat Gold
Award from Kettering Borough Council
for its staff, patient and visitors’
restaurant, kitchens and coffee shop for
the third year running.
The award means that the hospital has good
standards of hygiene and provides healthy
food choices to patients, visitors and staff.
Kettering General Hospital’s
Catering manager, Sue Landon,
said: “We are delighted to
have received this award, for
the third year running, for our
Each day we produce some
high standards of food hygiene
1,500 meals and snacks for
and commitment to providing
70% Pay cost
£123.7m
our patients, visitors and
healthy meal options for our
staff and we aim to ensure
customers.
16% Drugs, medical equipment
and supplies
£28.9m
“Each day we produce some
all of them are prepared to a
KGH staff with the Heartbeat Gold Award certificates
1,500 meals and snacks for our
very high standard...”
4% Maintainance
£7.7m patients, visitors and staff and
we aim to ensure all of them are
5% Other costs
£9.7m
prepared to a very high standard.
The criteria for the Gold award is:
“We
train
all
our
staff
in
food
hygiene
and
3% Depreciation
£6m
• Have at least a 4 star rating for
safety, supervisors receive nutritional training
food hygiene under the Food
and our chefs do an amazing job producing up
2% Insurance premiums £3.8m Hygiene Rating environmental
to 20 different meals choices each day.”
health/local authority scheme
The Northamptonshire Heartbeat Award
(Trust achieved five stars in 2011)
is a countywide scheme promoted and
•
Comply with appropriate
managed by Local Authority Environmental
nutritional assessment criteria*
Health Departments in partnership with
•
Nutritional training to at least
Northamptonshire County Council and NHS
a level 2 standard for manager/
Northamptonshire.
supervisor
The scheme is a two tier award whereby any
of savings achieved in the previous
•
Show basic allergy awareness
caterer who can demonstrate and document
year. The Trust is determined to ensure
•
Have a documented Heartbeat
high standards of hygiene and a menu which
Catering assistant, Darba Mashari, head chef, Sarah
that this programme will not affect the
management system in place
provides healthy options can apply for the
Gaziano, and catering supervisor Kartina Smith with
quality of services that are provided
‘standard’ award or the ‘gold’ award.
some of KGH’s award winning food
to its patients; therefore a number of
change programmes are in place that will
make the Trust more efficient in the way
services are run.
In addition, appropriate cost reductions
are being made where this does not
affect the quality of service to our
about patients to help with their treatment.
The NHS is introducing electronic
to NHS staff
patients and some difficult decisions
At the moment paper records mean
Summary Care Records to improve the
treating patients in an emergency.
are being made by the Trust on the
healthcare staff can only share information
safety and quality of patient care.
On receiving your information pack, if you
expenditure items like commercial
from records by letter, e-mail, fax or phone.
Summary Care Records will start to be
are happy to have a Summary Care Record
insurance.
At times, this can be slow and sometimes
created in Northamptonshire in 2011 and
you do not need to do anything further and
The Trust has set up a Programme
delays are incurred along the way. As well as
will involve a brief record of key aspects of
one will be created for you. Patients will have
Management Office to manage the
this, it can sometimes be difficult for patients
your care to be available to NHS staff by
the option to opt-out if they wish.
change programmes and efficiency
to remember or communicate their important
confidential computer links. At the moment
Alternatively you may wish to find out
schemes and this reports through to a
medical information.
most records are paper records.
more on the Summary Care Record by
weekly steering committee to ensure
With the introduction of the Summary
Patients will be informed via post before a
visiting the NHS Care Record Website (www.
the Trust is on target to achieve the
Care Record, there will be quicker and easier
record is created for them.
nhscarerecords.nhs.uk) or calling the National
efficiencies that are required.
Summary Care Records will give healthcare
ways to get important information, such as
Summary Care Record Information Line on
staff faster, easier access to reliable information allergies, adverse reactions and medications
0300 123 3020.
Spending 2010-2011
Breakdown of
our spending
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l
l
l
Pay – The hospital’s largest cost each
year is paying the salary of its 3095
(whole time equivalent) staff and all the
associated costs an employer needs to
spend including national insurance and
pension contributions
Drugs and medical equipment – The
cost of things like patients’ medication,
dressings, syringes and other medical
equipment
Premises – What the Trust spends on
its gas, electricity, water and telephone
bills as well as business rates and minor
repairs and maintenance programmes
Depreciation – The reduced value of
the Trust’s buildings and equipment over
time has to be accounted for each year
Insurance – To cover the Trust against
fire, theft and other liabilities, for
example legal claims
Other costs – This will include staff
training costs, changes in the valuation
of property, services provided to
other NHS trusts eg hiring premises
for outpatient clinics from other NHS
Trusts, external services, eg security, and
general audit and legal fees.
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The financial challenge ahead
The country has seen a significant
downturn in its finances and this
has had a huge impact upon the
public sector including Kettering
General Hospital.
NHS Northamptonshire has requested
a reduction in activity for the next
financial year and the prices the Trust
is paid for operations and outpatient
appointments has also been reduced.
This is at a time when demand for health
services is ever increasing and pressure
on health consumables, drugs and energy
costs is showing double digit percentage
increases.
Therefore a significant savings
programme has been implemented
within the Trust aiming to achieve
£12million of cost reductions and
efficiencies.
This is equivalent to a 7% reduction in
costs, which is almost double the amount
Summary Care Records in Kettering and Corby
KGH hosts new Superman movie
A NEW Superman movie – Superman
Requiem – has had one of its scenes
filmed at KGH.
The not-for-profit movie has been made for
fans of the iconic superhero by the London
branch of LA-based production company
Cupsogue Pictures.
Three of the production team, co-producers
Sophie Langford and Lori Macfadyen, and stills
photographer, Ben Macfadyen, are all from
Northamptonshire and thought of using the
county as a base for some of the scenes.
Sophie, who lives in Kettering,
approached KGH looking for a
hospital room to shoot a scene
where Superman (played by Martin
The production team and actors on the Superman set at KGH
The KGH scene, filmed on
Richardson) is visiting his love
July 6, took about two hours
interest Ali Noules (played by Stacy
Sobeshi)
to shoot. The final movie
The plot is Superman has been
will be an 80 minute feature
robbed of his powers by the son
length film...”
of arch villian Lex Luthor and has
to save Ali Noules from his clutches
without them.
The movie is being filmed in double quick
By doing so he proves he really is a
time – between June 4 and July 10 – and is
Superman and not just reliant on his extra
due out on November 11. It is being entered
terrestrial super powers.
into the Cannes Film Festival and other
KGH Communications Manager David
international festival events.
Superman is visiting his love interest Ali Noules in
Tomney said: “It would have been impossible
It will be available to view online. To see the
her hospital bed after saving her when he had no
to use a real ward for the shooting because we
trailer visit www.themanofsteelisback.com
super powers.
are so busy but fortunately we have a mock
ward where we do staff training called the
Clinical Skills Lab.
“It was free on the morning that the
producers of Superman Requiem needed it so
we were happy to support the movie.”
GOLDEN Wedding couple Brian and Mary
They raised money for the Rocket team
The KGH scene, filmed on July 6, took about
Southgate have raised £305 for the KGH
because their son-in-law, Simon Lee, is the
two hours to shoot. The final movie will be an
Rocket team – which supports people
team manager and they knew it was a good
80 minute feature length film with a total of
with breathing disorders like COPD.
cause.
112 actors and extras.
Mary, 71, and Brian, 74, from Irchester, held
Brian said: “We also know a number of our
A news room scene is also being filmed
a tea party at Stanwick Lakes to celebrate their
friends who have had breathing problems and
at the Chronicle and Echo building in
big day and asked for donations instead of
have needed the extra support that the Rocket
Northampton.
presents.
team provides.”
“
Golden gift for Rocket team
Through the clapper board…. Stacey Sobeshi
playing Ali Noules and Martin Richardson playing
Superman
Rocket team members Annelie Vorster, Marie Crouch, Simon Lee and Janet Bailey with Mary and
Brian Southgate
KGH receives £62,000 Faxitron
“
With this test available locally
we can provide better health
services for the local population
closer to home.”
Robert Smith chair KDCMT, staff nurse Amanda Walker, Carley Sparrow, charity partnerships
executive for Avon, Theatre Sister Nicki Dalziel, Gareth Ogden, treasurer KDCMT, Debbie Capper,
radiographer, Glennis Hooper founder Crazy Hats, Christina Kelly, KGH charity officer, clinical nurse
specialist Christine Kershaw and Mr Mo Rached, clinical lead for the breast service.
BREAST cancer treatments at KGH have
been enhanced thanks to the donation
of a £62,000 mobile digital x-ray
machine.
The money for the high tech device was
raised by three local charities - the Crazy Hats
Appeal, Kettering & District Charitable Medical
Trust and Northampton based beauty giant
Avon UK. All of them paid a third towards it.
The Faxitron is an x-ray machine which
can be actually used in theatre during breast
operations so that surgeons and radiologists
can see just how much tissue around the
margin of the cancer they need to take.
This prevents the need for a person to
have two operations with an x-ray session in
between them.
The Crazy Hats Appeal bought KGH’s first
Faxitron some 9 years ago but technological
improvements meant that it has been a great
benefit to have a new one.
The new machine helps to reduce the
amount of time a patient needs to be under
anaesthetic for, making the operation safer.
Crazy Hats Appeal Founder, Glennis Hooper:
“Once again we are thrilled to be able to
support the breast care services at KGH.
“We’d like to thank everyone in the
community who has contributed towards the
cost of the new Faxitron machine, which we
know will make a significant difference and
enhance the excellent services the unit already
provides. “
Chairman of Kettering & District Charitable
Medical Trust, Robert Smith says “We are
delighted to be able to contribute towards
the cost of the Faxitron to help benefit cancer
patients within our community.”
KGH takes on WRVS shop in outpatients
KGH is taking over the running of the
Café in outpatients and extending its
opening hours from September.
We expect to generate income from the
move to help towards the £12m-£15m of
savings we must make this year. (see page 9)
It will also allow us to make the best use of
own catering staff and enable us to extend the
hours of the café to meet patients and visitors
needs.
The changeover will take place in September
following an approximate two weeks of
refurbishment.
KGH is currently working with WRVS to
ensure that volunteers who give up their time
to help at the outpatients café can be found
other volunteering roles within the hospital.
These could include enhancing the trolley
service to our wards and to develop a WRVS
befriending service for patients with dementia.
“We very much appreciate the work that
WRVS volunteers do at KGH and want them
to continue to support us. Clearly though we
also have a duty to do everything we can
to achieve our financial duties, support our
own staff and continue to provide important
services for our patients and visitors.”
WRVS Head of Service Linda Jennings said:
“We are looking forward to continuing to
work closely with KGH and are discussing
what happens next with the volunteers and
identifying other volunteering opportunities at
the hospital.
“We would like to take this opportunity to
thank all those volunteers who have dedicated
so much time and effort to making the coffee
bar a success. “
The WRVS shop near main reception is
unaffected by the change.
Crazy Hats Appeal has
raised £500,000 for KGH
FOR the last 11 years the Crazy Hats
Appeal has been supporting KGH – and
has raised more than half a million
pounds for a wide variety of breast
cancer related improvements.
These have included:
• £100,000 to fund the opening of the
Treatment Centre including a café, high
quality decoration in its breast care rooms
and artwork
• Surgical equipment such as retractors,
gamma probles
• The first Faxitron machine nine years ago
• Specialist equipment such as ultrasound
scanners, a mammotome, MRI attachment
and plastic surgery ‘fat filler’
• Patient entertainment equipment such as
TVs.
The charity’s founder, Glennis Hooper, who has
been treated for breast cancer at KGH, said:
“We are successful because we always inform
our fundraisers where the money goes and we
like to keep our donations locally focussed.
“We are aware that cancer affects a lot
of people each year and this is our way of
making sure that local services are absolutely
excellent.”
Staff in KGH’s breast screening unit have
raised £10,000 for Crazy Hats over the last two
years.
£75,000 lymph node
analysis machine is next
target
THE next item being fund raised for by
Crazy Hats is a £75,000 one stop lymph
node analysis machine.
The equipment enables breast surgeons to
check gland samples taken from the armpit to
see if cancer has spread from the breast to the
lymph nodes.
This can be done while an operation on the
breast is underway – so preventing the need
for two operations if the cancer has spread and
the lymph glands need to be removed.
Our staff help at Bansang Hospital in the Gambia
A KGH staff member and her husband
have returned from life saving work at
the Bansang Hospital in the Gambia.
Neonatal intensive care unit Sister Jeanette
Payne and her husband Chris visited the
hospital – which is informally
twinned with KGH – in January
and helped make further
improvements to its special care
baby unit.
My trips since have been
Jeanette said: “In 2008 KGH
very encouraging, with
community midwife Christine
more babies being cared
Rospoppa and myself went to
Bansang Hospital in the Gambia
for and surviving...”
with a remit to develop a Special
Care Baby Unit and to advise and
teach about newborn resuscitation and care.
“Since then I have been to Bansang twice to
continue this project and to meet old friends.
“Initially we set up the SCBU room on the
paediatric ward and introduced the importance
This year’s visit a success
of keeping the premature babies warm,
Kangaroo care, and feeding by breast and cup
JEANETTE and husband Chris have been
top-ups. We also taught about safe positioning,
very busy during this year’s visit.
phototherapy and how to give oxygen if
Jeannette said: “I returned this January and
needed.
the staff on the ward proudly reported that
“My trips since have been very encouraging,
more than 12 babies born between 1kg and
with more babies being cared for and surviving
1.2 kg had been on the unit and had gone
and the room being fully used – often four
home in the last 12 months!!”
babies in the four incubators.”
“My husband Chris has accompanied me
on the last two trips and has built shelves and
storage and we have ‘done a makeover’ of
the SCBU room, theatre suite and this year the
MORE than 90 doctors attended a
special Academic Day in Kettering
General Hospital’s lecture theatre.
“
Improvements at the hospital
have led to a 40% reduction in
maternal mortality since 2004
and major improvements for the
care of children
scanning room on maternity and the injection
and dressing room.
“A new obstetric theatre has been built so
emergency sections will be able to be more
timely. Chris also built two “Resuscitaires”
for £20 which would have cost £17,000 each
for a modern one, along with shelves for a
reference library in the staff block.”
Any KGH staff members who have
unwanted training/text books can donate
them to the Appeal via Jeannette in NICU.
Facts about Bansang Hospital
• Bansang Hospital is in West Africa and an Appeal
was started to support it when local resident Anita
Smith, from Orlingbury, visited the country in 1992
and saw how poorly resourced healthcare was in
this part of the world.
• KGH has helped over the years through donations
of redundant equipment and by our staff visiting
the hospital and helping to update local staff on
new methods
• Maternal mortality at the hospital has been reduced
by 40% since 2004
The quarterly academic session brings
doctors from across the hospital together to
discuss new guidelines, practice updates and
interesting case reports in order to improve
clinical practice and patient care.
The lecture theatre was filled with doctors
from all specialities who came to hear the
following speakers: Dr
I.Wilson-Morkeh and Dr K.
Lyttelton (haematology),
Dr N. Spencer (Emergency
The quarterly academic
Department), Dr K.
Front left to right: Back row: Dr Jan Szafranski, consultant anaesthetist, Dr Nathan
Hogrefe and Dr N.Shaukat
session brings doctors
Spencer consultant physician, Dr Philip Watt, consultant anaesthetist, Dr Laszlo Hollos,
(Cardiology), Dr A. Hussain,
from across the hospital
consultant anaesthetist, Dr Linda Twohey, consultant anaesthetist. Front row: Parizade
Dr R Joshi (Medicine), Dr
Raymode, research nurse. Also involved in the Promise trial team trial were Dr Nigel
together...”
Gang-Xu & Dr I Hubbard
Dunk, Consultant Anaesthetist, and Dr Aamir Tarique Consultant Emergency Physician.
(Geriatric Medicine) and Mr
Sabbagh (Urology).
Dr Linda Twohey Consultant Anaesthetist
from the Critical Care and Respiratory Team
Critical Care Research Team
gave an overview of new clinical trials that are
SEPSIS is a systemic inflammatory
being carried out across the Trust.
response to infection and is the
commonest cause of death in adult
Respiratory Research Team
intensive care units.
The KGH Knowledge & Library Service
KGH has recently shown interest in
has received a certificate from the
KGH is participating in a multi-centre
participating in a series of clinical trials:
“Sally Hernando Award for Innovation
clinical trial organised by the University
(ProMISE, GAinS and Spotlight) which will
in NHS Library & Knowledge Services
of Sheffield.
reflect the incidence of sepsis in the adult
2010-2011.”
Dr Nathan Spencer, who is the Principal
intensive care unit.
The award is for the hospital’s pioneering
Investigator for the Respiratory Research Team,
Dr Philip Watt (Consultant Anaesthetist)
use of the Koha Library Management
has been involved in the setting up the trial.
who is the Principal Investigator has
System – a free ‘open source’ web
Patients who suffer from asthma will be
contributed in the setting up of the trials. All
based software system – which enables
given a treatment option when they attend A
trials are done with patient safety as a top
libraries to develop an extensive electronic
& E and they will be given the choice to enter
priority and patients can decide to opt for
management system at a low cost.
the trial.
treatments which could give them additional
KGH was looking for a low cost system
The trial will test whether intravenous or
benefits to the standard treatments.
because - as part of its accreditation
nebulised magnesium sulphate can reduce
process – it had to make its library
the proportion of patients who require
The trials look at things like:
catalogue accessible to its users via the
admission at initial presentation or during the
• What treatments work best for sepsis and
Internet.
following week, and/ or improve the patients’
what indications doctors should look at to
By using the Koha system KGH became
assessments of their breathlessness over two
guide the treatments
the first NHS Trust to use an Open Source
hours after initiation of treatment.
• How susceptible certain patients are to
Library Management System – leading the
shock, severity of illness on admission,
way for other NHS Library Services.
duration of respiratory support and length
The system allows KGH to not only make
of hospital stay
our catalogue available to our members via
• To proportion of patients admitted
the Internet but also manage their library
to critical care and how patients do
accounts offsite. This means they can renew,
following treatment.
reserve books, locate their borrowing history
The variety of thought-providing presentations
and create their own reading lists as well.
generated plenty of discussions and a feeling
None of which had been possible before.
that the afternoon had been worthwhile
KGH is continually being asked about the
relevant to all. (Mrs Parizade Raymode system by other NHS Trusts who are looking
The event brought together doctors to discuss new
guidelines, practices and case reports.
Critical Care and Respiratory Research Nurse)
for ways to become more efficient.
“
• Rather than just go home and shrug off what she
had seen on holiday Anita started an appeal which
has been supported by hundreds of local people and
organisations and which has resulted in Bansang
becoming one of the best hospitals in the Gambia.
Bansang patient Edrisa is only 13 months old and has Hydrocephalus. The Appeal is
looking for sponsors to help his family to cope.
KGH doctors attend important Medical
Academic Day
• Anyone would like to support this hospital can
contact Anita Smith via the bansanghospitalappeal.
co.uk
KGH Library gets
an award
KGH achieves national status for
its work on Equality & Diversity
KGH has been become one of the NHS
Employers Equality Partners for 2011
– 2012 because of the progress it has
made on equality within services for
patients, carers and staff.
The Trust was one of only seventeen NHS
organisations chosen in the country following a
rigorous selection process.
This national status acknowledges the
exemplary work Trust staff have carried out to
ensure that everyone, regardless of their diverse
background (age, gender, race, disability, sexual
orientation, etc.), has good access to services,
good outcome and a positive
experience.
The Trust is in a position
to share its equality
The Trust has made
practice with other NHS
organisations as well as
much progress in making
have an opportunity to
reasonable adjustments to
bring in new learning from
erode these barriers...”
outside.
NHS Employers applied a rigorous
selection process to submissions made
by all NHS organisations, using 46
equality criteria.
In addition, the submissions were then
assessed and scrutinised by an expert panel.
The panel was impressed by the evidence
submitted by KGH and recommended it
for equality partner status. NHS Employers
commented on the KGH application as follows:
‘The evidence you have submitted was
informative and the contents demonstrated
the enormous commitment of your Trust to
embedding equality, diversity and human rights
into the core business of your organisation’
What this means for KGH?
KGH will have an opportunity to work
more closely with the Department of
Health’s range of national programmes
and contributes towards ensuring that
they meet the needs of all diverse
communities.
By taking part in the national programme,
KGH will also be better equipped to meet the
challenges ahead for transition into the new
NHS environment. As an Equality Partner, KGH
will further develop its equality practice as well
as share its existing beacon practice locally and
nationally – and across the wider public and
NVQ successes
OVER the last few months many
KGH staff undertaking their National
Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
have achieved competence in a
variety of areas.
We would specifically like to
congratulate the following who have
completed their NVQ in April and May:
Rachel Davison from Housekeeping who
has achieved her Support Service award
Lorraine Driver from Main Reception
who has achieved her Customer Service
award
Sigourney Foreman from MAU who has
achieved her Health award
Charlotte Foster from Main Outpatients
Department who has achieved her Health
award
“
Selection Process
Staff well being events
Joanne Hillan from Clifford Ward who
has achieved her Health award
KGH Staff – Celebrating achievement
voluntary sectors.
KGH’s Equality and
Diversity lead Chaman Verma said: “This
national recognition by NHS Employers is
down to the many years KGH staff Members
and Staff Governors have spent in improving
services for everyone; especially for patients,
carers and staff groups which can experience
additional barriers in accessing and using
services.
“The Trust has made much progress in
making reasonable adjustments to erode these
barriers. We still have a lot to do; however, it’s
worth highlighting this achievement by staff,
and Members and Governors, and to thank
them for their continued effort in striving to
provide the very best services for all.”
KGH disability and human resources leaders
listening to community representatives at an
equality consultation event
KGH Non-Executive Director and chair of Equality
and Diversity Steering Group Abhai Rajguru and KGH
assistant Roman Catholic Chaplain Sister Liz Morris
Kettering Council team leader Tracey Bracegirdle and benefits officer Tracey Kennedy
STAFF health and well being events are
being organised to help improve the
quality of working lives at KGH.
A Health and Wellbeing group has been
established to specifically look at how this can
be best done and also how to link it to other
support already available.
Events so far have been a Christmas Fayre
on December 1 and a Spring event in the
Health trainer Rosie Bruce with her stand
Uppingham Restaurant on April 12. At the
events staff have a chance to make their own
suggestions on further improvements to their
working lives and environment.
Northants Healthcare Trainers also attended
the events and are holding clinics at KGH to
give staff (and patients) advice on diet, exercise
and smoking cessation. Kettering Borough
Council was also on hand with benefits advice.
Elizabeth Hodgson from Endoscopy who
has achieved her Endoscopy award
Michelle Manning from Housekeeping
who has achieved her Support Service
award
Geraldine McDowell from Clifford Ward
who has achieved her Health award
Teresa Rogers from Corby Diagnostic
who has achieved her Customer Service
award
Andrea Rottler from Maternity who has
achieved her Health award
The NVQ Centre and their candidates
would like to pass on their thanks to
the Assessors that have supported the
candidates in achieving their awards.
We continue to support a wide variety
of vocational qualifications, if you are
interested please contact us on 01604
545467.
HR manager Kathryn Large is measured by health
trainer Rosie Bruce
Jayne Tunstall leaves to run acute and community services
KGH’s Chief Operating Officer Jayne
Tunstall said fond farewells to her
friends and colleagues on July 6 as she
left to start a new job.
Jayne joined KGH in November 2007 as
Director of Operations and became Chief
Operating Officer when KGH achieved
Foundation Trust status on November 1, 2008.
She has left to become Chief Operating
Officer with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
where she will be responsible for both Acute
and all Community Services.
Jayne, who was also Acting
Chief Executive at KGH
for four months last year,
said: “I think the highlights
I am also very proud of the
of working at KGH have
achievements we made in
been achieving Foundation
improving patient experience
Trust status and working
alongside so many excellent
through our Improving Healthcare
Jayne Tunstall says goodbye to her many friends and colleagues
staff.
Together programme.”
“I am also very proud of
the achievements we made
in improving patient experience through our
following the integration of Walsall Hospitals
“I wish all my friends and colleagues well
Improving Healthcare Together programme.
NHS Trust and NHS Walsall Community Health. for the challenges that lay ahead.”
“The biggest challenges have been dealing
“I am sure all KGH staff will join me in
KGH Acting Chief Executive Mike Smeeton
with the unprecedented amount of emergency
thanking
her for her contribution to KGH over
said: “This represents an exciting opportunity
demand that has come KGH’s way in recent
the
past
four
years and wish her well in her
for Jayne as Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is
years – especially during the winter.
new
post
and
for the future.”
a new organisation formed on 1st April 2011
“
Sue Almond retires after 30 years service in special care
SUE Almond has retired after 30 years
as a staff nurse on KGH’s Special Care
Baby Unit.
She joined the unit, as a staff nurse, in 1981
after previously working at Great Ormond
Street Children’s Hospital and Bletchley Baby
Unit.
Over those years she has helped care
for hundreds of premature babies – and
their families – and has thoroughly enjoyed
working at KGH.
She said: “I have really enjoyed working at
the Special Care Baby Unit – it has a really
lovely atmosphere and the staff are very
dedicated.
“You help families to cope with some
difficult times and you feel like you really do
make a difference.”
Sue, from Rothwell, is married to Peter – an
artist – and the couple plan to start Sue’s
retirement with a trip the Lakes in Italy.
Sue also enjoys gardening, cooking and
sings in Rothwell Methodist Church choir.
MembersMatter
Dear Members
We have some good news for our Foundation Trust this summer. KGH have now achieved our target
of reaching a 5,000 public membership which means that we have a greater public voice across the
communities we serve.
Please don’t forget that all Members are invited to attend both our regular Members’ events and
also to observe our Council of Governors’ meetings – dates for both of these are on the back page
of KGH Together.
And please come along to our Annual General Meeting which this year takes place on Monday,
September 5, at the Kettering Conference Centre starting at 6pm (arrive from 5pm). This is an ideal
chance to catch up on all of the year’s news and our plans for the future.
I hope that the summer finds you well. I look forward to meeting you at one of
our events. Best wishes.
Donna Hunnings
Membership Manager
01536-492169 Email: donna.hunnings@kgh.nhs.uk
John is our 5000th Public Member
KGH has just recruited its 5,000th Foundation Trust Public Member.
Staff nurse Sue Almond has retired from KGH after 30 years of service in the Special Care Baby Unit
Mr John Taylor, 48, of Burton Latimer, joins
the growing number of local people who
have shown their support for the hospital by
becoming a public Member of the Foundation
Trust.
John, who works as a quality assurance
technician in Corby, was presented with a
certificate to mark the occasion by Foundation
Trust Vice Chairman, John Tate, on August 4.
Mr Taylor also received a free meal for two
courtesy of Vivo Italian Restaurant in Churchill
Way, Burton Latimer.
Kettering General Hospital officially became
a Foundation Trust on November 1, 2008, after
spending more than two years going through
the complex application procedure.
During the application process some 12,000
individuals and organisations were approached
and 91% of local people were in favour of the
move
Foundation Trusts are still part of the NHS but
have more financial freedom and are overseen
by the independent regulator Monitor.
Vice Chairman John Tate said: “This is a major
land mark for the hospital and shows how
much we want to be in touch with our local
community.
“In order to become a Foundation Trust we
had to demonstrate that local people were
behind us by recruiting some 2,500 public
Members to go with our application.
“Since then we have set up an excellent
Council of Governors made up of 39 people
representing local areas or organisations.
“We have also continued to recruit local
people to become Members of the Trust and our
Membership has doubled from 2,500 in 2008 to
5,000 now.”
Mr Taylor said: “I joined the Trust because
I was visiting outpatients and was always
interested to read the Members’ magazine
about what is going on.
KGH’s 5,000th Member John Taylor is presented with
a certificate by Foundation Trust Vice Chairman John
Tate and Membership Manager Donna Hunnings
“I picked up a Membership form and sent it
off. I was very surprised when I found I was the
5,000th Member.
“I do believe hospitals like KGH are very
important to local people and by becoming
a Member of the hospital you can show your
support for it.”
In addition to our Public Members the
Foundation Trust also has 3,100 Staff Members
so our total Membership is 8,100.
Becoming a Member is free and is available to
anyone over the age of 16 who lives in the area
served by KGH.
See page 28 for how to join the Trust.
Governors visit £30m development
KGH Governors have been on a tour of
the hospital’s new £30m development to
get an update on its progress.
In the last edition of KGH Together – back
in May - we showed that the three-storey
development’s steel frame was in place along
with a concrete lift shaft, stairs and metal
decking for the floors.
On July 14 Governors found that the metal
frame had all been painted with fire resistant
materials, that the ground and upper floors
have been concreted and that external
cladding was being fitted to the building.
Project manager Ranjit Lall from the
developer Interserve gave Governors from
KGH Council of Members’ Strategy and
Marketing Group a good overview of
progress and why works had been carried
out in certain ways.
The development is on schedule for a
summer 2012 finish. When it is complete it
will have:
Ground floor: A paediatric outpatients
department with six consulting rooms, and
a 28-bed adult ward
First floor: Intensive Care Unit, 16 beds,
including 2 isolation rooms with direct
access to hospital main theatres;
Second floor: Integrated Paediatric
Unit with a total of 32 beds, including
Surgical and Medical Wards, a Paediatric
Assessment Unit and High Dependency
facilities. Adolescent patients will have a
dedicated area within the unit.
Ward administration offices, support
accommodation and staff facilities.
“
The next stage will be fitting the
roof to the building and the aim
is to achieve a second fix by mid
September.”
The huge size of the building was remarked
on by Governors and it was explained that –
for example in the intensive care unit – the
design has been done in such a way that
there is plenty of room for beds so that they
can be observed and easily accessed from
all sides in the event of a sudden medical
emergency.
Other facilities mentioned included
ensuring the building had enough parent
and relatives’ rooms (with flip down beds).
The next stage will be fitting the roof to
the building and the aim is to achieve a
second fix by mid September.
KGH Members who attended a special
infection control event got an amazing
insight into the never-ending battle with
invisible microorganisms.
The event – called Superbugs and you - was
held at the Prince William Post Graduate Centre
on July 14.
It was one of a regular
series of seminars held
for KGH Foundation
We hoped the event enabled
Trust Public Members
to enable them to
people to better understand
find out more about a
what superbugs and other
specialised area of the
KGH Infection prevention and control lead nurse Pam Howe gave a fascinating
infections are...”
hospital, and contribute
insight into how the hospital controls the spread of microorganisms
their views on how the
service can be developed.
interventions we make in a hospital to help us
the use of drugs like antibiotics to kill certain
Pam started by explaining about the many
to reduce them – and how the public can help
infections.
different types of micro organisms that can
us to do that.
She described the difficulties of dealing with
cause problems for people including bacteria
“KGH’s Infection Prevention and Control
spore forming bacteria like C diff – which 20%
(eg C diff), viruses (eg swine flu), fungi (eg
Team are very passionate about their roles in
of us carry in our bowel – and the importance
Athlete’s foot), protozoa (eg malaria) and
the Trust and we aim to provide an excellent
of regular handwashing with soap and water,
prions (eg CJD).
service, supporting and educating staff to
because sometimes foam handwashing
She described how an infection happens
enable them to protect our patients from
dispensers aren’t enough.
when there is invasion and multiplication of the
infections.”
She said: “We hoped the event enabled
micro organism in the body’s tissue.
Last year KGH had only one MRSA infection
people to better understand what superbugs
This is different to colonisation when – for
and was well within its target for C diff.
and other infections are and the many
example – a microbe may live harmlessly on the
surface of the skin.
She also explained how we are all covered
in microbes all of the time and health can be
Hand
Isolation
KIP
more about whether they are ‘in balance’ – for
Hygiene
AS part of KGH’s ongoing fight against
example having the right amount of ‘friendly
infections our Infection Prevention and
bacteria’ in the gut.
Invasive
Control Team (IPaC) have put together a
Cleaning
She then talked about how microorganisms
Devices
new reduction strategy entitled ‘Going
can spread and looked at direct transmission
for Gold’ – Zero Tolerance!
through things like food (eg food poisoning) or
Symbol for all other staff
The strategy is based on the 5 Olympic rings.
body fluids (sneezes) and also indirectly – eg
Each ring representing an intervention that is
by touching a contaminated surface and then
key in maintaining the success that KGH has
touching your mouth.
seen over the last 2 years and each one is
Hand
Isolation
KIP
She explained about how the hospital
Hygiene
paramount in driving that success further to
controlled infection using things like screening
achieve the current objectives that have been
for MRSA, body washes to decolonise people,
Antibiotic
Invasive
set for the next year.
Prescribing
routine hand washing and environmental
Devices
& Practice
The five interventions are; Hand Hygiene,
cleaning, proper use of medical devices and
Isolation, Kettering Infection Predictor tool (KIP),
Cleaning and Invasive Devices. For the medical
Symbol For doctors
teams cleaning will be replaced with Antibiotic
prescribing and practice.
to all patients, staff and visitors. The aim is that
Over the next 10 months each month will be this is a team approach; as Infection Control is
focused on one of the specific interventions and ‘Everybody’s Responsibility’.
the team will be focusing their ward education,
The strategy was launched at the Practice
walk rounds and various activities accordingly.
Facilitator for Infection Control study day
The IPaC boards around the Trust will be
on May 25th. Staff took part in ‘Olympic’
promoting the Reduction Strategy, calendaring
style challenges such as who could clean a
the months to which focus is being highlighted
commode the fastest, hand hygiene quizzes
at which time. The information will be applicable and Aseptic Technique.
“
Interserve Project Manager Ranjit Lall with
KGH Governors on site
KGH is Going for Gold
Governors arrive at the £30m project site to see
the immense progress that has been made on
the three-storey building
FACTS ABOUT THE £30m
DEVELOPMENT
• 35,000 tonnes of soil needed to
be extracted to lay the foundation
– this has been sold on and not
wasted
• The steel framework alone weighs
350 tonnes
• At its peak up to 400 workers could
be at work on the development
• It will be highly energy efficient and
the aim is to make it one of the top
1,000 most efficient buildings in the
country.
Fascinating insight into battle against
the bugs
Calendar of Events
Members Events
Presenters
Date
Annual General Meeting
A chance to catch up on all of this year’s
developments at KGH and our plans for the future
Kettering Conference Centre, Thurston Drive,
Kettering, NN15 6PB
Monday, September 5 at 6pm (doors open 5pm)
Tour of the Nene Park Outpatients Centre /
Questions and Answers
Wendy Warrior (Senior Sister) and Team
Reception at Nene Park Outpatients Clinic,
Irthlingborough
Friday 9th September at 1.00pm
Council of Governors Meeting
Do you want to know what your public elected
Governors are doing?
Recreation Centre at KGH
Thursday 15th September at 6.00pm
Capsule Endoscopy
The latest Advances in Treatments.
Dr Andrew Dixon
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Prince William Theatre, KGH
Thursday 22nd September at 6.30pm
Meet your Elected KGH Governors and
have your say! Stands and Displays on the new
Project 55 development
Think Glucose and Diabetic Care in the Community
Dr Kishor Patel
Consultant Endocrinologist
John White Golf Club, Rushden
Tuesday 11th October
Doors open at 6.00pm
Presentation starts at 6.30pm
Pathology: All you ever wanted to know about
identifying diseases...
Gwyn McCreanor
Consultant Biochemist & Clinical Lead
Prince William Theatre KGH
Wednesday 30th November at 6.00pm
Council of Governors Meeting
Do you want to know what your public elected
Governors are doing?
Recreation Centre at KGH
Thursday 15th December at 6.00pm
The treatment of Liver Diseases & the
Challenges faced.
Dr Debasish Das
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Tuesday 17th January at 6.30pm
Cardiac Failure
Dr Mohsin Farooq
Consultant Cardiologist
Wednesday 14th March at 6.30pm
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way we will better reflect the needs of local people, our patients and staff.
Membership costs nothing and you can be involved as much or as little as you want. l Live in one of the areas we serve (for clarification please
call Donna Hunnings on 01536 492169)
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