Dementia crisis prevention team

Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust
Issue 8 • Spring 2015
GP News
Dementia crisis prevention team
New team to help patients with memory problems avoid unnecessary crisis
Dispensing robot will cut waste
Pharmacy staff welcome new member to their team
Lowdown for minister on telehealth
Understanding how technology is making a difference
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YOUR HOSPITAL In the Community
Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust
GP News
Issue 8 • Spring 2015
Electronic prescribing is rolling out across Trust
Pictured are Richard Rees-Jones, lead
nurse for informatics helping Kaylie
McGivern, the first staff nurse to be
trained to use the new electronic
prescribing system on her drugs
round visiting patient Carolyn Stell.
Electronic prescribing got underway
at Airedale Hospital this month
(March) when it was piloted on two
trauma orthopaedic wards (9 and 18)
before being gradually rolled out to
the whole Trust once any teething
problems have been ironed out.
The aim is to help reduce any
transcribing errors, creating an overall
improvement in patient safety and
greater efficiency for clinicians.
Staff are being released from their
clinical duties to be trained in the
new system using TPP’s SystmOne
technology and a new IT training
centre will open next month on
site (April) so they can spend time
developing their technology skills.
New dementia crisis prevention team
A new team has been set up to help
patients with dementia or memory
problems avoid getting into an
unnecessary crisis.
This is a partnership venture
between Airedale NHS Foundation
Trust, Bradford District Care Trust and
the Alzheimer’s Society looking at
coordinating the care of patients so
they can remain safely at home.
The team includes community
mental health nurses, community
staff nurses, occupational therapists,
dementia support workers and
community support workers covering
Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven.
They support the family and their
carer, develop integrated care plans
and provide support to promote
independence and self-care.
Referrals can be made if a patient has
dementia or a cognitive impairment and
one of more of these issues:
• reduction in independence
• home safety concerns
• breakdown in care support networks
• physical health issues
• frequent contact with healthcare
professionals or support agencies
• at risk of an avoidable admission
to hospital or care home
• requires an integrated care plan to
avoid crisis.
For non-urgent referrals, MondayFriday, 9am-5pm, tel: 01756 702347
or 01756 702342 or use a referral
form and fax to 01756 796073.
For out-of-hours/urgent referrals,
tel: 01535 292797 or fax 01535
293733.
Craven patients’ cardiac boost
Around 200 patients living in
the Craven area can now use a
cardiac rehabilitation service in
their community to help them and
their families be fully supported in
recovery following a heart attack,
cardiac stenary or heart surgery.
Run by members of the
community cardiac rehabilitation
specialist nurses team at Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust, the service
previously covered Airedale and
Wharfedale, but thanks to extra
funding it has now been extended
into Craven.
The service now includes a cardiac
rehabilitation exercise programme for
patients at Broughton Community
Centre in Skipton – besides the ones
in Keighley and at Airedale Hospital.
Nicola Drake, cardiac
rehabilitation clinical lead at Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“The new class will make such
a difference to patients in Craven.
They can get support much
closer to their homes which will
be a huge benefit to them and
their rehabilitation.” The cardiac
rehabilitation team has also started
a new ‘Healthy Heart Programme’
at Airedale Hospital to help patients
manage their condition better.
YOUR HOSPITAL In the Community
Patients satisfied in survey of
Emergency Department care
Karl Mainprize
Welcome to
this edition
Welcome to the spring 2015 edition
of GP News.
Some highlights of this issue are:
we have developed a new dementia
crisis team working in the community,
in partnership with Bradford District
Care Trust and the Alzheimer’s Society,
to help patients with dementia or
memory problems remain safely at
home; an automated dispensing
robot is joining our pharmacy team
to speed up the delivery of medicines
so patients can go home sooner; wifi
is being introduced on our wards
which will be welcomed by many of
our inpatients; outpatients can now
use touchscreens to check-in to their
appointments at Airedale, Coronation
Hospital and Skipton Hospital which
should mean less queuing and early
results of our Gold Line service to
help palliative care patients are very
positive.
It was good to see that our
telemedicine service featured as a case
study in The Kings Fund’s national
publication ‘The Future is Now’ which
showcases examples of how delivery
of care has been changed for the
better in pockets of the country.
Working with technical partners
Involve, we now provide this service to
around 300 care homes nationwide to
help relieve pressures on urgent care
services.
NHS England has now published
more information about their New
Models of Care Programme and I have
had some very exciting and positive
discussions with GPs about working
differently on a new extensivist
and enhanced primary care clinical
solution.
If you have any thoughts about new
ways of working you can email me
directly at karl.mainprize@anhst.nhs.uk.
Likewise if you have any concerns or
comments about anything featured
in this magazine or issues that are on
your mind.
Best wishes,
Karl Mainprize
medical director
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Patients said they were satisfied
overall with the length of time
their visit to Airedale’s Emergency
Department lasted and that the
doctors and nurses did not talk
to each other as if they were not
there as part of the latest national
A&E survey for the Trust, published
by the Care Quality Commission
(CQC). The independent survey
asked patients who visited the
department during March 2014
what they thought about their care
and treatment.
Other positive findings were:
patients said they received the
results of their tests before leaving
the A&E department and that staff
explained the results of the tests in a
way they could understand.
Rob Dearden, director of nursing
at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,
said: “The areas highlighted for
improvement are in the main
connected to the environment and
facilities, for example, not having
enough privacy when discussing
their condition with reception staff.
We hope our new Emergency
Department, which opened after
the report was published, will make
a huge difference to our patients’
experience.”
SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH TINNITUS
Jo Brooks, a senior audiologist at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Help was on hand from Airedale’s
audiology team during an awareness
event for people struggling to cope
with tinnitus.
It coincided with national Tinnitus
Awareness Week (2-8 February) and
included a talk by senior audiologist
Katie Davenport who said they
support people by using education,
reassurance, relaxation, counselling
and sound therapy.
Katie said: “Providing patients
Patient service manager
New patient service manager
Andy O’Dwyer, pictured right, has
been employed to work within the
medicines discipline. He is responsible
for the day-to-day delivery of
services, working closely alongside
the matrons and consultants, driving
improvements to patient care.
His areas of responsibility
include diabetes, endocrinology,
haematology, oncology, palliative
care, stroke and elderly medical.
For the past 12 years Andy
worked at Bradford Teaching
Hospitals, most recently as business
manager for Acute, Specialty, Elderly
and Emergency Medicine.
His initial priorities are the
development of geriatric services
both in the acute trust and across
the community, collaborative work
to provide the best possible care for
patients who have had a suspected
stroke or TIA and the on-going
development of the Haematology
Oncology Day Unit (HODU).
with information and support about
tinnitus can really make a difference
to their lives. It must be very difficult
never being able to enjoy silence
and the worst time is usually at night
when there is a lack of other noise.”
Dispensing
robot will
cut wastage
Pharmacy staff are planning a huge
welcome to an important member
of their team – an automated
dispensing robot.
The robot is part of the
automation that will allow the team
to spend more time on wards talking
to patients, nurses and doctors about
medicines and improving processes.
It will help reduce wastage, for
example, by giving pharmacy staff
more time to check medicines that
patients bring in and to review
patients’ medical histories. It will
also reduce the chance of dispensing
errors and speed up the delivery
of medicines. The current target
turnaround time for pharmacy
dispensing a discharge prescription
is two hours from receipt of
prescription. It is estimated the robot
will half that time and help patients
get home sooner.
Around 80 percent of medicines
kept in pharmacy will be held by the
robot and be linked to the computer
system within the department. When
an order is placed, the required
medicines will be picked by a robotic
arm and delivered to the dispensary
work station by conveyor belt.
The robot installation cost
£410,000 which included design
of the floor space and it is due to
be completed by the end of this
month (March). The giant piece
of equipment (10m x 3m) will be
located inside the current pharmacy
department. It comes with two
picking arms, a refrigerated section,
and an additional set of cabinets
for storage and management of
controlled drugs.
Nick Chilton, clinical director
of pharmacy and medicine
management at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “The project
has been in the Trust’s capital plan for
some years and the pharmacy team
is very excited. It has become a reality
with help from the Department Of
Health’s Safer Wards – Safer Hospital
Fund and the Trust’s digital care
programme.
“Not only will the project
improve safety and improve patient
experience, it will also reduce
stock holding of medicines within
pharmacy. The robot is an integral
part of redesigning the pharmacy
department and a key development
in supporting the transformation of
pharmacy services. Altogether, it’s a
great return on investment.”
An end to duplicate
paper copies of letters
GP practice staff will no longer
receive paper copies of consultant’s
outpatient letters from Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust.
Last month, February, the paper
system was switched off which
means that practices will no longer
receive both electronic and paper
versions of the same correspondence.
For the past few months both
electronic and paper versions of letters
have been sent to practices in parallel
but this will remove any duplication.
E-letters from Airedale are sent
via a task on SystmOne so that GPs
and practice staff are able to see the
information from patients’ hospital
outpatient appointments with
consultants as soon as it is available.
For practices that do not receive
electronic communication, the system
will automatically generate a printed
letter.
A number of other items of
correspondence will continue to be
sent via paper in the post but there
should no longer be any duplicates.
David Worth, programme director
for digital care at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “This is
another step towards a paperlite
digital care record.”
Over to you, dad: fathers can now support their partners overnight
Dads can stay
over too once
baby is born
New dads can now give extra
support both night and day thanks
to a new scheme that encourages
partners to stay over after the birth
of their baby.
The new facility, on ward 21 at
Airedale Hospital, was introduced
in response to requests from
parents.
Supported by one of the
hospital’s charities, Friends of
Airedale, the maternity team have
bought temporary folding beds
for side rooms on the ward so that
partners can stay over.
Val Henson, ward manager on
the maternity unit at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, said they had
received a very positive response to
the new facilitity.
She said: “Having a new baby
is a special experience for both
parents and many dads felt they
were missing out when they had
to leave at night.
“By staying overnight they
become involved in their babies’
care right from the start and also
support their partner, which can
really help, particularly if they are
tired or not very mobile after the
birth.”
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Giant mural’s child-friendly appeal
A giant mural has been created
for the walls of Airedale Hospital’s
Emergency Department to help
parents distract their children as they
wait to be seen.
It is the first hospital project artist
Lorraine Duff has ever worked on and
the largest canvas – 47 square metres
compared to A5 size greetings cards –
almost 1,500 times larger.
The design was digitally printed
and installed by sign and graphics
company New Vision, in Bradford,
who have also provided lots of wall
art for dementia projects for the
Trust on four wards and have started
to specialise in projects for various
health organisations. They also
designed the donor tree artwork in
the lobby of Airedale’s Emergency
Department.
The £3,475 mural was funded by
the Emergency Department Appeal
and is on the children’s corridor
which links the children’s waiting
room to the children’s treatment
rooms and X-ray measuring about
20m long.
Meg Crossley, emergency
department consultant at Airedale
she would like to see on her grand
daughters’ bedroom wall.
Lorraine said: “I have never
worked on such a large scale project
but I really enjoyed it. I love the
outdoors, it was inspired by the
countryside and the natural world.
We do a lot of family walks and
visits to the Sculpture Park with its
ever changing exhibitions all set in a
stunning landscape.”
Pictured back from left, Paul Jennings, consultant; Tony Stead of New Vision and
Alex Danecki consultant. Front row from left Oliver Brown aged three; Oliver Hird,
four, and Amber O’Neill, four, from Nightingale’s nursery.
NHS Foundation Trust, said previously
the corridor was very long and plain.
She said: “Many parents and
children have told me they think the
mural is lovely. It provides distraction
and something to talk about as they
move around the department and
the corridor has a really friendly feel
now.”
Lorraine worked for many years as a
designer in the greeting card industry.
When she was made redundant she
became a freelance illustrator and
designer from her home in Birkenshaw
and now helps to look after her
15-month-old grand daughter.
She completed the design digitally
at her home and created something
Guests enjoy tour of new
emergency department
Around 70 guests enjoyed a tour
of Airedale Hospital’s new £6.3m
Emergency Department, before it
opened on 3 December, to see its
state-of-the-art facilities during a
special preview event.
You can see the new department
for yourself as a video has been made
for those who did not get the chance
to take part. Visit our website at
www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/services/
accident-and-emergency/
During the preview, Bridget
Fletcher, chief executive of Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust, explained how
the new unit fits in with future plans
for urgent care and has benefits for
the local community. Ron Drake,
non-executive director, thanked
everyone involved in the project and
both Emergency Department staff
and patients for their patience whilst
using a temporary unit for the past
12 months. Meg Crossley, consultant
and project lead, said how grateful
her team were for the generous
donations to buy new equipment
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Pictured cutting the celebratory cake are: Bridget Fletcher, chief executive; Ron
Drake, deputy chair of Board; Meg Crossley; emergency department consultant,
patients Martin Quirk and Gareth Scott
and make improvements to the
environment.
The building of the new
department began in Autumn 2013
and its new facilities include separate
adult and children’s waiting areas,
Artist
Lorraine
Duff
distraction walls in the paediatric
treatment rooms, a quiet room for
friends and families to use during
stressful events and better privacy
and dignity for vulnerable older
patients and their families and carers.
Enter and view
visit goes well
Healthwatch North Yorkshire
carried out an enter and view visit
to Airedale Hospital to gather the
views of patients, relatives and
carers about their experience of
the services being provided.
The teams visited ward 2
(medical admissions), 4 (acute
elderly medicine), 5 (stroke) and 6
(endocrinology, gastroenterology
and elderly medicine). They
also visited outpatients and the
Telehealth Hub.
Findings showed that the
hospital was operating to a
very good standard of care,
highlighting many positives but
also some recommendations for
driving services forward.
Alison Fuller, assistant director
for healthcare governance at
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,
said: “We welcome the findings
of this visit, as they give us areas
we can improve on, as well
as highlighting positive work
happening throughout the Trust.”
The full report can be found at
www.healthwatchnorthyorkshire.
co.uk/enter-view-reports
Patient information
service on the move
People visiting Airedale Hospital
can now easily find out more about
health conditions or available
support as the drop-in patient
information service has moved to a
more convenient location – on the
landing above the main entrance.
It will be staffed between 9.30am
and 4pm, Monday to Friday, and it
includes an enquiry service. Visitors
get free information about:
• health issues
• support groups or services in the
area
• healthy living
• help available for living with a
long term condition.
The patient information service
also runs the ‘Your Health’ section
of the Trust’s website at www.
airedale-trust.nhs.uk/YourHealth
which includes self care and
wellbeing advice and support
through the ‘Your Health’
blog.
Contact Helen Roberts, email:
your.health@anhst.nhs.uk or tel:
01535 294413.
Helen Roberts at the relocated patient information service
Pilot scheme
allows frail elderly
patients to go
home sooner
‘’
A multi-disciplinary team that
assess frail elderly patients who
have completed their acute medical
treatment are piloting working
Saturdays. The project started in
January in a bid to get those with
complex needs the necessary care to
be safely discharged sooner.
For the past year, the team – a
senior nurse, a discharge case
manager, two occupational
therapists, a physiotherapist and
two therapy assistants – has been
focusing on wards 1, 2 and Airedale
Hospital’s Emergency Department.
They liaise closely with the Trust’s
intermediate care hub, community
services, voluntary services and social
services to help sort out any therapy
and social care problems that may
be preventing these patients who
have completed their acute medical
treatment from going back home
after a stay in hospital.
Their aim is also to prevent
patients from being readmitted
to hospital because they cannot
In the future it
would be great
to include
more staff and
over seven
days
cope at home with activities of daily
living including eating, drinking
or incontinence. The team assess
patients to see what extra support
with social or health care they may
benefit from and try to involve their
family or carer in their discharge as
much as possible.
Teri Loftus, physiotherapist at
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust who
leads the service, said: “It’s definitely
making a dfference to getting
patients out of hospital more swiftly
when doctors have completed their
acute medical treatment, but most
importantly safely, with support from
appropriate community services.
“In the future it would be great to
extend the project further to include
more staff and over seven days if we
had extra funding.
“At the moment we have to
prioritise our patients to deal initially
with those that are frail and elderly
with complex needs and long term
conditions, who have completed
their acute medical treatment. We
feel there are many more patients
that could benefit from this service.”
The team has recently visited a
similar project set up in Leicester five
years ago to examine its processes
and use it as a benchmark for their
service. They also took part in a
conference in Sheffield which looked
at assess to discharge, changes to how
hospitals work with the involvement
of more community services, wrapping
care around the patients and assessing
them in their own homes.
For more information email:
teri.loftus@anhst.nhs.uk
Touch screens
to be used
to check in
Patients will soon be able to use
touch screens to check-in to
their outpatients’ appointments
at Airedale Hospital, Coronation
Hospital, in Ilkley and Skipton
Hospital.
Four screens will soon be
available in the main outpatients’
area and additional touch
screens will be installed for other
departments around the hospital
including the Richardson Clinic.
The screen, which is linked to
Systm One, will direct them
to the appropriate clinic waiting
area.
Julia Spencer, patient services
manager for outpatients at
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,
said: “When all the clinics in
outpatients are busy, people can
get delayed because they are
waiting at the reception desk to
let us know they are here.
“Patients will still be able to
use the reception desk to check
in for their appointments if they
want to but we hope that once
people become familiar with the
new system, more will use selfcheck-in, giving our staff more
time to spend with patients who
need assistance.”
Touch screen in action
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Minister’s lowdown
on Telehealth Hub
NEW STARTERS
Dr Naveen Naganna
Dr Naveen
Naganna
has joined
Airedale’s
paediatric
team as a
consultant after
completing
his training at
Mid Yorkshire
Hospitals NHS Trust; Hull Royal
Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
NHS Trust and Calderdale and
Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
His special interest is paediatric
oncology and he will be deputy lead
for this service at Airedale and also
lead the paediatric haematology
service.
Dr Naganna said: “The Trust’s
paediatric service is a consultant
delivered service which means there
is a consultant at the end of phone
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Please contact us, even if it’s only for
advice, and we will be happy to guide
you regarding acute admission or
urgent clinic appointment depending
on the clinical need of your patient.”
Eleanor Checkley
Earl Howe with Alex Blake
Earl Howe, the Minister for Quality,
visited Airedale’s Telehealth Hub as an
example of how technology is used
to provide better care for patients.
Alex Blake, telehealth sister,
demonstrated how residents in
care homes throughout the country
and in their own homes locally are
linked up through the telemedicine
service to 24/7 care. Earl Howe
took part in a secure video call with
a patient who is able to get urgent
medical help whenever he needs
it – without having to leave the
comfort of his home.
Lord Howe said: “It was very
good to see for myself and talk
to staff about how they are
using innovative methods such
as telemedicine to support more
people in their own homes and
reduce hospital admissions. It is
certainly the way forward and I
was especially interested in how
they will be using e-prescribing and
other digital approaches.”
The telemedicine service is
provided by Immedicare – a
partnership between Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust and technical
providers Involve – and is currently
available in over 200 care homes
nationwide.
Patients to get access to WiFi
Patients will soon be able to surf
the web, pick up their emails and
order their shopping to be delivered
when they get home from the
comfort of their hospital bed.
A new service will be available
from the end of this month (March)
offering patients access to WiFi
during their time in Airedale Hospital.
The scheme, which is being
sponsored by one of the hospital’s
charities, Friends of Airedale, will
operate from a separate network
and will be managed by a third
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party on behalf of the Trust.
Karen Dunwoodie, patient
experience lead at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “Giving
patients access to WiFi will help
them to pass the time and make
it easier for them to stay in touch
with family and friends, who may
not be local or able to visit.”
It will also help patients
attending outpatient appointments
or other departments by taking
their minds off any delays or the
treatment they are about to receive.
Blood test call
Patients, who have been referred
to the fast track direct access
endoscopy and upper and lower
GI clincs, are reminded that they
need to have a blood test as soon
as possible.
Consultants, who triage the
referrals, require the blood test
results so that they can make
sure the most urgent patients are
prioritised.
Eleanor Checkley joins Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust as a consultant
anaesthetist from North Manchester
General Hospital, where she worked
for 12 years as a consultant intensivist.
Eleanor said: “I wanted to come
and work at Airedale as I missed the
breadth of general anaesthetic practice
and involvement in other specialist
areas such as paediatrics and obstetrics
whilst taking on the challenge of
providing healthcare in a rural area.
“I am very interested in medical
education, careers counselling and
hope to develop mentorship for
doctors.”
Dr Pablo Garcia
Bermejo
Welcome to Dr Pablo Garcia Bermejo
who has joined the Trust as a locum
stroke consultant for 12 months.
Previously he worked as a stroke
consultant in Canada and Spain and
has a special interest in the acute
management of stroke, interventional
treatment with stentrievers,
multimodal neuroimaging, and
secondary prevention of stroke.
Pablo runs a rapid access TIA clinic
and a follow up stroke clinic. Contact
his secretary Janet Morrissey tel:
01535 292055.
Research indicates
Gold Line works well
New interim data is available for
Gold Line – a 24/7 dedicated
helpline offered from Airedale
Hospital’s Telehealth Hub.
Currently there are almost 1,000
patients registered for the service
who are thought to be approaching
or in the last year of life. Around 30
of these patients are also supported
using telemedicine via a mini iPad to
provide face-to-face consultations
with a hub nurse.
Gold Line was developed
following a successful bid by
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
to the Health Foundation Shared
Purpose Project and was launched
for patients with a GP in Airedale,
Wharfedale and Craven Clinical
Commissioning Groups (AWC
CCG ) on 1 November 2013. It
was extended to the Bradford area
following funding from local CCGs
from 1 March 2014.
In AWC, from April-September
2014, there were 941 calls from 350
patients. From these, 77 percent
were ‘out of hours’ (outside of 8am6pm Monday-Friday) and 43 percent
were dealt with without onward
referral to any other service.
From July-September 2014, Gold
Line avoided 18 hospital admissions,
20 attendances at A&E, 60 GP visits
and 21 community nurse visits in
AWC.
From 2,209 calls between
April-September 2014, 2,019
patients stayed in their usual place
of residence, 18 were admitted
to hospital and eight directly to
hospice, 44 advised to attend A&E
and 120 were reported deaths.
In AWC, the current caseload is
almost 500 patients – 44 percent
have cancer. Helen Livingstone,
palliative care consultant at Airedale
NHS Foundation Trust, said: “There
are around 1,500 deaths per year
in the area and so the caseload
needs to be around 1,200 to help
most people who have an expected
death. We are gathering lots more
data but it’s fairly early days.”
An interim qualitative evaluation
is currently being carried out by
the University of Bradford, looking
at patients’ and carers’ experience
of Gold Line. It contains some very
moving comments from patients
including:
“They’d obviously read the notes
and they knew what was going
on… Wonderful, so reassuring
and comforting... It’s care and
compassion, it’s not a system.”
“When asked, around 60 percent
of people would like to die at
home, given the choice. Our figures
suggest that deaths in hospital are
14 percent for Gold Line patients
compared to 31 percent for other
local patients and 41 percent of
Gold Line patients die at home,
22 percent in care homes and 23
percent in hospices.”
An economic evaluation of Gold
Line will be carried out by York
University and is due to be published
in summer 2015.
Linda pushes
boundaries
Congratulations to palliative
care consultant Dr Linda Wilson,
above, who is named as one
of five national ‘incredible
colleagues’ in the Sue Ryder
charity awards.
She won the category
‘Pushing the Boundaries’ for
helping to set up the Gold Line
service and received her award
during a ceremony at the House
of Commons.
Linda said: “I was very
humbled to be nominated by
my team and very surprised
to win. The Gold Line is the
product of a team of exceptional
people, from those who put the
Health Foundation funding bid
together to those involved in its
development and the fabulous
Hub team who deliver the
service.”
Donation of
new furniture
welcomed
Airedale Hospital’s gynaecology
assessment unit has received a
donation of new furniture for its
waiting room.
The Friends of Airedale funded
a dozen new chairs and a coffee
table for patients waiting to be seen
on the unit, part of ward 20 at the
hospital.
Shirley Smith, one of the staff
nurses on the unit at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “We are so
grateful to the charity for funding this
new furniture for us. It makes such a
huge difference to our patients to be
able to wait in a nice environment.
“The new chairs are a great
improvement, previously we had an
old sofa which was difficult to clean.
The new furniture is so comfortable
and wipes clean so it also helps us
with infection prevention.”
The early pregnancy unit at the
hospital sees patients that are at risk
of miscarrying or pregnant women
with gynaecology problems.
Pictured are, from left: Shirley
Smith, staff nurse at Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust, Bob Smithies,
volunteer, Eileen Proud, chair of
Friends of Airedale and Carole
Smithies, volunteer.
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New clinical
simulation
lead
Justine Burns, consultant
anaesthetist, has taken on a new
role as clinical simulation lead.
Simulations give staff the
chance to practice their response
to situations which they may not
come across in their everyday
work life. This helps to increase
their confidence and improve their
performance if they do occur.
Justine said: “We are running
a new course ‘Faculty Simulation
Skills – An Introduction to teaching
using simulation at Airedale’ which
GP’s and practice staff are welcome
to attend if they want to learn more
about running in-situ simulations in
their own environments.”
Anyone interested contact Kirsty
Fawell email: Kirsty.Fawell@anhst.
nhs.uk tel: 01535 294432.
DIARY DATES
These three evening update
events include three 30-minute
presentations, streamed live
to our Lecture Theatre from
the Royal College of Physicians
(Edinburgh). To book tel:
01535 294410.
Partners take the lead
in transforming care
A local team of partners from the
NHS – including Airedale, Wharfedale
and Craven; Bradford City; Bradford
District and East Lancashire Clinical
Commissioning Groups – local
authorities, care homes, technology
and academia are taking a national
lead on transforming care for patients.
The new care model, which aims
to enhance health for residents in
care homes, unites more than a
dozen organisations across Airedale,
Bradford, Craven, East Lancashire and
Wharfefdale.
Chosen from 269 groups, the
local partnership is amongst the
first 29 vanguard areas to benefit
from a £200m transformation fund
to significantly improve patients’
experiences by bringing home care,
GP services, mental health, community
nursing, and hospitals together.
The local scheme will use
technology, such as telemedicine,
to integrate services and provide
immediate access to expert opinion
and diagnosis. It will also help
residents be independent and improve
their quality of life by focusing on
proactive care and delivering more
specialist services into the care home.
For patients, this could mean
fewer trips to hospital; a single point
of access to health and social care
Julia is a finalist in
‘emerging leaders’
Breathlessness
Tuesday 24 March, 6.308.15pm
Headache
Tuesday 28 April,6.30-8.15pm
Rash
Wednesday 13 May, 6.308.15pm
Focus on… Back pain
Tuesday 19 May, 10.30-11.45am
Lecture Theatre, Education
Centre, Airedale Hospital
Osadhi Burns, physiotherapist,
will talk about back pain,
including the symptoms,
causes and the treatment. She
will also demonstrate exercises
used to strengthen the back
and reduce the risk of strain.
Tea and coffee will be available
from 10am in the Lounge,
Education Centre.
To book a place telephone:
01535 294540 or email:
members@anhst.nhs.uk
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Julia Nixon
An advanced nurse practitioner at
Airedale Hospital was one of three
finalists as an ‘emerging leader’ in
awards run by the Yorkshire and
Humber Leadership Academy.
Julia Nixon, who works in acute
medicine, started in her post as
an advanced nurse practitioner
last September, as a pilot on her
ward, after completing her masters
in advanced practice at Leeds
University in April. She can do
the same work as a junior doctor
including prescribing, diagnostics
and interpreting blood results and
x-rays, which helps her team provide
cover on the ward seven days a
week.
She said: “I have been a nurse and
a senior sister in acute care, so I can
bring a different dimension to the
role when I go on the ward rounds,
but I have the skills to do anything
that a doctor can do.
“Leadership is all about promoting
good communications across your
team, making sure that they can
support each other and developing
their skills.”
There were 155 nominations for
the Yorkshire and Humber Regional
Recognition Awards and 31 finalists.
Watch a video of finalists talking
about what it means to be an
effective leader visit: https://yh.hee.
nhs.uk/what-we-do/yorkshirehumber-leadership-academy/2014nhs-leadership-recognition-awards/
services and other specialist advice day
or night; access to services closer to
home and a tailored personal service
that is more responsive and reduces
duplication.
Bridget Fletcher, chief executive of
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“We are delighted to have been chosen
to be part of this new plan to redesign
care at a local level. Our vision is to
transform the health and care of some
of our most vulnerable, frail, elderly
people by ‘joining up’ services and put
people at the heart of decisions about
their health and wellbeing.”
Visit: www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/
futurenhs/5yfv-ch3/new-care-models/
Books support
dementia
Books to support people with
dementia and their carers have just
been launched as part of the reading
well books on prescription scheme.
The scheme, by The Reading
Agency, already helps over 275,000
people with common mental
health conditions feel better
through self-help reading. The
new collection of 25 titles has been
recommended by health experts
and people who live with dementia
and are available from libraries
across North Yorkshire including
in Craven at Skipton and Settle
Libraries.
Topics covered include: help
for people who have just been
diagnosed; picture books for
reminiscence sessions; living well
with dementia; support for relatives
and carers; and personal stories.
For more information visit: http://
reading-well.org.uk/ or contact
Airedale’s Patient Information
Service email: your.health@anhst.
nhs.uk
Clinical director
Mr Alex Acornley has taken on the
role of clinical director for trauma
and orthopaedics.
He said: “I am looking forward
to working on introducing an
additional clean air theatre suite at
the hospital. Our consultant team
has recently welcomed Mr David
Bowe which means as a team we
cover all major sub-specialities.”
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