Trust Matters - February 2013 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital King`s Lynn

Governors’ Council
Election Results
Winter 2013
Following the recent Governors’ Council elections, the following members are now governors:
PUBLIC MEMBERS CATEGORY
STAFF MEMBERS CATEGORY
Cambridgeshire (contested)
Clinical Staff (contested)
Jennifer Brodie (newly elected)
William Jarvis (re-elected)
Rupert Calleja (re-elected)
Nigel Tarratt (newly elected)
North Norfolk (non-contested)
Non-Clinical Staff (non-contested)
Linda Pattrick (newly elected)
Prof. Tony Waldron (newly elected)
Ian Bruce (newly elected)
Sarah Davidson (newly elected)
West Norfolk (contested)
Robin Broke (re-elected)
Michael Drew (newly elected)
David Trevanion (re-elected)
Pat Watts (newly elected)
Congratulations to the successful candidates and many thanks to those members who put
themselves forward for election and to everyone who voted. The same process will take place at
the end of this year, with voting in January 2014, for the following constituencies:
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West Norfolk
Cambridgeshire
Breckland
SE Lincolnshire and the Rest of England
Staff Clinical
Staff Non-Clinical
We hope that we can rely on your support next time around!
FT Member News
Focus Group members
When many of you joined the membership you
ticked a box stating you might be interested in
attending Focus Groups. Focus Groups ensure
the Trust hears FT members’ views on a variety
of service development topics. However, many
of our initial members were not given this
option as the forms have evolved over time. If
you would like to be given the opportunity to
be invited to attend one of our future Focus
Groups, then please advise the Foundation Trust
office. There is no commitment to attend. Focus
Group topics so far have included: Outpatients,
Inpatients, Patient Discharge Process, and Car
Parking.
Future Events
We are hoping to run some healthcare events of
interest to members. Initial ideas have been
Physiotherapy / Exercise and Living with
Dementia. Other ideas for future events are:
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Children’s Health
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Diagnostics
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‘Home from Hospital’ – Help and advice
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Women’s Health
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Sexual Health
If you would be interested in attending any of
these events, please advise the FT Office, or you
can use the tear off slip below.
Reminder
As a member of a Foundation Trust you are able
to benefit from Health Service Discounts, please
visit www.healthservicediscounts.com and also
www.healthcarestaffbenefits.org or if you do
not have a computer, please call the Foundation
Trust Office and they can supply you with a
discount card for Healthcare Staff benefits
Foundation Trust Office contact
details:
FT Office telephone 01553 613142 – email
mary.denmark@qehkl.nhs.uk or write to The
Foundation Trust Office, The Queen Elizabeth
Hospital King’s Lynn NHS FT, Gayton Road, King’s
Lynn, PE30 4ET. Or call in at the FT Office (next
door to the PALS office in the front entrance).
Please tick the boxes to indicate subjects or
activities you may be interested in:
Physiotherapy / Exercise
Living with Dementia
Children’s Health
Diagnostics
‘Home from Hospital’ – Help and advice
Women’s Health
Sexual Health
Focus Groups
Please return to The Foundation Trust Office, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s
Lynn NHS FT, Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, PE30 4ET
Meet the Governors
Jonathan Dossetor
Public Governor
My name is Jonathan
Dossetor and I have been a
public governor for West
Norfolk for two years. The
Governors’ Council meets
five times in the year, but
additional activities are necessary to enable the
Governors to fulfil their role.
One of the principles of the Foundation
Trust is more involvement by the public in their
local hospital. This is achieved by developing
public membership of the Trust. This is like
being a shareholder in a public company or
becoming a ‘friend’ of an organisation. As
Chairman of the Membership Committee, I have
been involved in recruiting new members and
trying to get the membership to reflect the
community we serve. For instance, the lack of
members aged between 16 and 20 was corrected
when we recruited at the College of West Anglia
Freshers’ Fayre in September.
Although members have an opportunity
to get more involved with the Trust, our main
role is to keep members informed about Trust
issues (via the newsletters like this one) and to
make sure their views can be heard. One way
we have been doing this is to attend Patient
Participation Group meetings at GP practices. I
attend the Woottons PPG. Very often there are
misunderstandings about the Trust which we can
correct; for instance I was able to tell one person
that all the money collected from the car parks
goes directly into patient care and is not ‘profit’
for any other body.
Another Governor role is to help improve
the patient experience. I attend the Patient
Experience Committee, and this has an input
from many aspects of hospital activity. I take
part in two types of internal inspection
developed to correct any problems in
environment or quality of care at an early stage:
The Patient Experience Environment Team and
mock Care Quality Commission inspections.
David Coe
Non-Clinical Staff Governor
My name is David Coe and I am a Non-Clinical
staff governor. I have been a governor for two
years and during that time I have helped in the
appointment of two new Non-Executive
Directors through the Nomination and
Remuneration Committee.
I am also on the Governors’ Business
Working group. We are responsible for advising
and/or making recommendations to the full
Governors’ Council about the Trust’s regulatory
position and development of the Trust’s long
term strategy, annual business plan and annual
report.
At the last monthly meeting we
considered the report of the Trust’s meeting
with Monitor. We also looked at: Patient Choice,
protection of QEH interests, provision of high
quality services (which are valued by patients),
winter pressures and the need to improve
income and savings by the
end of the financial year.
I have attended all
Governors’ Council
meetings so far, to
represent staff views in helping to plan the
strategic direction of the Trust (not the
operational position, which can sometimes be a
difficult concept for staff to take in). During this
period, I have chaired four staff members’
meetings. I would like to ask all staff to try and
attend further staff meetings as this helps us to
raise any concerns you have regarding the
strategic direction that the Trust is taking. The
next scheduled meeting is on 9 April at 15.00 in
the Conference Room. Please come along and
help shape the future of The QEH!
Trust Fundraising
A
GEAR: Bespak Grand
East Anglia Run 2013
three man team from Securitas, the company that looks after the
security of the Trust, is running for the campaign. Matthew Perry,
Benjamin Heavey and
Anthony Wiles have started
training and are collecting sponsorship for the Healthy
Hearts. Ben will run the race in fancy dress; Matt and
Tony will aim to run the course in 50 minutes or under.
You could do the same - 'lace up
your trainers' for the
King’s Lynn 10k
Road Race on Sunday 5 May, 10:30am.
Esselle Health Club - Wisbech
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his Ladies club is organising a multi-activity day for
Healthy Hearts on Sunday 3
March, 10am - 3pm. Take
your pick: Legs, Bums and Tums,
Circuit! A £5 donation for the day is
suggested.
Further details on 01945 474675.
T
wo members of the community, Darren Hooker and Joanne Randall,
are running 26.2 miles for the Trust on Sunday 21 April. Their
Justgiving pages explain why they decided to put themselves
through this challenge: Darren for his son, Sam,
and wife, Mandy; Joanne for her mother, Margaret.
Darren is raising £500 for our Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit (NICU) and Central Delivery Suite (CDS) www.justgiving.com/Darren-Hooker1
Joanne is raising £1,000 for our Breast Care Nurses
and Breast Cancer Unit Development www.justgiving.com/Joanne-Randall
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