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Monthly archives: March 2018

Training on verification of expected death

 

We will be hosting training on verification of expected death for Band 6 or above registered nurses on Monday 30 April from 1.30pm – 2.30pm in D18 at City Hospital.

Before you book on this training you must ensure:

  • You must confirm with your manager that they’re happy for you to undertake this training
  • You must be carrying out verification of expected deaths often enough to remain competent

To book a place please email Paul Roberts on paulroberts6@nhs.net  or call ext. 3611.

For more information please contact Sue Law on 0121 507 2234.

Latest Oracle ERP Cloud update

 

Overall status progression: The project is on track and is approximately 90 percent complete.  The system has been built by our development partner and testing of the key processes is complete.  The training of finance and procurement users has commenced as well as system testing. Requisitioner and approver training has also commenced.

Highlights and concerns: Data migration of key data to be transferred from the current system to the new system is almost complete.

What is next?: Training for requisitioners and budget holders will continue over the next couple of weeks. Budget Holder training will commence post go live.  Logins for the new system will be sent to users before the 1 April.

To book you will need to contact Sarah Gammidge-Jefferson by emailing sarah.gammidgejefferson@nhs.net or please call 0121 507 4697 – please note this training will last about an hour.

Key Dates: The final date for requisitioning for 2017/18 in the current system in 23 March on the assumption that the goods are received prior to 31 March. If the goods are expected to be received in April 2018, they should be ordered on the new system from 26 March.

Year End notification to all departments 2017-18

Training Dates:

City Site:

Supplies Meeting Room: This room can hold 12 people

  • Tuesday 20 March 9am – 4pm
  • Wednesday 21 March 9am -4pm
  • Thursday 22 March 9am – 4pm

Anne Gibson E-Learning Room Friday 23 March 9am – 5pm

Anne Gibson E-Learning Room Thursday 29 March 9am – 5pm

Cohort – Occupational Health’s online referral system maintenance – 29 March

 

On Thursday 29 March the Occupational Health’s online management referral system, Cohort will undergo maintenance and will not be available for use.

We will endeavour to complete the maintenance the soonest possible time and we will let you  know once completed.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Let’s Connect roadshow

 

Let’s Connect will be hosting a roadshow for staff to attend and ask questions regarding the home technology and smart phones schemes on Tuesday 27 March at City Hospital, 1st Floor, Birmingham Treatment Centre from 10am – 3pm.

For further information please email amir.ali1@nhs.net.

 

Having trouble accessing the Trust network offsite?

 

The Informatics department have identified an issue affecting colleagues using Windows 7 laptops to connect remotely to the Trust network from off-site.

An automatic fix is now in place which should apply to all Windows 7 laptops when they next reboot.

If you find that you are still having issues connecting to the network remotely, you can either bring your laptop to Trinity House for it to be fixed or upgraded to Windows 10.

For more information or to log a fault, please contact the IT service desk on ext 4050.

Join Sandwell Council and support vulnerable adults

 

Sandwell Council are seeking people to join a team that helps vulnerable adults lead independent lives – with over 40 new roles being created.

People who work within the short-term assessment and reablement team focus on getting people out of hospital and work with them in their homes to help prevent hospital admissions and maintain their independence in the community.

To apply for the roles, you must be able to work flexibly and hold a valid UK driving licence.

In return you will benefit from a full induction, training and support from skilled staff and have access to Sandwell employee benefits.

For more information visit www.sandwell.gov.uk/HSA or email hr_resourcing@sandwell.gov.uk

Alternatively, you can call 0121 569 4438 or 0121 569 3590

Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 16 March

 

Another busy week draws to a close as I write this message. This week I have not been able to issue a note on Midland Met, as I pledged last week. This is because negotiations to bring in our interim construction contractor have gone more slowly than we hoped. It is not Brexit but it is a five way negotiation, so has its challenges.  However, we do now have an agreement and very much hope to have mobilisation on the site in the next ten days. This secured key jobs and gives us some momentum to move forward, and a platform to try and resolve the funding issues. I suspect it will be April before that work is concluded given that we are discussed over £100m. I must reiterate that no money will be taken from local NHS funds to address this. Of course we need to continue to meet our financial duties, and we will end 2018/19 with a small surplus – almost uniquely among local NHS organisations. I do not underestimate the sacrifices involved in that. Having to let go long term bank or agency colleagues, as we reduce those pay rates, is undoubtedly difficult. Our bank staff are part of the team here.

Our best case model now sees us open Midland Met in 2019/20. It is too early to confirm that date but we will do so by this summer. Against our hope to open in October 2018 this is frustratingly delayed. Yet given the challenges the project has faced, each one outside our making, it remains our best timetable. Though Midland Met is not the strategy for our Trust, it is an essential part of our 2020 Vision, and in particular the quality improvements in our quality plan, whereby we look to reorganise how we work to get better outcomes. The Board is clear, and has been clear across Whitehall, that a single acute site is the sole route to seven day services and to truly team based care. So, I guess, I can be confident that we will get there. More slowly than we hoped or need, but with certainty. Thank you for bearing with us.

I want to congratulate teams delivering exceptional results, through this message. Of course our Shout Out system gives you chance to do just that, so please think about who you want to celebrate. Our Compassion in Care award is given monthly. I am thrilled that, so far, through Purple Point we have had more compliments for staff than complaints or causes for concern. A great tribute to you – and in particular to Caroline Dawes, Lisa Beddows, Ravinder Kaur, Lisa McFarlen and Sarah Burrows, who have been picked out by patients and relatives for their work. Individual improvements are worth a mention but team success is even more important as it drives sustainability. Well done to our facilities team for being the first to book every single person in to have your appraisal under our new Aspiring To Excellence PDR system. Now let’s use those conversations to thank team members and to set objectives for the year ahead!

Congratulations too to the Mesty Croft district nursing team. They are the first of our six community district nurse teams to “go green” on all of their performance KPIs. At a time when the NHS is once again looking at and talking about emergency care and acute systems, perhaps to the exclusion of other things, I want to acknowledge the achievement of many community teams faced with big caseloads and the challenges of working independently in people’s homes. This month we have a huge focus on sepsis care. In that context thank you to our ED teams whose improved sepsis screening results offer real hope for better outcomes and care. Please take the opportunity of Hot Topics to talk about sepsis and whether you know enough to enact our policies and procedures. If you have not read the orange screensaver on sepsis, go look for it. It tells you all you need to know.

In the last few days I have been involved in a few discussions though about poor care. The Coroner has again written to me, on your behalf, about the unacceptable care pathway for head injuries, which led to a patient’s avoidable death. And local councillors alerted me to an elderly patient discharged after 1 a.m from one of our sites, in his nightgown and still with a cannula in situ. We all know that that is not our norm. Usually we achieve better than that. But our quality and our safety focus has to be maintained and we have to work to reduce pathway errors. Discharge in a nightgown is not a resourcing question. It is us wanting to go a little further to do what is right. We should never be discharging someone in this manner, and will support any employee who prevents someone being discharged in such a state, regardless of their profession or discipline. I know our transport teams for example have stepped forward to stop this in the past. We will always find the resources for dignity. But need the eyes and voices of all of us to stop mistakes like this. It is truly difficult to explain to a patient or relative how our attention to their needs missed a retained cannula. I have asked directors of nursing to advise me what should be our response, in conduct terms, when this happens.

I want to assure you that Midland Met, Unity, finance and other huge programmes will not distract your Board from a continued focus on basic safety. Every working day for me still starts with incident reports and safety plan data. I can see us reducing week by week the number of missed checks. I am proud that our community teams are rating every discharge, and feeding back to acute teams how we can make each one safe and therefore green. This month’s campaign on Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) is testimony to a determination to improve community resilience and staff wellbeing. Last year we invested in NIV care on priory 5 and in acute surgical care too. It is a month or two too early to confirm this year’s funding priorities but I know we will find funds to spend on quality improvements, like the HIT team, which we substantiated budget for a few weeks ago. If you have ideas about safety and about quality do speak up. Better still at your next QIHD put your idea forward. Across the Trust those ideas amount to our real improvement plan.

In-house inspections are out in our organisation again this week, as we were last week. I visited City ED and was impressed with the cleanliness of our space, and the resilience of colleagues. Almost every patient observation check was passed. We have spent the last two years trying to ensure that, in our community, GP and hospital ways of working we support A&E. That effort needs to continue, and we need to challenge ourselves to not create processes or pathways which simply result in a patient defaulting back there. I am grateful to individuals who spoke up about protocol which appeared to suggest failed discharge patients via transport should return to ED, which is not and should not be our approach. The inspection regime, our incident reporting, ok to ask, and Speak Up are all ways to create a culture determined to improve. Thank you to everyone who is playing their part in just that – as we aim for Good.  Where we are not already great.

#hellomynameis….Toby

City Hospital parking closures during March and April

 

The main staff car park at City Hospital will be closed from 7pm on Friday 23 March to enable essential work to be carried out on Saturday 24 March and Sunday 25 March.

The car park will reopen Monday 26 March. All other staff car parking areas will not be affected.

The visitor car park behind the Birmingham Treatment Centre will be closed on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April for essential works to be carried out.

If capacity for visitors becomes an issue the main staff car park barriers will be opened and visitors will be allowed to park in that car park.

 

 

 

Oracle ERP Training

 

If you raise or approve requisitions you will need training on the new Oracle ERP Cloud.

Training commenced 12 March 2018. If you haven’t been trained please book now.

Training will take approximately 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

To book you will need to contact Sarah Gammidge-Jefferson by emailing sarah.gammidgejefferson@nhs.net or please call 0121 507 4697.

Please see below training dates throughout March and April.

Sandwell:

Room 2 – Medical Education Centre: This room can only hold 5 people

  • Friday 16 March: 9am – 5pm

Room 4 – Medical Education Centre: This Room can hold 8 people

  • Monday 19 March: 8am – 4pm
  • Wednesday 21 March: 8am – 4pm
  • Friday 23 March: 8am – 2pm
  • Monday 26 March: 12pm – 4pm
  • Thursday 29 March: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

City:

Supplies Meeting Room: This room can hold 12 people

  • Thursday 15 March: 1pm – 4pm
  • Friday 16 March: 1pm – 4pm
  • Monday 19 March: 9am – 4pm
  • Tuesday 20 March: 9am – 4pm
  • Wednesday 21 March: 9am – 4pm
  • Thursday 22 March: 9am – 4pm
  • Tuesday 3 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Wednesday 4 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Thursday 5 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Friday 6 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Monday 9 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Tuesday 10 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Wednesday 11 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Thursday 12 April: 8am – 4pm
  • Friday 13 April: 8am – 4pm

Anne Gibson E-Learning Room

  • Friday 23 March: 9am – 5pm
  • Thursday 29 March: 9am – 5pm

For further information, please see our FAQ’s page on Connect or speak to our Oracle ERP team by emailing swbh.neworaclequeries@nhs.net

MMR Drop-in clinics available at Sandwell Hospital

 

Don’t forget: MMR Drop-in clinics will be available on Monday 19 March in the occupational health department, Courtyard Gardens, Sandwell Hospital from 9am-12pm and 1pm-3pm.

The occupational health nurses will be able to access occupational health records to check MMR status and will also be able to administer MMR vaccinations to get you up to date.

Any colleague can contact occupational health and wellbeing service on ext. 3306 to check their MMR status and book an appointment if necessary.

For more information you can visit the MMR vaccination page on Connect.

Occupational Health have also produced a new video, which aims to dispel the myths surrounding the MMR vaccine and why it is so important to get protected.

Please click here to view the video.

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