Monthly archives: April 2018
iPM (Lorenzo) Outage for Server Patching Wednesday 25 April 05:00 to 07:00
There will be a short outage of iPM (Lorenzo) planned for the morning of Wednesday 25 April starting at 05:00 and completing by 07:00, 2 hours in total. During this time iPM (Lorenzo) will not be available.
This will have the following impacts:
Emergency Departments: Use Patient First as normal, use pre-numbered labels for NEW patients
Maternity: Use Badgernet Maternity as normal for mothers already admitted, new mothers will need to be captured on paper and retrospectively input, Babies entered onto Badgernet whilst iPM (Lorenzo) is unavailable will not get an RXK number, these will be queued and released when iPM (Lorenzo) available, poorly babies should be given a pre-numbered RXK label.
Wards: eBMS can be used for existing patients transfers and discharges, new patient admissions will not appear on eBMS boards until iPM (Lorenzo) is available again, patient tracker form should be used to track these patients.
Direct Admission Wards: Keep track of these using the patient tracker form.
Requests and Results (iCM): Can be done in iCM for existing patients, new patients will not be in iCM so these requests should be done on paper, urgent results will need to be telephoned as they may not be in iCM or CDA until iPM (Lorenzo) is available again.
Emergency Operations in Theatre: ORMIS will not be able to pull the patients details from iPM (Lorenzo), the information needs to be captured onto the data capture forms, and then entered into ORMIS when iPM (Lorenzo) is available again.
For more information regarding the downtime, please contact Sarah Cooke on ext. 6043 or email sarah.cooke@nhs.net
Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 20 April
For the second time, this week, the Prime Minister has committed the government to the vital task of completing the Midland Metropolitan Hospital as quickly as possible.
This very welcome support comes alongside continued advocacy by John Spellar and James Morris MPs. At the top of my message today is a useful and clear film by local West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street that emphasises the urgency of getting on with building work.
To be clear, the Trust is working closely with banks, councillors and government to bring the situation closer to a conclusion. With the spring sunshine upon us, now is the time to get back on site and to prevent the damage to the building that inevitably arises with delay.
Although we cannot confirm a likely revised opening date you will appreciate from the media that if we can recommence work soon we believe that opening in 2020 is entirely possible.
I know everybody who works in and with our organisation appreciates that Midland Met is not about a new building replacing an old building, although clearly decent facilities are what we would all expect at work and for our loved ones care. Instead the new hospital is about improving quality by being able to recruit skilled staff and helping them to work together in a single team on a single acute site. We have a complex message therefore to share with our patients and the neighbours who live around us. Our current emergency care model is safe but quality would be significantly improved by the move to our new facility. And as time goes by it becomes progressively more difficult to sustain services on two sites, that is why senior clinicians have been working to look at our fall back options if for any reason the opening of the new hospital has to be delayed beyond 2020.
I participated this week in one of our accredited manager modules. You will remember that every line manager in our organisation is undergoing peer training and support with some key competencies including people management. This obligation applies to the executives and to first line managers as well. I was very struck during the workshop by how the continued uncertainty over the Midland Met and resultant difficult new media headlines impacted on morale. Even so I am convinced that it is right that we discuss the issues and difficulties openly and in public. Truth builds trust. And trust is at the heart of running public services or providing great clinical care. So if you have questions that you wish to ask about the new hospital please feel free to direct them to me or Alan Kenny in the first instance. All questions are good because it is important that all of us can explain the position that the collapse of Carillion has created for us. I reiterate the boards absolute promise that the additional cost of delay will not be borne by local NHS and therefore will not add to the already challenging cost improvement programmes that we have that I wrote about last week.
I know walking or driving past the Midland Met can produce a sense of frustration at delay. I would invite you instead to consider the fantastic facility that we will be working in in the years ahead on a scale and at a quality that we have not had in the past.
#hellomynameis….Toby
Leicester Tigers vs. Newcastle Falcons: discounted tickets
The organisers for Leicester Tigers vs. Newcastle Falcons game have kindly offered Trust employees a limited number of discounted tickets for the Rugby game on Friday 27 April (kick off – 7.45pm) at Welford Road, LE2 7TR.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.leicestertigers.com entering the discount code “NHSNF18” and then select your seats.
For more information please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net
Facial tissues pack size change
Please note that the pack size of facial tissues (code: MJT058) will be changing code to WZP5453 and will now also be supplied in cases of 36 boxes so please keep this in mind when placing orders going forward.
If you have any queries concerning the above please do not hesitate to contact Lisa Southall on ext. 4938.
Cooked breakfast available at City from 24 April
BTC Costa at City Hospital are going to serve cooked breakfast starting from the 24 April, with breakfast being served from 8am.
PAYE benefits in kind – information for Trust members
The PAYE benefits for some salary sacrifice schemes are reducing with effect from April’s salary.
How Benefit in Kind taxation due on a salary sacrifice scheme will be collected from employees is detailed in the PAYE information sheet.
With effect from April’s salary:
- All lease vehicles with emissions of 75g or below will continue to receive full tax / NI / pension savings until 5 April 2021.
- Vehicles with emissions of 75g or below delivered between 6 April 2018 – 5 April 2021 will continue to receive Tax / Employee NI saving / Employee & Employer pension savings only.
- All lease vehicles with emissions above 75g will now receive Employee NI saving / Employee & Employer pension savings only.
- Electronic goods will now receive Employee NI saving / Employee & Employer pension savings only.
- Car parking will now receive Employee NI saving / Employee & Employer pension savings only.
Note: Arrangements relating to Childcare Vouchers and Cycle to Work will be excluded from this change at this time.
Upcoming BME staff network meeting – today
The next Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff network meeting will be taking place today (20 April) at Sandwell Hospital, seminar room 7 from 2pm – 4pm.
Guest speaker at the meeting will be Councillor and Associate Non-Executive Director, Waseem Zaffar.
Director of People and Organisation Development, Raffaela Goodby will also be present.
For further information please email swbh.bme@nhs.net.
Fast & Furious live – 2 for 1 tickets
The organisers for Fast and Furious Live have kindly offered Trust employees a limited number of 2 for 1 tickets for Fast & Furious live for shows between 20-22 April at Arena Birmingham.
Tickets can only be purchased in advance from the Ticket Factory website here.
Your offer should appear automatically and is valid on price £A-£E tickets. When selecting your tickets look for the gold star when choosing the quantity.
If this is not showing please type in “FURIOUS241” when prompted.
Note: Tickets must be bought in multiples of two.
For more information please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net
Mental health awareness training for managers
The occupational health and wellbeing service will be hosting a free 2 hour mental health awareness training event for managers on Thursday 10 May 2018 at the education centre, Sandwell Hospital from 12pm – 2pm.
- The training day will help you to develop skills in recognising signs and symptoms of mental health problems in employees or employee groups.
- It will help you to develop strategies to prevent mental health problems in the workplace.
- Give supporting information in developing skills to promote positive mental health and wellbeing
- Your duty as a manager to the welfare of your staff
- How to instigate a mental health conversation
- Supporting staff through sickness absence
To book a place, please contact Jatinder Sekhon or Emma Williams on ext. 3306, option 4.
For more information please contact jenny.wright9@nhs.net
Expected High Temperatures
Please be aware of the potential impact of the current temperatures upon a patient’s condition.
Factors which increase an individual’s risk during a heatwave include:
- Chronic and severe illness, including heart conditions, diabetes, respiratory or renal insufficiency, Parkinson’s disease or severe mental illness.
- Medications that potentially affect renal function, the body’s ability to sweat, thermoregulation or electrolyte balance can make this group more vulnerable to the effects of heat.
- Inability to adapt behaviour to keep cool: having Alzheimer’s, a disability, being bed bound, babies and the very young.
Actions to be taken include the following:
- Minimising heat increase by drawing blinds or curtains.
- Where possible switch off anything connected to the power system and likely to produce heat eg computers, printers, additional lighting.
- Maintaining hydration in patients.
- Ensure that discharge planning takes into account the temperature of the accommodation and level of daily care during the heatwave period.
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