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Monthly archives: June 2018

Benefits of new ESR portal

 

Later this year, paper payslips will be ceasing and you will access your payslip via the new ESR portal.

Your payslip is not the only thing available to you via the My ESR Dashboard – you can also check your annual leave entitlement, any sickness absence you may have had, your personal information and also your total reward statement.

To access ESR via Connect please take the following steps:

  1. Select corporate systems
  2. Select ESR Portal
  3. Click forgotten username or password
  4. The login assistance screen will be displayed
  5. Enter your email address and click ‘forgot user name.’ You will then receive an email containing your username
  6. Enter username and click ‘forgot password.’ You will then receive an email with a link to reset the password.

Full guidance available on the ESR Self Service web page: https://connect2.swbh.nhs.uk/esr/employee-self-service/

Real Bodies – The Exhibition: discounted tickets

 

The organisers for Real Bodies – The Exhibition have kindly offered Trust employees discounted tickets for the event up until 19 August.

Tickets are available for the special price of £7.50* each. Tickets can be purchased through www.theticketfactory.com by using code RBSTAFF18.

For more information please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net.

Star Awards – Clinical Team of the Year (children) – 5 days left to nominate

 

There are only 5 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.

Do you know a team that has provided consistent, high quality care for children whilst meeting financial and operational targets, a team that has demonstrated best practice or has driven forward improvements in patient care or has pulled together through particularly difficult circumstances? This could include teams who care for children across our Trust settings and services, not just our specialist paediatric teams.

Nominate them as the Clinical Team of the Year (children) at this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

Ways to nominate:

  • You can complete a paper nomination form which you can download by clicking here
  • You can send in a video nomination for free to  swbh.comms@nhs.net via www.wetransfer.com Choose go to free. When doing the recording remember to state clearly who you are and the name of the person/team you are nominating.
  • You can complete the online form by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2018 page on Connect.

Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 22 June

 

Thank you to everyone who made time to come to last night’s annual general meeting. This is the event where we report our quality and financial accounts. As you might guess we were asked about the dreadful events in Gosport, where over 400 people had their lives ended prematurely. And about Midland Met and why it is taking so long to get the funding in place to finish the job. But the highlight of the evening was undoubtedly Bill Thomson’s presentation of our UK leading nuclear medicine service, and Sarah Yusuf’s fabulous run through of the improvement journey in imaging in the last two years, and technological capability we now have, in part through our MES contract and the benefits of being financially sustainable.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Windrush transported British citizens in the UK. The Trust has been at the forefront of celebrations across the city of this, whilst working to ensure that we reflect honestly on the experience of staff working in the NHS from BME backgrounds. Our staff network has very much been the driving force behind that work, and they, and our Muslim Liaison group have organised a fast breaking celebration for the end of Ramadan on Tuesday.

I participated this week in my first conversation of the year planning this winter’s flu campaign. Thinking now and before that gets started I would invite you to reflect on the immunisation and vaccination status you have, not just for flu, but also for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR). Despite our campaign work in March we are still well short of a safe and stable level of vaccinated staff in one or two key areas. I am enormously keen if we can to achieve that safe level without needing to alter policies or contracts for new starters. However, we cannot drift through the summer without seeing improvements in some acute areas in our levels of coverage. Paula Gardner, our Chief Nurse, will lead work on this, and I would ask all involved to reflect first on the patient safety implications of choices we make. In our public health and quality plans we are clear that the Trust views high uptake as our responsibility, among our workforce and in tackling low uptake in the general population.

Fiona Shorney leaves us in good hands with the appointment of Lydia Jones as Director of Therapies. Heartbeat some weeks ago showcased our next generation of clinical leaders, of whom Lydia is one, and home-grown too. Fiona’s first leaving do went with a swing, and much of what we are doing well in the Trust now sits within primary care, community and therapies. As a Group, for example, our colleagues in those areas report high levels of engagement, involvement and advocacy. Precisely what we want to achieve Trust wide, and we can learn how to do that best internally, as well as looking to other Trusts and industries for role models. Though Fiona is staying with us for a little longer, now is the time to say goodbye and thank you.

Work on our IT continues. The external infrastructure experts were on sites this week, and share their first report with me next week. In a fortnights time I will start sharing the performance scorecard for our IT here weekly as I promised that I would. This week we have had issues in our cath labs and pharmacy, as well as moving over the laptops in maternity. There remains no lack of effort, focus or finance and we will get on top of the difficulties this summer. Thank you to Mark, Dean, Louise, John, Martin and the team for their immense hard work.

I am still reflecting on the Prime Ministerial financial announcement and will write more next month, in the meantime we need to keep our focus on treating more patients, coding them well, and spending our funds wisely. We continue to ringfence training and education spend here and hope to see that grow further nationally in coming months.

BME interview panels needed for nursing recruitment event: tomorrow (23 June)

 

Due to the large interest in the nursing recruitment event that is taking place tomorrow (Saturday 23 June) we’re seeking more BME colleagues to sit on our interview panels during the event.

If you are a senior nurse from a BME background and would like to help, please contact amir.ali1@nhs.net to register your interest.

The event will take place at the Education Centre, Sandwell Hospital, 9am–4.30pm.

More information can be found here.

Birmingham Pride 2018 – Celebrating #NHS70

 

The SWBH LGBT Staff Network and our allies from across the trust took part in the Birmingham Pride march over the May Bank Holiday weekend, some forty staff from across the organisation took part either marching with the network or as part of other organisations  in the parade.

Members of the LGBT Community and allies within our trust joined colleagues from seven other NHS organisations from within the Birmingham area to join together as the largest walking contingent within this year’s parade.

As part of the NHS 70th Birthday celebrations the organisers of Birmingham Pride asked that the staff members from across the NHS joined together to carry the 25 foot long Rainbow Pride Flag, it was a fantastic site to see people from many specialities and disciples within the Health Care Sector coming to gather to celebrate the LGBT+ community.

The theme of this year’s event was “Be You”  In the current climate, minority groups and communities are working hard against attempts to be marginalised by the mainstream. Across the wider world, people of all colours, gender, sexual identities and sexuality are ‘finding their voice’ and speaking out against the turning back of pro-LGBT legislation.

Birmingham Pride, who turned 21 this year, is now the UK’s biggest two-day LGBT event and is also one of Brum’s biggest street parties, attracting around 75,000 people a year.

 

Star Awards 2018: Prize for Innovation Award – 1 week left to nominate

 

There is only 1 week left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.

Do you know an individual or team that has introduced new innovative practice or an innovative scheme during the year that has made substantial improvements to services or systems and processes?

Nominate them for the Prize for Innovation Award in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

Ways to nominate:

  • You can complete a paper nomination form which you can download by clicking here.
  • You can send in a video nomination for free to  swbh.comms@nhs.net via www.wetransfer.com Choose go to free. When doing the recording remember to state clearly who you are and the name of the person/team you are nominating.
  • You can complete the online form by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2018 page on Connect.

Potential phishing emails targeting NHS organisations

 

There is currently an ongoing widespread ‘phishing’ email campaign targetting NHS organisations.

Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords.

This particular campaign states that devices have been compromised with ‘WannaCry’ and request users to send Bitcoin payments to a specified email address, different to the sender’s address.

Please follow the guidance below to ensure you stay secure:

  • If you do not recognise the email, you should not open it.
  • Ensure anti-malware \ anti-virus is kept up-to-date.
  • Ensure you are following guidance on backing up important data to the network

If you have any queries regarding a suspicious email or message, please contact the IT Service Desk on ext 4050.

Informatics routine maintenance: Friday 22 June 9pm until 9pm on Sunday 24 June

 

From Friday 22 June, 9pm to Sunday 24 June, 9pm the informatics team will be undertaking maintenance on the following IT systems:

  • Carefusion
  • Tomcat Cardiology
  • Vitalpak
  • PACS
  • CRIS
  • Patient First

This should have no impact on the operation of the systems however if you have issues or concerns during the weekend please contact the on-call IT backup (available via switchboard).

Star Awards 2018: Fundraiser of the Year – 8 days left to nominate

 

There are only 8 days left to get your nominations in for the upcoming Star Awards.

Do you know an individual or team either internally or externally who by their hard work, dedication and example, have made a significant difference by increasing the awareness of Your Trust Charity?

This can include achieving considerable and recognisable fundraising success and creating positive changes to service delivery. Showing good practice in the administration of charitable funds and demonstrating a true commitment to improving the fundraising capability of the charity (or charitable fund) or even collaborating with external facilitators to bring in good learning and pilot projects to our Trust.

Nominate them for the Fundraiser of the Year Award in this year’s upcoming Star Awards!

Ways to nominate:

  • You can complete a paper nomination form which you can download by clicking here.
  • You can send in a video nomination for free to  swbh.comms@nhs.net via www.wetransfer.com Choose go to free. When doing the recording remember to state clearly who you are and the name of the person/team you are nominating.
  • You can complete the online form by clicking here.

If you have any questions, please contact the communications team on 0121 507 5303 or email swbh.comms@nhs.net.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Star Awards 2018 page on Connect.

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