Monthly archives: July 2018
Heartbeat: Full dress rehearsal of Unity coming in September
A run through of all activities that will take place during go-live of Unity will start on Monday 10 September.
Be sure to check out the above short clip of Lis Hesk, Gynaecology Matron sharing her experiences of going through the first dress rehearsal of Unity held in April and what her team is doing to prepare for Unity.
This will be the full dress rehearsal (FDR) of Unity which will identify any issues ahead of go-live. Heartbeat caught up with Shafiq Ullah, Unity Cutover Manager who explained more.
“My role as cutover manager is to make sure that we have everything in place ready for when we cut over from the old systems to Unity. The full dress rehearsal will review, assess and measure both the cutover plan and the electronic patient record both technically and operationally prior to go-live.”
A selection of operational areas across our sites will take part in FDR activities, replicating the steps that will be carried out during cutover. These will include activities like:
- Logging into Unity
- Entering patient alerts
- Allocating patients into beds
- Managing patient movements
- Entering clinical information.
Shafiq said: “FDR is an opportunity for our operational teams supported by our digital champions and the Unity project team, to use Unity and prepare for the cutover. Additionally any issues identified during FDR will be escalated for resolution and the plan and logistics updated and documented for the cutover and go-live.”
The Unity dress rehearsal will ensure that each role will be able to provide patient care in their respective roles. The first dress rehearsal of Unity took place in April and was well received by colleagues who commented that they appreciated the opportunity to use Unity in a live setting.
Emma Hibbs, Team Lead, Rapid Response Therapy Service said: “Going through the first dress rehearsal was a good opportunity to see Unity in action. As part of the rapid response team, I work in the emergency department and AMU and currently have to access different systems to look at patient information. It’s great to see that this will all change when we go-live with Unity as we will have a single point of access for all patient records. This means the information will be timely and accurate which is a positive thing for our patients.”
Lis Hesk, Gynaecology Matron added: “Having taken part in the first dress rehearsal of Unity it made so much sense to me and the team to follow a real patient through the pathway from admission to discharge. Unity ensures patient records are maintained in a standardised way and allows the whole team to be involved in the care of patients.”
During FDR a number of users including nurses/midwives, healthcare assistants and ward clerks will work on Unity while their colleagues will be carrying out their usual processes on our current systems.
Those taking part in FDR will be fully briefed beforehand. If you are taking part in FDR it is advised that you attend Unity end user training before 17 September. FDR will take place on the following dates:
- 10 September – for technical activities, with operational activities from;
- 17 September – Sandwell ED, Sandwell inpatient wards
- 18 September – City Hospital ED, City Hospital inpatient wards, Community inpatient areas
- 19 September – Outpatient areas
- 20–21 September – wrap up
For more information email swbh.trustindigital@nhs.net
Disruption to traffic on Hallam Street and adjoining roads: 30 July – 27 August
Further to previous messages, Cadent Gas Limited are carrying out essential gas work on Hallam Street that is planned to last approximately 39 weeks.
3-way temporary traffic lights will be placed on Hallam Street and the junction of Little Lane.
This phase will be in two sections and the bus stop nearest outpatients will be closed during this phase.
Please use the closest alternative bus stop which is by the main entrance to the hospital.
Whenever the use of traffic management is needed, the contractors will work with the Trust and Local Authority Highways Department to try and keep any disruption to a minimum, but there will be an obvious impact both to the traffic flow and to the access to/egress from our car parks at times during the length of the works.
We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.
Minor building works at City pharmacy: 28 July-29 July
The pharmacy department at City Hospital will be having some minor building works starting Saturday 28 July until Sunday 29 July. This is another stage to facilitate for the introduction of a more efficient workflow that will support the discharge and outpatients process.
We anticipate no interruptions to the service, our opening hours will remain the same, 10am-3pm both days.
For further information please contact Divna Young on ext. 5250 or 5260.
New Yoga Class at Sandwell Hospital
Suitable for all levels, regardless of ability, experience or age.
Venue: Sandwell Meeting Room Suite, 1st Floor, Activity Hall, Sandwell Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
Dates/Times
Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 5pm
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 5pm
Wednesday, 15 March 2017 at 5pm
Wednesday, 22 March 2017 at 4.45pm
Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 5pm
Cost: £5
Please register your interest with Jatinder Sekhon on Ext 3306.
For more information on class programme please contact Terrie, Asher Yoga on 07851015429 / 01922646263 / www.asheryoga.co.uk
Yoga class at Sandwell
Join us for Sandstone Yoga Flow – a signature yoga experience, designed to relax, restore, nourish and strengthen the body, mind and soul. A must if you are passionate about becoming the best version of yourself in all walks of life.
Suitable for all levels of ability, experience and ages.
Wednesday, 22 November 2017 @ 5pm
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 @ 5pm
Wednesday, 6 December 2017 @ 5pm
Wednesday, 13 December 2017 @ 5pm
Wednesday, 20 December 2017 @ 5pm
Venue: Activity Hall, Sandwell Hospital
£5.00 per session. Limited availability.
For more information on Yoga please contact 01922 277684 or email hello@sandstoneyoga.co.uk For bookings please contact Jatinder Sekhon on Ext 3854/3306 option 4.
Free Yoga Classes
Join us for Sandstone Yoga Flow. Our signature yoga experience, designed to relax, restore, nourish and strengthen the body, mind and soul. A must if you are passionate about becoming the best version of yourself in all walks of life.
Suitable for all levels of ability, experience and ages.
Dates/Times
Wednesday 28 February – 4.45pm – Clinical Skills Room 1, Education Centre
Wednesday 7 March – 4.45pm – Conference Suite, Education Centre
Wednesday 14 March – 4.45pm – Clinical Skills Room 1, Education Centre
Wednesday 28 March – 4.45pm – Clinical Skills Room 1, Education Centre
Wednesday 4 April – 4.45pm – Conference Suite, Education Centre
Wednesday 11 April – 4.45pm – Clinical Skills Room 1, Education Centre
For more information on Yoga please contact 01922 277684 or email hello@sandstoneyoga.co.uk
Please ensure your pac key allows access to the Education Centre.
For bookings please contact Jatinder Sekhon on Ext 3306 opt. 4
Yoga Class at City Hospital
The health and wellbeing department are introducing a yoga class at City Hospital.
The class will take place on Tuesday mornings (starting tomorrow, 14 February) 7am-8am at a cost of £6 per person.
Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.
To book a space for the class please e-mail Sarah Clifford – s.clifford1@nhs.net
Spaces are limited so you are advised to book early.
Unity targeted coaching programme: week two – recording vital signs in Unity
Monday 23 July is week two of the new Unity targeted coaching programme and the theme is – recording vital signs in Unity.
The clinical informatics team will be out and about meeting colleagues across our sites and delivering short five minute one-to-one micro-coaching sessions to ensure that our clinical colleagues are prepared for when Unity goes live later this year.
The team will demonstrate what alerts pop up when we have a high national early warning score (NEWS) and explain the risks of not reading the discern alerts. They will also show where the patient observation can be viewed by the multidisciplinary team and how to set up a task to remind colleagues to take patient observations.
In the first week of the coaching programme the team delivered sessions to over 150 colleagues. Departments were pleased to get dedicated support from colleagues who know Unity very well.
Positive comments from colleagues who took part in the coaching included:
“When I first heard about Unity, I was worried about it, but having seen it I’m confident it will work.”
“I am not very confident with computers, but I will have a go.”
The coaching programme will run for 15 weeks in total. It is critical to stress that this is not a training programme and is not a replacement for the formal end user training which is a requirement for all colleagues (including those that have already undertaken digital champion and/or early adopter training).
The clinical informatics team will endeavour to avoid causing any disruption to ward routines and have written to ward managers to allow team members the time to participate in these sessions and start to get familiar with Unity.
For further information email swbh.informaticsnurses@nhs.net
Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 20 July
Now that the football season is on a fortnight’s break, time to advertise our annual cricket match against local GPs at Dartmouth Cricket Club between the M5 traffic chaos and the Hawthorns. Please do come forward if you want to play and email me directly. Half a team carries over from last year’s narrow win so there are places up for grabs. And food, drink, face-painting, and a Sunday in the sun if you want to come along and cheer. More details in the communications bulletin each day.
Next week our colleagues in pathology take the next step in the TUPE process as we move towards creating the Black Country Pathology service in October. The new combined service across four Trusts will see little change, in that locations stay the same in 2018/19, and lots of change, in that we will be working with a shared service partnership. Teams will still be colleagues but the partnership will be contractual. We will have standards we contract for and expect, and new ideas may take just a little longer to get moving. I am delighted that Paul Harrison has been hired to be the clinical lead for the new service. A haematologist, Paul was a very successful medical director at Russell’s Hall, and his decision to take on the role is testimony to how important for the local health system pathology, and this new partnership, is. I know Paul will work with us as we finalise arrangements for specialised pathology, and as we move beyond the important staffing and logistical details, and think through what scientific opportunities the new scale can offer.
Just after I open the incident reports for the Trust each morning, I take a look at our safety plan data. I know a lot of clinical leaders in the Trust do the same. This week, for the first time, we are seeing 100% delivery of our standards, and in particular the drive to make sure any missed checks are completed inside 48 hours. That is a significant and important step, and thank you to those folk working to do this each night and each day. Attention to detail is at the heart of our safety effort and so is team work. Every VTE assessment is a chance to save a life. Our sepsis data shows us that there remain opportunities to see risk and intervene. We know from the feedback loop on inter ward discharges that we still have a handful of missed medication handovers when we move patients. Our focus on that, your focus, is a credit to a determination to put patients first.
The week ahead sees more Listening Into Action events. I have reported here on the work colleagues in ED are doing to improve care, and last week saw a successful social care visioning event to think about how we can get the most from the privilege of having seven day social work teams. Encouragingly there is also a recognition that some of the differences in approach between Sandwell and Birmingham do not make sense for clients or families, so hopefully we can develop an SWB approach which is common to both. Medicine’s ward multi professional teams gather on Thursday to talk through progress with Consistency of Care and begin to think about new trainee doctors joining us at the start of August, and CQC inspectors landing with us this autumn. Medicine has a huge amount of great practice to showcase and August’s TeamTalk will see Arvind Rajasekaran present across the Trust the future hospital work in respiratory medicine that we have been doing with the Royal College of Physicians. Look out for more details during August of our QIHD Trust wide poster contest as we a start a new tradition of shared learning in our Trust too.
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS commissioning board, otherwise known as NHS England, has been outlining what might form part of the ten year NHS plan, which launches this November. I am sure we will get more details soon. And I know that a focus on mental well-being will be at the heart of that plan and our response. Locally we are actively advocating for a proportionate reduction in spend on physical health if we can be sure the money will be well spent on mental health. I hope that the money where our mouth is approach has your support as well. Simon has also been explaining the benefits for more day surgery in the NHS. Once again national policy seems to be following just marginally behind us, as our 23 hour unit went into operation last month. Congratulations to the clinicians and managers in the surgical group for the work you are doing. We had the best waiting times locally before and we are getting even further ahead…
As part of our regular updates on IT I attach this week’s performance overview.
Informatics Data – Date- 20 July 2018
Finally: July pay packets will see the new pay award included, and in August the NHS will pay the back pay due for April, May and June. Overdue and well deserved.
#hellomynameis….Toby
Limited Urology nursing cover week commencing 30 July
Due to unforeseen circumstances, there will be very limited Urology nursing cover week commencing 30 July for one week.
For any urgent queries, please contact the Urology departments on ext. 5324.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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