Monthly archives: February 2022

LGBT History Month – creating our future: 17 February

As you may be aware, February marked the start of LGBT History Month and to celebrate the month. our LGBT Staff Network at the Trust have put together comprehensive list of events associated with the month which colleagues can attend throughout February.

Creating our future – Hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Thursday 17 February, 11am – 12pm:  At this online event you will hear from:

• Dr. Michael Brady, NHS England’s LGBT+ Advisor, speaking about LGBT+ health inequalities and offering practical takeaway advice to apply back in your workplace to support LGBT+ patients and staff.
• Dr. Lucy Kelsall-Knight, Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at University of Birmingham, speaking about the inequalities faced by LGBT+ parents, share her personal story of the inequalities faced as a parent in a same sex relationship, and the systemic changes needed to ensure all parents are treated fairly.

Click here to find out more and join this event.

The full list and attendance details can be accessed below in the LGBT History Month events list

Get boosted today – spread the word

Did you know our vaccination centres are open to all colleagues and members of the public? Anyone aged 16 and above can get their COVID-19 vaccinations at our walk-in vaccination hubs on site at Sandwell, City or Tipton. The dominant variant of COVID-19, Omicron is extremely transmissible, so act now and get boosted.

 Here are the latest opening hours:

Incident investigation training

Are you interested in completing incident investigation training? This training is aimed at specialty and independent leads who will lead on serious incident investigations.

Note: You will be asked to lead on two investigations within the next 12 months.

The training session will include:

• An understanding of why incidents occur, and what we can learn from them.
• How events are classed as serious incidents and what this means.
• What evidence to collect and how to represent this.
• How we support people involved and affected by the event.
• Analysing the evidence so that root causes and contributory factors are identified.
• How to write up the final investigation report.

Training sessions will run from 9.30am – 2pm on the following dates:

• Wednesday 27 April, clinical skills room, Postgraduate Centre (eight spaces left)
• Wednesday 18 May, clinical skills room at Postgraduate Centre (nine spaces left)
• Tuesday 14 June, room 12/13, Sandwell Education Centre (ten spaces left)
• Wednesday 20 July, clinical skills room, Postgraduate Centre (ten spaces left)

Spaces are limited at ten people for each training session due to social distancing measures. To book your place, please email swb-tr.RiskManagement@nhs.net.

Social prescribing day digital event: 12 March

Social prescribing enables health professionals to refer people to a range of local, community services. Socially prescribing is becoming increasingly important as we try and achieve the best health and well-being outcomes for our patients.

The social prescribing day online event on Saturday 12 March, 10am – 11am will bring together GPs, community groups, voluntary organisations, medical schools, academics, and students across the UK.

To sign up for this free event please click here.

For further details including information regarding the CPD certificate of attendance, please email ahpstudentspchampions@outlook.com.

Planned maintenance impacting the estates helpdesk

Please be aware that there is planned maintenance on the SWB helpdesk portal. It is scheduled to

start today, (Tuesday, 15 February), at 16.00 and end tomorrow, (Wednesday, 16 February) at midday.

Should you need to report an estates issue, please contact the helpdesk on 0121 507 4444 to report the fault.

Microbiology and blood bank reporting issue affecting results in Unity

Black Country Pathology Service are currently experiencing IT issues which are affecting the reporting of microbiology and blood bank results through to Unity.

Urgent results, significant abnormal results and urgent rapid COVID-19 results will be phoned through.

Please don’t phone the laboratory unless essential and continue to use electronic requesting as usual.

We apologise for any inconvenience. The problem is currently being investigated by Black Country Pathology Service IT suppliers and further updates will follow.

Duty of Candour month

As you may be aware, throughout this month the patient safety team has been releasing communications highlighting the Duty of Candour (DoC) process and providing different tools to help colleagues to complete this process.

This week, the team have put together a document about being open at a glance which cover what actually being open means as well as how to implement this. Click the link to access the being open at a glance document.

In case you missed it, you access last week’s Duty of Candour month message by clicking here.

NHS Fit: Your live timetable is now available

Stay strong through 2022 by attending the NHS Fit live workouts and join the wider NHS community.

Each workout session can be completed at home, and they have also included shorter sessions in case you want to take part with your colleagues at work. They offer a variety of classes at both a beginner and advanced level.

To find out more and sign up, please click here.

Missing people survey

The charity Missing People work with key bodies in police, health and social care to inform good practice in how both children and adults are reported missing.

If you have experience of reporting anyone as missing or working with those who have, Missing People would like to hear from you. They are trying to better understand people’s experiences of reporting someone as missing to the police and whether there are any changes needed to practice.

Note: This is specifically about the point of reporting when carers/families/professionals first contact the police, they are not asking about the ongoing missing investigation.

If you wish to complete the survey you can do so by visiting www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Reportingmissing/. The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes.

All responses will be anonymous and will be used to inform future practice.

IPM Messaging – Delay processing backlog of messages

Colleagues are advised that due to an issue with IPM earlier today which has since been resolved, there will be a delay processing some messages in to Unity as the system continues to catch up with the backlog.

Informatics are monitoring the issue and colleagues are urged to contact the IT ServiceDesk on ext 4050 if they have any other issues.