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Monthly archives: October 2024

Wave of Light – Baby Loss Awareness Week

 

The Trust Maternity Bereavement team came together yesterday to mark the Wave of Light event for Baby Loss Awareness Week 2024.

Held in the Birmingham Treatment Centre at City hospital – Vicky Weaver, Sadaf Ahmed and Maria Webb were able to offer words of support, comfort and honour the babies we have lost.

The team also offered refreshments, read out poems and had a little chat to support our families who have suffered a pregnancy loss, miscarriage or lost a baby too soon.

Another special event took place this week, as it was the final time we lit up City hospital’s Maternity unit in remembrance of all the babies we have so sadly lost.

Blood Gas Analyser Training – MMUH

 

Trainers will be back at MMUH on the 6 – 7 November for the Maternity move and then 10 – 12 November for the City Move.

Please contact Point of Care Testing for any training requests or for further information on 0121 507 5352 or email swb-tr.swbh-poct@nhs.net

Have you downloaded the Optispace app?

 

There is now an Optispace room booking app that you can download onto your smartphone device – simply search Gingco Share in your app store.  If you have a work issued iPhone, you can download this from Meraki MDM. If you have a Samsung work phone – you can download it from the Google Playstore.

Once you have downloaded the app use the instructions below to link the accounts. You must have your app and the browser version open at the same time.

what you need to do:

  • Click on the pen icon in the top right corner of the app.
  • Then click on the “QR-Code-Symbol” in the top right corner.
  • Have your profile details open in the browser and then scan the QR-code from the profile with the app. The instructions are at the bottom of your settings

Changes to cryoglobulin collection service

 

Clinical Biochemistry at Black Country Pathology Services have an update regarding the current cryoglobulin sample collection service arrangements. Please note that all sample collections for cryoglobulins MUST be pre-arranged with the laboratory. Samples must be collected into pre-warmed tubes provided by the laboratory, kept at 37°C at all times, and transported to the laboratory immediately by a member of the laboratory staff

  • Sandwell: The service will continue as currently. Please contact the laboratory to organise sample collection on ext. 3242. Sample collections are carried out Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm.
  • City: The current service will cease on Friday 18 October (affecting both outpatient and inpatient collections). Note: There will be no service for collecting cryoglobulins from outpatients at City site going forward (due to there being no laboratory sited there) and all outpatient cryoglobulin collections will need to be arranged with, and take place at, the Sandwell site. For collection up to and including Friday 18 October, please contact the City laboratory to organise sample collection on ext. Sample collections are carried out Monday – Friday, 9am – 1pm.
  • MMUH – There will temporarily be no cryoglobulin collection service for inpatients at MMUH until the equipment is transferred over from City site. Full details of the new service at MMUH will be communicated prior to completion of the City by Sunday 10 November.

If you have any clinical concerns regarding the above arrangements, please contact rwh-tr.bcps.proteinslab@nhs.net.

Ordering acid-containers for 24-hour urine collections for 5HIAA

To order an acid-container for collection of a 24-hour urine for 5HIAA, please contact the Sandwell Pathology reception on ext. 3242.

Note: acid-containers must not be stored in non-laboratory areas without first obtaining appropriate health and safety assessment and approval from the Trust.

Agile working spaces: We are listening

 

Thank you for all the hard work that you are doing to help your colleagues, and our patients settle into Midland Met.

Having completed six months’ worth of activation in six weeks, we anticipated teething problems in some areas.

One we are having lots of feedback and questions on, is agile working, and the use of desk and meeting room space across the building.

We are hearing and listening to your feedback and are currently undertaking a review of how these spaces will work going forwards.

Please bear with us and we will communicate any changes as soon as possible.

For now, please remember that the desk spaces are for admin work only – they are a quiet space for colleagues to concentrate and work effectively.

They are not for:

  • MDT meetings
  • Socialising
  • Lunch breaks or rest periods

Thank you for your understanding.

FIT Testing update

 

From Friday 18 October onwards, staff will be unable to make an appointment for Fit Testing via ESR.

Appointments can be made by calling one of the following numbers

Kristian Burgoyne 07977786768

Qamar Zaman 07987571

Lewis Moloney 07977783314

Fit Testing is held in The Old Security Bungalow (City Site).

There will be further updates regarding arrangements for Fit Testing at MMUH in the coming weeks.

 

Issues impacting PACS services

 

We are aware of an issue impacting PACS services (Image retrieval/archive) and our Informatics team are currently working with multiple vendors to address the fault. We do not currently have a time frame for when this issue will be fixed so we recommend that business continuity plans be invoked and colleagues use SyngoVia during the disruption to service.

Once we have more details, we will provide further updates.

We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.

We want to hear from you!

 

As part of our settling in period, and as we prepare for our upcoming City moves, we would like to hear your feedback.

Please complete this short survey and share your thoughts and suggestions on what worked well and what could have been better.

Visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/midlandmet or scan the below QR code:

One Health and Care system downtime: Tuesday 22 October, 10am – 2pm

 

Please be advised the One Health and Care system will be undergoing essential maintenance on Tuesday 22 October between the hours of 10am – 2pm.

During this time the One Health and Care link in Unity will not return any data, this will have no impact on any other Trust system and the rest of Unity will continue work as expected. The Health Information Exchange (HIE) will also continue to work as expected during this time allowing access to West Birmingham and Sandwell GP records.

Colleagues should not use the system during the maintenance window as data may only be partially complete.

Useful staff contacts

 

We’ve pulled together some useful staff contacts to have on hand to help you settle in. You can check it out below or on Connect, here.

We’ve also put together a comprehensive list of resources about all the important information you need to know about our new hospital.

 

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