Monthly archives: October 2024

Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 11 October

Dear colleagues,

Most of my Friday message today is in video form – words didn’t seem to do this week justice.

Please do take five minutes to watch the video, which covers two very important milestones.

• We have successfully moved over 170 patients from Sandwell to Midland Metropolitan University Hospital – thanks to the hard work, professionalism and discretionary effort from our staff.
• Working here at Midland Met, is an exciting place to be, however this building can only work if we work and behave differently, from our administration duties to operational duties. We want to ensure that this hospital works to its full benefit for both our staff and patients – the Midland Met way.

More about these two exciting things and in the video below.

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PSIRF Newsletter – October edition

In this first edition, you will find information about important safety alerts, swam huddle video and a case study.

To read the newsletter, click here

Unsure where to park at MMUH?

If you are driving to work, you’ll park in the colleague car park on level 1. It is accessed from London Street, Smethwick, B66 2SH, just behind the hospital off Grove Lane.

When you arrive, you’ll find colleague parking on level 1 (with some overspill on level 0) with lifts connecting you straight into the hospital.

There are separate designated disabled parking spaces available for colleagues and visitors.

If you already have a Q-Park parking pass, you can use it at Midland Met. You do not need to make any changes, just drive in, tap your pass and you’re good to go.

We also have 30 electric car charging stations on level 0 and level 1. To use these charging points, register at www.cpsgenie.com.

Important things to be aware of:

Colleagues can use any of the public or clinical lift cores to move around Midland Met. Each public lift core has its own colour:

A – Purple 

B – Orange

C – Yellow

D – Blue

E – Lime green

The public lift cores are coloured to help you make your way into the hospital. Lift cores A – C are at the front of the hospital (South) and D/E are located at the back of the hospital (North).

To easily find your car, please note which lift core you use. Each lift also displays a sign showing which core you’re in and what departments or wards you can reach using it.

On level 5 in the Winter Garden, you will also find maps showing what lift core you are closest to.

Check out the wayfinding guide to familiarise yourself with Midland Met.

Take a look at this video to find out where designated parking areas are and how to get around.

First Friday Prayers at MMUH

We will be hosting our first Friday Prayers at the MMUH Spiritual Care Centre on Friday 11 October from 1.15pm.

All colleagues are welcome to attend.

COVID vaccinations currently out of stock

We have currently run out of stock of vaccinations across the Trust. Once the delivery has arrived, we will communicate further.

Focus on pharmacy

The pharmacy departments at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), Sandwell and City sites are now all fully open and offer a range of services across all sites. They can be found at the following locations and can be contacted using the numbers below:

NB: When City wards move to MMUH, City inpatient pharmacy and stores will remain on the main spine, the City outpatient pharmacy will be located temporarily within the BTC, until Sheldon Block Pharmacy opens in early 2025.

The way the pharmacy team works is changing, so the following information may be helpful.

Fluid deliveries

Fluid deliveries will be managed by the pharmacy team, until Baxters take over management of stocks (early 2025) who will deliver directly to all ward areas. Fluids will be delivered to the blue shelving units in the clean utility rooms and other allocated areas. The shelving units are the property of Baxters and MUST NOT be used for storage for any other items.

Fluid stock checks will be carried out as follows:

• Further details of current scheduled fluid deliveries at MMUH can be found on the Pharmacy Connect page here.
• If you require urgent fluid stock requirements outside of these delivery times, please use the on-line ad-hoc order form here. 

A small stock holding of fluids is kept at MMUH pharmacy, however the majority of our fluids will be stored at the main City pharmacy stores. We will endeavour to deliver urgent requests within 4 hours. If your request is more urgent than this, please find alternative stock in a nearby Omnicell ADC/Clean Utility or contact pharmacy directly.

Stock Deliveries

Please see the Pharmacy Connect page for more details.

Monday-Friday

ADCS for all clinical areas will be topped up daily by a member of pharmacy staff. They will load stock directly into the ADC, so please note you may see pharmacy assistants working at ward level within your clean utilities.

Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holidays

ED, AMU and Critical Care will receive an Omnicell ADC top up which will be loaded into the ADC by a member of pharmacy staff.

All other areas can continue to order stock via the ad-hoc order form here.

Please note that you can also check locations of stock in other ADCs across the Trust using your own ADC. If you are unsure how to do this, then please speak to the superuser in your area.

Cut off times

Monday-Friday

Cut off times for routine work are as follows:

MMUH, City and Sandwell

• Medidose TTOs and CD requests – 1pm
• TTOs – 4pm

Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays

Midland Met 

• Medidose TTOs and CD requests – 1pm
• TTOs – 3pm

City

• Medidose TTOs and CD requests – 1pm
• TTOs – 3pm

Sandwell 

• Closed

Omnicell ADC queries

For all enquiries, your Superuser at ward level should be contacted in the first instance, as they can help solve most common issues. If you have a simple query, the ward based pharmacy team may also be able to help with simple enquiries e.g. how to source and fill more printer rolls, general stocking etc.

If needed, the pharmacy team or superuser will escalate to the Pharmacy Informatics team for support where required.

If the problem is still not resolved, then the details for the Omnicell 24/7 query line can be found on the side of your machine and they can be contacted at any time.

Please note the on-call pharmacist is not able to help with Omnicell enquiries out of hours. The CNPs are superusers, so can also help to support overnight.

On-call Pharmacist Service

There is no change to the on-call pharmacist service, which covers all SWB sites, and they can be contacted via switchboard. The on-call pharmacist is not on site overnight and will attend for calls from home. Please therefore ensure that before you contact the on-call pharmacist for stock enquiries, you have checked for stock across the Trust via your ADC and the pharmacy out-of-hours room at City and MMUH.

Find out more here. 

BVT02 Bladder Scanner Training Videos

Source Medical have shared how to access and download bladder scanner training videos.

To access the training videos for the BVT02 bladder scanner, please click here.

This page prompts for a password, please use: bladdertrain119

Mindful employer: two free webinar’s this October

Mindful employer are offering two free courses throughout October, open to SWB colleagues.

• Overcoming Imposter Syndrome  with Anna Croucher on Wednesday 16 October – 2pm – 3pm – you can register here
• Battling Adversity with Nigel Owens, on Wednesday 16 October, 11am – 12pm – you can register here 
• Building the Gap, Supporting Grief at Work – Faith Holloway, Thursday 17 October 11am – 12pm – you can register here

Are you using the electronic notice of death form within Unity?

As you may be aware, with the move to MMUH we are no longer as a Trust using the carbon copy notice of death forms. We have now moved forward to an electronic notice of death form which can be found in Unity.

Please see notice of death documentation for details.

Note: The QRG for this can also be found in eCoach within Unity should staff need further details.

Should you need any support or have any specific issues with the electronic notice of death form, please email lauren.wood19@nhs.net, sedwards17@nhs.net or annie.williams1@nhs.net. Alternately, you can call 0121 507 2703.

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