Moving and grooving – Jayne Dunn praises mock move week

June 26, 2024

Last week we celebrated a successful mock move week.

We spoke to colleagues about the processes and learnings involved to take forward into the real move this October. Director of Commissioning, Jayne Dunn, was delighted with the outcomes of the week.

Jayne commented: “It was a brilliant opportunity to test our proposed timings and processes for safely moving patients from Sandwell and City sites into Midland Met in the autumn.

“We tested several variations of the patient journey where each journey was tested from a bed space on an existing ward or department to a bed space at Midland Met. This included the patient journey of an adult ward patient from Sandwell; an adult ward patient from City, an adult critical care patient, a paediatric patient from Sandwell, a paediatric high dependency patient, a maternity patient and a neonatal baby.”

Jayne noted the level of engagement from the teams. “The engagement throughout the week has been fantastic. The clinical teams, wards and departments were brilliant. Likewise, the support teams including porters, housekeeping, infection prevention and control were all fantastic. We’d like to thank the medical engineering and our external patient transport providers, WMAS, ACCOTS and KIDS. A big thank you to HCR, Balfour Beatty, Siemens and our volunteer ‘mock’ patients too.”

Overall, valuable discussions took place with lots of reflection, confirmation of planned times and processes, and ways to improve plans. As October draws closer, the important practice run has given teams an opportunity to prepare further ahead of the move.