“A great place to be cared for; a great place to work” Issue 406, 13 January 2014 For the latest news on better care together, please visit www.bettercaretogether.co.uk Thanks to Staff for their Hard Work Staff will be aware of the pressures which were faced by our Trust and hospitals across the country last week. We’re extremely appreciative of all the support shown by staff across the Trust during this difficult period and will continue to keep the situation under review. A number of measures were taken during the week to help the A&E departments at the RLI and FGH deal with these additional pressures. We recognise the additional strain on staff over this period and wish to re-iterate our thanks to everyone for their dedication and hard work, which is most certainly paying off. A&E performance improved over the weekend, with the Trust achieving the 95% standard on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. FGH improved from Thursday 8 January and even hit 100% on Sunday 11 January. The RLI achieved the 95% standard on both Saturday and Sunday. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and performance will continue to be reported through Team Brief. Are you a Flu Fighter? With the cold weather now upon us, people will be more likely to catch the flu. In other hospitals across the North West, the influenza virus infection has already hit Intensive Care Units. The flu vaccine not only protects you from the virus, it also protects those around you. With this in mind have you contacted a Link Nurse near you for your flu vaccination? If you have a team meeting coming up, get a link nurse along to vaccinate all your team and help the fight against flu! Below is a list of some more link nurses you can contact by finding them on the global address book or Occupational Health on RLI - x42290 / WGH - x45173 / FGH - x43570. Jackie Smith Helen Thompson Janet Towers Sascha Wells Kim Wilson ‘A great place to be cared for; a great place to work’ Sue Smith Pauline Thompson Shannon Wall Imelda Wheeler Paula Witter www.facebook.com/UHMBT Issue 406, 13 January 2014 www.twitter.com/UHMBT Big Steps in our Listening into Action Journey We are about to take another big step forward in our Listening into Action journey, as we identify the first schemes we will carry out. They will be Pioneering schemes, which aim to develop new ways of doing things, and Enabling our People schemes, which concentrate on breaking down the daily barriers we all face in our day-to-day work. To help us do this, we will bring together everything we have learned so far through our Pulse Check Survey and Big Conversations into a single “What Matters to our Staff” document. We will review all the expression of interest forms we have received from those who want to lead and develop individual Pioneer Schemes, to kick off our First 10. So there are big developments coming up – with announcements of the details of all these milestones on Friday 23 January. In the mean-time, take a look at the first video looking back at our Big Conversations, on our Listening into Action intranet page, on our website, or on our Youtube channel here. If that makes you feel inspired, but you haven’t yet filled in an expression of interest form, don’t worry! Later this year we will be selecting a further set of staff-led schemes under Wave 2 of Listening into Action – and it’s never too early to get your ideas in for the second stage! Fill in a form linked to our Listening into Action intranet page here. Help Patient Relations keep hitting 100% The Patient Relations department, based at WGH, is comprised of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALs) (of which there is an officer at each of the three main sites); patient experience; and dealing with any compliments, comments, and complaints that come into the Trust. A complaint is any expression of dissatisfaction with the services, care or facilities provided by the Trust that requires a response - of any kind. All staff have a responsibility to listen and respond to patient and visitor complaints, ensuring timely and effective resolution where possible, and as an NHS Trust we also have a legal requirement to deal with formal complaints efficiently and comprehensively, and within set protocols. The Patient Relations department works within these regulations and part of this is to provide a formal written response to a complaint within 35 working days, from the date on which the complaint is received - the Complaint Regulations 2009 allow a period of 6 months. The department works very hard to achieve this objective, and is pleased to say that in November 2014 they responded to 100% of complaints within the 35 working day timescale. In December, there was a slight dip at 98%. How you can help: if you are asked to provide any information during the investigation of a complaint, please respond in a timely manner and within the timescale given by the Case Officers and Assistants. If you have queries with regard to any aspect of Patient Relations, please contact the department on 01539 716621, x46621. www.uhmb.nhs.uk www.twitter.com/UHMBT Issue 406, 13 January 2014 www.twitter.com/UHMBT Is your department online? When booking a holiday, you go on the internet to check out where you want to go, how to get there and what you might expect to happen. For example, if you are planning a skiing holiday, you would want to know more about the local ski school for your children. Now imagine you are a patient coming to an appointment at one of our hospitals. What would you expect to see about your department on the Trust’s website? Corinne Kemp, Online Communications Officer, has been working with a number of departments to develop their webpages on the ‘Our Services’ section of the Trust’s website. You can view the current webpages for Maternity, Nutrition and Dietetics, PALS, Oral and Maxillofacial, Outpatients by clicking here. Although these pages are a vast improvement on what we started with, we still need the rest of our clinical departments’ information on the Trust‘s website for patients. Contact Corinne Kemp on [email protected] or x46105 to arrange a meeting to discuss developing your department’s webpage. Caton Road Closure A critical section of Caton Road (A683) will unavoidably have to close to allow major reconstruction and resurfacing to take place. On the weekend of Friday 16 to Monday 19 January, Costain, the contractors appointed to build the Heysham to M6 Link Road, will close off the section of Caton Road directly under the M6 motorway bridge, for resurfacing works as part of the scheme. The section will be closed from 8pm on Friday 16 until 6am Monday 19 January. Engineers will close the road between the M6 sliproads north and south, located either side of the M6. Although diversion signs will be erected, its important drivers familiarise themselves with alternative routes, and plan ahead. Find out more about the closure and planned diversions here. Security Update Submitting to Weekly News Alternatively, you can call the Confidental Anti-Terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321 You can check updates on the terror threat levels on the MI5 website here. Send your news or ideas about what you’d like to see more of to [email protected]. After receiving your email or speaking with you, we will send a confirmation of when your story will appear. Staff should be advised that the current threat level for the United Kingdom is severe. If you have any concerns or suspicions you can contact Dan Willis, Local Security Management Specialist, on x45261 or [email protected]. Do you have any news or know of a story that you would like to go in the Weekly News in 2015? If so, please let us know about it. It is your newsletter and it is important to us that the content is something you are interested in reading. “We will constantly provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care and the very best patient and staff experience. We will listen to and involve our patients, staff and partners.” www.facebook.com/UHMBT Issue 406, 13 January 2015 www.twitter.com/UHMBT Issue 251, 6 January 2012 Pension Clinics Please find below the dates and venues for Pension Clinics for January to June 2015. Site FGH WGH RLI FGH WGH RLI Date 26 January 2015 2 February 2015 2 March 2015 7 April 2015 5 May 2015 1 June 2015 Venue Chief Exec’s Office, Level 5, FGH Room 3 Education Centre, WGH Meeting Room, Pointer Court, RLI Chief Exec’s Office, Level 5, FGH Room 3 Education Centre, WGH Meeting Room, Pointer Court, RLI To book an appointment, please contact Employment Services on x46084. Please have your assignment number available when you call and bring along your most recent payslip when you come to your appointment. If you require a pension estimate you can request this over the telephone from Employment services, you do not need to book an appointment for this. Job of the Week We are delighted to offer the opportunity to work in an exciting, modern and forward looking organisation as Ward Manager for the Colorectal / Urology Ward at the RLI. The post is essential to leading clinical care, and managing the nursing team with the focus on safe, high quality care for patients admitted to the ward. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced nurse with excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills who is able to work effectively as a role model. You will be leading and developing a dedicated team of nurses, developing your clinical expertise and management skills and making a real impact on the future of nursing with this Trust. For further details, please contact Janet Towers, Matron for Surgery, on 01524 516466 Clear out your Rubbish - Waste Amnesty Do you have old chairs, cabinets, televisions, desks, fridges, beds, drip stands, chemicals, aerosols cluttering your ward / department? Why not have a clear out on the waste amnesty days - Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February? Contact the Patient Environment Team to arrange collection of the old items / equipment from your ward / department on the amnesty days. Please ensure all waste is decontaminated where applicable. For more information contact the Waste Manager on 07813 454159 or call the Patient Environment Team for your hospital. FGH x51215 / RLI x42235 / WGH x55384. Care and Compassion – I AM the patient experience North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are holding an event to promote the 6Cs. The event is aimed at people, both in the NHS and beyond, and will be an opportunity to share learning about embedding the values and behaviours of the 6Cs to improve patient and staff experience. The event is being held at Hardwick Hall, Sedgefield, on Thursday 5 February. Ticket are £50. For more information about the event and to book, click here. www.uhmb.nhs.uk www.twitter.com/UHMBT Issue 406, 13 January 2015 www.twitter.com/UHMBT Issue 251, 6 January 2012 Blood Glucose Meter Training Sessions All staff who use meters should attend a training session annually. Glucose Meter Competency Training 2 February FGH Teaching Room 1 Link Nurse Training 2 February FGH Teaching Room 1 Glucose meter Competency Training 3 February RLI Orthopaedic Seminar room Link Nurse Training 3 February RLI Orthopaedic Seminar room 10:45 -11:30 / 12:30 - 13:15 / 14:45 - 15:30 9:30 - 10:30 / 13:30-14:30 10:15 - 11:00 / 11:15 - 12:00 /12:15 -13:00 9:30 -10:30 / 14:30-15:30 Please book through My Learning and Development (TMS). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Taster Day Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust (CPFT) are offering a free inductory day course on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for long term health conditions. If you are a Band 4 or above in Cumbria and work in a clinical role with patients who have cancer or other long term conditions (such as Heart Failure, Diabetes or COPD) or are involved with palliative care then this course could be for you! The course is being held on Tuesday 10 February. This free course is open to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust staff. This is your chance to find out what CBT is all about and acquire skills relevant to everyday practice! For further information please click here. CPFT are also offering a further 6 day training course: Intermediate CBT Skills for Cancer, Palliative Care and Long term conditions. They are able to accept applications for the 6 day training if you have booked a place on this taster day. Find out more information about this course here. Mary Seacole Programme 2015 - Leadership Development The Leadership Academy has announced that recruitment is now taking place for the Mary Seacole leadership programme, for the Spring 2015 cohort. The closing date for applications is Friday 23 January 2015. The programme is open to all NHS staff both clinical and non clinical, aimed at those who are either in their first leadership role or aspiring to this. For more information, contact [email protected] / [email protected] or click here Fire Alarm Testing at FGH The Fire Alarm System Engineers will be testing the fire alarm system on Tuesday 13, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 January 2015. This will involve fire bell testing on Tuesday 13 between 08:30 and 17:00. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause; it is a necessary procedure to ensure that the system operates effectively. FGH Estates Department MIAA Anti-Fraud Newsletter In this issue you will find local and national news stories about topical fraud issues and successful NHS fraud prosecution cases as well as the contact details for your health bodies nominated AntiFraud Specialist (AFS). Find out more and read the full issue here. “We will constantly provide the highest possible standards of compassionate care and the very best patient and staff experience. We will listen to and involve our patients, staff and partners.” www.facebook.com/UHMBT Issue 406, 13 January 2015 www.twitter.com/UHMBT Look out for a new Pulse survey! Our Trust-wide monthly Pulse surveys will be back soon – keep an eye out for more details in the next couple of weeks. We want to be able to monitor how you’re all feeling month-by-month, so that we can receive instant feedback on the work we are doing to make life easier for staff. Please make sure you take part in the next survey – more details and dates will be available next week. Nominate your Star of the Month Say thank you and take a moment to recognise those colleagues who you believe deserve to be a STAR OF THE MONTH NOMINEE. You may have seen the ‘Wonderwalls’ that are on each site, which recognise our hard working staff and volunteers. If you believe that a colleague deserves a formal thank you, please nominate them for Star of the Month. It is not just about winning; it is about the formal recognition that they do an amazing job. Every nominee receives a personalised thank you letter, detailing why they were nominated, with the winners photo appearing on the Wonderwalls. If you appreciate somebody, let everyone know and nominate them! Nominations for December close on Thursday 15 January. Click here to nominate. New Years Resolutions Resolutions are much easier to make than to keep and before long many people will have abandoned their resolve and settled back into old patterns. The Sustainable Travel Team at Lancashire County Council have a solution to help you stick to it. The Sustainable Travel Team have a wide range of free and low-cost options for you to try. This means your resolution doesn’t have to cost the earth and it might even save it by reducing your carbon footprint. Options include: • Free Personal Journey Planner • Low-cost Bike Hire • Free Cycle Training • Free Cycle Maintainance A new year often feels like a fresh start, an opportunity to establish new routines. So why not start now? Find out more information about the schemes here. Dry January It's the time of year when we often try and give up something whether it's alcohol, chocolate or smoking. How many of us actually achieve our targets? This year I’ve signed up to Dry January. For 31 days, many NHS organisations are encouraging their staff to take a break from drinking, giving them an opportunity to reflect on their long-term relationship with alcohol. Our occupational health team has created a Health and Wellbeing page on the staff intranet here, which is packed with useful information. In addition, throughout January, I am blogging about my experiences on the NHS Employers’ website, including a short weekly video (vlog). http://www.nhsemployers.org/campaigns/dryjanuary/dry-january-blog. As a final request, if you are taking part in Dry January and showing support by wearing a wrist band, please remember to remove it in ward or clinical areas. Jackie Daniel Chief Executive
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