Issue 408 27 January 2015
New Chief Operating Officer appointed
The new Trust Board will soon be welcoming Foluke Ajayi as our new Chief Operating
Officer. As part of the Executive Team, Foluke will be instrumental in leading and driving
forward continued improvements in care and operational performance. As Chief Operating
Officer, she will also provide strategic leadership to our operational teams.
Foluke, a former clinical scientist, has a career to be proud of and will be joining the Trust
from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Foluke joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals in
2008, first as a Directorate Manager, then progressing to lead the Trust’s
internationally-renowned cancer centre as General Manager.
Before working in Leeds, Foluke held senior positions with NHS Employers and the
Department of Health, where she was deputy to the Chief Scientific Officer.
Following the acceptance of our offer, Foluke said: “I am delighted to be joining the Trust
and I look forward to meeting you shortly. In Better Care Together, the Trust, together with its local partners, has
developed an exciting strategy to transform health and care services for its local population. I want to be part of
this unique opportunity to make a real difference for patients and communities, whilst at the same time developing
modern, 21st century facilities for everyone who visits and works in our hospitals. This role was hotly contested
and it is positive that so many experienced candidates want to further their careers with our Trust. Foluke is
expected to join us in around eight weeks’ time.
Listening is being transferred into Action!
Take a look at our Listening into Action intranet page for details of
all the schemes we are taking forward in the first wave!
Pioneering schemes have been suggested by staff members and include developing a new specialist diabetes
team, introducing new mobile technology for community dieticians, and building a dedicated network of care
support workers to help patients with dementia in hospital, among many more. Using the Listening into Action
method, these schemes are expected to be delivered within just 20 weeks.
Enabling Our People schemes are specifically aimed at breaking down barriers, and have been identified from
staff suggestions and our Big Conversations. They include programmes to improve our values and behaviours
(detailed in Jackie’s Friday Message last week), as well as improving our communications.
Quick wins have been identified from your comments and feedback at the Big Conversations, and under Listening
into Action will take just four weeks to design and implement. They include introducing regular opportunities to
“dump the junk”, among others.
After 20 weeks, the leaders of our Pioneer Schemes will take part in a “Pass it On” event, where they will talk about
the work they have done and the lessons they haves learned, ready for our second wave of schemes.
Keep watching this space for more exciting developments!
Issue 408 27 January 2015
Equality and Diversity
As you will have seen last week, we want to improve access and support for patients, their carers, staff and
visitors who have one or more of the ‘protected characteristics’ listed in the Equality Act 2010.
To help us set this off, we want to hear from staff who have a general interest in diversity and inclusion,
or in one of the protected characteristics in particular. We want your views!
For more information about our initial plans, and an informal discussion please contact Karmini McCann,
Workforce Lead for Diversity and Inclusion, at [email protected], or 07760426250
or Lynne Wyre, Service Lead for Diversity and Inclusion, at [email protected] or 07789903094.
Protected characteristics under the Equality Act are:
Age
Disability
Gender reassignment
Maternity
Civil partnership
Pregnancy and marriage
Race
Religion and belief
Sex (gender)
Sexual orientation
Go to the Equality and Diversity intranet page for more information about our current work in this area,
as well as more detailed descriptions of protected characteristics.
Employee Self-Service – Further Information
Following the last edition of the Weekly News employees who have a smartcard and an email account ,will by
the end of January, receive an email giving further information of how to access this
service.
For those who do not have both a smartcard and email account further details on how
they can access this service will follow in the coming weeks.
If you have any queries or issues accessing Employee Self-Service,
please contact Employment Services on x42105.
The Sally Hernando Award for Innovation in NHS
Library & Knowledge Services 2014-15
The Library & Knowledge Services are starting the year off on a high by winning
the annual National Sally Hernando Innovation Award for the third time.
Their work on organisational document management was considered very unique
and highly innovative. In addition, the service’s other submission for work undertaken on medical staff education was awarded second place in its category.
This award continues the recognition of UHMB Library on a national stage and comes closely on the results of the
National Library Quality Framework in December 2014 when the service was placed 3rd in the northwest libraries
with a compliance rate of 98%.
Thank you to the team past and present who contributed and continue to enhance the library services for UHMB.
Issue 408 27 January 2015
Morecambe Bay Food Bank donations
The food bank at Morecambe is struggling to meet to the demands of this much
needed service in this area – following the radio and newspaper plea the
Clinical Investigations Unit at RLI have decided to set up a collection point for
the all staff in the hospital if they should wish to contribute, we hope this will
become and ongoing project as the food bank is not only short in January but all
year round for families and children who find themselves in the situation where
they need to approach the food bank for the first time.
Items needed are tinned, dried, easy to cook meals and toiletries etc.
For more information please visit the Morecambe food bank website.
Happy Birthday and Happy Retirement
Consultant paediatrician Dr Steve Cade has retired after 12 years of dedicated service with
the Trust.
Dr Cade was appointed in October 2002 after years as an army doctor and then on to specialty training with the Southampton Denary.
Initially Dr Cade started at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary as a generic paediatrician with the
Women and Children’s Division. An excellent instructor on resuscitation courses (APLS and
NLS), both locally and regionally, Dr Cade was often called in and attended emergencies
when not actually on call.
Dr Cade expanded his various roles to include building a cohort of patients with chronic
bowel disorders (inflammatory bowel disease), anorexia nervosa and complex neurological
needs in the community, as well as patients with epilepsy and autism. This was carried out
in a very caring and sensitive approach to all his patients and their families.
Dr Cade will be an extremely hard act to follow and will be greatly missed at work both professionally and
personally by his RLI colleagues and of course his patients, but, hopefully, he will continue to offer informal pearls
of wisdom and advice and will still keep in touch for future social events!
Job of the week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a cardiology nurse specialist in the field of arrhythmias. This is an
opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to have a significant impact in to the treatment of patients
who have cardiac arrhythmias.
They need to be able to work independently but under close supervision of the cardiology team. They will help
manage and redesign the pathway for patients with common cardiac arrhythmias such as A trial fibrillation and
help with the management of patients who have more complex needs especially those with implantable devices.
A good background knowledge of cardiac diseases is important and further training will be delivered as
necessary, this post is a cross bay appointment.
For more information please contact Kim Wilson, Assistant Chief Nurse for Elective Medicine 07919487979 .
Issue 408 27 January 2015
Calling all runners. Your Hospitals need you !
The world's leading half marathon, the Morrison’s Great North Run, takes
place on Sunday 13th September 2015 and we need your help.
The Morrison’s Great North Run was first staged in 1981, where just over
12,000 people took part. Last year, over 57,000 runners took part in the 13.1
mile course from Newcastle upon Tyne to South Shields.
Judith Read, Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity Co-ordinator said:’Running
the Morrison’s Great North Run for Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity is a
great way to raise much needed funds for our local hospitals. We still have
places available in our team for this year’s event which takes place on Sunday
13th September in Newcastle.
Last year we raised an amazing £7,122.11 for Morecambe Bay Hospitals
Charity, money which will be used to support our local hospitals.
This year we hope to raise even more!
Rachelle Read, who works for the NHS and ran in last year’s race on behalf of
Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity said:” If you’re thinking of taking part in this
years’ Great North Run, I would definitely recommend it. I ran last year for
Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity.
“The atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was so friendly and encouraging. It was a fantastic experience
and I felt so proud to have completed and even prouder to have raised funds for my local hospital’’
For more details and information about registering to take part, please contact ; Judith Read,
Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity Co-ordinator on 01524 516066 or email: [email protected]
WGH renal plant room works
As part of our improvement in its infrastructure there is a need to replace
the ageing plant room serving the Renal Unit at WGH.
A modern renal plant room is essential as it provides ultra-pure water need
for safe dialysis of patients. In order to maintain the service to our patients
while the work is being carried out, a new location for the plant room is required. Part of the existing female
changing room will be given over to provide the new service. The changing room currently has space taken up by
a number of lockers that are not used.
The proposal is to remove these lockers allowing the space to be given over for the new renal plant room.
The remodelled changing room will still house some 90+ staff lockers along with the unaffected toilet/changing
cubicle facilities. Notices will be posted within the changing room indicating action to be taken should you use a
locker within the area to be vacated. Your support during these changes will be appreciated.
Issue 408 27 January 2015
Accreditation for Occupational Health
In November 2014 our Occupational Health Service was assessed by onsite Safe Effective Quality Occupational
Health Service (SEQOHS) assessors in a bid to gain accreditation; following SEQOHS internal processes, in
January 2015 we were awarded accreditation. SEQOHS Accreditation is the formal recognition that an
occupational health service provider has demonstrated that it has the competence to deliver against the measures
in the SEQOHS Standards. The scheme was developed for all occupational health services and providers across
the UK in the NHS and Independent Sector, and therefore this achievement is a huge recognition of the team’s
hard work. For more information on our Occupational Health Service
please visit http://uhmb/cd/ohwe/Pages/default.aspx
EQIP Horizon Scanning Bulletin Issue 43
The 43rd issue of the EQIP Horizon Scanning Bulletin is available now and you can access it by following
this link Previous editions of the bulletin are also available via the Scanning the Horizon - EQIP intranet pages
If you have any comments or require further information about any of the subjects covered,
please contact the Library Team on Ext 44447
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week - 25-31 January 2015
This week is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation
Trust are proud to support Jo’s Trust #Smearforsmear campaign to try and help raise awareness of cervical
cancer and how it can be prevented. Cervical cancer is unique in that effective screening and a successful
vaccination programme could virtually eliminate cervical cancer across Europe. However the vast majority of
women in the UK know very little about cervical cancer or what they can do to prevent.Cervical cancer is the
most common cancer in women under 35 and over 1 million women in the UK fail to attend their smear test each
year.Jo's Trust are hoping that women across the country will help to spread the word that women MUST attend
their smear test to reduce their risk.All you have to do is: 1. Put on your lipstick 2. Smear your lipstick and take
a selfie 3. Use #SmearForSmear and nominate a friend 4. Share your picture on social media .For more
information about cervical cancer please visit: http://www.jostrust.org.uk/smearforsmear/
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertypes/Cervix/Cervicalcancer.aspx
Juicing Night
Do you want to learn how and why to juice by Sally
Wilkinson at the “my VVV health” club juicing night.
The juicing night will be held on Thursday 5
February 2015 at 7pm. Tickets will be £5 and all
money raised is going towards Cancer Care. This
includes juicing samples and recipes. All produce
kindly donated by Aldi, Carnforth .
Tickets must be purchased in advanced,
please call 01524 823363.
Ascom Bleep Upgrade
From 8pm on Tuesday 3 February the Ascom paging
(bleep) system will be being upgraded. This could last up to
12 hours but it may be completed more quickly. During the
shutdown, switchboard will need a mobile telephone contact for staff on the Emergency Teams and for those staff
who would normally be carrying a site bleep during this time
period. For further information please contact Rysz Detko
on ext 53201 Sue Ferguson on ext 45086.
I Want Great Care
Just a reminder to all wards and departments that this week is the last
chance to get your patient “I want great care “questionnaires returned to the General Office for the January period.
We had great response last month, so thank you for your time and effort, and we would like to see this continue.
If you have any queries, please contact Fliss Swift, Patient Experience Manager, or Sharon Woodhouse, Patient
Relations Manager on 46621.
Issue 408 27 January 2015
Changes to the Royal Lancaster infirmary patient car park
From Sunday 1 February, the barriers at the entrance and exit to the main patient and visitor car park
opposite the Centenary Building entrance at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary will come into operation.
This means that staff will no longer be able to park there unless
they pay the full patient and visitor rate – though patients and
visitors will now be able to pay for their parking using credit and
debit cards in the new, updated payment machines.
We recognise that there are severe parking difficulties for staff at
RLI, but this is no reason to take away spaces from the patients and
visitors we are all here to serve. Also, staff who park in patient and
visitor areas without paying, cost the Trust thousands of pounds
every year in unclaimed income.
We are continuing to develop and finalise plans for our new multistorey car park at RLI which will give a solution to the ongoing
problems long-term, but in the mean-time we ask you all to act
sensibly, use public transport wherever possible, and park off-site whenever you can.
The support of wards and departments will be required to enable disabled badge holders who park on the
Hospital Car park by liaising with the Car Park Department.
There are council facilities close at hand virtually opposite Medical Unit One, adjacent to the canal. A 10hr
ticket on this car park costs £6.50.We know that there will be odd occasions where staff are answering
emergency calls and have little choice but to park in a patient area in order to get to their patients quickly.
On these occasions, we will be happy to reimburse parking costs through the expenses system, but staff
members will be asked to show evidence that they were on call, that they were attending an emergency call,
and that they currently pay for a staff car park pass.
With regard to further information : contact the General office on extension 53200.
Lookout and take part in our
updated pulse surveys!
Our new monthly Pulse surveys will be held
throughout the second week of February, and we are determined to
get you all to take part!
Pulse surveys are a great way of accurately benchmarking,
and then tracking, how you are feeling about your day-to-day
work, about the organisation, and about themselves and
one another, so if you work at a computer every day,
make sure you take a couple of minutes out to take part and ensure
your voice is heard. Those of you who spend your time in the wards,
kitchens and store rooms, who don’t use computers in your
day-to-day work, will also be helped to take part, and members of the
engage team will be walking around our sites with iPads and inviting you to give your views.
Pulse surveys will now be held every 2 months, and new questions have been added to the survey, based on
our ongoing Listening into Action programme. The Engage team will work with divisions across the
organisation to explore and resolve specific issues, acting swiftly on the insights they receive.
After we have carried out the first few months’ surveys, we will also be asking you whether you feel that your
feedback through the Pulse survey has been taken into account – and following up with managers where
views don’t appear to have been acted upon. More details will be available in next week’s Weekly News!