Work Starts on £600,000 Revamp at Good Hope
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Good Hope Hospital www.uhb.nhs.uk Part of University Hospitals Birmingham news NHS Foundation Trust Good Hope Hospital June 2018 Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 Get your nominations in Team GB honour for Sister’s amazing 50 years for our staff awards apprentice of working in the NHS Mum thanks doctors for saving her life after suffering stroke while pregnant A mum has praised University Hospitals Birmingham’s doctors after they saved her life – and that of her baby - when she had a major stroke. Rose Douglas, aged 26, from Hollywood in Birmingham, was 32 weeks pregnant and eating out with her friend Charlotte when she felt ill. One minute she was chatting away and the next, she was unable to talk or move the right side of her body. At fi rst Rose believed it was a bad migraine but Charlotte realised something was wrong and dialled 999. Rose said: “When the paramedics Work starts arrived, they were asking me questions and in my head I was answering them but my mouth wasn’t responding. “When I was in the ambulance, I was hooked up to a drip and I noticed that my on £600,000 right arm wasn’t moving.” She was admitted to Heartlands Hospital emergency department and was seen by stroke nurse, Pete Carr and stroke revamp at consultant, Dr Rajendra Yadava and went for an MRI. Staff outlined the options. Thrombolysis treatment can break down and disperse Good Hope a clot that is preventing blood from reaching the brain, but administering it to a pregnant patient, can put both Work has begun on a major refurbishment mum and baby at risk. However, not which will transform education facilities at administering the treatment would put Good Hope Hospital. Rose in a life-threatening position, with the clot blocking the blood fl ow to reach Good Hope Hospital Charity is funding her brain. the upgrade of the Partnership Learning • Replace outdated audio visual space will be re-purposed to classroom/ Rose consented to treatment and after Centre (PLC) and the Education Centre with equipment and correct current damp meeting room facilities and offi ces and it was administered, she started to feel a £600,000 grant. problems most of the education staff currently in the better. But the effects didn’t last and Building work is now underway and the • Relocate the current clinical skills Trust building will move into the Education she was transferred to Queen Elizabeth whole revamp is expected to be completed facilities from the Education Centre to Centre and PLC. Hospital for a thrombectomy. by the end of August. the PLC Interruption to the education facilities will She was in hospital for nine days and The refurbishment will see the PLC The improvements to video conferencing be kept to a minimum, with most of the baby Grace Elizabeth was born at 36 improved and it will become a focal point facilities will make a real difference to those disruptive work in public spaces taking place weeks. She is now six and a half months for clinical skills training. groups who use them regularly. at weekends. old and doing well. Rose said: “I know The PLC upgrade will: Consolidating all the clinical skills facilities The lecture theatre will also have updated that Grace Elizabeth and I are really lucky in the PLC will enable effi cient use of signage refl ecting the generous legacy to be alive. The teams looking after me • Create a new tiered seating lecture equipment and resources. from the Hollier family which continues to were so reassuring. theatre in the PLC Once the clinical skills facilities have moved support doctor education at Good Hope “It just goes to show that stroke can • Upgrade video conferencing facilities from the Education Centre to the PLC, the Hospital. affect anyone." Building Healthier Lives Find your way around the hospital page 12 2 news June 2018 GET IN TOUCH Time to shine a light Hello and welcome to the June edition of news@. We hope you enjoy reading about some of the great things going on across the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. on excellent care at If you have a story or an event coming up which you think could be suitable to feature in news@ please do get in touch Trust Staff Awards with the communications team on 0121 424 1809 or email communications@ Do you know someone who deserves to be heartofengland.nhs.uk recognised? Celebrating achievement, commitment, ingenuity and determination has been an Cystic Fibrosis event important part of Trust life for many years; now as a single organisation, UHB wants planned in July to shine a spotlight on those providing excellent care across all its services. An educational event aimed at people The new Building Healthier Lives Awards with Cystic Fibrosis, their parents and aims to recognise staff, volunteers, carers is being held in the Heartlands fundraisers and members of University Hospital Education Centre on the Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust morning of Saturday 7 July. (UHB) who are building healthier lives for the people of Birmingham and Solihull. It will focus on ‘What’s new in CF The 15 award categories will celebrate treatments’ and the aim is to explain the exceptional achievements, dedication how new treatments (for example, and compassion of so many, who every day Grand Final Orkambi and Symdeko) were go ‘above and beyond’ to provide the best developed and how they work. It will care for our patients and their families or The gold award winners from each also look at what research is planned to go that ‘extra mile’ to support colleagues in site go forward to the Grand Final develop better treatments and whether this aim. to decide the overall Trust-wide they may be funded on the NHS. The new awards programme has two winner for each award category. Organisers want people with CF to be stages – Site Finals and an overall Grand The winner for each category will be able to take part, so are planning on Final. presented with the Diamond Award inviting all of our patients to take part at a glittering ceremony in March by video conference, so that they can 2019. • Chair’s Award see the talks and presentations and ask Site Finals To celebrate the wide variety of ways • Excellence in Patient Care Award questions. staff and volunteers support patients across • Brighter Futures Award It is also planned to give people the At each of our hospital sites*, bronze, the Trust, 15 very special awards will be • Research and Development chance to ask questions via Twitter and silver and gold awards will be presented to presented, these are: • Building Healthier Lives Award Facebook. the judging panel’s top three nominees in Consultant in respiratory medicine Ed each award category. • Best in Care Clinical Award Anyone can nominate a member of staff Nash will welcome people to the event The site fi nals will be held at each of our • Supporting Our Services Award (or team), charity supporter or a volunteer in the lecture theatre at 10am. four hospital sites in November 2018. • Behind the Scenes Award working anywhere within the Trust. *Our sites are: • Chief Executive’s Innovation Award Simply complete our online nomination For more information contact CF Trial Good Hope Hospital, Heartlands Hospital • Governors’ Volunteer of the Year form or fi ll in a paper nomination form co-ordinator Johanna Reely on 0121 including Birmingham Chest Clinic, Queen • Team of the Year Award available from our main reception desks. 424 2123. Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and; Solihull • Charity Supporter of the Year Award Visit our awards website for further ƀ johanna.reely@heartofengland. Hospital including Solihull Community • Colleague of the Year Award details: nhs.uk Services. • Training, Education and Wellbeing www.buildinghealthierlives.co.uk Award Meet our teams at The Awards are kindly supported by recruitment session If you’d like to fi nd out more about working in paediatric or neonatal services at our Trust, we’d like to invite AAA screening team spread the word as you to come along to a recruitment event on 2 July between 10.30am and part of Men’s Health Week in June 2pm at Heartlands Hospital Education Centre. Our abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) Luckily, a simple ultrasound scan can detect Our screening team will be out and about screening team will be out and about at our these serious blood vessel swellings before in June to promote their work. We are looking to recruit newly hospital sites promoting their work during they become a problem. If you’re male Their schedule is: Heartlands Hospital, qualifi ed nurses who are keen to Men’s Health Week which runs from 11 and due to turn 65 and from Birmingham Tuesday 12 June AM, Solihull Hospital establish their career in general June to 17 June. or Solihull you will be automatically sent Tuesday 12 June PM, Good Hope Hospital paediatrics or neonatal care and an invite as part of a UK-wide screening Wednesday 13 June AM, Heartlands experienced nurses who are seeking a Men are at higher risk of abdominal aortic programme: Hospital Wednesday 13 June PM, Queen change in location or have an aspiration aneurysms, especially those over the age of Any men over 65 who have not had Elizabeth Hospital Thursday 14 June All to develop different skills. 65. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are caused screening can contact the programme to day, Solihull Hospital Friday 15 June AM, when the main blood vessel in the body (the arrange a free scan on 0121 424 3612.