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Healthcaring for You, Close to Home Summer 2018 Community HEALTHCaring for you, close to home Summer 2018 Meet our NHS heroes Celebrating seven decades of the NHS Issue 22_CH Summer 2018_4_JB.indd 1 21/06/2018 22:19:45 Issue 22_CH Summer 2018_4_JB.indd 2 21/06/2018 22:19:46 Our features The NHS: P12 Public health journey The changing face A national of public health P14 It runs in the family Two generations of treasure health visitors at work P16 Humans of the NHS Meet the people who make it what it is P24 Immunisations One of the greatest appy birthday to our beloved NHS – an institution that manages every impacts on the single day to deliver some of the best healthcare in the world, sometimes world’s health in challenging conditions. You cannot fail to have noticed that 2018 is P26 It’s all about the 70th anniversary of the creation of the NHS, so we have dedicated community Hthis issue of Community Health to celebrating all that is great. Then and now From the changing face of public health, initially more concerned with in our hospitals preventing infectious diseases than encouraging people to give up smoking, to the everyday miracles taking place in our community hospitals as we work hard P32 One man’s climb to get people home safely and sooner – community health has always played a Martin’s life part in the NHS. with motor It’s not just the skills of people delivering healthcare services which play a neurone massive role in getting patients fit and well, it’s the personalities behind those disease professionals, so we meet more of #TeamKCHFT, including George featured on our cover. Sadly, it’s likely there will always be some medical conditions that cannot be cured and that is where end of life care is so very important. Martin Page has motor neurone disease, he knows it is terminal, but he is making he most of every second. Here’s to the next 70 years of working together, looking after people’s health. Enjoy. Fay. From the Editor Fay Sinclair Our regular features 01622 211947 P4 Your shout. P5 to 10 News. P34 to 35 What’s up guv? Email [email protected] P36 to 39 Your listings. You can… Advertise The team read our magazine online If you would like to advertise Editor-in-chief www.kentcht.nhs.uk/magazine or if you in this magazine, please Julia Rogers 01622 211946 have a smartphone scan the QR code. phone Charlotte Morgan on Email [email protected] request this magazine in audio, 01622 211940. News editor Chloe Crouch large print or a different format. Write to us Designers The Communications Team Please phone 01622 211940. Contributors Kent Community Health follow us on Facebook Jo Treharne, Anna Hinde, NHS Foundation Trust, KentCommunityHealth Beverley Bryant The Oast, Hermitage Court tweet us @NHSKentCHFT Hermitage Lane, Barming like us on LinkedIn Maidstone Kent ME16 9NT www.kentcht.nhs.uk • page 3 Issue 22_CH Summer 2018_4_JB.indd 3 21/06/2018 22:19:47 We love it when you tell us what you think! There are many ways you can feedback to help us SHOUT improve services or get involved… Buurtzorg is Whitstable’s friendly breath of fresh air neighbourhood I was thrilled to read the article about the Buurtzorg pilot in your care team autumn issue (September 2017). Thanks to you all for the excellent I retired from district nursing in the 1990s having spent all my care I am receiving and as a working life in the community. The Buurtzorg method of caring result the support my husband is surely the best way forward. You have to work closely with the has from you. Every nurse, patient, social care, nursing and all aspects of the community. without exception, has been kind, It was a great joy to run our own caseloads and we made our considerate and caring. If I have decisions with the patient and their carers. Please continue with this been ill with sickness or pain, or method… there may be many fights on the way, but what there is a problem with my syringe a worthwhile cause. J True, Aylesford driver, the response has been rapid and effective. The nurses have worked hard to make sure any issues with A win for common sense and kindness pharmacy or the GP, which might My daughter has been trying to get a referral concentration. We were allowed to sit and lead to lack of available medicines, for a bad ingrown toenail for the past few wait for a cancellation and the clinical staff are quickly resolved and that years. For some reason it was bounced did a fantastic job. dosages are correct. Thank you around and lost several times. During this All the people involved in my daughter’s again for the wonderful job you time, my daughter could not do school care were outstanding. They were do. We are so grateful. activities and was in constant pain. professional, they listened and were Mr and Mrs Saunders, I checked the NHS sites and found KCHFT empathetic. They came to work that day Whitstable Podiatry and called the team. I spoke to two with common sense and a great attitude. lovely understanding They understood the needs of our ladies called Claire daughter, which wasn’t just a painful and Janet, who clinical condition but was affecting her listened to me and school work and would have affected her helped. My daughter exam results and in no small terms she was due to start her exams and needs good results to move forward in life. having the pain of an ingrowing Thank you. infected toe was not helping her J Hall, Herne Bay Get INVOLVED Want to… …have your say? …volunteer for us? …become a member? Contact our Customer Care Team Want to help out? To find out more about If you’d like to become a member of our trust • Phone 0300 123 1807 volunteering with us contact Maria on visit www.kentcht.nhs.uk/FT and fill in the 01474 360508, email [email protected] online form. You can also phone 01233 • Text 07899 903499 or Caroline on 01795 418300 667827 or email [email protected] • Email [email protected] or email [email protected] to request a membership form. page 4 • www.kentcht.nhs.uk Issue 22_CH Summer 2018_4_JB.indd 4 21/06/2018 22:19:50 Community HEALTH Getting patients up, news dressed and moving is key to recovery etting our community quickly at home is not new to us. It’s hospital patients up, dressed exactly what our Home First project is and moving is a goal our all about. teams work towards every Similarly, our Clothes Bank Appeal Gday because we know it helps people was launched to provide donations of recover faster. new clothes for patients to help those That’s why we took part in the admitted without any clothing, get national NHS-wide 70-day challenge dressed and moving. to #EndPJparalysis. A study has shown that 60 per All eight of our community hospitals cent of older patients had no medical recorded how many patients the teams reason that required bed rest and 10 managed to get up, dressed and moving days in bed in hospital leads to the using the app. The aim was to achieve equivalent of 10 years’ ageing in the one million patient days of patients muscles of people aged over 80. being up, dressed and mobilised across Research also showed that a 50 the country during the challenge. per cent increase in walking while in Here at KCHFT, getting patients hospital was associated with a six per home faster because they recover more cent shorter length of stay. If you would like to donate to our Clothes Bank Appeal, you can drop new clothes at our hospital receptions or with our volunteers at the League of Friends shops. Community hospitals accepting clothes are: Deal, Edenbridge, Faversham, Hawkhurst, Herne Bay, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Whitstable and Tankerton. Customer care to patient liaison The Customer Delivering Care Team has changed its name to the immunisations Online help for families Patient Advice KCHFT will be delivering immunisations If you, or your teenager need advice and and Liaison Service (PALS). to children and young people in Kent support on all aspects of child health and The change is to make it easier and Medway later this year. We worked wellbeing, we’ve got a new website for people contacting us and to hard to put together a strong bid, and for parents and children in Kent. bring the name into line with other won a five-year contract, starting on It is part of our School Health Service healthcare organisations in the area. 1 August 2018. and can help support families to stay Contact details are the same We already provide the immunisations fit and active, eat well, and focus for the team, apart from the service in Kent and flu jabs in Medway. on their emotional and email address, which is now It will enable us to build on work we have mental health. Find it at [email protected]. already done with partners and stakeholders, www.kentyouthhealth.nhs.uk You can find out more at including community organisations, schools www.kenntcht.nhs.uk/PALS and local authorities. www.kentcht.nhs.uk • page 5 Issue 22_CH Summer 2018_4_JB.indd 5 22/06/2018 09:15:33 NEWS Richard helps out as chairman KCHFT’s Vice Chair Becoming Richard Field has temporarily stepped into the shoes of Chair David Griffiths connected who retired in May.
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