Exciting Development Plans for Education Facilities at Good Hope
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www.heartofengland.nhs.uk news newsFor patients, staff, visitors and volunteers April 2017 Page 3 Page 7 Page 12 Baby Boxes bounce into Nutrition and Hydration National Staff Survey Birmingham and Solihull Week highlights results are in Patients at Good Hope to benefi t from anonymous donation Hundreds of patients are set to benefi t from a signifi cant anonymous donation to Good Hope Hospital worth tens of thousands of pounds. The £56,900 funding was awarded to the Heart of England Foundation Trust Charity with a remit that it be invested into equipment to benefi t patients at Good Hope. The Charity supports patients, carers and families across four hospital sites, Heartlands, Solihull, Good Hope and Birmingham Chest Clinic, as well as our community services in Solihull, by raising money to provide things above and beyond what the core NHS funding allows. The funds will be allocated to improve care for the elderly as well as patients of all ages visiting the physiotherapy and endoscopy units at the hospital. Exciting development Equipment purchased will include a diathermy machine which delivers a high-frequency electric current to generate deep heat in body tissues and plans for education help reduce pain for patients. Other equipment purchased with the donation includes a state-of-the-art lifting chair, wheelchair, dumbbells, pedal facilities at Good Hope exercisers and much more for the therapy team and equipment such as a bladder scanner and portable pulse oximeters Exciting plans are in the pipeline to improve The improvements to video conferencing of the education staff currently in the Trust (which read oxygen levels) for Ward 10. education facilities at Good Hope, after a facilities will make a big difference to those building will move into the education centre Jenny Chatham, charity services £400k grant by the Donated Funds groups who use them regularly, including and PLC. manager for the Charity, said: “This Committee. multi-disciplinary teams across all specialties. Gill Liggins, faculty centre manager, said incredibly generous donation will make They use the video conferencing facilities of the developments: “We are delighted a tremendous difference to the care and The funding will: daily to link up with other sites and external that the Charity have made this money experience for our patients at Good Hope organisations and the new equipment will available to improve education facilities Hospital and provides a welcome boost • Upgrade and improve the Partnership improve these meetings. at Good Hope. This investment will bring to all the teams.” Learning Centre (PLC), replace Moving the clinical skills facilities from huge benefi ts for staff who use the facilities If you would like to fi nd out more outdated and broken audio visual the Education Centre to the PLC, ensures and help centre management staff to about how you can support the Trust’s equipment and correct current damp that the Hollier facilities, clinical skills offer reception, audio visual and video charity, visit www.heartofenglandcharity. problems and undergraduate facilities are all in the conferencing support.” org.uk, call the charity team on 0121 • Upgrade the video conferencing same building – enabling effi cient use of The work will take a couple of months 424 0973 or email fundraising@ facilities equipment and resources. to complete and is due to start in April. heartofengland.nhs.uk. You can also • Relocate the current clinical skills Once the clinical skills facilities have moved Interruption to the education facilities will keep up-to-date with the charity’s work facilities from the Education Centre to from the Education Centre to the PLC, the be kept to a minimum, with most of the on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ the PLC space will be re-purposed to classroom/ disruptive work taking place at weekends. HeartofEnglandCharity meeting room facilities and offi ces and most For patients, staff, visitors and volunteers Find your way around the hospital page 16 2 news April 2017 April health seminar Good Hope will be hosting the next health seminar run by the Trust and this month it will focus on the subject of managing chronic pain. Dr Richard Baretto, a consultant immunologist at the Trust, will be hosting what is sure to be a very enlightening and useful talk. The talk will take place from 5pm to 7pm on Tuesday 18 April at Good Hope’s Education Centre. To book your place on the seminar, please contact Sandra White, membership and community engagement manager, on 0121 42 41218 or email sandra.white@heartofengland. nhs.uk The Trust runs monthly health seminars to help raise awareness of a range of New non-emergency health conditions, as well as providing information about the treatment and support that is available. patient transport service Nominations open What you need to know about the new happens next? What can I expect to can get your CCG’s contact details from your service provided by West Midlands happen? GP surgery. for staff awards Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. Once the booking has been made, you 7. 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