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A Message from Jim Crombie, Deputy Chief Lothian NHS Board Waverley Gate 2-4 Waterloo Place Edinburgh EH1 3EG Telephone: 0131 536 9000 www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk Date: 11/04/2019 Our Ref: 3422 Enquiries to : Bryony Pillath Extension: 35676 Direct Line: 0131 465 5676 [email protected] Dear FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – STAFF NEWSLETTERS I write in response to your request for information in relation to staff newsletters in NHS Lothian. Question: Can I please view the NHS Lothian staff newsletter ‘Connections’ from May 2018 until now? Answer: The newsletters are enclosed. I hope the information provided helps with your request. If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6 months of receipt of our review response. You can do this by using the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office online appeals service at www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal. If you remain dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s response you then have the option to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law. If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the reviewer at the address at the top of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not involved in the original decision-making process. FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s Freedom of Information website at: http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx 3422 Staff Newsletters April 2019 Yours sincerely PROFESSOR ALEX MCMAHON Executive Director of Nursing Midwifery and AHPs Cc: Chief Executive Page 2 of 2 THE MAGAZINE FOR NHS LOTHIAN STAFF JANUARY 2019 You are 2 SENSORY MATS 2 A NOTE FROM 3 AND SLEEVES ALEX MCMAHON Incredible TFEE AS D E IN R G NHS Lothian Breastfeeding B F R Y Friendly Award I E N D L In NHS Lothian we offer Breastfeeding Awareness sessions and Breastfeeding Friendly awards to anywhere that mums might visit in the community, such as GP surgeries, libraries, restaurants and cafes, to provide a safe, relaxing place where all mums are welcomed to feed their babies. The Breastfeeding Friendly Award is a small part of the UNICEF Care and Compassion Baby Friendly Initiative to encourage public services to protect, Dignity Openness, and Honesty andCare and promote and support breastfeeding and to help strengthen Respect Responsibilit Compassiony mother-baby and family relationships. The Infant Feeding Team recently awarded The Pennywell All Pat continued “having the award formalises what support Care Centre (PACC) in Muirhouse. mums can expect, the blueQualit stickeryT is a visible symbol thateamwor is k Quality Quality easily recognisable for those who may have communication Pat Bennett, Manager of the PACC said that “Having the award difficulties or not have English as their first language”. allows the public to have awareness that breastfeeding mums If you would like to know more or you know somewhere that Dignity Dignity can be comfortable to breastfeed their baby in any area of PACC. and and If required they can request a private room. They can breastfeed would like to host the award, please call the Infant Feeding Respect Respect here knowing that they will be supported by staff to do this”. team on: 0131 286 5053 Care and Care and Connections is your magazine. If you’ve a story you wish to be Compassion Compassion considered or if you have feedback about the magazine please send (no more than 200 words) along with a high quality photo Openness, Openness, to [email protected] Honesty and Honesty and Responsibility Responsibility Teamwork Teamwork Sensory mats and sleeves Quality for patients with dementia Sensory mats have been used in a variety of ways, like supporting children’s mental development, and more recently as a source of comfort for people with dementia. In the Western General Hospital (WGH) they’ve recently introduced mats and designed a “sleeve” for people with dementia who may benefit from having one. It started when (a patient that we’ll call) These sleeves and mats are currently You Mr A was admitted to the WGH with acute made by a volunteer and have a wide Are Incredible confusion relating to a severe sepsis. He variety of designs which made it easier to came from a nursing home and had find one that Mr A preferred. The patient dementia. On admission Mr A was very immediately settled. The sleeve deterred agitated and required enhanced him from pulling out his venflon. He was observation as he was constantly pulling able to receive the antibiotics he needed at his catheter and at his venflon. In a and no longer needed constant short period of time, Mr A had pulled out supervision. The mats and sleeves are for six venflons which resulted in a delay in him receiving essential intra venous one person use only to comply with antibiotics as part of his treatment. Infection Control. After some discussions around Mr A’s Since then we have introduced a “bank” background, Avril Brown, the Acute of sensory mats and sleeves that wards Hospital Lead for Dementia and Older within the WGH can access by contacting People in the WGH suggested using a [email protected] sensory sleeve to support Mr A. or call on extension 33824. Openness, Honesty and A Note from Alex McMahon Responsibility Executive Director, Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs Executive Lead for REAS and Prison Healthcare Every year, especially in the winter months, our staff deal with real pressure in our emergency departments, on our wards as well as in the community. It never ceases to amaze me the dedication staff show, even when they’d rather be at home with their loved ones. Every week I spend around two days visiting different services and it’s fantastic to see this dedication and the developments that are taking place, both in terms of advance practice and also developing roles for our health care support workers. In 2018 I was delighted that we were recognised nationally when technique to manage stress and distress for people with dementia. both our Cancer Nursing Team and our Rapid Response Team won They’ve significantly reduced incidents of distress, the use of UK awards. At a local level teams won awards through Celebrating medication to manage that distress and the need for supplementary Success and through other national forums. NHS Lothian has real staffing. They’ve overall improved the quality of care. We’ve now depth and strength in nursing and AHP staff and my job for 2019 made a decision to now have Frances work across the whole of is to build on that platform and make us even more successful. Lothian to support other areas that would like to drive that same Throughout the year I’ve had the chance to meet with groups of level of quality so I look forward to seeing how that develops student nurses. We need to ensure that those nurses are getting throughout 2019. the best experience they can. I’ve been heartened to hear that the I’d like to finish up by saying - thank you for the huge effort you experience and the support they get from their mentors has been put in during the festive period. Staff in the hospitals and in the really exceptional. community do an amazing job every single day and I love to see One of the developments that has really stood out for me in the this first hand. What I’d love for 2019 is for areas that I’ve not seen last year is a project in Canaan Ward in the Royal Edinburgh. before to invite me out to see their service so please take this Senior Charge Nurse Frances Aitken has run a program based on a opportunity to contact me as I’d be delighted to come and visit. 2 JANUARY 2019 You Teamwork Are Incredible A huge thank you to everyone who has taken up our ‘Be Incredible - fight flu’ challenge so far, especially those who’ve had your flu jab and are ready for winter! So many of you have got into the spirit of taking a ‘Be Incredible’ selfie by putting on a superhero mask and t-shirt and posting your ‘Be Incredible’ selfie on social media. Here’s just a few images of you getting behind our campaign. You are all truly incredible! FLU CLINICS For those of you who have not had time to get your free flu vaccination, don’t worry... there’s still time!! You can find details of clinics by going to the intranet directory and clicking in Flu Vaccinations. Please note that you can attend any of the clinics to receive your free flu vaccination. These clinics are dynamic and subject to change. Please see local information about arrangements for the roving vaccinator teams including evening, weekend and night duty. We encourage staff to attend any clinic along with identification and consent form. Please note that you may need to travel to an appropriate clinic. Don’t delay, protect yourself and your patients – this is your chance to ‘be incredible’! 3 Care and Recognition for our staff from Care Opinon Compassion “ The care provided “ Edinburgh by the staff at the Heart Centre” Royal Infirmary Radiotherapy Unit” Edinburgh It’s often said you don’t Western General appreciate the NHS until you I was having 20 sessions of Radiotherapy very recently need it and I found this to and at the start was very apprehensive given I had worked be true.
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