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BARNSLEYHOSPITAL newsThe magazine of Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust September-November 2019 www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk Hospital overhauls children’s inside emergency services Hello and welcome to the autumn the hospital was going totally smokefree edition of Barnsley Hospital News. across the site. Over the next few months, all patients will begin to be offered nicotine In this issue, we are announcing some really replacement therapy and referred to local stop fantastic news – the development of a new smoking services. Turn to Page 8 to find out co-located Emergency Department and how the smokefree trend is spreading across Assessment Unit for Children. Barnsley. As a medium-sized hospital Trust, it’s On Page 6 you can read how we’re preparing essential that we perform well and this is just for winter flu season, and also learn more Dr Richard Jenkins, Barnsley Hospital Chief Executive the first phase of a wider project to modernise about our fourth Health and Wellbeing event. Quality. Jackie comes from Calderdale and our site which dates from the 1970s. It featured stalls from organisations like Children’s Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust where Yorkshire Smokefree, Workforce Planning, Emergency Department attendances and she was Acting Executive Director of Nursing. buildings page admissions are increasing, and although we Barnsley Premier Leisure and others. Finally, Organ Donation Week is coming up 3 have been performing better than many other Increasingly, we are working with partners to and you can find out more about it in the hospitals locally and nationally, we need to tackle health risks and look at ways of article below this column. Organ Donation keep ensuring we have the facilities and preventing illness. On Page 8 there is more Week is always a wonderful opportunity to resources to keep up to the mark. Please turn about how we work with partners across the shine a light on the generosity of donors and to Page 3 to learn more about our plans. region. the incredible impact they have on transplant It’s our job to protect and improve the health We are excited to be welcoming some new recipients – so please support it, perhaps first of people in Barnsley. In our last edition of members of staff including Jackie Murphy of all by sharing your wishes about organ Barnsley Hospital News, we announced that who is our new Director of Nursing and donation with your loved ones. ‘Opt out’ system for organ donation From spring 2020 organ donation in move towards encouraging organ donation. Mayor’s England will move to an ‘opt out’ Some donations are from living donors, for Parade page system. example kidney donation. However in many This means that all adults in England will cases donations can only occur when 5 be considered to be a potential organ donor someone has died. when they die unless they have recorded a Last year 1,600 people in the UK decision not to donate. donated their organs after they died, saving It is a subject that not everyone gives a great or improving the lives of 3,941 recipients deal of thought to, although they may have and giving hope to those still waiting for a your family’s consent in supporting your transplant. One donor can save or improve made other end of life decisions like making wishes. many lives. a will. It is not always pleasant to think of our It’s your choice if you want to donate your mortality, but if we don’t make our wishes Sadly, 6,000 people in the UK are still waiting organs. Please register your wishes on the clear it can result in a stressful process for for a life saving transplant. NHS Organ Donor register - and loved ones at the time of our death. remember to tell your loved ones what you Before 2020, you can still register your wishes have decided. It is Organ Donation Week from to become an organ donor. Even so, the September 2-8 and there has been a societal medical team caring for you will always ask Visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk Health Fair Casualty 24/7 makes a return page6 Barnsley Hospital is due to evening slot of 9pm. The series hit our TV screens again for a will run for 12 episodes lasting third series of the an hour each and is expected to documentary Casualty 24/7. air next year. Filming for the next series will Viewing figures for the current take place during the hospital’s series – filmed in Barnsley upcoming busy winter period Hospital’s casualty department and will feature a variety of – have topped some of those patients being treated, showing for the best-loved television the compassionate care hospital programmes that run parallel to staff provide every day. the show. Due to this success Channel 5 has commissioned The hospital thanked all the staff Meet the team a third series of the popular involved in the previous two programme. series. This is an excellent chance to showcase the hard page Episodes are expected to air work of the Trust and something 8 again during the prime time it is proud to be taking part in. From the Chairman Hello and welcome to the Autumn the Trust. In this edition you can read about to improve our IT systems and technology edition of Barnsley Hospital News. I’m some of the work that we are doing to try to and make our services more effective. Trevor Lake, Chairman of Barnsley help to improve colleagues’ health and wellbeing (see page 6). As always, people are at the centre of Hospital. everything that we do and we were We continue to develop our partnership I am very pleased to share with you that since delighted to hear that Jamie Preece, working as we look for better and more Service User Representative with our our last update we have welcomed two new effective ways to deliver high quality health Assistive Technology Team, has recently Directors to our Board! Jackie Murphy joins care for the people of Barnsley and are been chosen as a regional winner in the NHS as our new Director of Nursing and Sue Ellis playing an increasingly active role in working Parliamentary Awards for Volunteer of the as our new Non-Executive Director. Both with our partner organisations across the Year. Well done to Jamie and to all our of whom, alongside the rest of our Board of South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Integrated Care volunteers- we couldn’t do it without you! Directors, will play an important part in the System (ICS) across the region. delivery of performance and shaping of the We hope that you enjoy the latest edition of future plans for Barnsley Hospital. In addition, we recognise that digital Barnsley Hospital News. If you have any technology can play an important role in feedback or comments on this publication The Trust continues to perform well despite improving our performance and delivering please do not hesitate to contact us on continuing increases in demand and the better healthcare for our patients and have [email protected]. need for improved efficiencies, which in turn recently embarked on a major project to creates more demands on our colleagues in move across to a new system called Medway, Kind regards, Trevor Trevor Lake Barnsley beats 130 health trusts for ‘transfer of care’ Barnsley has come top out of focusing on the patient and what 131 health trusts in the they need. If there is a blockage in country for ensuring patients the system we unblock it together. don’t stay in hospital longer We look for solutions to minimise than they need to. delayed transfer of care and make sure people are in the right place at According to the latest NHS the right time.” England figures, Barnsley has one Every morning the partners of the lowest ‘delayed transfer of involved have a conference call care’ (DTOC) results in the country to see where any blockages are in (the national target is 3.5%). This the system. Jacqueline added: “We means it makes sure patients identify what difficulties we might move as quickly and efficiently as be having that day and unpick possible from hospital to wherever them together. It’s very easy to they need to go, such as work in a silo and say: ‘we have rehabilitation or social care. got this problem because of this Medically, such patients do not other team’ but we don’t do that. need to stay in hospital any longer. Extra Brilliant Award winners We couldn’t get these results by The service is run by an alliance of Services, Barnsley Clinical Com- block bottlenecks delaying transfer 14 days for people who need extra working independently.” missioning Group, BMBC Reable- of care. seven partners: RightCare support, care and rehabilitation. ment, and Barnsley Healthcare The alliance has just won an ‘Extra Barnsley, Barnsley Hospital Jacqueline Howarth is Service Jacqueline said: “It is a real team Federation. Brilliant’ award – part of Barns- Discharge Case Management Manager for RightCare Barnsley effort in Barnsley and we have all ley Hospital’s staff recognition Team, Barnsley Hospital Social Health chiefs put their success and Barnsley Hospital’s Acorn put a lot of hard work and effort scheme. Work Team, SWYT Intermediate down to close partnership working Rehabilitation Unit. This unit into this. 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