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November 2010

CONTENTS This newsletter has been produced by Mid Essex Services NHS Trust

Important Changes at Mid to help keep you informed about the service location changes as the result of Essex the closure of St John’s Hospital at the end of this month, and the relocation of >> page 1 many of our services to Broomfield and other healthcare premises.

New Building >> page 2

New Model of Care for Important Changes at Mid Essex Hospitals >> Children in Hospital >> page 2 As you may have read in the media the I am very proud of this brand new hospital Changes to Maternity new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) building; it brings state of the art hospital Services £148m development at Broomfield facilities to the people of mid Essex and >> page 3 Hospital is complete and ready for beyond. I would like to thank everyone who services to move in. has worked so hard on all aspects of the Phlebotomy and GUM The new wing of Broomfield Hospital; the project, especially By Chelmer Plc – our Changes private sector partner who was responsible >> page 3 largest development on the site since the for the construction and will now maintain hospital was first opened in 1940. It has our new building. We look forward to Breast Care and been built so that we can centralise all of Audiology Changes our acute services onto a single site. As a showing you round in the very near future. >> page 4 result of moving into this building, . St. John’s Hospital will close in November

Layouts of the new 2010. hospital wing >> page 5-8 The new building is not simply a

centralisation of the Trust’s clinical services; it also represents modernisation of how we work. Key to this has been the

agreement of a clinical model of care which supports a split between elective and

emergency services.

As we move into the new building there will be a number of changes to service provision and location. The moves into the new building started on 5th November. We decided to delay the moves by a few

weeks to resolve some problems that we had with the lifts. The first moves were support services such as radiology and followed by emergency services, inpatient wards and day case theatres. If everything goes according to plan we hope Graham Ramsay that all of the moves will have taken place by the end of November. Chief Executive

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New New Model of Care for Building Children in Hospital

The new wing fits into • Emergency On the 18th November transferring sick babies the south-east corner assessment beds 2010 all Children’s and children between the of the site and consists for stays of up to Services from St. sites will be eliminated of five levels, Including 72 hours; John’s Hospital will be and the care of critically a rooftop helipad and a • ICU / HDU; relocated onto the sick children will all be new car park, and • Medical HDU; Broomfield site. managed at Broomfield contains over 1,000 • Burns Unit; and Hospital. individual rooms. • Dedicated The Neonatal Unit will be diagnostic imaging relocated into a brand The Children’s Outpatient It provides the new main facilities. new unit at Broomfield Department will stop entrance to the hospital Hospital, the Unit is providing Outpatient and will become the Accident and Emergency located on level 4 of the appointments on 18th destination for buses and initial assessment new hospital building and November on the St. serving the site. beds to be staffed with is collocated with the new John’s site and will dedicated senior Maternity Unit, any relocate into the new There are 365 beds or clinicians, in recognition referrals or contact can hospital building at recovery spaces in the of the impact that can be be made using the Broomfield Hospital. The new building. Up to half achieved from early current systems and department is very easily of the accommodation in intervention by senior, telephone numbers. accessed on Level 1 each of the ward areas is appropriately skilled staff. (ground floor), the referral provided in single rooms, The reconfiguration of process and telephone with the remainder in Direct access to the wards B21/ B22 will numbers will be 4-bed bays. All of the assessment area from become the new unchanged. single rooms or bays GP referral Direct access children’s unit which will have en-suite shower to the assessment area be called the Phoenix and toilet facilities. from GP referral Children’s Unit and will The new building also (“heralded arrival”) or accept children and contains five new day from the Emergency young people from 10 case theatres plus Department (A&E). days to their 16th additional areas that can birthday. The unit will be used for minor accommodate children operations. and young people who Equipment are emergency New models of care admissions for all The principles of the New equipment is specialities. model of care are: essential to the new ways of working and the Trust A split of the elective and has made a major The benefits for the emergency work-streams investment to ensure that children and their families in recognition of: the right technology is will be enormous as they available wherever it is will be accommodated on the care processes, needed. This is one site in a new unit and staffing requirements and noticeable within the new will no longer have to skill levels being different theatres, with two transfer between for each form of care; specially equipped for Broomfield and St. John’s laparascopic work and Hospitals for specialist and Patient movement one for interventional review or for scans and and associated infection radiology cases. tests. The risks of prevention issues being different for each form of Imaging services also care benefit from new x-ray and CT machines and The close proximity of the the implementation of following facilities create digital mammography an assessment and equipment critical care area of the hospital:

Emergency Department and associated observation beds;

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Changes to Phlebotomy and GUM Maternity Services Changes

The new maternity unit Hospital. Phlebotomy To arrange an is situated on level appointment patients floor of the new If a patient has a post The Phlebotomy can call 01245 516963 hospital wing at or ante natal clinic or Service at St John’s or visit the pathology Broomfield. The new day assessment Hospital will close on department reception unit has 20 postnatal appointment on Friday 19th at Broomfield between beds and a Labour Thursday 18th November 2010. the hours of 9am-1pm suite with 10 delivery November 2010 or Monday to Friday rooms. In addition we beyond they will need Due to the relocation of have a new Birthing to go to Broomfield services to the New Suite with 4 delivery Hospital, take the PFI Hospital Wing at GUM clinic rooms, including a pool public lifts to the Level Broomfield Hospital room, which offers 4 and follow the signs. Blood tests will then be The GUM clinic at St women the opportunity available at Broomfield, John’s hospital will to deliver in a more From 8am on the St Michael’s and St close on Friday 12 homely environment morning of November Peter’s Hospitals. November and will and have an early 18th, if a lady goes into reopen at the C&E discharge home. All of labour, they will need We are very close to centre on Monday 15 our delivery rooms to ring either the securing other sites for November. This is have ensuite facilities. birthing suite or labour the service on the St only a temporary ward on 0844 556 9609. John’s side of town, location until a new, We also have an and hope to be able to permanent base is Antenatal Clinic, a There are two announce the location found. large Day Assessment dedicated lifts situated for these in the near Unit and a modern at the south entrance future. postnatal ward for at Broomfield, near the those women who Antenatal Department Patients can now make need a longer stay in which will take patients appointments for their hospital after delivery directly to the labour blood tests at of their baby. ward entrance. Broomfield and St The birthing units at St John’s hospitals in John’s will close, but Up until 8am on 18th Chelmsford. units will remain in November, if a lady Braintree and Maldon. thinks she is in she This is part of a trial to should ring the labour help those patients From 8am on ward at St John’s who do not find it Thursday 18th where a midwife will convenient to use the November 2010 our advise her. walk-in service. new state of the art maternity service will During the trial period be up and running from the appointment our new purpose built service will work unit on Level 4 of the alongside the existing new wing at Broomfield walk-in service.

Appointments will be available at :

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Breast Care and Audiology Other Changes Changes

The move of the hearing aids is no Emergency change will be breast care longer available at Department announced very soon. Broomfield Hospital. service from the Batteries are now The existing Inpatient ward C&E Centre available from the Emergency moves following Chelmsford Department at From Wednesday 20 clinics: Springfield Broomfield Hospital will The inpatient ward October 2010 our new Green; Moulsham close at 2am on moves from the state of the art breast Lodge, Central and Wednesday 10 existing Broomfield care service was up Melbourne clinics. November and the estate to the new and running from our new emergency hospital wing begin on new purpose built unit The walk-in clinics department on level 2 Thursday 11 on Level 1 of the new have become an of the new PFI hospital November. The first wing at Broomfield appointment only wing at Broomfield will wards to move will be Hospital. service that runs every open at 2am. the cardiac, renal, day, Monday to Friday. vascular, urology and The breast unit Patients are asked to gastro wards. provides expanded avoid attending A&E services for breast care during the evening of patients including Ward numbering Tuesday 9 November, facilities for screening, unless it is absolutely radiology and Within the new necessary to help pathology services. It building, the Trust has ensure a smooth houses the “one stop” taken the decision to transition of the breast clinic and a simplify patient way service. base for the team of finding by using a breast care nurses. system based on

numbered routes and Audiology Change to Trust destinations.

Telephone The new build and the The audiology service numbers existing estate has will be moving to level been divided up into 1 of the new PFI As a result of the Zones: A, B, C, D and hospital on Friday 19 remodelling of all of the E. November. wards around the new

care pathways and Following from the The battery in-coordination with the zoning approach, we replacement service for opening of the new have also decided that hospital wing at all in-patient wards, Broomfield the apart from the Phoenix decision has been children’s ward burns taken to remove the ITU, adult burns and 0844 numbers in line maternity wards, will with national strategy have a number and not and replace them with a name. The first two 01245 numbers. digits of this number

relate to the zone that All existing telephone the ward is located in numbers will and the floor it is on automatically be routed e.g. ward A3.1 is through to the new located on the third numbers for six floor of zone A which is months, after this time the new hospital wing. the facility will be

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New Hospital Wing - Level 1 Map

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New Hospital Wing - Level 2 Map

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New Hospital Wing - Level 3 Map

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New Hospital Wing - Level 4 Map