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Insideout January 2012 Visit our website at: www.uhb.nhs.uk Bringing hospital news to patients, staff, visitors and volunteers JANUARY 2012 PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 Volunteers can make Honours for military YoungY transplant a difference personnel ppatients given support APPEAL New partnership will Please pledge to help patients with cancer Support our appeal at improve patient care www.qecancerappeal.org Generous support has pushed the QE Patients will benefit from a groundbreaking Cancer Appeal total to more than £3 joint working agreement that has been signed AMBASSADOR million! between the Trust and University of Birmingham. A TomoTherapy Tomo HD machine The agreement, known as the Birmingham has already been bought and installed Health Partners (BHP), will strengthen the at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This relationship between the Queen Elizabeth state-of-the-art technology enables Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) and the University patients with cancer to enjoy a and enhance patient care. Benefits include better quality of life during and after the opportunity for patients to undergo new treatment. therapies delivered by expert clinicians working Now we are asking others to make alongside world-leading clinical trials teams. a pledge for 2012 to help us reach our Birmingham is one of very few centres in next target to purchase another world- the world that can complete the full circle of leader in radiation therapy systems – translational medicine, the so-called bench- CyberKnife. to-bedside process. The new agreement will fuel partnership projects in key research areas, including cancer, immunology and infection; experimental medicine and chronic disease. The development builds on a long history of collaborative achievement and is intended to strengthen and develop the global reputations of both institutions. CyberKnife is an amazing non- Just a year ago the two centres celebrated invasive alternative to open surgery, a milestone with the opening of the £20 using computer-controlled robotics million National Institute for Health Research A recently retired consultant liver surgeon has taken part in a round-the-world yacht and image guidance cameras to (NIHR) Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and race to raise awareness of organ donation. Prof John Buckels, pictured, was on board deliver high doses of radiation with Microbiology, a joint trauma care venture the clipper for 28 days. For the full story see page 5. sub-millimetre accuracy. Due to its between the University, UHB, the Department of precision, it is particularly effective Health and the Ministry of Defence. Director of the BHP will be Professor Charlie pharmaceutical companies and a catalyst for against tumours that were considered It is headed by Professor Sir Keith Porter, the Craddock, Director of the Centre for Clinical economic regeneration.” previously inoperable or that are in UK’s only Professor of Clinical Traumatology. Haematology. Julie Moore, Chief Executive of UHB, said: difficult positions to treat such as near Other recent developments include the launch He said: “This visionary partnership between “The Trust and University already have a the spinal cord, liver, lungs or in the of the new Centre for Translational Inflammation the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham successful relationship in delivering excellent, brain. Research, based at QEHB, which brings together and the University of Birmingham will not innovative research projects and this latest Mike Hammond, Chief Executive staff from a host of specialist areas to work only allow us to deliver world-class therapies collaboration will only enhance our reputation of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on major collaborative research programmes to patients in the West Midlands region, but as a world-class academic and healthcare Birmingham Charity, said: “As one of in state-of-the-art laboratories. Transitional will act as a magnet for inward investment by partnership.” the UK’s leading specialist centres in Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor cancer treatment, the Queen Elizabeth of the University of Birmingham, commented: Hospital offers a range of excellent LANDMARK COLLABORATIONS: “There are very few places in the world which radiotherapy options which now possess the strategic advantages of Birmingham include TomoTherapy Tomo HD. With The first Cancer Research UK Centre, which is leading international progress in for the assessment of new treatments. your help, it can offer even more. developing treatments for a wide range of cancers and is a major centre for clinical trials “The Birmingham Health Partners will build “Please make a pledge to help us on the combined strength of both institutions give cancer patients the chance to have The Institute for Biomedical Research (IBR), where clinicians and researchers work and demonstrate the sustainable benefits that CyberKnife treatment. By supporting together to transfer basic medical research into the hospital clinic alliances of this kind can achieve.” our QE Cancer Appeal you can give The Centre for Clinical Haematology, a leading clinical research facility which develops Councillor Sir Albert Bore, who is Chairman those with tumours that are difficult of UHB and also serves on the BHP board, said: to treat with conventional radiation a and delivers novel drug and transplant therapies for patients with blood cancers “This new partnership is a timely and welcome better chance at life.” The “Golden Triangle” of translational medical research between the University development which will ensure the University medical school’s IBR, UHB and the prestigious, jointly run Wellcome Trust Clinical and Trust maximise the marvellous facilities For more fundraising news and to Research Facility, allowing a seamless interface between academic and clinical research provided by the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital pledge your support see page 10. Birmingham.” PUZZLE PAGE: BRAINTEASERS, MIND BENDERS AND MORE P11 FIND YOUR WAY AROUND: HOSPITAL MAPS P12 2 InsideOut UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | JANUARY 2012 YOU SAID, WE DID... TRUST MEMBERSHIP Get involved: join UHB Trust People from all walks of life are taking the opportunity to join the thousands of individuals already members of the Trust. The newly-launched membership recruitment campaign will ensure that thousands of individuals will be given a voice in the future YOU SAID: healthcare service that their local hospital can Patients visiting the new Outpatients and will continue to provide. It also gives the department at QEHB commented that Trust the opportunity to ensure people are kept the text on the plasma screens used to in touch with the hospital’s successes and call patients down to their challenges. appointments was too small. The There are four different types of membership plasma screens are located in the main – the choice is up to each individual. waiting area and call patients down to University Hospitals Birmingham the relevant clinic area. NHS Foundation Trust Thought donor I am helping to deliver the best in care WE DID: PROFESSOR SIR KEITH PORTER RECEIVES HIS MEDAL FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS The Outpatients team made the type If you’d like to give us your thoughts and on the plasma screens bigger so that ideas but don’t have a great deal of time to patients can see their names more spare, this one’s for you. easily. They also created new screens Prestigious honour Take part in surveys – i.e. Food provided which are triggered if patients whose for patients, market research names have appeared on the screens Get involved in developing patient don’t arrive in clinic for their information feedback appointment. These new screens show for Trust’s surgeon Offer examples of positive or negative the patient’s name in very large type patient experience to help improve services size. Provide creative writing/photography for A leading hospital consultant has been awarded standards in pre-hospital care. The FPHC runs a trust publications or website a prestigious honour in recognition of his number of courses and seminars each year to Actively promote Selly Oak and QE Free health talks outstanding service to surgery. bring together all participants in pre-hospital hospitals in their everyday life Professor Sir Keith Porter, a consultant at care for education, research and professional Feed back to their governor on any areas Free health talks are open to everyone. If you think you’d be interested in one of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, has been development, and also runs exams in Immediate of treatment/services that could be the talks listed, please come along, there is at the forefront of developing world-class Medical Care. improved. no need to book. treatment for injured military servicemen and Sir Keith, who was presented with his medal University Hospitals Birmingham women for more than a decade. by College President David Tolley, said it was a NHS Foundation Trust Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Level 1, Education He is the UK’s only Professor of Clinical ‘great honour’ to be recognised in such a way. Time donor I am helping to deliver the best in care Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Traumatology, and was recognised with a He added: “I am privileged to be the civilian knighthood in last year’s New Year’s Honours lead for a service that is highly tuned and fully Turn spare time into invaluable support for Day Time Sessions: List for his services to the Armed Forces. engaged in the care of injured soldiers. a wide range of activities. 10.00am – 10.30am – Registration Sir Keith was also honoured by the city on However, I am just one of a number of people Volunteer 10.30am – 12.00pm – Health Talk June 16 – the first anniversary of the opening of who have helped improve the quality of care for Join the Patient & Carer Councils QEHB – when his name was added to Broad patients through evidence-based learning, Adopt a ward Tue 17 Jan Healthy Eating and Exercise Street’s Walk of Stars. innovation and multi-disciplinary team working.
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