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Patient Focus Autumn 2014.qxd:Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:10 Page 2 A lifetime of specialist care D 0 P 0 E m 0 e A 0 PatientThe newsletter for patientsFocus and our foundation trust members | Autumn 2014 g 0 0 e w Harefield Hospital – an 0 0 Welcome to a 0 exciting future a h 2015 is Harefield Hospital’s Improvements include: the latest issue 0 centenary and we want to make it a ¼ An increased number of critical It is an eventful time for the Trust – 2015 will be d year to remember! 0 care and inpatient beds a year to remember with the celebration of i It is an opportunity to celebrate the ¼ Enhanced diagnostic imaging and Harefield Hospital’s centenary. Plans also continue apace for Royal Brompton’s w care and recovery of thousands of scanning capability 0 redevelopment. More information on this can be patients, the dedication of staff and n ¼ A reconfigured operating theatre found on pages 6 and 7. the ground-breaking clinical and We are pleased to welcome two new governors scientific achievements that have ¼ A state-of-the-art endoscopy suite 0 to the Trust and we look forward to the valuable been taking place since the hospital By 2020, rebuilt wards and a brand 0 a contributions they will make to our work. You opened in 1915. k w new graduated care unit will can read more about them on page 4. increase the number of hospital We have started making plans and The members’ event programme is proving to @ beds to well over 200 (from the are hoping as many Trust members be a great success and details of our most current 176), enabling more recent events are on page 3. If you would like get involved as possible. patients to benefit from our U written information about events for 2015, There will be a number of specialist care. please send your details to me at [email protected] or alternatively you can 0 celebratory events organised As well as an expansion of services, h find details at: www.rbht.nhs.uk/members. l throughout the year – some by the such as transplantation and primary h Thank you to Mr J D Milaric for kindly w Trust and some by Royal Brompton angioplasty, the investment will contributing an original poem about heart & Harefield Hospitals Charity, which enable the continued growth of disease (page 5). If you have anything you’d like 2 @ will raise funds for the hospital. respiratory services, including 0 to contribute for future treatment for difficult asthma and o We will keep you updated about the editions, please contact me: F severe emphysema. It also presents h plans on: www.rbht.nhs.uk, [email protected] 0 an opportunity to develop a new c www.rbhcharity.org and in Patient Finally, I hope you enjoy allergy service, providing food and w Focus. reading Patient Focus. drug challenges, immunotherapy and desensitisation therapy. Another important part of this B 0 legacy will be the multi-million Bob Bell, chief executive, 0 0 pound expansion and commented: “This is an exciting c redevelopment of Harefield time for Harefield, particularly as it w Hospital. Improvements will be approaches its centenary year in Philippa implemented in three stages over 2015. The new and improved Allibone, 1 the next five years (subject to facilities at the hospital will help us membership 0 K planning permission) with phase meet the increasing demand for the manager 0 k one due for completion during the world-class services provided by centenary year. our clinical teams.” Report from the annual Redevelopment update Diary dates members’ meeting Pages 6-7 Page 11 Page 2 Patient Focus Autumn 2014.qxd:Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:10 Page 3 page 2 – Patient Focus Autumn 2014 Report: annual members’ meeting and general meeting of council of governors 2014 5Dr Will Man, consultant chest physician, presenting at the AGM On 21 July 2014, the Trust held its fifth the end of the year, for her “wonderful ¼ Annual report (Richard Connett, annual members’ meeting, which was career” at the Trust. director of performance and Trust combined with the council of governors’ Bob Bell, chief executive, then updated secretary) annual general meeting for the second attendees on strategic issues, including time. Around 80 Trust members, ¼ Accounts (Rod Morgan, chief our consistently high patient and staff including staff, patients and governors accountant, in the absence of Richard satisfaction scores, the proposed attended the meeting, which was held in Paterson, associate chief executive – the Concert Hall at Harefield Hospital. redevelopment at both hospitals and our finance) joint ventures and collaborations with Sir Robert Finch, Trust chairman, other systems of care. The meeting ended with a presentation welcomed members and spoke of his by Dr Will Man, consultant chest “immense pride in the Trust’s There were reports from: physician at Harefield, on pulmonary achievements in the last year”. He ¼ Nomination and remuneration rehabilitation and working in the acknowledged John McCafferty, who has committee (Ray Puddifoot, lead community, which was very well received stepped down as public governor for the governor) by attendees. South of England, and thanked him for his contributions. John is the world’s ¼ Membership steering committee Feedback on the day was very positive, longest surviving heart transplant (Edward Waite, patient governor) with one member commenting that the patient. Sir Robert also paid tribute to Dr event was “well worth attending” and Caroline Shuldham, director of nursing ¼ Audit and quality report (Deloitte – another describing Dr Man’s presentation and clinical governance, who is retiring at auditors) as “very interesting and informative”. Patient Focus Autumn 2014.qxd:Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:10 Page 4 Patient Focus Autumn 2014 – page 3 Member events Tour of Royal Brompton Hospital’s cardiac catheter laboratories On 16 September, 26 trust members attended a tour of the cardiac catheterisation laboratories (cath labs) at Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr Simon Davies, consultant 5A demonstration during the tour of Royal Brompton’s cath labs interventional cardiologist, started the tour with a talk about the history of cardiac catheterisation (angios). He explained that cardiac catheterisation to cath lab 2, which is used for children’s Members were also taken into the control was not a new procedure; it was first procedures. In the cBRU laboratory, room and shown moving images of a done in 1929 by Dr Werner Forssman – members were shown a whole angiogram number of different cardiac procedures on himself! Dr Davies then described the procedure: how the patient is prepared that are routinely carried out in the cath different types of heart conditions (draped) to provide a sterile labs and were given the opportunity to treated in the cath labs. Examples of environment, the drugs used and how “drive” the X-ray equipment. angiograms were shown with blockages the X-ray equipment is moved by the in the coronary arteries being opened by radiographers. Members were given the The groups then swapped locations so coronary balloons and stents. opportunity to handle the different types that all members saw both of these and sizes of catheters, stents and plugs. specialised areas. Karen Shevlin, cath lab manager, and her staff divided members into two groups. The tour of cath lab 2 demonstrated One member commented: “What an The first group was taken to the pictures on the X-ray screens with informative experience! Calmly cardiovascular biomedical research unit examples of congenital heart conditions explained, I would now have these (cBRU) laboratory and the second group both before and after closing the defects. procedures done with no fear.” Easy ways to help women (and men!) be healthy and live longer On 19 May 2014, over 20 Trust members day. The half hour can be done in single muscle death within 15 minutes so the attended a talk entitled “Easy ways to sessions or broken into three 10-minute sooner the clot is opened the better the help women (and men!) be healthy and sessions. Exercise helps to maintain result will be. live longer” by Professor Peter Collins, energy levels, lower total cholesterol, Professor Collins said that the top three consultant cardiologist at Royal manage body weight, control the risk factors for developing cardiovascular Brompton Hospital. metabolic syndrome (a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and disease are hypertension (high blood Heart disease is the leading cause of obesity) and relieve stress. pressure), diabetes and cigarette smoking. death in women: 10 times more deaths Throughout the meeting, members asked occur from heart disease and stroke than Professor Collins told the audience heart pertinent questions about heart disease, from breast cancer. However, a lot of heart disease occurring in women is very and following the talk, the membership disease can be treated with lifestyle preventable and can be delayed. One of the problems is that heart disease starts team received some excellent feedback. changes, medication and exercise. when women are young and it gradually Comments included: “the talk was Professor Collins explained that whilst worsens over the years, sometimes interactive, practical and not too medicine can help you live longer, you can developing into a heart attack. A heart technical” and “the presentation was also help yourself by taking exercise, attack (where a blood clot blocks an extremely informative and well simply by walking for half an hour each artery in the heart) can cause heart presented”. Patient Focus Autumn 2014.qxd:Layout 1 06/11/2014 16:10 Page 5 page 4 – Patient Focus Autumn 2014 Welcome to our new Trust governors Two Trust governors, Mr John McCafferty and Mr Philip Dodd, stepped down in summer 2014, leaving vacancies in two areas in the public constituency.