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@UHSussex NEWS FOR STAFF & VOLUNTEERS - MAY 2021 Members of the board celebrate the founding of University Hospitals Sussex on 1 April 2021 "A momentous day" UHSussex brings together the best of both trusts CLINICAL STRATEGY LATEST Helping all specialties improve University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSussex) was and deliver the trust's True created on 1 April 2021, heralding the dawn of a new future for North goals. Find out more - p5 staff, volunteers and our patients in Sussex. The merger sees the best of both trusts brought together to create a new, larger YOUR COVID STORY organisation with seven hospitals across five main sites in Sussex, as well as numerous satellite services. Share your Covid reflections, images and stories by emailing Chief executive Dame Marianne Griffiths said: “This is a [email protected] - p6&7 momentous day for healthcare in Sussex. As both a university hospital and foundation trust, we have all the tools we need to develop outstanding services for our communities, offer exciting 100,000 VACCINES GIVEN new career opportunities for our colleagues and continue to put A huge thank you to the local people at the heart of our decisions and plans. hundreds of staff involved in the hospital vaccination hubs - p3 “We will continue to invest in all our vibrant hospitals and all the services we currently provide, including emergency, specialist, tertiary and trauma care. And our new five year clinical strategy OFFER: 50% OFF ZIPLINE will explore where we can make the best improvements for our patients and develop new services that ensure fewer people in Half-price staff offer if you show Sussex have to travel elsewhere for high quality hospital care.” NHS photo ID at seafront Zipline attraction in Brighton - p16 Welcome to @UHSussex - Staff Your new monthly newsletter for staff and volunteers at University Hospitals Sussex Welcome to the first edition of @UHSussex - Staff, For news updates every day, you can visit the new your new newsletter for everyone working and interim UHSussex intranet at [email protected]. volunteering in our hospitals and satellite services. Here you will find the latest trust news, published as Every month we'll be sharing what's new, exciting or we get it. Did you know there's also a notices page entertaining at UHSussex - but we need your support where any member of staff can post information for to tell us what you'd like to see featured. the attention of colleagues? Please note, urgent and So please send your news, photographs and operational information will continue to be sent via achievements to [email protected]. global email and/or a weekly staff email update. Cake and cream teas for everyone! Thousands of cakes were distributed to staff around the trust to celebrate the creation of UHSussex in April and free cream teas were delivered to everyone on 12 May, which was International Nurses Day. In April, members of the executive team delivered many of the treats to frontline teams. "It’s been wonderful to be out and about with other members of the executive team, visiting teams and delivering some celebratory cake!" said chief executive Dame Marianne Griffiths. "After a year of On 12 May, practice development nurses, UHSussex the pandemic restricting our travels, it was great ambassadors and the trust charities teamed up to meet face-to-face with so many colleagues and hear deliver jam and scones to all departments to what you're most looking forward to as we continue recognise everyone's contribution to patient care. to integrate as one trust." International Nurses Day provided the perfect backdrop for the special occasion, enabling many Thank you to facilities and estates teams who did a UHSussex nurses to take to social media to express tremendous job of procuring and distributing pride in their profession. The day also saw the scrumptious cakes, not only to our main hospitals but launch of a new nursing school at the University of also for teams working in satellite locations. Chichester, set up in partnership with the trust. (p11) Colleagues watch as their patient is granted their their dying wish to marry their partner Vallance ward hosts first wedding Staff came together to arrange UHSussex's first wedding for a patient on 28 April 2021 An 84-year-old terminally ill patient on Vallance ward Palliative care support worker Sarah Wadey helped in Brighton was granted his dying wish when staff organise the ceremony. She said: "The staff on arranged a wedding for him and his partner in just Vallance did an incredible job. They arranged a eight hours. The special event not only crowned the buffet, decorations, cake, confetti, bouquet, card and 28 loving years the couple had been together, but it button holes and even asked Dominic Forsythe from was also the first wedding to take place at UHSussex. clinical photography to take wedding photos." 100,000 vaccines Mission successful for our vaccine hubs At least nine in every ten members of staff have received a Covid vaccine thanks to an incredible team effort involving colleagues from across the trust. Vaccines started in early December in Brighton when RSCH was selected as one of the first 50 hospitals to administer the Pfizer jab to outpatients over 80 and staff in higher risk groups. Hubs at St Richard's, Worthing and Princess Royal soon followed. Our teams created new clinical spaces, set up new IT systems, established new booking processes and developed new patient pathways. They worked at speed to provide a safe, sustainable vaccination service for our people as well as thousands of health and social care staff across Sussex. In his last week with the trust, chief medical officer, Dr George Findlay, said : "Your efforts have made such a difference in keeping our patients safe - as it stands, we have vaccinated 100,000 colleagues, health and care workers and priority patients. Thank you." A first for Sussex BoneBridge and Vibrant SoundBridge fitted Audiologists and ear surgeons in Brighton are celebrating the success of two new hearing devices implanted for the first time in Sussex. Surgeons Prof Bhutta and Mr Desai and audiologist Manuel Loureiro performed the surgeries last year, but the devices were switched on more recently. Teresa May (pictured left) had Vibrant SoundBridge implant surgery that includes attaching a tiny motor onto one of the hearing bones, the smallest bones in the human body. An external microphone, magnetically attached to the implant, picks up the sounds and stimulates the motor, to improve her hearing. Teresa said: "Life with my implant has changed for the better; I have grown in confidence. I love listening to birds singing and I am the one that now turns the volume down on the television and radio. I also feel safer as I can hear my surroundings and when someone Teresa May is behind me." New app makes stroke care safer New e-stroke software introduced across UHSussex Cutting edge 'e-stroke' software that uses artificial "For both patients and intelligence technology is now being used across clinicians, having access to this UHSussex to improve the way people who have suffered strokes are diagnosed and treated. The support is a real step forward Sussex Integrated Stroke Delivery Network has begun for stroke care in Sussex" the roll out of an e-stroke software and mobile app that allows stroke teams to easily share scanned images to support rapid diagnosis, clinical decisions Consultant stroke physician, Ingrid Kane, added: "At a and treatment. local level this decision support tool will help us to speed up diagnosis and therefore patient care in a The technology allows stroke teams to make clinical simple and safe way. From a Sussex perspective the decisions wherever they are. For example, it connects implementation of the Brainomix software across the teams in Worthing and St Richard's to colleagues at region will support the highly specialised RSCH to rapidly review clinical information with the thrombectomy pathway, facilitating the timely specialist mechanical thrombectomy centre, where transfer of those eligible for treatment to the some patients are transferred. specialist hubs. For both patients and clinicians having access to this support, no matter where they live in Consultant stroke physician, Simone Ivatts, said: “This Sussex, is a real step forward for stroke care.” is a ground-breaking artificial intelligence decision support tool that will promote safer, more effective Send your improvement stories, innovations and hyper-acute stroke care in Sussex." achievements to [email protected] A new improvement framework Clinicians and managers come together to develop a new UHSussex Clinical Strategy The trust board discussed the development of a new UHSussex Clinical Strategy on 6 May, agreeing a new framework for service improvement to help all specialties deliver our 'True North'. This is the Patient First term we use to describe our overarching trust goal of constantly improving standards of patient care by using continuous improvement methodology. Chief executive Dame Marianne Griffiths said: "I am immensely proud of the outstanding clinical services that our newly formed trust delivers. Integral to this is the hard work and dedication of our staff. Within the context of Four phase Clinical Strategy A new strategic framework the global pandemic, the care and The development of the Clinical The analysis and discussion with commitment of our teams to Strategy is split into four phases. senior clinicians, managers and provide excellent clinical services Phase 1 started in December 2020 leaders recognised that all have been particularly evident. with a reflection of what patients, UHSussex clinical services the public and staff have told us currently deliver good quality "The experience of the pandemic, about our services and what is services but that, in line with our far from dampening enthusiasm important to them when 'where better never stops' for improving our services, served accessing health care.