INTRODUCING OUR NEW GYNAE UNIT a Comprehensive Service for Assessment and Treatment
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GP INTELLIGENCE THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FROM THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN & ST ELIZABETH WINTER 2012 INTRODUCING OUR NEW GYNAE UNIT A comprehensive service for assessment and treatment DEDICATED REFERRAL HOTLINE FOR GPS Our education programme and annual symposium PIONEERING NEW IMAGING EQUIPMENT The !rst private London Hospital to o"er a 256-slice CT scanner ST JOHN’S HONOURED Hospice receives prestigious Hospice@Home award OUR NEW KNEE UNIT Instant access to some of the !nest specialists in this !eld FOCUS ON PAEDIATRIC CARE Looking at eczema and cardiology problems in children ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING Often the cause of post-natal discomfort for the new mother OUR MANAGEMENT FORGING AHEAD INTO TEAM 2013 INSPIRED BY A VERY SUCCESSFUL 2012 appy New Year and welcome to the Winter edition of GPi. Just before Christmas we completed the Hinstallation of a new 256-slice state-of-the-art CT scanner, which o!ers the very best quality images and more advanced clinical applications. This £1.2million investment in our Imaging Department comes less than a year after we became the "rst private hospital in the UK to have a 3T MRI scanner. As the o#cial medical facility of UK Athletics, we were delighted at the success of the 2012 GB Olympic team after many of the medal-winning track and "eld DR DAVID athletes were treated at the Hospital. Our reputation is growing. A record 293 GPs attended our Annual Symposium GRANT to hear lectures from 15 of our leading consultants. We plan to build on this Medical Director success and the extremely positive feedback by hosting a special Hot Topics Annual Symposium on March 23 (see Pages 6 and 7 for full details). Meanwhile, 266 healthcare professionals attended our Hypermobility Seminar. The Hypermobility Unit, led by Professor Rodney Grahame, is the UK’s only private specialist unit and is already attracting international interest. We are launching a new GP hotline to ensure all referrals are dealt with immediately and also a new Knee Unit and Gynaecology Unit. This will complement our wide range of world-class services – we have hundreds of specialist consultants and boast Spine and Shoulder Units and the fast-growing London Urology, as well as the world-renowned London Foot and Ankle Centre. Our walk-in private urgent care centre has proved to be such a success – with 10,000 patients already treated – that we are now expanding the service. Casualty First is unique in being able to treat adults and children from the age of one for all Carol singers at the St John’s Christmas Fayre which helped to raise £15,000 for the Hospice MRS CHRISTINE minor accidents, illnesses and injuries. The success of the Hospital allows us to fund our on-site hospice, St Johns, MALCOLMSON which recently launched London’s "rst palliative care ambulance service. Our Matron Hospice@Home service scooped the prestigious Domiciliary/Home Healthcare Provider 2012 at the Laing Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards, beating AT THE HEART OF THE LOCAL hundreds of rivals. I thank you for your support last year and look forward to a successful 2013. Kind regards, DAVID MARSHALL CHIEF EXECUTIVE COMMUNITY OFFERING CONTENTS FIRST CLASS HEALTHCARE ST JOHN’S HOSPICE he Hospital of St John & More than 7,000 local residents units in 2013, including the Knee CASUALTY FIRST St Elizabeth is truly unique. attended the St John’s Christmas Unit and our new gynaecological DR CHRIS The benefits of health At the heart of the As an independent charity, Fayre on St John’s Wood High Street, London Wellwoman Clinic. FARNHAM 4 screening 14 community we are proud to deliver raising £15,000 for the Hospice. All these are designed to help Tultimate standards of private care Our self-pay, walk-in urgent care the Hospital continue to flourish, Hospice Medical EDUCATION DERMATOLOGY Hair loss to our patients. But while doing centre, Casualty First, is proud to allowing us to meet the ever Director Our new GP referral hotline this, all of our profits help fund our sponsor the fayres. growing demand for support from 6 and upcoming programme 16 in women on-site Hospice. In 2013, the Hospital has a the Hospice, which cares for 2,000 GYNAECOLOGY CARDIOLOGY St John’s Hospice provides vital range of exciting expansion plans terminally ill patients and their palliative medicine services free of – starting with Casualty First. Our families for free every year. New Gynae Unit Atrial fibrillation: What charge to the local community and urgent care centre, able to deal We are extremely grateful to 8 Uterine Bleeding 17 are the medical options? beyond. with any minor illness or accident, all those who contributed to our GYNAECOLOGY KNEE UNIT This unique combination has put has already treated 10,000 patients. success in 2012. the Hospital and the Hospice at the Now we are expanding Casualty For full details of all the services High-risk pregnancy counselling Introducing our new heart of the area. First to keep up with demand, provided by the the Hospital please 10 Tackling post-natal problems 18 service and its consultants Our Easter, Summer and ensuring patients enjoy a truly visit www.hje.org.uk. PHYSIOTHERAPY PAEDIATRIC Christmas Fayres partner with local walk-in service without the waiting Alternatively, to find out how schools, groups and businesses to times of NHS A&Es. you can support our Hospice visit Tackling post-natal problems Congenital heart disease raise money to support St John’s. We are also launching new www.stjohnshospice.org.uk. MR GEOFF 11 such as bladder weakness 20 and the General Practioner GREEN IMAGING PAEDIATRIC AMAZING PROGRESS OF CASUALTY FIRST Financial Director Our 5* service introduces Difficult eczema in ! 2 12 pioneering new equipment 22 older children AND OUR EXPANSION PLANS PAGES 4 & 5 3 Casualty First CASUALTY FIRST HAS NOW TREATED MORE THAN 10,000 PATIENTS AND EXPANSION PLANS FORGE AHEAD no time to get to know patients and establish a rapport, much less Capable of win their trust enough to discuss personal matters. ue to its phenomenal Patients don’t always see the detecting success our urgent same doctor in their local practice. care centre, Casualty Many times people do not deem possible First, is currently certain issues as being significant D enough to ‘bother’ their GP about. undergoing expansion. A third problems, consulting room will be created Yet it might be something that has by converting part of the Grove enough of a negative impact on End Road reception. Work is due their lives that they really wish to health to commence early this year. change but feel powerless to do so. Meanwhile, a third full-time For example, erectile screening consultant is being recruited as dysfunction in men, loss of libido we further boost staff numbers to in either sex, urinary incontinence cope with demand. or the discomfort of a vaginal also provides Since the start of our autumn posterocoele might be at the root marketing campaign offering of relationship breakdowns and a safety flu vaccinations and health cause real unhappiness. screenings, there has been an Personality issues may be the net for the average of over 30 patients a day. reason that a patient struggles Despite this growth, waiting at work and at home, and might patient times have been kept to an HEALTH SCREENING need to be gently brought to their absolute minimum and the urgent attention. It might be that someone care centre is winning widespread may want to lose weight, get fit, or and helps praise from the local community just wish to change their lifestyle. and beyond. I have worked in both general the general BENEFITS INCLUDE practice and health-screening centres, and have been in the Following the great privileged position to combine practitioner success of our first year the two and offer health screening we can confidently to my GP patients. testing, as well as urine test, body respiratory department where lung offer instant treatment EARLY DIAGNOSIS The process begins with a measurements, visual and hearing function tests and stress ECGs take to all of the following about cardiovascular health and health questionnaire completed tests, stool tests if needed, blood place, as well as echocardiograms. immediately on arrival... the prevention of heart attacks by the patient which asks pressure and ECG. We also have onsite allergy testing and strokes. about any medical problem The client is given a light and can arrange for someone with A health-screening consultation ever encountered, about stress breakfast then sees the doctor high blood pressure readings to be OAcute illness can be an extremely rewarding and sleep, as well as details of to discuss the questionnaire, fitted with a 24-hour BP monitor on OSports injuries process for both the patient and family medical problems, diet, results of the tests, have a full the same day. O exercise, sexual problems and physical examination which is age There is a distinct advantage Fractures, soft-tissue injuries, DR YUMNAH RAS the doctor. A doctor is in the very psychological issues. appropriate and includes smear to have rapid access to so many sprains and strains Urgent Care Centre doctor privileged position of being able OWounds, wound closure and to ask the patient about many This has the advantage of testing, prostate examination, as well resources in the same place, and burns aspects of their lives, and discuss getting the patient to think as discussing breast and testicular the hospital is so well known for OCuts and grazes t is well known that the their lifestyle in an open and about all of these details before self-examination if needed.