Beaumont Hospital annual report 2005 (1.43 MB)

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CARING

SUPPORTING

RESPONDING

EXPANDING

CONNECTING

EXCELLING

LEADING

DEVELOPING

RESEARCHING

EDUCATING

INNOVATING 2005 contents 03 Chairman's Report

05 Members of Beaumont Hospital Board

07 Chief Executive's Review

19 Finance Report

29 Medical Executive and Medical Board Report

31 Director of Nursing Report

41 Hospital Divisions 43 Division of Surgery 47 Division of Medicine 59 Anaesthetic Division 61 Radiology Division 63 Neuroscience Division 69 Division of Laboratory Medicine 75 Clinical Services Division 89 Non-Clinical Services Division 97 Functional/Support Departments 97 - Human Resources 99 - Accreditation & Quality Department

101 St. Joseph's Hospital, Raheny, Report

107 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Report

112 Beaumont Hospital Organisation Chart

113 Research Report OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Beaumont Hospital is a University Teaching Hospital with a mission to deliver best quality care to patients. We are working together to develop and continually improve the way we deliver care and enhance the environment in which staff work.

02 BEAUMONT HOSPITAL | ANNUAL REPORT 2005 Donal O Shea, Chairman

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

Beaumont Hospital continued to experience high levels of activity continue to strive for improved efficiencies, overall capacity is during 2005, running at, and at times above, 100% capacity. This still a fundamental problem for Beaumont. During 2004 we inevitably has implications for staff and patients. That being said, continued to work closely with the Hospital Services Executive to the overall quality of care delivered at Beaumont remained high. seek additional step-down capacity for patients no longer in need The Hospital is indeed fortunate to have such a dedicated and of an acute bed but sill not ready to return to heir own homes. professionally skilled staff and evidence of this is to be found in This remains an important issue for the health service as a whole the overall levels of patient satisfaction, as determined by our and, with a growing population of elderly people, represents an own and independent surveys. enormous challenge for the future.

Frequent delays in admission to in-patient beds through the During the year much progress was made in integrating and Emergency Department and the question of hygiene in hospitals making best use of the facilities at St Joseph’s Hospital in were both high profile features of 2005. These are both areas of Raheny, which recently came under Beaumont’s management. considerable concern and importance to the Hospital. This additional capacity has been of benefit in a number of areas, including the provision of rehabilitation services for the elderly. The position with regard to delayed discharge of patients is one which has still to be resolved. In 2005 it contributed further to an The first national hygiene audit, undertaken in 2005, reflected increase in length of stay, with knock-on effects on availability for badly on the Hospital. It highlighted many shortcomings in patients being admitted through Department and procedures, behaviour and infrastructure which all contributed to for ‘elective’ treatments. The phrase ‘elective’ seems to suggest an extremely poor outturn. The Board took the matter most that these treatments are in some way discretionary, but for the seriously and I would like to take this opportunity to commend vast majority it actually means important necessary treatment the Hospital’s staff and management for their response to this which is not immediately life threatening. It