Health matters Vol.5 Issue 2 Summer 2009 Item Type Report Authors Health Service Executive (HSE) Publisher Health Service Executive (HSE) Download date 04/10/2021 17:45:01 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10147/71036 Find this and similar works at - http://www.lenus.ie/hse Midwives HSE Staff to Help Save Celebrate the Rescue the Planet 1,000th baby born in Ambulance staff play part Staff take a greener route North East MLU p2 in mountain rescue p7 to work p9 Volume5 Issue2Summer2009 Healthmatters National Staff Newsletter of the Health Service Executive Healthcare Staff Exceed New Booklet Many Service Targets Helps Staff Health Service Executive hanks to the efforts of thousands of staff Annual Report and Financial Statements 2008 in people’s homes time was ring fenced Deliver Bad News p19 across the country, service level targets were had been intensified. for community exceeded in a number of areas during 2008. He said: “During the diagnostics. The details of the HSE’s performance during next 12 months, our Liam Downey, T2008 are outlined in the organisation’s Annual Report complete focus will be Chairman of the HSE 2008, published at the end of May. on integrating hospital Board said: “One of It reveals that many targets were achieved and and community services our key challenges is exceeded within budget, despite significantly higher to make sure every to operate within the costs to maintain services, such as the primary care journey in, through and financial resource and medical card schemes which increased by e325 out of the health service provided by the million beyond budget. is swift, delay free and Oireachtas and, It also highlights many examples which show the high quality. By year ultimately, the Professor Brendan Drumm, CEO at the launch of the 2008 shift to providing more community based and hospital end, 1.7 million people taxpayers while, at the Annual Report in St Mary’s Doing the avoidance care, and the details of the e560 million will have access to one of 210 Primary Care Teams, same time, optimising Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin investment in facilities and equipment during 2008. each designed to provide the vast majority of care a the services we provide Business… Speaking at the launch, Professor Brendan Drumm, community needs. Our target is to have 530 teams for patients and clients. In 2008, as in previous years, Physios Deliver for Patients CEO of the HSE, highlighted that, while the number in place by 2011/12 serving the whole country. One we managed, I believe, to achieve an appropriate at Connolly Hospital of people working in the health sector remained of our biggest challenges during the year will be balance. The HSE succeeded in delivering the health p20 relatively static, more frontline posts were created in encouraging staff to embrace flexible ways of working and personal social services it contracted to provide 2008 including 1,000 additional posts (within disability and be open to reassignment and redeployment to in the National Service Plan within the total funding services); 47 child and adolescent mental health where the demand is greatest.” provided by Government. The HSE also expended the teams; 28 elder abuse officers and 300 primary care Examples of other community based initiatives 2008 capital budget on a range of important projects team health professionals were appointed. progressed during the year include the four supporting the National Service Plan and in line with Extra community posts (nurses and therapists) Community Intervention Teams, which looked after the National Development Plan. During 2008, solid were created to provide more home help (up 11 per 5,924 patients with three teams exceeding target progress was made in the development of Primary cent since 2006) and home-care packages (up 70 per and the Rapid Access Clinic in Dublin which treated Care Teams, reconfiguring and improving hospital cent since 2006). 7,360 patients – both initiatives enabled many patients services, developing services such as community Professor Drumm said the ongoing investment to avoid hospital admission. GP access to hospital nursing units for older people and an organisation in providing more care in community facilities and diagnostics was also enhanced and consultants’ wide focus on performance and quality.” Dieticians Win Award HSE New Director of Community Menu Plan wins Health Games Finals Clinical Care Literacy Award p23 Youngsters from all r Barry White was recently appointed over the country are National Director of Clinical Care. getting set to travel to Dr White is the National the HSE Community D Haemophilia Director responsible for the Games National Finals in the new host venue, delivery of haemophilia services nationally Athlone Institute of and Director of the National Centre for Technology (AIT), on Hereditary Coagulation Disorders. August 14-16 and August 21-23. The Dr White was the Clinical Director for first National Final Laboratory Services at St James’s Hospital weekend was held between 2002 and 2006. Dr White has a in May. Our picture specific interest in maximising performance Dentists Deliver shows children from Athlone enjoying the within the health care sector and has, launch of the National overseen the introduction of national clinical North Lee Dentists Finals at AIT in May services and quality and performance Expand Child Services p26 (see page 5 for full story) programmes. He is widely published in peer reviewed medical publications. Easy Access – Public Confidence – Staff Pride matters Health Ten little miracles aged 10 years to 9 months are pictured here celebrating the 10th Birthday of the National Maternity Hospital Community Midwifery Service (LtoR): Ryan Howlett, Gregory Johnson, Allanah Graham, Sarah Johnson, Andrew White, Michael Parte, Tom Carey, Joseph McDonough, Archie Message Evans and Ciara Murray (Photo: Andres Poveda) from the Editor elcome to the Summer issue of Health Matters. In this issue (Page 3) we report on the signing of W a joint HSE/Garda protocol which sets out the roles and responsibilities of both agencies in relation to Children Missing from Care. Ambulance Service staff played a major role in a rescue operation in Co Wicklow last February when two mountain climbers had to be rescued in extremely tough weather conditions. In our report (Page 7) we look at what happened after staff working in the HSE National Ambulance Services, Command and Control Centre in Townsend Street, received Midwives Mark Major the call from the Dublin/Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team to say that two climbers had gone missing. We also report on the launch of HealthStat (Page 4) which is a comprehensive databank of performance Milestones with Celebrations information designed to enable continuous improvement by providing reliable, timely and comprehensive information about how services are being delivered. Healthstat provides Dr McLoughlin detailed monthly results from 29 teaching, regional and Baby Carl general hospitals, which are published online. Cummins, Grange Receives Top Award Over 500,000 children aged 6-16 take part in the HSE Rath, Drogheda Community Games each year, and the emphasis is on who was the 1,oooth baby to participation, rather than competition. In our report (Page be born in the 5) we look at how friendly rivalry and the encouragement Midwifery Led from families, coaches and volunteers can help children Unit in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital get to the ultimate goal of representing their county at the pictured with his National Finals, and becoming heroes to their peers. sister Robyn and There’s an item on the ‘Strengthening Families parents Sarah and Programme’ (Page 21) which is a new family skills training Martin at the Our Lady of Lourdes programme in the Ballymun community. Midwifery Led If you’re a social worker you may be interested in our Unit’s 1000 Births Dr Ambrose McLoughlin was awarded the coverage of the launch of the Continuous Professional Celebrations ‘Outstanding Patient Contribution’ award at the 2nd annual Aramark Healthcare Development folder by the Irish Association of Social Innovation Awards in Dublin recently. Dr Workers (Page 31) earlier this year. McLoughlin followed through on complaints As always we have plenty of news from each of the four made to the North Eastern Health Board which led to the setting up of the inquiry HSE areas to keep you up-to-date on developments in taff in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, recently celebrated into peripartum hysterectomy at Our Lady of various parts of the country. Your comments, suggestions the birth of the 1,000th baby born in the Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) since its Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Dr McLoughlin and ideas are welcome. Contributions can be sent by email opening on 5 July 2004. is pictured here with Áine Brady TD, Minister S of State with special responsibility for Older to: [email protected] The copy deadline for the next The Community Midwifery Service (CMS) team at the National Maternity Hospital also People and Health Promotion and (right) actor edition is July 31 2009. recently celebrated 10 years of that service. Adrian Dunbar who played his character in the Carl Cummins was the 1,000th baby to be born in the MLU in Our Lady of Lourdes film The Whisteblower Hospital. Carl’s parents, Sarah and Martin, and his big sister Robyn attended the party together with a number of other parents and babies born in the MLU. Also present were midwifery, obstetric and paediatric staff, Frank Maher, the Mayor of Drogheda and New Magazine Format members of the Maternity Services Taskforce for the HSE North East. Worldwide, MLUs and other models of community maternity care are on the increase. for Health Matters In Ireland, however, Our Lady of Lourdes and Cavan General Hospitals are the only two ealth Matters is changing.