Good Hope Hospital www.uhb.nhs.uk Part of University Hospitals Birmingham news NHS Foundation Trust Good Hope Hospital May 2018 Page 5 Page 7 Page 9 Meet our fi rst consultant Patients enjoy sing-a-long Have your say on new radiographer sessions on Ward 23 development plans Amazon lockers have arrived at hospitals Divisional Director of Operations Andrew Clements checks out the new lockers As part of a project looking at ways to improve staff experience, we have Staff gave Pam Whittington, centre left and Jayne Hathaway, centre right, a great send off installed Amazon lockers at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals. Staff can now choose to have Amazon orders delivered direct to a locker on Goodbye to site, and saving time which would have been spent collecting missed deliveries. The Heartlands locker is located at the main entrance on the ground fl oor behind the escalator. dedicated friends after The Good Hope locker is located near the A&E entrance, outside wards 21-24. The Solihull locker is located near the south entrance, next to Pharmacy. almost 50 years of service For any queries, please email [email protected]. Matrons and senior sisters at Good Hope an interest in our lives and wanted to know same day earlier this year. uk Hospital gathered to bid a fond farewell about children/holidays/weddings, with some Their colleagues organised a surprise party to their PAs Pam Whittington and Jayne of us even ending up on their offi ce ‘picture with a buffet and cake, and both Lynn Fisher Hathaway – who have retired after 48 years board’. and Emma Harthill sang the praises of Pam combined service. “They have gently steered us in the right and Jayne and their hard work over the Patient turned up direction for over 20 years and we don’t years. Pam started at the hospital in 1991 and know what we will do without them. They Pam said: “It’s my colleagues that have at A&E with broken Jayne joined her in 1996 and the pair have are a sad loss to the organisation and we made coming into work so enjoyable and been inseparable ever since! wish them all the best for their retirement.” what’s made Good Hope, great! It’s been a fi nger nail They both moved to medical and surgical Pam plans to spend more time with her privilege to work here because we all care services providing PA support to senior seven grandchildren and husband Rob after for each other. I’ll miss everyone but I am A patient visited the Emergency sisters and matrons in 2000. They provided retirement, while Jayne has joined the gym glad Jayne and I are retiring at the same Department after breaking a fi nger nail an invaluable support service to the team, and is hoping to get fi t, although she didn’t time.” on a night out. advising on annual leave, pensions and have a day off sick in 21 years of working at Jayne echoed what Pam said: “I have loved income tax and offering a safe haven for the hospital. working here, there have been fun times and We have collected a list of unusual staff to come in for a biscuit or cup of tea. Pam and Jayne always agreed that they sad times. Pam and I have known each other reasons people attended A&E when Lynn Fisher, head nurse for division 5, were going to retire together, there was a for so long that we’re like an old married really they should have received more said: “Pam and Jayne were the fonts of all time a few years ago when Pam considered couple, usually knowing what the other one appropriate treatment elsewhere. knowledge and helped us enormously as an earlier retirement. However, she stuck to is thinking.” See page 3 to fi nd out more about senior sisters and matrons. They always took her original plan and the pair retired on the which NHS services you might need. Building Healthier Lives Find your way around the hospital page 12 2 news May 2018 It’s in your hands The World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign, was launched in 2009 and is celebrated annually on 5 May. It plays a major role in promoting hand hygiene in health care around the world. This year, we are backing this campaign with a range of activities on the wards and departments at HGS. Look out for the Infection Prevention and Control team who will be out and about with Glo Boxes and Agar plates, prize draws and competitions to take part in. Take a selfi e with Mr Mascot who will be Trust chief executive Dame Julie Moore cuts the ribbon at the offi cial opening accompanying the team and share it with us on twitter (@uhbtrust) using the hashtag #HandHygiene to show your support for the campaign. ‘Without these facilities I Hindu Community Health Fair in May am not able to come to the A community health awareness event is taking place on Saturday 19 May. hospital on my own’ The Hindu Community Health Fair is being held at Shree Hindu Community Centre, 541a Warwick Road, Tyseley, A Changing Places toilet for patients and toilet facility open, as it means I can go to Birmingham B11 2JP. visitors with complex disabilities has the toilet with dignity, which is so important The event runs from 10am to opened at Heartlands Hospital. to me.” 12.30pm and will be followed by The Changing Places toilet at Heartlands lunch. Trust chief executive, Dame Julie Moore Hospital is located adjacent to Ward 3 and The Trust has worked closely with the joined staff, patients and visitors along with can be accessed by requesting a key from Hindu community to put together this Trust Chair, the Rt Hon Jacqui Smith to open the main hospital reception, as well as from important event for a third time. the changing places facility by cutting a Ward 3 staff. The Hindu Community Health Fair ribbon and unveiling a plaque. On opening the new facility, Dame Julie aims to encourage residents to fi nd Changing Places toilet facilities are Moore said: “We are really pleased that out about their health needs. different to standard disabled toilets, and we’ve been able to open the hospital’s fi rst Experts will be on hand to advise are designed to meet the needs of people Changing Places toilet. about healthy eating, diabetes, with conditions such as muscular dystrophy enable them to get out and about and “They are vitally important to patients retinal eye screening, bowel cancer and multiple sclerosis, as well as those with enjoy the day-to-day activities many of us who are unable to use a standard accessible and abdominal aortic aneurysm spinal or brain injuries. take for granted. toilet, and provide much more space for screening, weight management, the Patients and visitors to the hospital can Tracey Surgeoner, aged 52, from Sutton individuals and their carers, as well as hospital’s multi-million pound ACAD use the specialist facilities, which come Coldfi eld, regularly visits Heartlands equipment to help them use the facilities development and much much more. equipped with a hoist and adult-sized Hospital as a patient and attended the safely, comfortably and with dignity. I am Among the experts who will be taking height adjustable changing table, along opening of the facility. She said: “Without proud to be here today.” part on the day will be consultant Dr with space for both the individual and their these facilities I am not able to come to the Srikanth Bellary who will talk about carer, safely and in comfort. hospital on my own, I would need a carer For more information about Changing diabetes. National fi gures show that over ¼ million with me. Places, visit www.changing-places.org people need Changing Places toilets to “It is amazing to have the Changing Places Chief Executive Dame Julie Moore to retire this year Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive of services equitably to the populations served talented and professional people doing we did back then and we have an enviable University Hospitals Birmingham NHS across Birmingham and Solihull, whilst work of real value to people, has been, and reputation for the quality of care we Foundation Trust, has announced that she enabling the best use of all the hospitals’ still is, an honour and a privilege. give. This is all due to the fantastic efforts will be retiring later this year. resources. “I am immensely proud of all we have of all the teams working within this Dame Julie has been Chief Executive achieved for our patients. When I arrived organisation.” Her decision follows the successful of UHB since 2006. She said: “Whilst this here, there was a huge surface car park Dame Julie has not yet fi nalised her leaving merger of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital has been a hugely demanding job, it has where the Queen Elizabeth Hospital date but it will be towards the end of this Birmingham with Heart of England NHS also been one of the most rewarding and Birmingham now stands. We now treat summer. The Trust’s Board will be making Foundation Trust, to deliver high quality pleasurable. To work with such skilled, more than double the amount of patients arrangements to appoint a successor. Building Healthier Lives Find your way around the hospital page 12 May 2018 news 3 Midwives leading Patient visited Emergency the way with quality care for patients Department because of a Midwives and maternity staff are invited to join us on Friday 4 May for tea and cake to celebrate International Day of the Midwife.