Heartwww.heartofengland.nhs.uk & SoulWinter 2016 New Year’s honours recognition Assessment unit opens Ink-redible gesture for cancer unit Anton du Beke on Strictly success Team receives Recognition Blues World a baby friendly for hospital children’s AIDS Day award chaplain ward visit p12 p3 p10 p11 Heartlands - Solihull - Good Hope - Birmingham Chest Clinic - Solihull Community Services TRUSTANDREW NEWS FOSTER Appointment of new Get in Trust leadership team touch We are happy to We’re here to help when you need advice, welcome Dame Julie have concerns or have Moore and the Rt feedback on our services Hon Jacqui Smith for patients. Contact: as interim Chief Executive and interim Chair, respectively, of Heart of England NHS 0121 424 0808 Foundation Trust. (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) The Board of Directors agreed to direction from the health sector regulator, Monitor to appoint a new interim current role as Chair bhs-tr.Complaints- leadership team following at University Hospitals ConcernsandCompliments@ a breach of the Trust’s Birmingham (UHB) nhs.net licence to provide NHS alongside her work at services in October 2015. Heart of England and Dame Julie Moore was Dame Julie Moore will appointed as interim spend the vast majority www.twitter.com/ Chief Executive of Heart of her time at Heart of heartofengland of England to take up England while fulfilling the reigns from Andrew the interim CEO role. Foster whose secondment Dame Julie’s focus, finished at the end of and that of the new www.heartofengland.nhs.uk October. team, is to ensure that The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith patients receive the became interim Chair of best care possible while the Trust replacing Les addressing the significant Lawrence who decided to financial and operational Patient services department step down from the Trust challenges that the Main entrance at the end of November. organisation faces. Heartlands Hospital Bordesley Green East The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith Birmingham will continue in her B9 5SS 2 www.heartofengland.nhs.uk TRUST NEWS Community teams are baby friendly The Solihull community to build close and loving award is a reflection of the health visiting team relationships with their hard work and dedication and the infant feeding baby and to feed their of the team and is a huge services team have earned baby in ways which will achievement of which we international recognition support optimum health are all very proud.” through accreditation by and development. UNICEF for their continued Elaine Bates, infant efforts to make the feeding co-ordinator borough a place where at Solihull community babies get the best start services, said: “To be in life. recognised in this way The accreditation confirms that our team is recognises the two teams providing a high quality efforts to provide parents service to parents across with the best possible care Solihull. This prestigious App for lung cancer patients to be trialled A mobile app developed by researchers at the Trust could transform how lung surgery patients receive their rehabilitation after surgery. The Fit for Surgery app “The ROC programme has as well as potentially being developed by the Thoracic demonstrated improvement adopted for other types of surgery research team at in complications and surgery as well.” the Trust will allow patients hospital readmission but to access the award- we identified a need to If you would like to find winning Rehabilitation develop a service that can out more about the app for Operated Lung Cancer be delivered immediately at and recruitment for the (ROC) programme from the the convenience and control research, please contact comfort of their own home of the patient. Salma Kadiri on 0121 424 without the need for a “Should this trial prove to 1396 or email salma.kadiri@ hospital visit. be effective it could lead to heartofengland.nhs.uk Mr Babu Naidu, consultant a national roll-out of this thoracic surgeon at programme and define the Heartlands Hospital, said: new gold standard of care, Heart&Soul Winter 2016 3 TRUST NEWS New Year’s honours for two top professionals The Trust received the double delight of having a consultant and former nurse recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours and awarded a British Empire Medal. Dr Ron Daniels, a Good with sepsis have increased is now recognised as a Hope Hospital critical from 60 percent to 70 national priority.” care consultant, has been percent in England. Dr Helen has been in recognised in honour of Daniels said: “I am very nursing for 32 years, his tireless and passionate proud and humbled to latterly at the Trust as a efforts to lead nurse for improve palliative care. sepsis She now works care after in a similar role developing at Royal United the Hospitals Sepsis Six Bath NHS pathway. Foundation And former Trust. nurse Helen She said: “I Meehan feel so humbled was that Vanessa nominated and colleagues for the at Solihull CCG honour by and Heart of head nurse England put me at Solihull forward for this Dr Ron Daniels, Good Hope Helen Meehan, former Trust lead Hospital award. Solihull Hospital critical care consultant nurse for palliative care and and the Trust community will always services, hold a special Vanessa Wort and in receive this honour. Sepsis place in my heart as my conjunction with Solihull Six started as a small idea colleagues there enabled Clinical Commissioning that snowballed into a me to grow and be the Group (CCG) in recognition national pathway and it’s nurse I always wanted to of her significant and saving thousands of lives be.” lasting impact on end of every year. Improving Congratulations to Ron life care in the borough. outcomes for patients with and Helen on receiving this Since the introduction sepsis is a passion of mine recognition. of the Sepsis Six pathway, and thanks to the support survival rates for patients of my colleagues, sepsis 4 www.heartofengland.nhs.uk TRUST NEWS Dyspraxia patient opens up about misunderstood condition Emily Woollard, 21, from Solihull, was diagnosed with the condition in primary school and from 2005 was treated by paediatric occupational therapist Sally Payne, who heads up the team at Solihull Community Services. “From a young age my do things slower than most a severe degree. parents knew there was people. I still struggle with “Emily’s experience in something not quite my memory and get things her formative years is right,” Emily explained. crossed in my head.” unfortunately not unusual “When Dyspraxia and that is why it is I started is a form of vital that children with primary developmental dyspraxia are diagnosed school I was co-ordination early.” struggling disorder (DCD) and Emily said she hopes and falling affects movement, dyspraxia becomes a more behind my co-ordination and understood condition in peers in Emily Woollard hopes speech in children years to come. She added: dyspraxia becomes better learning understood and adults. “When I tell people I have and Although little dyspraxia they either development. I would known, it is a relatively say ‘what’s that?’ or ‘do lose concentration easily common condition with you mean dyslexia?’ I in class and forget what high-profile sufferers constantly have to explain I was doing. It was also including Harry Potter to people what it is and difficult for me socialising star, Daniel Radcliffe and how it affects people. at that age because I was supermodel/actress, Cara I hope one day people different so I got left out. Delavigne. understand it “Seeing Sally really Sally, who better and can spot helped me a lot. She is also a the signs more advised my school and my trustee of quickly in children parents about dyspraxia the Dyspraxia so they can get and how to help me in the Foundation, that intervention as right way. What has also said: soon as possible.” been really beneficial has “Dyspraxia Paediatric occupational been the workshops Sally is one of therapist, Sally Payne set up with others with the most dyspraxia my age so I could common meet them and do fun developmental disorders To find out more about activities together. of childhood, affecting dyspraxia visit www. “Still now dyspraxia around five to ten percent dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk affects my movement in of the school-aged day-to-day tasks. I have to population, ten percent to Heart&Soul Winter 2016 5 TRUST NEWS Elderly care czar attends 10 Downing Street reception The Trust’s deputy medical Professor Philp was the health and care system director for older people, accompanied by Dr Patrick across the country. While Professor Ian Philp attended Brooke, accountable Solihull Together for better a special reception at 10 officer for Solihull Clinical lives is about improving Downing Street hosted by Commissioning Group. The urgent and emergency care the Prime Minister, David reception, also attended by for the whole population, Cameron, to represent the The Secretary of State for there will be a local focus. Solihull Together for better Health, Jeremy Hunt, and A short animation setting lives partnership. This is a Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS out the Solihull Together partnership of local health England, brought together for better lives ambition is and care organisations leaders from 50 ‘vanguard’ available to watch at www. that have joined forces to sites across the country. solihulltogether.co.uk make sure everyone in the These sites, including borough gets the right care Solihull, are developing new and support when they care models that will act as need it. blueprints for the future of 6 www.heartofengland.nhs.uk TRUST NEWS Selfless porters donate kidneys to loved ones Two Heartlands Hospital porters know first-hand the importance of organ donation after they donated kidneys to their loved ones in lifesaving transplant operations.