37923_Your_Trust_Summer_37923_Your_Trust_Summer 22/07/2013 11:21 Page 1 County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust your trust Summer 2013 Joe brings X-Factor to Shotley Bridge Star opens Woodlands Chemotherapy Unit Meet Chris Gray New executive medical director interviewed www.cddft.nhs.uk with you all the way 37923_Your_Trust_Summer_37923_Your_Trust_Summer 22/07/2013 11:21 Page 2 your trust Summer 2013 Issue Chairman’s welcome Welcome to the Summer edition of Your Trust magazine The Trust will be holding At last year’s AGM in Darlington, there sent shortly a personal invitation to the its Annual General Meeting was a ‘market’ of health related stalls AGM shortly. Further details can also be around the meeting room. People were found on our website: (AGM) on Wednesday able to browse through these stalls www.cddft.nhs.uk. 18 September 2013 at at their leisure, talking to staff and If you would like to come to this year’s Healthworks teams. We plan something the Radisson Blu Hotel, AGM on 18 September 2013, then similar this time around. Framwellgate Waterside please register with the Foundation in Durham. The AGM is a great opportunity for the (FT) Trust office, by emailing Board of Directors and the Council of [email protected]. The formal purpose of this meeting is Governors to hear your views on our The annual report and accounts for for the Trust Board to present the Trust’s hospitals and the services we provide. annual report and accounts for 2012-13 2012-13 have now been published to members and to the Council of Staff, Trust members, members of the and are available on our website to Governors. With so many significant press and the general public are all read ahead of the AGM: changes happening in the NHS recently, welcome to attend. If you are already www.cddft.nhs.uk the AGM is also a great opportunity for a Trust member, then you will also be people to find out more about the Trust’s performance over 2012-13, to chat to our directors and governors, and Temporary suspension of to hear about our plans for the future. births at Bishop Auckland The Trust announced in July that need to be transferred to a consultant led it was suspending midwife led obstetric unit in an emergency. deliveries at Bishop Auckland “There are around 5 births per week in temporarily from Saturday 6 July. the unit, and a transfer is required in around 30% of cases. CBP00047650507133707 This decision has been taken purely on the grounds of ensuring the safest birth “The target response time for potentially options for mothers and babies. life-threatening emergencies, including maternity transfers from Bishop Bishop Auckland has offered midwife led Auckland, is 8 minutes in 71% of cases. births only since 2004. Consultant led maternity care is offered at Darlington “Unfortunately, It is not possible for the Contents and Durham. ambulance service to meet this target in 100% of cases. Therefore we are unable Page Professor Chris Gray, Executive Medical to guarantee timely transfer and Director and Mike Wright, Executive appropriate intervention – although this News in brief 3 Director of Nursing said: has not resulted in any adverse incident “Midwife led care is safe and desirable to date. New fluoroscopy unit 4 for most women, in the right “We are working with our health circumstances, and the MLU at Bishop economy partners over the next two to YT interview 6-7 Auckland provides an excellent service three months to agree the best way which is appreciated by mothers and forward. Care closer to home 8-9 families who choose to have their babies in this way. “We will continue to offer the full range of choice options to women.” Around your Trust 10 “Our concerns are about our ability, in current circumstances, to guarantee a In April and May the average ambulance C. difficile update 12 safe outcome for mothers or babies who response time was 25.2 minutes and 28 develop complications during labour and minutes respectively. Patient and Public Involvement 14-15 02 37923_Your_Trust_Summer_37923_Your_Trust_Summer 22/07/2013 11:21 Page 3 www.cddft.nhs.uk Sharing best healthcare practice across Europe The Trust recently welcomed two healthcare professionals from Portugal and Finland as part of an exchange programme aimed at improving healthcare across Europe. Iris Leite, a finance manager at Hospital de Magalhaes Lemos in Porto, Portugal and Kaisa Haatainen, a patient safety manager at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland, spent three weeks with the Trust as part of the Hope International Exchange Programme. It’s the first time the Trust has taken part in the programme, which this year is looking at patient safety. 160 healthcare personnel Switched on – head of facilities Geoff Sweeney and project manager from across Europe are involved in the at the North East Charge Your Car programme Josey Wardle. programme, with 16 visiting the UK. The aim of the exchange is to promote improvements in the health of citizens throughout Europe, and high standards Trust leads the charge in healthcare services. In her blogs about the visit, Kaisa wrote for electric vehicles about everything from the experience of working within a hospital in the UK and the OWNERS of electric encourage people to use sustainable friendliness of the people in the North East, forms of transport. to the terrible weather. “The main thing I vehicles can now plug found was how concentrated the hospitals Bill Headley, the Trust’s director of are on quality and patient safety and how in and charge up at estates and facilities, said, “We all the patient experience is central to have a part to play in protecting the Darlington Memorial everyone’s work.” environment and the installation of Hospital after the Trust these car-charging points forms part Emma Shipley, associate director of HR and installed new charging of the Trust’s work in encouraging organisation development, said, “We were points in the car park. sustainability. The points are available very keen to get involved in the Hope for anyone to use, 24 hours a day programme, because it’s great to be able Up to four vehicles at a time can and having them here now is in many to share best practice in healthcare across use the two 7KW charging points ways future-proofing the site, as sales Europe.” installed there as part of the North of electric vehicles are predicted to East Charge your Car project. The rise sharply in coming years.” project has provided funding to The North East Charge Your Car support the installation of charging programme has already been posts in car parks, on streets, at responsible for installing over 850 residential and commercial locations charge points at homes, workplaces after the region was named as one and in public locations across the of three areas to put in place a North East, making the region the comprehensive electric vehicle most connected EV network in the UK. infrastructure. A full list of the North East England The Trust spent £250,000 improving electric vehicle charge points and and extending car parking facilities access to the Charge your Car at Darlington Memorial Hospital in membership is available at Kaisa Haatainen, Iris Leite and Emma Shipley at the 2010, and the addition of the electric Trust’s recent board meeting at Lumley Castle Hotel www.chargeyourcar.org.uk in Chester-le-Street vehicle charging points will help 03 37923_Your_Trust_Summer_37923_Your_Trust_Summer 22/07/2013 11:21 Page 4 your trust Summer 2013 Issue Advanced practitioner Angela Jackson and senior radiographer Denise Nelson in the new fluoroscopy unit at UHND. Better, quicker and safer radiology services A new fluoroscopy unit has been installed at the radiology department at the University Hospital of North Durham, which will allow radiologists to carry out both diagnostic and interventional work – not just diagnosing diseases but also treating them. Consultant interventional radiologist, accurately place a stent to unblock any Dr Stuart Marsden, said, “The new obstruction. The technology also uses fluoroscopy unit is outstanding, it really much less dose - up to a third of the old “The new does make a big difference to the work equipment, which makes it safer for we do. It means the images we get are both patients and staff.” fluoroscopy unit much more detailed – so we’re able to The fluoroscopy unit will be used by up is outstanding, it do what we already do, but do it better to 30 patients a week requiring a range and quicker. of procedures, such as diagnostic studies really does make “For example, if a patient has a in the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts a big difference to blocked bile duct, we can quickly and musculoskeletal system, to more image the liver, make a diagnosis and complicated interventional procedures. the work we do. 0204 37923_Your_Trust_Summer_37923_Your_Trust_Summer 22/07/2013 11:21 Page 5 www.cddft.nhs.uk Bright ideas in health Finance director awards 2013 success appointed Highly commended for innovative service delivery – Pauline Smith, Nichola Stefanou, Charlotte Greener and Sarah Johnson. The Board is pleased to Delight all round when the The ‘Bright ideas in health’ awards announce that Peter Dawson UKETS – UK Endovascular are open to all NHS employees in the has been appointed as the trainees won the training and North East region to celebrate Trust’s executive director of education award at the ‘Bright innovation and creativity, and ideas in health’ awards ceremony cover three categories: finance. last month – congratulations to Phil Davey, consultant vascular • Innovative technology or device Chief Executive Sue Jacques says: “Peter steps and endovascular surgeon at • Innovative service delivery up from his position as senior associate director of finance, and brings an impressive UHND, his colleagues from the • Training and educational materials.