UpdateGP Issue 53 November 2013

Trust invests in new SimPad technology to train medical students

The Midland Training and Simulation Centre team at the Trust provided an excellent training opportunity for a total of 102 Foundation Year 1 doctors and medical students. A disused ward in the Geoffrey Hodges Wing was brought to life once again with a state of the art medical simulation.

Actors and staff from various backgrounds worked together to create a realistic ward setting for the development and practice of essential clinical skills. Venepuncture, annulations and multidisciplinary team working were among many things practiced in a safe learning environment. Important patient safety issues were covered such as infection prevention and control, safe prescribing and correct management of common medical emergencies. Participants left feeling confident and competent to provide good patient care.

Sharon Kilkie, Simulation & Clinical Skills Trainer said: “We are proud to be one of the first hospitals in the country to invest in the new SimPad technology which enables simulation of sick patients with real people rather than a manikin.

She added: “All four days were very well received and feedback was excellent. The team would like to run more of these days in the near future and would like to thank all the people who offer their continual support to make these events such a resounding success.”

If you would like further information or perhaps to get involved please contact the Simulation Team on 01283 511511 ext 2403 or email

Sharon.kilkie@burtonft.nhs.uk

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Trust staff to become Dementia ChampionsOver sixty staff from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds at the Trust have volunteered to become Dementia Champions.

The Dementia Champions Programme, which launched last month in conjunction with the University of Wolverhampton, was open to all staff across the Trust from doctors and therapists to telephonists and radiographers.

A large part of the Champion’s role will be to engage with carers and family members about how best to look after patients with Dementia.

A two-day education programme began last week which saw seventeen Dementia Champions become the first Trust staff members to go through the programme, covering topics such as understanding people in distress, therapies which can be used to help patients with dementia, and practical ways their own service can be improved to help dementia patients.

Speakers at the event included Trevor Jarvis, an Ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society who was diagnosed with early on-set dementia and Gill Maidens from the Centre for Applied Research and Education in Dementia at the University of Wolverhampton.

For further information about the Dementia Champions Programme, please contact Alison Haynes, Lead Dementia Nurse on 01283 566333 extension 4738.

From left: Alison Haynes, Lead Dementia Nurse, Trevor Jarvis, Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador, Julie Thompson, Head Nurse Older People and

Community Services and Kathy Golisti, Dementia Support Nurse

Radiology Department to improve access times to CT scanning

The Radiology department at Queen’s Hospital would like to improve access times to CT scanning for patients who will require intravenous contrast-media prior to imaging.

Currently patients may be delayed as there is no recent, i.e. within three months, blood test result to determine the GFR. It is recommended that contrast can only be given if the GFR is above 60 and hydration of the patient is required if the GFR is between 40 and 60.

Therefore to prevent delays to the patient’s pathway, staff are requesting that GPs ensure that at the time of referral there is an appropriate blood test result that is less than three months old. In the absence of this please ensure that you order the appropriate test at the same time or before the referral for CT.

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Trust backs national campaign to promote the benefits of clinical research

Improving the patient journey – 23-hour Unit at the Treatment Centre

Patients who have undergone Urogynaecology operations at the 23-hour facility at the Treatment Centre and the staff that treated them were invited to discuss how the patient journey could be improved.

The 23-hour facility, which opened earlier this year, provides routine operations in a number of specialities such as gynaecology, orthopaedics, general surgery and ear, nose and throat.

Feedback from patients on the day was extremely positive and highlighted how the facility had helped to improve patient access and provide an enhanced recovery for patients.

Mrs Lingam, Consultant for Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Trust, explained why the treatment at the new facility had been such a success: “Since the National accreditation for Urogynaecology, staff at the unit have pushed the frontier covering most of what we do as either day cases or 23-hour surgery which is better for the patient.

During November and December Burton Hospitals will be taking part in a national campaign called “Research Changed My Life” to help patients to understand the positive effects that can result from getting involved in clinical research.

The campaign has been organised by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network, and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust will be helping to spearhead the campaign as one of the Network’s newly appointed “host” organisations.

On the day of the launch - Thursday 28 November - the Trust will hold a patient awareness stand from 10am – 3pm in the reception area of Queen’s Hospital. Patients can find out about the clinical research studies we are undertaking, and about the Research Changed My Life website, which contains inspirational stories from patients around the country who have taken part in clinical studies.

If you’d like to submit a comment or story about how clinical research has made a positive difference to your patients, you can:

• Telephone the campaign phoneline – 0300 311 99 66 - and leave a message giving your name, job title and our Trust name, followed by your comment or (brief) story, OR

• Tweet your comment to #RCML, OR• Send a message via Facebook to /NihrClinicalResearchNetwork

You can also support the campaign by telling your patients about the Research Changed My Life website www.crncc.nihr.ac.uk/ppi/research_changed_my_life

“The team at the Treatment Centre is dedicated to treating patients having elective surgery only, and patients have found this personal service highly satisfactory.

She added: “We have also rolled out the enhanced recovery programme which has had a major part to play in the patient’s recovery. This involves patient education about their own care and recovery, better analgesia and post operative care resulting in early hospital discharge. Patients also found the after care support that they received in the form of a phone call the week following their surgery reassuring and supportive.”

The hospital will be focusing on increasing such services at the Treatment Centre to achieve the Quality Strategy which has been outlined for 2013-2015 which includes enhanced recovery programme as well as positive patient experience.

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Waiting Times November 2013 UpdateGPCARDIOLOGY EXT.

NoIP

WAIT**OP WAIT(Burton)

OP WAIT(Communityhospitals)

Dr H J Why 5541 1 4Dr M Vishu (Locum) 1 6Dr P Carey 5460 3Dr A Gill 5461 1 4Dr H Simpson 4Dr S Nadar 4Dr N Rajendra 5461 6CARE OF THE ELDERLY

Dr B Mukherjee 2033 4Dr K Soliman 9Dr E N Obiechina 2007 17 5CHEMICALPATHOLOGY

Dr T M Reynolds 4056 2CRITICAL CARE

Dr I Poxon 4099 4DERMATOLOGY

Dr P H Cartwright 4061 9 7Dr G Elston 5202 11Dr S J Beswick 4197 9Dr S Weeraman 9Dr B Allen 9Dr A Ghita 10DIABETIC MEDICINE

Dr C Geevarghese 2081 5Dr J J Benn 2072 2Dr A C Willis 2081 5Dr V Sharma 3EAUDr H Hayat 1ENTMr A C Thompson 4543 11 6 7Mr A S El Hawrani 4003 8 7 5Mr J Oates 4006 19 5 7Mr P K Lee 4195 12 6 8Mr T J Rockley 4074 6 6 8GASTROENTEROLOGY

Dr A A Palejwala 4221 2 5 8Dr M G del Rio Lang-Lenton 9 7

Dr D Watmough 4008 8

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November 2013

** for routine surgery/planned admissions

The outpatient figures provided are the average waiting time for patients treated last month. Please note that all waits are recorded in weeks. All urgent cancer referrals (UCRs), all Breast referrals and Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic (RACPC) patients will be seen within two weeks.

All consultants have urgent appointments available within two weeks. For details of consultants who perform private practice and further information on individual specialisms, please visit http://www.burtonhospitals.nhs.uk/info-for-gps

Outpatient waiting times are available via the Choose and Book website www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk

GENERAL MEDICINE EXT. No

IP WAIT**

OP WAIT(Burton)

OP WAIT(Communityhospitals)

Dr J Milles 5Dr M Teh 8Dr S Jones 5GENERAL SURGERY

Mrs S Williams-Jones 4013/3242 1 1

Miss A Sverrisdottir 4073 4 4 6Mr C A Rogers 3242 7 4Mr J Eccersley 4092 7 5 1Mr P Kumar 4033 8 4 3Mr P Thomas 4073 12 4 3Mr R H K Gompertz 4167 5 8Mr S Vakis 4193 12 6 4Mr T E Bucknall 4013 1 2GYNAECOLOGY

Dr J Srinivasan 4385 10 4 2Dr N Pope 4378 11 6 1Mr J Hollingworth 4380 9 4Mr M F El-Khanagry 4380 9 3 7Mrs K Lingam 4381 13 5 4Dr E McVeigh (RM) 2Mr G Constantine (Visiting) 4

Dr S Duvvur(Locum until 01/04/14 ) 10 6 3

Dr F Raffi 7 4Mr Honest 2

HAEMATOLOGY

Dr H N Ahmad 4032 6Mr J Channa (Locum) 4025 7

Dr M Lumley 1Professor D W Milligan 4

NEPHROLOGY

Dr J Leung (Visiting) 2007 8Dr I Dasgupta 9NEUROLOGY

Dr I Soryal 6

Dr J A Woolmore 6

Dr M Zarei 2072 11

Mr C Shirley 2

Dr J Mahmood 15

* excludes Cardiac Cath Lab wait

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PAEDIATRICS EXT. No

IP WAIT**

OP WAIT(Burton)

OP WAIT(Communityhospitals)

Dr A Manzoor 4360 1 4 1Dr A P Choules 4367 1 4Dr T J Samuel 4368 3 3Dr M Ahmed 4199 2 3 3Dr M Gowan-Gopal 4199 3 2Dr C Goel 4243 1 5Dr D Muogbo 4199 2 2Dr P Pore (Asso Spec) 1PAEDIATRICS NEUROLOGY

Dr S G Philip (Visiting) 10PLASTIC SURGERY

Dr R Kannan 7Mrs S Williams-Jones 1RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

Dr P A Beckett 5457 1 7Dr U Nanda 5455 1 7Dr T Fletcher 8Dr J W S Sheldon 5330 8Dr K Nandakumar 9RHEUMATOLOGY

Dr M Nisar 4111 10Dr R Laxminarayan 4068 7Dr S Venkatachalam 8Dr T Sheeran 2Dr T Dimitroulas 5Stoke GM

Dr P P Das 1UROLOGY

Miss J Shah 4022 7 4Mr S Khwaja 4011 8 5 3Mr G H Delves 4022 10 5Mr M Khan 4022 8 5 1Mr S Kulkarni(Locum until 31/12/13) 4022 11 5 1

OBSTETRICS EXT. No

IP WAIT**

OP WAIT(Burton)

OP WAIT(Communityhospitals)

Mr J Hollingworth 1Dr J Srinivasan 4385 4Dr N Pope 4378 6Mrs K Anwar 4381 5Ms W Oakley 4385 8Dr S Duvvur 5Mr I Siddiqui 7Dr F Raffi 6ORAL SURGERY

Mr D Laugharne 4018/4019 9

Mr A Dickenson 5027 1ORTHODONTICS

Mr D J Spary 4018 5OPHTHALMOLOGY

Mr S Biswas 4181/4012 1 4

Dr H Salem 6Mr P Harvey 6366 6 4Mr P Harvey (Paeds) 6366 5Mr C Bandyopadhyay 4Mr S Chawdhary 4181 3 5

Ms A Agius-Fernandez 6366 2

Miss T Worstmann 2

Mr S Gerges 4 8

Dr J Giles 4 7

Miss K Vijaylakshmi(Visiting) 3

Mr A Salih 2ORTHOPAEDICS

Mr B C Karagkevrekis 5238 9 5 3Mr C Kitsis 5193 10 8Mr F Bindi 5170 12 6 2Mr K Hayward 5930 11 3 5Mr M E Wallace 5145 19 4 3Mr M R Hamlet 5240 26 8

Mr N Ashwood 5242 15 7

Mr S L Khemka 5244 8 2Mr S P Mulay 5570 12 4 2Mr A Bajoria 12Mr K Wahab 5Mr R J Fernandes 3Mr N Ashok 6Mr S Ajnin 5

UpdateGPIssue 53 November 2013

Consultant Appointments - The Trust has made the following Consultant appointments:

• Dr Elspeth Spencer - Consultant Respiratory Physician. Expected start date Feb/March 2014.

• Dr Subash Sivaraman - Consultant Acute Physician with a special interest in diabetes and endocrinology. Start date Feb 2014.

• Dr Onur Ozguler - Locum Consultant Acute Physician. Start date April 2014.

• Dr Rajashekar Garikipati - Consultant MSK Radiologist. Start date March 2014.