Dementia crisis prevention team
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Dementia crisis prevention team
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Issue 8 • Spring 2015 GP News Dementia crisis prevention team New team to help patients with memory problems avoid unnecessary crisis Dispensing robot will cut waste Pharmacy staff welcome new member to their team Lowdown for minister on telehealth Understanding how technology is making a difference Click to see the front page and then click through for the full newsletter YOUR HOSPITAL In the Community Airedale NHS Foundation Trust GP News Issue 8 • Spring 2015 Electronic prescribing is rolling out across Trust Pictured are Richard Rees-Jones, lead nurse for informatics helping Kaylie McGivern, the first staff nurse to be trained to use the new electronic prescribing system on her drugs round visiting patient Carolyn Stell. Electronic prescribing got underway at Airedale Hospital this month (March) when it was piloted on two trauma orthopaedic wards (9 and 18) before being gradually rolled out to the whole Trust once any teething problems have been ironed out. The aim is to help reduce any transcribing errors, creating an overall improvement in patient safety and greater efficiency for clinicians. Staff are being released from their clinical duties to be trained in the new system using TPP’s SystmOne technology and a new IT training centre will open next month on site (April) so they can spend time developing their technology skills. New dementia crisis prevention team A new team has been set up to help patients with dementia or memory problems avoid getting into an unnecessary crisis. This is a partnership venture between Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care Trust and the Alzheimer’s Society looking at coordinating the care of patients so they can remain safely at home. The team includes community mental health nurses, community staff nurses, occupational therapists, dementia support workers and community support workers covering Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven. They support the family and their carer, develop integrated care plans and provide support to promote independence and self-care. Referrals can be made if a patient has dementia or a cognitive impairment and one of more of these issues: • reduction in independence • home safety concerns • breakdown in care support networks • physical health issues • frequent contact with healthcare professionals or support agencies • at risk of an avoidable admission to hospital or care home • requires an integrated care plan to avoid crisis. For non-urgent referrals, MondayFriday, 9am-5pm, tel: 01756 702347 or 01756 702342 or use a referral form and fax to 01756 796073. For out-of-hours/urgent referrals, tel: 01535 292797 or fax 01535 293733. Craven patients’ cardiac boost Around 200 patients living in the Craven area can now use a cardiac rehabilitation service in their community to help them and their families be fully supported in recovery following a heart attack, cardiac stenary or heart surgery. Run by members of the community cardiac rehabilitation specialist nurses team at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, the service previously covered Airedale and Wharfedale, but thanks to extra funding it has now been extended into Craven. The service now includes a cardiac rehabilitation exercise programme for patients at Broughton Community Centre in Skipton – besides the ones in Keighley and at Airedale Hospital. Nicola Drake, cardiac rehabilitation clinical lead at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The new class will make such a difference to patients in Craven. They can get support much closer to their homes which will be a huge benefit to them and their rehabilitation.” The cardiac rehabilitation team has also started a new ‘Healthy Heart Programme’ at Airedale Hospital to help patients manage their condition better. YOUR HOSPITAL In the Community Patients satisfied in survey of Emergency Department care Karl Mainprize Welcome to this edition Welcome to the spring 2015 edition of GP News. Some highlights of this issue are: we have developed a new dementia crisis team working in the community, in partnership with Bradford District Care Trust and the Alzheimer’s Society, to help patients with dementia or memory problems remain safely at home; an automated dispensing robot is joining our pharmacy team to speed up the delivery of medicines so patients can go home sooner; wifi is being introduced on our wards which will be welcomed by many of our inpatients; outpatients can now use touchscreens to check-in to their appointments at Airedale, Coronation Hospital and Skipton Hospital which should mean less queuing and early results of our Gold Line service to help palliative care patients are very positive. It was good to see that our telemedicine service featured as a case study in The Kings Fund’s national publication ‘The Future is Now’ which showcases examples of how delivery of care has been changed for the better in pockets of the country. Working with technical partners Involve, we now provide this service to around 300 care homes nationwide to help relieve pressures on urgent care services. NHS England has now published more information about their New Models of Care Programme and I have had some very exciting and positive discussions with GPs about working differently on a new extensivist and enhanced primary care clinical solution. If you have any thoughts about new ways of working you can email me directly at [email protected]. Likewise if you have any concerns or comments about anything featured in this magazine or issues that are on your mind. Best wishes, Karl Mainprize medical director 2 Patients said they were satisfied overall with the length of time their visit to Airedale’s Emergency Department lasted and that the doctors and nurses did not talk to each other as if they were not there as part of the latest national A&E survey for the Trust, published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The independent survey asked patients who visited the department during March 2014 what they thought about their care and treatment. Other positive findings were: patients said they received the results of their tests before leaving the A&E department and that staff explained the results of the tests in a way they could understand. Rob Dearden, director of nursing at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The areas highlighted for improvement are in the main connected to the environment and facilities, for example, not having enough privacy when discussing their condition with reception staff. We hope our new Emergency Department, which opened after the report was published, will make a huge difference to our patients’ experience.” SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH TINNITUS Jo Brooks, a senior audiologist at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Help was on hand from Airedale’s audiology team during an awareness event for people struggling to cope with tinnitus. It coincided with national Tinnitus Awareness Week (2-8 February) and included a talk by senior audiologist Katie Davenport who said they support people by using education, reassurance, relaxation, counselling and sound therapy. Katie said: “Providing patients Patient service manager New patient service manager Andy O’Dwyer, pictured right, has been employed to work within the medicines discipline. He is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of services, working closely alongside the matrons and consultants, driving improvements to patient care. His areas of responsibility include diabetes, endocrinology, haematology, oncology, palliative care, stroke and elderly medical. For the past 12 years Andy worked at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, most recently as business manager for Acute, Specialty, Elderly and Emergency Medicine. His initial priorities are the development of geriatric services both in the acute trust and across the community, collaborative work to provide the best possible care for patients who have had a suspected stroke or TIA and the on-going development of the Haematology Oncology Day Unit (HODU). with information and support about tinnitus can really make a difference to their lives. It must be very difficult never being able to enjoy silence and the worst time is usually at night when there is a lack of other noise.” Dispensing robot will cut wastage Pharmacy staff are planning a huge welcome to an important member of their team – an automated dispensing robot. The robot is part of the automation that will allow the team to spend more time on wards talking to patients, nurses and doctors about medicines and improving processes. It will help reduce wastage, for example, by giving pharmacy staff more time to check medicines that patients bring in and to review patients’ medical histories. It will also reduce the chance of dispensing errors and speed up the delivery of medicines. The current target turnaround time for pharmacy dispensing a discharge prescription is two hours from receipt of prescription. It is estimated the robot will half that time and help patients get home sooner. Around 80 percent of medicines kept in pharmacy will be held by the robot and be linked to the computer system within the department. When an order is placed, the required medicines will be picked by a robotic arm and delivered to the dispensary work station by conveyor belt. The robot installation cost £410,000 which included design of the floor space and it is due to be completed by the end of this month (March). The giant piece of equipment (10m x 3m) will be located inside the current pharmacy department. It comes with two picking arms, a refrigerated section, and an additional set of cabinets for storage and management of controlled drugs. Nick Chilton, clinical director of pharmacy and medicine management at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The project has been in the Trust’s capital plan for some years and the pharmacy team is very excited. It has become a reality with help from the Department Of Health’s Safer Wards – Safer Hospital Fund and the Trust’s digital care programme. “Not only will the project improve safety and improve patient experience, it will also reduce stock holding of medicines within pharmacy. The robot is an integral part of redesigning the pharmacy department and a key development in supporting the transformation of pharmacy services. Altogether, it’s a great return on investment.” An end to duplicate paper copies of letters GP practice staff will no longer receive paper copies of consultant’s outpatient letters from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Last month, February, the paper system was switched off which means that practices will no longer receive both electronic and paper versions of the same correspondence. For the past few months both electronic and paper versions of letters have been sent to practices in parallel but this will remove any duplication. E-letters from Airedale are sent via a task on SystmOne so that GPs and practice staff are able to see the information from patients’ hospital outpatient appointments with consultants as soon as it is available. For practices that do not receive electronic communication, the system will automatically generate a printed letter. A number of other items of correspondence will continue to be sent via paper in the post but there should no longer be any duplicates. David Worth, programme director for digital care at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “This is another step towards a paperlite digital care record.” Over to you, dad: fathers can now support their partners overnight Dads can stay over too once baby is born New dads can now give extra support both night and day thanks to a new scheme that encourages partners to stay over after the birth of their baby. The new facility, on ward 21 at Airedale Hospital, was introduced in response to requests from parents. Supported by one of the hospital’s charities, Friends of Airedale, the maternity team have bought temporary folding beds for side rooms on the ward so that partners can stay over. Val Henson, ward manager on the maternity unit at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said they had received a very positive response to the new facilitity. She said: “Having a new baby is a special experience for both parents and many dads felt they were missing out when they had to leave at night. “By staying overnight they become involved in their babies’ care right from the start and also support their partner, which can really help, particularly if they are tired or not very mobile after the birth.” 3 Giant mural’s child-friendly appeal A giant mural has been created for the walls of Airedale Hospital’s Emergency Department to help parents distract their children as they wait to be seen. It is the first hospital project artist Lorraine Duff has ever worked on and the largest canvas – 47 square metres compared to A5 size greetings cards – almost 1,500 times larger. The design was digitally printed and installed by sign and graphics company New Vision, in Bradford, who have also provided lots of wall art for dementia projects for the Trust on four wards and have started to specialise in projects for various health organisations. They also designed the donor tree artwork in the lobby of Airedale’s Emergency Department. The £3,475 mural was funded by the Emergency Department Appeal and is on the children’s corridor which links the children’s waiting room to the children’s treatment rooms and X-ray measuring about 20m long. Meg Crossley, emergency department consultant at Airedale she would like to see on her grand daughters’ bedroom wall. Lorraine said: “I have never worked on such a large scale project but I really enjoyed it. I love the outdoors, it was inspired by the countryside and the natural world. We do a lot of family walks and visits to the Sculpture Park with its ever changing exhibitions all set in a stunning landscape.” Pictured back from left, Paul Jennings, consultant; Tony Stead of New Vision and Alex Danecki consultant. Front row from left Oliver Brown aged three; Oliver Hird, four, and Amber O’Neill, four, from Nightingale’s nursery. NHS Foundation Trust, said previously the corridor was very long and plain. She said: “Many parents and children have told me they think the mural is lovely. It provides distraction and something to talk about as they move around the department and the corridor has a really friendly feel now.” Lorraine worked for many years as a designer in the greeting card industry. When she was made redundant she became a freelance illustrator and designer from her home in Birkenshaw and now helps to look after her 15-month-old grand daughter. She completed the design digitally at her home and created something Guests enjoy tour of new emergency department Around 70 guests enjoyed a tour of Airedale Hospital’s new £6.3m Emergency Department, before it opened on 3 December, to see its state-of-the-art facilities during a special preview event. You can see the new department for yourself as a video has been made for those who did not get the chance to take part. Visit our website at www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/services/ accident-and-emergency/ During the preview, Bridget Fletcher, chief executive of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, explained how the new unit fits in with future plans for urgent care and has benefits for the local community. Ron Drake, non-executive director, thanked everyone involved in the project and both Emergency Department staff and patients for their patience whilst using a temporary unit for the past 12 months. Meg Crossley, consultant and project lead, said how grateful her team were for the generous donations to buy new equipment 4 Pictured cutting the celebratory cake are: Bridget Fletcher, chief executive; Ron Drake, deputy chair of Board; Meg Crossley; emergency department consultant, patients Martin Quirk and Gareth Scott and make improvements to the environment. The building of the new department began in Autumn 2013 and its new facilities include separate adult and children’s waiting areas, Artist Lorraine Duff distraction walls in the paediatric treatment rooms, a quiet room for friends and families to use during stressful events and better privacy and dignity for vulnerable older patients and their families and carers. Enter and view visit goes well Healthwatch North Yorkshire carried out an enter and view visit to Airedale Hospital to gather the views of patients, relatives and carers about their experience of the services being provided. The teams visited ward 2 (medical admissions), 4 (acute elderly medicine), 5 (stroke) and 6 (endocrinology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine). They also visited outpatients and the Telehealth Hub. Findings showed that the hospital was operating to a very good standard of care, highlighting many positives but also some recommendations for driving services forward. Alison Fuller, assistant director for healthcare governance at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We welcome the findings of this visit, as they give us areas we can improve on, as well as highlighting positive work happening throughout the Trust.” The full report can be found at www.healthwatchnorthyorkshire. co.uk/enter-view-reports Patient information service on the move People visiting Airedale Hospital can now easily find out more about health conditions or available support as the drop-in patient information service has moved to a more convenient location – on the landing above the main entrance. It will be staffed between 9.30am and 4pm, Monday to Friday, and it includes an enquiry service. Visitors get free information about: • health issues • support groups or services in the area • healthy living • help available for living with a long term condition. The patient information service also runs the ‘Your Health’ section of the Trust’s website at www. airedale-trust.nhs.uk/YourHealth which includes self care and wellbeing advice and support through the ‘Your Health’ blog. Contact Helen Roberts, email: [email protected] or tel: 01535 294413. Helen Roberts at the relocated patient information service Pilot scheme allows frail elderly patients to go home sooner ‘’ A multi-disciplinary team that assess frail elderly patients who have completed their acute medical treatment are piloting working Saturdays. The project started in January in a bid to get those with complex needs the necessary care to be safely discharged sooner. For the past year, the team – a senior nurse, a discharge case manager, two occupational therapists, a physiotherapist and two therapy assistants – has been focusing on wards 1, 2 and Airedale Hospital’s Emergency Department. They liaise closely with the Trust’s intermediate care hub, community services, voluntary services and social services to help sort out any therapy and social care problems that may be preventing these patients who have completed their acute medical treatment from going back home after a stay in hospital. Their aim is also to prevent patients from being readmitted to hospital because they cannot In the future it would be great to include more staff and over seven days cope at home with activities of daily living including eating, drinking or incontinence. The team assess patients to see what extra support with social or health care they may benefit from and try to involve their family or carer in their discharge as much as possible. Teri Loftus, physiotherapist at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust who leads the service, said: “It’s definitely making a dfference to getting patients out of hospital more swiftly when doctors have completed their acute medical treatment, but most importantly safely, with support from appropriate community services. “In the future it would be great to extend the project further to include more staff and over seven days if we had extra funding. “At the moment we have to prioritise our patients to deal initially with those that are frail and elderly with complex needs and long term conditions, who have completed their acute medical treatment. We feel there are many more patients that could benefit from this service.” The team has recently visited a similar project set up in Leicester five years ago to examine its processes and use it as a benchmark for their service. They also took part in a conference in Sheffield which looked at assess to discharge, changes to how hospitals work with the involvement of more community services, wrapping care around the patients and assessing them in their own homes. For more information email: [email protected] Touch screens to be used to check in Patients will soon be able to use touch screens to check-in to their outpatients’ appointments at Airedale Hospital, Coronation Hospital, in Ilkley and Skipton Hospital. Four screens will soon be available in the main outpatients’ area and additional touch screens will be installed for other departments around the hospital including the Richardson Clinic. The screen, which is linked to Systm One, will direct them to the appropriate clinic waiting area. Julia Spencer, patient services manager for outpatients at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “When all the clinics in outpatients are busy, people can get delayed because they are waiting at the reception desk to let us know they are here. “Patients will still be able to use the reception desk to check in for their appointments if they want to but we hope that once people become familiar with the new system, more will use selfcheck-in, giving our staff more time to spend with patients who need assistance.” Touch screen in action 5 Minister’s lowdown on Telehealth Hub NEW STARTERS Dr Naveen Naganna Dr Naveen Naganna has joined Airedale’s paediatric team as a consultant after completing his training at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Hull Royal Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. His special interest is paediatric oncology and he will be deputy lead for this service at Airedale and also lead the paediatric haematology service. Dr Naganna said: “The Trust’s paediatric service is a consultant delivered service which means there is a consultant at the end of phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Please contact us, even if it’s only for advice, and we will be happy to guide you regarding acute admission or urgent clinic appointment depending on the clinical need of your patient.” Eleanor Checkley Earl Howe with Alex Blake Earl Howe, the Minister for Quality, visited Airedale’s Telehealth Hub as an example of how technology is used to provide better care for patients. Alex Blake, telehealth sister, demonstrated how residents in care homes throughout the country and in their own homes locally are linked up through the telemedicine service to 24/7 care. Earl Howe took part in a secure video call with a patient who is able to get urgent medical help whenever he needs it – without having to leave the comfort of his home. Lord Howe said: “It was very good to see for myself and talk to staff about how they are using innovative methods such as telemedicine to support more people in their own homes and reduce hospital admissions. It is certainly the way forward and I was especially interested in how they will be using e-prescribing and other digital approaches.” The telemedicine service is provided by Immedicare – a partnership between Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and technical providers Involve – and is currently available in over 200 care homes nationwide. Patients to get access to WiFi Patients will soon be able to surf the web, pick up their emails and order their shopping to be delivered when they get home from the comfort of their hospital bed. A new service will be available from the end of this month (March) offering patients access to WiFi during their time in Airedale Hospital. The scheme, which is being sponsored by one of the hospital’s charities, Friends of Airedale, will operate from a separate network and will be managed by a third 6 party on behalf of the Trust. Karen Dunwoodie, patient experience lead at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Giving patients access to WiFi will help them to pass the time and make it easier for them to stay in touch with family and friends, who may not be local or able to visit.” It will also help patients attending outpatient appointments or other departments by taking their minds off any delays or the treatment they are about to receive. Blood test call Patients, who have been referred to the fast track direct access endoscopy and upper and lower GI clincs, are reminded that they need to have a blood test as soon as possible. Consultants, who triage the referrals, require the blood test results so that they can make sure the most urgent patients are prioritised. Eleanor Checkley joins Airedale NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant anaesthetist from North Manchester General Hospital, where she worked for 12 years as a consultant intensivist. Eleanor said: “I wanted to come and work at Airedale as I missed the breadth of general anaesthetic practice and involvement in other specialist areas such as paediatrics and obstetrics whilst taking on the challenge of providing healthcare in a rural area. “I am very interested in medical education, careers counselling and hope to develop mentorship for doctors.” Dr Pablo Garcia Bermejo Welcome to Dr Pablo Garcia Bermejo who has joined the Trust as a locum stroke consultant for 12 months. Previously he worked as a stroke consultant in Canada and Spain and has a special interest in the acute management of stroke, interventional treatment with stentrievers, multimodal neuroimaging, and secondary prevention of stroke. Pablo runs a rapid access TIA clinic and a follow up stroke clinic. Contact his secretary Janet Morrissey tel: 01535 292055. Research indicates Gold Line works well New interim data is available for Gold Line – a 24/7 dedicated helpline offered from Airedale Hospital’s Telehealth Hub. Currently there are almost 1,000 patients registered for the service who are thought to be approaching or in the last year of life. Around 30 of these patients are also supported using telemedicine via a mini iPad to provide face-to-face consultations with a hub nurse. Gold Line was developed following a successful bid by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to the Health Foundation Shared Purpose Project and was launched for patients with a GP in Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Groups (AWC CCG ) on 1 November 2013. It was extended to the Bradford area following funding from local CCGs from 1 March 2014. In AWC, from April-September 2014, there were 941 calls from 350 patients. From these, 77 percent were ‘out of hours’ (outside of 8am6pm Monday-Friday) and 43 percent were dealt with without onward referral to any other service. From July-September 2014, Gold Line avoided 18 hospital admissions, 20 attendances at A&E, 60 GP visits and 21 community nurse visits in AWC. From 2,209 calls between April-September 2014, 2,019 patients stayed in their usual place of residence, 18 were admitted to hospital and eight directly to hospice, 44 advised to attend A&E and 120 were reported deaths. In AWC, the current caseload is almost 500 patients – 44 percent have cancer. Helen Livingstone, palliative care consultant at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “There are around 1,500 deaths per year in the area and so the caseload needs to be around 1,200 to help most people who have an expected death. We are gathering lots more data but it’s fairly early days.” An interim qualitative evaluation is currently being carried out by the University of Bradford, looking at patients’ and carers’ experience of Gold Line. It contains some very moving comments from patients including: “They’d obviously read the notes and they knew what was going on… Wonderful, so reassuring and comforting... It’s care and compassion, it’s not a system.” “When asked, around 60 percent of people would like to die at home, given the choice. Our figures suggest that deaths in hospital are 14 percent for Gold Line patients compared to 31 percent for other local patients and 41 percent of Gold Line patients die at home, 22 percent in care homes and 23 percent in hospices.” An economic evaluation of Gold Line will be carried out by York University and is due to be published in summer 2015. Linda pushes boundaries Congratulations to palliative care consultant Dr Linda Wilson, above, who is named as one of five national ‘incredible colleagues’ in the Sue Ryder charity awards. She won the category ‘Pushing the Boundaries’ for helping to set up the Gold Line service and received her award during a ceremony at the House of Commons. Linda said: “I was very humbled to be nominated by my team and very surprised to win. The Gold Line is the product of a team of exceptional people, from those who put the Health Foundation funding bid together to those involved in its development and the fabulous Hub team who deliver the service.” Donation of new furniture welcomed Airedale Hospital’s gynaecology assessment unit has received a donation of new furniture for its waiting room. The Friends of Airedale funded a dozen new chairs and a coffee table for patients waiting to be seen on the unit, part of ward 20 at the hospital. Shirley Smith, one of the staff nurses on the unit at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are so grateful to the charity for funding this new furniture for us. It makes such a huge difference to our patients to be able to wait in a nice environment. “The new chairs are a great improvement, previously we had an old sofa which was difficult to clean. The new furniture is so comfortable and wipes clean so it also helps us with infection prevention.” The early pregnancy unit at the hospital sees patients that are at risk of miscarrying or pregnant women with gynaecology problems. Pictured are, from left: Shirley Smith, staff nurse at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bob Smithies, volunteer, Eileen Proud, chair of Friends of Airedale and Carole Smithies, volunteer. 7 New clinical simulation lead Justine Burns, consultant anaesthetist, has taken on a new role as clinical simulation lead. Simulations give staff the chance to practice their response to situations which they may not come across in their everyday work life. This helps to increase their confidence and improve their performance if they do occur. Justine said: “We are running a new course ‘Faculty Simulation Skills – An Introduction to teaching using simulation at Airedale’ which GP’s and practice staff are welcome to attend if they want to learn more about running in-situ simulations in their own environments.” Anyone interested contact Kirsty Fawell email: Kirsty.Fawell@anhst. nhs.uk tel: 01535 294432. DIARY DATES These three evening update events include three 30-minute presentations, streamed live to our Lecture Theatre from the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh). To book tel: 01535 294410. Partners take the lead in transforming care A local team of partners from the NHS – including Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven; Bradford City; Bradford District and East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Groups – local authorities, care homes, technology and academia are taking a national lead on transforming care for patients. The new care model, which aims to enhance health for residents in care homes, unites more than a dozen organisations across Airedale, Bradford, Craven, East Lancashire and Wharfefdale. Chosen from 269 groups, the local partnership is amongst the first 29 vanguard areas to benefit from a £200m transformation fund to significantly improve patients’ experiences by bringing home care, GP services, mental health, community nursing, and hospitals together. The local scheme will use technology, such as telemedicine, to integrate services and provide immediate access to expert opinion and diagnosis. It will also help residents be independent and improve their quality of life by focusing on proactive care and delivering more specialist services into the care home. For patients, this could mean fewer trips to hospital; a single point of access to health and social care Julia is a finalist in ‘emerging leaders’ Breathlessness Tuesday 24 March, 6.308.15pm Headache Tuesday 28 April,6.30-8.15pm Rash Wednesday 13 May, 6.308.15pm Focus on… Back pain Tuesday 19 May, 10.30-11.45am Lecture Theatre, Education Centre, Airedale Hospital Osadhi Burns, physiotherapist, will talk about back pain, including the symptoms, causes and the treatment. She will also demonstrate exercises used to strengthen the back and reduce the risk of strain. Tea and coffee will be available from 10am in the Lounge, Education Centre. To book a place telephone: 01535 294540 or email: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @ AiredaleNHSFT Published by Communications Department, email: [email protected] Julia Nixon An advanced nurse practitioner at Airedale Hospital was one of three finalists as an ‘emerging leader’ in awards run by the Yorkshire and Humber Leadership Academy. Julia Nixon, who works in acute medicine, started in her post as an advanced nurse practitioner last September, as a pilot on her ward, after completing her masters in advanced practice at Leeds University in April. She can do the same work as a junior doctor including prescribing, diagnostics and interpreting blood results and x-rays, which helps her team provide cover on the ward seven days a week. She said: “I have been a nurse and a senior sister in acute care, so I can bring a different dimension to the role when I go on the ward rounds, but I have the skills to do anything that a doctor can do. “Leadership is all about promoting good communications across your team, making sure that they can support each other and developing their skills.” There were 155 nominations for the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Recognition Awards and 31 finalists. Watch a video of finalists talking about what it means to be an effective leader visit: https://yh.hee. nhs.uk/what-we-do/yorkshirehumber-leadership-academy/2014nhs-leadership-recognition-awards/ services and other specialist advice day or night; access to services closer to home and a tailored personal service that is more responsive and reduces duplication. Bridget Fletcher, chief executive of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen to be part of this new plan to redesign care at a local level. Our vision is to transform the health and care of some of our most vulnerable, frail, elderly people by ‘joining up’ services and put people at the heart of decisions about their health and wellbeing.” Visit: www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/ futurenhs/5yfv-ch3/new-care-models/ Books support dementia Books to support people with dementia and their carers have just been launched as part of the reading well books on prescription scheme. The scheme, by The Reading Agency, already helps over 275,000 people with common mental health conditions feel better through self-help reading. The new collection of 25 titles has been recommended by health experts and people who live with dementia and are available from libraries across North Yorkshire including in Craven at Skipton and Settle Libraries. Topics covered include: help for people who have just been diagnosed; picture books for reminiscence sessions; living well with dementia; support for relatives and carers; and personal stories. For more information visit: http:// reading-well.org.uk/ or contact Airedale’s Patient Information Service email: your.health@anhst. nhs.uk Clinical director Mr Alex Acornley has taken on the role of clinical director for trauma and orthopaedics. He said: “I am looking forward to working on introducing an additional clean air theatre suite at the hospital. Our consultant team has recently welcomed Mr David Bowe which means as a team we cover all major sub-specialities.” YOUR HOSPITAL In the Community
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