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Trust joins
campaign to end ‘Pyjama Paralysis’
On Thursday
26 April staff came to
work wearing their pyjamas, as part of a national NHS campaign to
help raise awareness of deconditioning while in
hospital.
The #EndPJparalysis campaign aims to
encourage hospital patients to ditch their
pyjamas and get moving, to enable them to get
back to their own homes earlier.
Many
older people who spend more time in a hospital
bed find that they may find they are no longer
be able to live independently, or feel they can
take part in their usual activities. The
campaign helps people stay more active in
hospital, so that they can retain their core
strength and stability - and continue to live
their lives with friends and family when they
return home.
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Home First: Starting a conversation with
local people
York Teaching
Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with
clinical commissioning groups and local authorities,
is starting a conversation with local people to
raise awareness of the risks of remaining in a
hospital bed for longer than needed, and to ask for
feedback about your experiences of returning home
from hospital and how we can best have discussions
about this process with patients, families and
carers.
For a long time, when people
talked about harm associated with being in hospital,
they thought about falls and infections, or other
examples of where we failed to keep people safe.
What research now shows is that just being in a
hospital bed can be harmful. For example, ten days
of bed rest can cause the equivalent of ten years of
muscle ageing. This is not just in older people, it
can happen quickly and the impact is significant.
Being in hospital can also dent people’s
confidence with undertaking regular tasks
independently.
We have undertaken two large
reviews. The first was an audit of all patients in
hospital beds who have been in York Hospital for
more than seven days, which found 120 people who
were medically ready for discharge. The second was
an audit of all patients in all of our community
inpatient beds, which found 43% were beyond the date
they were ready to go home.
These reviews,
alongside the growing evidence around the harm
caused by remaining in hospital for longer than
necessary, have led us to adopt a Home First
approach. An example of this is the change we made
to Archways, an intermediate care unit in York.
In December 2016 we re-provided the beds at
Archways as home based intermediate care. We used
the resources from the Archways beds to be able to
provide a 50% expansion in our home based
intermediate care team, which is made up of nurses,
physios, occupational therapists and generic
workers. We were also able to use the resource for
our community discharge liaison team who work to
reduce delays for patients in community beds, a
pharmacist to help people in home based intermediate
care with medication issues and advanced clinical
practitioners who could help with any medical
problems.
The impact of the Archways change
is a significant increase in the number of people
able to access intermediate care, with much of this
being provided in patients’ homes.
We are
looking for your feedback to help us develop our
approach to Home First. You can share your thoughts
by answering the questions in
this short survey. We would be
grateful for your comments. Thank you for your time.
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LIVEX – Volunteers
wanted
A
The Trust is currently looking for volunteers
who would be willing to act as casualties for
each exercise from the Trust Governors.
Volunteers would be needed for both
days (i.e. the 2 and 3 July or the 5 and 6 July)
and would need to be prepared to have special
effects make up applied to them, to mimic the
look of some of the types of injuries that have
been seen in recent terrorist incidents (e.g.
stab and shrapnel wounds). Volunteers would need
to work with Trust clinicians, the Army and
Yorkshire Ambulance Service on the day to help
create a realistic training environment for our
staff.
This is a fantastic, one off
opportunity to support and contribute to the
training and development of our front line
clinical staff who might need to respond if the
worst were to happen. Reasonable expenses will
be paid and lunch will be provided on both days.
Find out how to get involved>>>
Alternative delivery
model for estates and facilities
You may have read in the news that the Trust’s
Board of Directors has approved the
establishment of an alternative delivery model
for estates and facilities, which will remain
wholly owned by the NHS.
At their meeting on 28 February, the
Board considered the models available and agreed
to set up a Limited Liability Partnership with
Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management
Limited as a minority partner. Northumbria
established its alternative delivery model in
2012 and has a strong track record of working in
this way. Their expertise will be extremely
valuable throughout this process and it will
prove beneficial to share their experience.
The company has now been formally
registered, and the plan is that it will become
operational from October 2018.
Click here for further information
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Board
of Directors
Wednesday, 30 May
The Boardroom
York
Hospital
10.45am-1.00pm
(Open to public
observers)
Council of Governors
Thursday,
14 June
Malton Rugby Club
4.00pm-6.00pm
(Open to public
observers)
Other
News
Living with and Beyond Cancer
Event at York Hospital
A ‘Living With and Beyond
Cancer’ event is being held at
York Hospital, Monday 4 June
2018. The event, the first of
its kind for the Trust, is an
opportunity for anyone affected
by cancer, including friends,
family and carers, to find out
more about the many support and
community projects available to
help support them.
The
event is being organised by York
Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust, with support from the
York Teaching Hospital Charity.
Find
out more>>>
Birthday party for Bridlington
Hospital
This
year Bridlington Hospital is
celebrating a milestone birthday
and to help celebrate the doors
will be thrown open to visitors
to showcase the great work of
the hospital, both past and
present – and we would love for
you to join us!
On
Saturday 7 July 2018, between
10.00am-2.00pm, visitors will be
able to visit the flagship
mobile chemotherapy unit, visit
the wards, take a unique behind
the scenes tour of the hospital,
food taste in the canteen… and
much, much more!
For the
younger ones they can jump on
board visiting emergency
response vehicles, call in at
the outpatients department to
have a plaster cast, dress up as
a surgeon for the day and even
watch our surgeons hard at work
as they perform ‘operations’ in
the theatres.
For anyone
interested in working in the
NHS, there will be careers
information available, NHS
health trainers will be on hand
to offer advice on how to stop
smoking and information on
healthier living, as well as
colleagues from Infection
Prevention promoting good hand
hygiene.
Not forgetting
that the NHS is turning 70 this
year, there will be photographs
and images on show telling the
story of bygone years.
The event will be supported by
colleagues from York Teaching
Hospital Charity who will be
organising a teddy bear hunt and
tombola courtesy of the Friends
of Bridlington Hospital.
The event is free and open to
everyone, with free parking and
refreshments available.
Please save the date and come
along with family and friends to
support Trust colleagues as they
celebrate this very special
birthday.
Medical school to train 90 more
doctors a year
Following the Department of
Health initiative to expand the
number of medical school places
in England, Hull York Medical
School has been awarded an
additional 90 places.
Of
these places, 25 will be
available for students choosing
to study medicine from 2018 and
65 from 2019. This represents a
69% increase in places – from
130 home places available in
2017 to 220 in 2019.
Read More>>>
Faces of the NHS
Follow the Trust throughout the
year as we share an inspiring
collection of photographs and
stories from our staff, and what
working for the NHS means to
them. You can follow the project
on
Twitter,
Facebook or
the
Trust’s website
by searching for #facesoftheNHS.
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