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BSUH and WSHT - better together
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and Western Sussex Hospitals have announced plans to pursue a merger between the two trusts. The Trust Boards believe a new, single organisation will create exciting opportunities for the hospitals to grow and develop services and continue to deliver outstanding care to communities across Sussex.
As you may know, BSUH and WSHT have worked closely together and have shared an executive team since April 2017. During this period both organisations have been recognised for providing outstanding care. WSHT became the first non-specialist acute hospitals trust to be awarded Outstanding in all the CQC’s key inspection areas. BSUH became the fastest improving acute hospitals trust in England and is now rated Good overall and Outstanding for caring.
Dame Marianne Griffiths, chief executive of BSUH and WSHT, said: “Our ambition with a new, single organisation is to create new specialist services and continue to develop and deliver outstanding local care to our patients.
“The talent, expertise and dedication shown by colleagues at BSUH and WSHT is remarkable. In recent months as we have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic the collaboration and mutual support between the trusts has been hugely effective. This partnership has enabled us to provide the very best care for our patients while maintaining our focus on staff safety.”
“Building on this closer working relationship and creating a new, single organisation will provide us with many opportunities to design and grow services for our local communities and improve the care we provide across Sussex.”
The next steps are the development of a full business case with staff, partners, governors, members and local communities involved in creating the new organisation.
What do you think about the merger plans? Watch a recording of the staff briefing delivered by Dr George Findlay and complete this short feedback form to let us know your initial thoughts: https://forms.gle/aPGyTKkJp7eKFRjL9. You can also hear Dr George Findlay talking about the proposed merger on BBC Sussex radio - https://youtu.be/4HBgXqwWqBQ
BSUH goes digital for Pride & LGBTQ+ at work videos Pride month has just ended, and we are asking staff to get involved in two exciting projects! This year Brighton, Trans and Disability Prides were cancelled because of the current COVID pandemic, so we decided to show our support for Pride month digitally. We are also looking for staff to contribute to new resources about LGBTQ+ experiences at work, both good and bad.
Friday 20 March 2020
What do we need from you? All you need is your phone, tablet or laptop and a few minutes of your time! The LGBTQ+ network are looking for staff to participate by recording yourselves answering some questions. We will use them in two videos: 1. Digital Pride video: a 3-4 minute video highlighting the incredible diverse workforce at BSUH 2. LGBTQ+ at work video: resource to inform colleagues about allyship and support at work,
including practical tips about what to do and what to avoid. You can make the videos anywhere that is COVID secure, at home, in your office, outside, in your staffrooms - as long as you are filming in a safe environment. For anyone wanting to film in a non-covid secure area please wear PPE. We would encourage you to wear your uniform or what you would normally wear to work, in line with the Trust’s uniform policy. Who can participate? Our first ever digital Pride video is open to all LGBTQ+ staff and allies! Our LGBTQ+ at work video is open to LGBTQ+ staff and volunteers so we can address your experiences within our Trust. What should I record? We are asking you to record two short videos of yourself answering the following questions:
Please email your videos to: [email protected] for the Pride Project [email protected] for LGBTQ+ projects.
Cardmedic – making a difference in 120 countries around the world You may remember a story about Dr Rachael Grimaldi, a senior anaesthetic registrar at BSUH who invented a handy tool to help communicate with COVID patients. Dr Grimaldi, was moved by a news article on a critically ill patient who described his terror when he couldn’t understand what healthcare staff were saying to him through their personal protective equipment (face masks, visors and hoods). At home on maternity leave and frustrated at not being able to help on the frontline, Rachael quickly got to work on a series of digital flashcards with key messages called Cardmedic.
The App now has 35,000 users and has had 11,500 app downloads. In its first month, the scheme expanded to 50 countries, a figure that has since more than doubled.
Dr Grimaldi said: "I thought I was going to share it with friends and hoped they'd find it useful. What I hadn't realised is it would end up highlighting health inequalities that are prevalent across the NHS and the world."
Work is now under way to develop the Cardmedic website to convert it to British and Irish sign language and an easy-read format. Dr Grimaldi is developing the government-backed scheme with Brighton University, BSUH and BSMS to expand it ahead of any second wave of coronavirus - and for use beyond the pandemic. Read the full story on the BBC news website
Video 1: Digital Pride
What does Pride mean to you?
What does it mean to be proud at work?
What is your message for the future?
Video 2: LGBTQ+ at work Please only answer these questions if you fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella
Describe a situation at work related to you being LGBTQ+. What happened?
Describe the response of other people involved. What did colleagues or managers do (or not do)?
Describe the impact on you. How did it make you feel?
BSUH Charity boxes go down a treat Treat boxes were delivered to teams across the Trust last week, bringing smiles along with goodies for hardworking staff to enjoy. The gifts were provided thanks to generous donations to BSUH Charity. Thanks for all the kind feedback on the boxes and to the Health and Wellbeing team who organised the content and deliveries.
Watch a short video on Twitter showing the huge amount of preparation that made this possible.
Support for those working from home Whilst remote working has its benefits, working from home and away from your usual work environment can also have its challenges. We all have a new normal to adapt to, from feelings of isolation to adapting to new routines. It’s important to maintain effective team communication and support for each other as well as create a comfortable working environment. With home working in place for the foreseeable future, the Learning & Development team has launched a learning module on IRIS to support staff to adapt to working from home:
Remote working and leadership - https://iris.bsuh.nhs.uk/course/view.php?id=675 This is aimed at those working from home or managing remote teams. The module offers some handy hints and tips to help support staff to navigate through the challenges of remote working and to stay mentally and physically well and to stay productive from home.
Supporting health and wellbeing for everyone - There is also a training module to help support the health and wellbeing of all staff is a module for all staff offering some handy hints and tips to help people stay mentally and physically well during COVID-19. This module has extensive links to additional resources as well as practical tips that staff can use - https://iris.bsuh.nhs.uk/course/view.php?id=676
Healthy commute challenge From 1st June to 31st July 2020 the transport bureau is running a healthy commute challenge. Swap your daily commute for a walk, run or bike ride and you could win a brand new bike, kindly donated by Shred-On-Site. Simply fill in a participant form letting us know whether you’ll be walking, running or cycling and return it to us via email. (Forms are available on workplace or contact us and we will email you a form). You will need to track your miles using an app for your smartphone/watch and submit copies of these to us on a weekly basis. For more information contact [email protected] or call ext: 67607. You can also join our Workplace group for updates: Healthy commute challenge
BSUH HELP Service
Now more than ever we need to be looking after our mental health and supporting each other through difficult times. The BSUH Health Employee Learning and Psychotherapy (HELP) service provides staff with confidential support, counselling and psychotherapy for a range of issues. Sometimes work related - from stress management to relationship issues, employment difficulties or following critical/ traumatic events. Help is available if you need it find out more on Info-net
BSUH Charity update Mannequins to help deliver safe handling training
There are ‘two new recruits’ on the manual handling training team with the arrival of mannequins to allow safe handling training in line with current restrictions. Moving and Handling trainer Nicky Dayani-Gornall (pictured right) is delighted with the new kit paid for by donations to BSUH Charity.
“We would usually use a participant (a trainee) to act as the patient and move them around in the bed, in the ski pads or hoist. Obviously with everything happening with COVID, we can’t do that right now, so we have these two mannequins to act as our patients.
“It’s hard to explain to somebody exactly how our body moves and how you have to position yourself around the patient on the bed without showing students. Now, with these they can actually use it to pick the mannequin off the floor and put into bed as if you were doing it to a real patient. We haven’t named them yet, if anyone wanted to suggest one please do!”
One of the mannequins will be based at PRH and the other at The County and they’ll be used in a new training video being filmed this month.
Visit Workplace to take look at a video of Nicky with the mannequins and leave a message suggesting names for the pair!
Notices, links and resources
BSUH launching Patient Knows Best-
BSUH is launching a Patient Portal
“Patients Know Best” (PKB) which will
enable patients to receive their
appointment information electronically
rather than via the post, if they choose to
opt in.
Real time Bed state and Medway
updates- Medway and Real Time Bed
State have been updated to show which
discharge pathway your patient is on
Parking and travelling to work -
Information on parking for staff
Health and Wellbeing - Find out about
the health and wellbeing support
available for staff at
www.bsuhwellbeing.nhs.uk/
Congratulations are in order for Nicola Hyman who is celebrating 25 years at BSUH!
Nicola has been a dedicated Dental Nurse within the Maxillofacial Outpatients Team for the 25 years on 16th July. Look out for a profile on Nicola coming soon!
