Issue 102 • April 2012 Pennine News

1 Issue 102 April 2012 Pennine NewsTO PROVIDE THE VERY BEST CARE FOR EACH PATIENT ON EVERY OCCASIONVoluNteeRspRoVIde ACtIVIty theRApy Emergency surgery in cutting edge operation birth of a new era as services transfer Celebrating one year of UCC Get your nominations for staff awards 2012 in now!In the news2 April 2012 ContentsBirth of a new era as services transfer ..Pg 4 Footballer praises Oldham ..Pg 4 Food for thought ..Pg 5 New head of nutrition and dietetics ..Pg 5 Endoscopic ultrasounds new service offered ..Pg 6 Volunteers provide activity therapy ..Pg 6 Warding off criminals at TROH Pg 7 UCC and CAU celebrate first birthday.

2 Pg 7 Professor leads simulation ..Pg 7 Warding off criminals at The Royal Oldham ..Pg 7 One year of Rochdale s UCC Pg 7 Diary dates ..Pg 7 Core brief ..Pg 8 Team focus on end of life care team ..Pg 9 National year of pathology . Pg 10 New TAU at NMGH ..Pg 11 Thought for the month ..Pg 11 Staff noticeboard ..Pg 12/3 National heart failure audit Pg 14 Infectious diseases unit bumper cake sale ..Pg 14 Staff awards 2012 ..Pg 15/6AN international conference saw many countries looking to adopt systems which have worked at Pennine Acute .Allan Cordwell, the Trust s emergency planning manager, attended the five day Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disaster conference in Tel Aviv, Israel and was invited to speak on methods which had been successfully implemented at the Trust.

3 He said: A representative from the Laniado Hospital in Israel initially approached me about the CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives) and Hazmat (hazardous materials) models of management that I had designed and employed at Pennine . She believed that there would be world wide interest in the application of our response to threat processes and the maintenance of service continuity whilst responding to an incident . Speaking to around 300 delegates, Allan described how he had instigated the procedure around the management of contaminated patients and the processes that have been put in place to support them.

4 This includes the specialist operational training of all staff within A&E departments in how to deal with CBRNE and Hazmat incidents . As well as live exercises and an exam at the end of the training, staff have also had to deal with four separate incidents at three Pennine Acute hospital sites where white powder /toxic industrial contaminations occurred .Gaining positive feedback from the lecture, Allan has now been invited to speak at the National Conference on Medicine Informatics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, plus the Dutch Government will be sending representatives to attend Pennine s two day CBRNE / Hazmat Course.

5 The Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, USA have also expressed an interest in adopting some of Allan s work into their guidance for US hospitals and web site pages .Allan said: The conference as a whole illustrated to me that unresolved issues which PAT, other acute trusts and the UK experience, are not unique . By forging international links there are potential resolutions that can be sourced and applied to the UK models of emergency management and service continuity and vice versa . The whole Tel Aviv experience was interesting to say the least! It rained for the first time in six months as I arrived and there are around 10,000 feral cats loose around the city!

6 Inside NewsTHE Trust has several communication tools to help keep staff up to date: Core brief is sent round monthly, for use in all team briefings . Weekly bulletins are emailed on Mondays and contain a range of operational and site information . A medical director/nursing director bulletin is circulated monthly . Online copies of all the bulletins and core brief, plus more, can be found on the Trust intranet at nww .pat .nhs .uk/communicationsYou can send your stories for either Pennine news or for local media to Trust communications at trust .communications @pat.

7 Nhs .uk, or call Nicola Berry on 44284 .If you have any ideas, views or suggestions regarding communications across the Trust, please email staff .views@pat .nhs .ukRevised retirement policyTHE Trust has agreed a revised retirement policy which sets out the Trust s procedures in relation to retirement and flexible retirement . From 6 April 2011, the Trust will no longer Issue notifications of compulsory retirement and will no longer compulsorily retire staff . Employees will be able to make the decision about when they wish to retire, subject to the rules of the NHS Pension Scheme.

8 For flexible retirement, staff will be able to reduce their hours in advance of retirement, undertake a less demanding role or retire and start to receive an NHS pension, but return to work following a break in service of seven calendar days .The policy can be viewed on the Trust intranet under documents . Line managers should ensure that staff who do not have direct access to the intranet can see a hard copy of the policy . Any questions should be directed to your divisional HR team .No pANIC As Pennine ACute leAds the wAyemergency surgery performed under local anaesthetic in cutting edge opA Middleton man has praised the trust for saving his life in an emergency keyhole surgery Farrell was rushed into North Manchester General Hospital in January after falling ill at home.

9 Semi conscious with pain and discomfort, Mr Farrell was diagnosed with a leaking aneurysm which needed immediate treatment .A surgical team, headed by consultant vascular surgeon, Mr Riza Ibrahim was scrambled at The Royal Oldham Hospital, and Mr Farrell was transferred there where he underwent surgery .With a 25% chance of survival, the team which comprised Mr Ibrahim; vascular specialist registrar Natasha Charlwood; consultant anaesthetist Dr Gareth Vickers; consultant radiologist Dr Abysinia Sibanda; specialist radiographer Steve Trimble and scrub nurse Sarah Marshall, knew that they were up against it, both in terms of time and in the technique used to repair the rupture.

10 Mr Ibrahim said: An aneurysm is a dilatation of a blood vessel . The aorta is the main blood vessel in the body and is connected to the heart . It is normally the size of a garden hose, but in some people it can blow up like a balloon and when it does so, it is called an aneurysm . As with blowing up a balloon, if the pressure continues to increase it can burst . An aneurysm which ruptures is usually fatal with 50% of ruptured aneurysm patients dying at home, and 50% of those who make it to hospital can also die . Only 25% of ruptured aneurysms actually make it to emergency surgery and survive.