GP Update - June 2014 - East and North Herts NHS Trust

GP Update
June 2014
Welcome...
The Trust holds its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 10th July at Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, to which
you are all invited — please see below for more details. There are also ward moves taking place over the coming
months as we open our new ward block close to the Emergency Department and move inpatient services from the
QEII to the Lister. Outpatients and diagnostic services continue at QEII and from Spring 2015 these will be delivered
from the New QEII. If you would like to see some of the changes being made at Lister, please see below regarding
tours that take place every month. If your practice or patient groups would like a visit at one of their meetings to
hear in more detail about the improvements, do let me know.
If you have any on-going issues, please get in touch — my contact details are below.
Dr Mary Hartley
Primary Care Customer Relations Manager, L70 Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB
[email protected]
01438 284534
New ward block and AAU and Cardiology moves
Maternal flu and whooping cough vaccinations
As part of the on-going developments to create a specialist centre
at Lister Hospital, the new ward block opens on 8th July. The
coronary care unit, currently located on 9b, will move into the first
floor of this new space, on Tuesday 8th July, and be known as the
Acute Cardiac Unit (ACU). It will have 38 beds and will provide
facilities for recovering cardiology patients.
From the 1st July the maternity unit will not be holding a whooping
cough and flu drop in clinic but will be actively signposting women
at booking and antenatal appointments to attend their surgeries for
these vaccinations. This allows the service to be delivered closer to
the woman’s home.
The acute assessment unit, currently located on the ground floor of
Strathmore, will move to the new ward block on Thursday 10th
July. This space has 24 beds and 14 specialist trolleys that will be
used by staff to manage acutely unwell patients referred by GPs,
as well as those transferred from the Lister’s emergency
Department. It will be renamed the Acute Medical Unit (AMU).
Until October, when the ward opens fully, the best place for
patient drop-off will be at the Emergency Department (ED) dropoff. The entrance to AMU is an external door to the side of ED,
currently signposted for Children’s ED. AMU is then accessed
through the first doors on the left, as soon as you enter the
building.
Electronic clinic letters
To ensure that GPs receive all letters in a timely and secure
fashion the Trust is continuing to roll out sending clinic letters via
email. This issue was raised as a key improvement area within
the GP survey. Using email also protects against any lost or
misplaced letters. Most departments plan to have commenced the
use of email by the end of the summer. Do let me have any
feedback.
Fracture Clinic Referrals
We opened the new Lister Hospital fracture clinic, situated near to
the main entrance, on 12th May, with two x-ray rooms and two
plaster rooms. All new fracture clinic referrals should be sent to:
Receptionists, Emergency Department, Fracture Clinic
Appointments, Lister Hospital, L1, Stevenage or faxed to 01438
286059.
All changes will be fully signposted.
Consultant to Consultant referrals
Following a number of queries, the updated Trust access policy is
available on line at: www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/gps-professionals/keydocuments/. In terms of consultant to consultant referrals the
policy states: “In order to allow GPs to manage care for their
patients, clinicians should not refer directly to colleagues but
should write to GPs and advise on appropriate treatment or referral
unless the condition is considered clinically urgent or part of the
original referral.”
Tours of Lister Hospital site
With so many changes and investment taking place at Lister
Hospital you may be interested in attending one of our tours.
Tours will take place on 15th July; 18th August; and 9th
September, all 10 — 12 noon. To book a place please contact June
O’Sullivan on 01438 284613 or email [email protected].
New blood collection method
Trust AGM — Thursday 10th July
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is currently in the process of
changing the method of blood collection within the area to the SMonovette® enclosed blood collection system.
You are all invited to the Trust’s Annual General Meeting which is
to be held on Thursday 10th July at Stevenage Arts and Leisure
Centre. The main meeting will start at 6.30pm, but from 5pm
onwards there will be an opportunity to talk to staff, partners,
network and enjoy some refreshments. To book your place, please
email June at: [email protected] or call 01438
284613.
The change has become necessary as part of the reorganisation of
pathology services with The Pathology Partnership (tPP). The
blood collection system is being rationalised and all tPP partner
Trusts are changing to Sarstedt collection tubes. There will be a
comprehensive training and implementation programme to be
conducted by Sarstedt Company, who will contact each surgery to
arrange suitable times and dates. Initial stocks of S-Monovette®
products will be supplied at the time of training. Staff will be
advised to use their current system until the 2nd of July. All other
training materials will be provided by Sarstedt. Should you have any
further queries, please do not hesitate to contact Sarstedt Ltd on
0116 235 9023.
GP Practices dedicated phone numbers:
GP line to QEII 01707 328655
GP line to Lister 01438 759928
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New Consultants
North Hertfordshire Medical Society
We welcome the following new consultants to the Trust:
The North Hertfordshire Medical Society GP Tutors invite you to a
GP Update, Wednesday 9th July 2014, 9.30-16.30 at Lister
Education Centre. The programme will include:
Dr Christopher Lawrence, Consultant Nephrologist (previously in
locum post)
Dr Abdul Rahman Malik, Acting Consultant, Elderly Medicine
Dr Sarah Frearson, Consultant, Palliative Medicine
Dr Michelle Kelly, Consultant, Acute Medicine (previously in
locum post)
Dr Amod Manocha, Locum Consultant Anaesthetist
Management of headaches
Heart failure
Prostate cancer
Management of common mental health problems
Prevention of CVD
Respiratory infection
We say thank you and goodbye to:
Alcohol and the alcohol services
Dr Ivan Trotman, Consultant Palliative Medicine
Dr Anna Cohen, Locum Consultant, Neurology
Dr Rajiv Swamy, Consultant Histopathologist
Dr Baldeep Panesar, Locum Consultant Anaesthetist
For more information or to book your place please email
[email protected] or call 01438 285587.
New aromatherapy service at Maternity Unit
A new aromatherapy service has been launched at the Trust’s
Diamond Jubilee Maternity Unit, the aim of which is to help
improve the experience of women during labour and birth. The
service is being offered to women giving birth in the unit’s
midwife-led unit and uses a variety of essential oils to help
women relax, and improve physical and psychological well-being
during labour and birth.
Lead midwife Annabel Bradburn has so far trained thirty
midwives at the Trust to administer aromatherapy safely during
labour. Midwives are now able to prepare an individualised
aromatherapy blend for women who return home in early labour,
to help reduce anxiety and relieve pain. Aromatherapy can
also be used to encourage labour to “get going” again when
things slow down, and to alleviate symptoms such as nausea and
headaches.
Focus on… Cancer Services
The new Lister Macmillan cancer centre at Lister Hospital,
Stevenage opened its doors on 16th June. It is built on the existing
level three, near to main reception and the car park, and offers
almost twice the capacity for treating cancer patients than the
previous facility, in the tower block. In a first-time partnership, it
has been jointly funded by both East and North Hertfordshire NHS
Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Dr Rob Hughes, Consultant Clinical Oncologist with special interest
in Urology and Colorectal cancer
Dr Marek Kasznicki, Consultant Haematologist with special interest
in Haemato-oncology
Dr Poornima Kumar, Consultant Haematologist with special interest
in Obstetric and General Haematology and Haemoglobinopathy
The centre provides spacious specialist amenities for patients,
including: eight consulting and examination rooms, waiting areas,
quiet rooms, two landscaped gardens, offices, diagnostics areas,
three chemotherapy treatment bays, a pharmacy room and a drug
preparation area. Natural lighting and climate control has been
incorporated to create a more calming ambience.
Dr Russell Moule, Consultant Clinical Oncologist with special
interest in lung, head and neck and thyroid cancers together with
image guided and intensity modulated radiotherapy including
Cyberknife
The centre will bring together outpatient and treatment services
including a new Macmillan information and support centre in a
new purpose built unit.
Dr Andy Polychronis, Consultant Medical Oncologist with special
interest in lung, gastrointestinal cancers and cancer of unknown
primary
Our consultants are:
Dr Judith Hanslip, Clinical Director for Cancer Services (Acute) and
Consultant Haematologist with special interest in HaematoOncology
Dr Nihal Shah, Consultant Clinical Oncologist with special interest
in Breast Cancer and Stereotactic Radiotherapy
Dr Chris Tew, Consultant Haematologist with special interest in
coagulation disorders and general haematology
Dr Carie Corner, Consultant Clinical Oncologist with special interest
in skin cancer
Faxed referrals can be made to 01438 286029.
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