Emily Dewey is leading the charge to be EPR ready for Family and Special Services division (F&SS) with passports a key to their success.
Around 2500 colleagues trust-wide are now booked in for training, so make sure you are and don't get left behind! (See below for how to book).
The EPR Passport is a guide for wards and department to get ready for EPR. The passport contains different sections, each which have a number of stamps.
The aim is to work through each section and collect the stamps and in so doing, your department will be more prepared for EPR. Each ward/department/team has their own passport and a description of what’s required to get each stamp can be found at: http://epr.this.nhs.uk/home/staff/epr-passport/
In F&SS the managers/sisters in the different areas own their own passports and Emily gives out the stickers. So far outpatients have received about 50% of their stickers.
When she became EPR co-ordinator for the division, one of the first meetings Emily attended was to touch base with the Matron (Rachel Roberts), Outpatient Managers (Ruth Finlay and Linda Parchment) and the Outpatient Sisters.
Emily said: " Thanks to the matron/OP Managers and Sisters I believe we are nicely on track and just waiting to gain some more stickers once IT have visited the areas and we are confident that IT equipment is ready for go-live in every area.
"Some of the outpatients nurses and HCAs have attended SIM centre training too which is very helpful as this gives them a good insight as to what to expect come end user training and go-live."
F&SS also has 205 "friends" ready to help each other out, and Emily is co-ordinating their efforts with a whole new range of spreadsheets showing just where they are up to in terms of who's on training and when and who isn't. It's meant getting an awful lot of info together - but she's getting there.
Emily was seconded from her role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) from team leader in reception services in outpatients.
She said: "EPR is coming and you need to be on top of it. There's no hiding from it. We have to help it into CHFT and being EPR ready is the best way to do it."
With only 11 weeks to go-live, F&SS's efforts have boosted training figures since booking opened early last week. And around 150 training bookings are being made daily. Training starts on March 6 and dates are rapidly filling up. You can book a space here.
** We are not anticipating any extra issues on the weekend of switchover even though it is the same as this year's Tour de Yorkshire cycling event. The race only fleetingly comes through our area this time (some parts of Halifax and Brighouse early on the Sunday, April 30) compared to when it covered many parts of the Calder Valley, Halifax and Huddersfield. We also are not expecting there to be the same level of visitor numbers as there were during the Tour de France - Grand depart.