Our Surgery division is celebrating a tremendous run of achievement this year – their best ever potentially!
It has been one good thing after another and that’s set against the backdrop of the endoscopy fire which could have brought lesser teams to their knees.
There’s new developments and improvements in all areas making such a difference to the way our patients receive their care.
There’s so much they could fill CHFT Weekly on their own so to illustrate them all we devised this Word Cloud to highlight every aspect of the division’s all-round performance.
So Surgery, sit back and enjoy…. And be very proud. And everyone else, just be very impressed and teamwork at its very best.
General Manager Jason Bushby, said: “ What this division has achieved is awesome. Just one of the examples would be great news for our patients. But to be able to deliver a list like this of change achieved through teams working together is an inspiration.
“ Working with - and knowing - the teams I am overwhelmed at what has been achieved all in the name of compassionate care for our patients.”
- JAG top rating for Endoscopy.
- Bariatric Services Was a service under threat of divestment but are now bidding to be a WYATT main service provider and already accepting patients from outside the region (60 so far) very much built on the reputation of the service delivered by the whole team including Cara Barnes and Mel Langley Spec nurse and dietician (it’s not all about the surgeons J)
- Colorectal telephone Assessment Clinic (CTAC) A national first a cancer clinic where the patient receives a telephone triage from a Physician Associate(PA) based on the outcome they are then booked in for a diagnostic test, the pathway is currently 14 days for patients to be first seen from referral this clinic has recorded outcomes of patients seen within 6 hours from referral from GP with an average outcome of no longer than 72 hours.
- One Stop Varicose Veins Clinic the right thing to do patients come to hospital once and receive clinic and diagnostics allowing a care plan to be made at that visit, can save up to 3 follow up visits and with achy legs that aint nice.
- Introduction of CHFT Plastic service Following divestment in services provided through BTHFT we have recruited 2 plastic surgeons and will start to deliver a CHFT plastics service that also supports dermatology (1st new service for years)
- Colorectal Enhanced Recovery & Surgery School fantastic work through collaboration ensuring patients are ready for surgery which provides a better outcome and a shorter hospital stay
- One Stop Prostate clinic again right thing to do revised pathway ensures patients have the right intervention first time removing delays in pathways
- Getting Right First Time (GIRFT) Breast services had an excellent GIRFT review which is a credit to the team
- Trans-nasal Endoscopy Another indicator of the directorates desire to innovate following investment through the exec team we will start to offer this new service in endoscopy, a patient can recivee a procedure trans-nasally which can be more comfortable than conventional trans- oral procedures
- Urology Day Case Conversion A real credit to the Urologists for stepping outside their comfort zone and doing something different, already success in Cystoscopies delivered in DSU (big thanks to DSU nursing team)
- Reduction of agency Locums Through hard work and determination we have reduced our agency reliance by 75% through recruitment and investing in our workforce
- Surgical management of bed base A small team successfully managed to control flow and manage the surgical bed base ensuring operations were not cancelled and patients did not stay in hospital longer than they needed to. We are now developing a collaborative plan with the discharge to team to self-manage our discharges