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Summer 2012

HomertonlifeF O R A L L S T A F F , C A T C H U P W I T H A L L T H E L A T E S T N E W S A N D E V E N T S

Incorporating hospital and community health services, teaching and research

Homerton University HospitalNHS Foundation Trust

Clare carries the torch for Homerton

Contents As Homerton prepares for the Olympics, the watch words for staff and patients are…

Business as usualHomerton Hospital has been busily preparing for the Olympics and Paralympics for the past four years.

Doctors from the hospital went to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 to look and learn and staff have been fine tuning procedures and protocols ever since. But the key message to local people is that it’s business as usual at the hospital and in local community services in Hackney and the City throughout the Games.

We are prepared for the Games and have plans in place to meet every eventuality. The services our hospital, community services and home teams provide will continue as normal.

That’s why on Friday July 27, we might be able to hear the roar of the crowd in the Stadium as the Olympic flame is lit, but for us it will be just another normal day serving the people of Hackney.

Homerton is a receiving hospital for any athletes and members of the Olympic family who require hospital treatment during the Games but this will not impact on any services that patients might need to access.

Although there may be some disruption to transport services during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, people will still be able to get to the hospital even if in some cases this may add a few extra minutes to journeys.

The Homerton Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) will be able to help patients with journey planning and appointment advice.

This is a unique and exciting time for us all.

Nancy Hallett

Chief Executive

Link to front page pic: Speech and Language Therapist Clare Parsons gets her running shoes ready for when she carries the Olympic Torch the day before the Games open. See page 10

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Legacy How giraffe keeps babies warm and safe Diabetes patients grow green fingers

Nursing awards Recognising excellence in care Roll of Honour

Signs of the times New signage in the hospital Improving staff training

Preparing for the Olympics Here come the Games Bid commitment Delivering business as usual Facts figures and key dates Clare carries the torch

Homerton overseas Staff Nurse Angela’s insight into Sudan

Rooms with a view New machinery Fertility innovation Seeing through the smile

Around Homerton Joy celebrates New academic link up Stop smoking update Staff pics on show On your bike

Day in the Life Lesley Rogers - Head of Healthcare Compliance

Sign up for the Homerton Fun Run 2012 on Saturday September 15. More details and to enter the run go to the staff intranet or Trust website: www.homerton.nhs.uk

Summer 2012

HomertonlifeF O R A L L S T A F F , C A T C H U P W I T H A L L T H E L A T E S T N E W S A N D E V E N T S

Incorporating hospital and community health services, teaching and research

Homerton University HospitalNHS Foundation Trust

Clare carries the torch for Homerton

Giraffe keeps babies warm and safeA giraffe is helping premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Giraffe is the name of a state of the art incubator, another piece of equipment which makes up part of the GE Healthcare Olympic legacy to Homerton.

Lead nurse in the NICU, Jacki Oughton said: “The giraffe incubator allows the neonatal team to care for very small babies, who may weigh from 500 grams upwards. It provides a safe thermo-controlled environment for preterm and sick babies.

“The incubator’s heating system allows the temperature to be maintained even if the doors or top are open. This allows doctors and nurses to give care and treatment to the baby with minimal disturbance and without the baby getting cold.

“The incubator has built in weighing scales so we can monitor the baby’s growth without disturbance and use the giraffes for babies needing high level complex care.

“We have had the incubators for the past year and they have had a very positive impact on the unit.”

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Diabetes team grow green fingers The Hackney Diabetes Centre has a new summer calling – growing their own greens and vegetables.

The team saw the new flower boxes taking shape outside their offices and asked if they could use them for more edible contents.

The planting began in March and then it rained. The wet weather of April gave way to a May heat wave which has ensured a burst of greenery.

Diabetes Educator Jarka Valsheek said:

“The aim of the garden is to educate diabetes patients about growing

vegetables and inspire them, as well as hospital staff and visitors, to do the same at home if possible whether it is on an allotment, small garden patch or on a windowsill.

“The weather has helped to give us a lovely showing of herbs and vegetables. We have a wide range of herbs growing as well as beans, spring onions and radishes. Our patients are delighted with our first crop.”

Jarka Valsheek with the Diabetes team and

their hospital garden


Nursing awards

Recognising excellence in careNurses, midwives and health visitors recognised by their own colleagues for outstanding care and compassion were celebrated at the Homerton Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Day.

The Trust held its own special day with an exhibition where nursing, midwifery and health visitor teams showcased some of the work that is going on in the hospital and community.

The highlight of the day was the awards ceremony. There were also presentations by Charlie Sheldon, Chief Nurse who talked about the changes – and similarities – to nursing now and when he joined the profession in the late 80s; Fiona Shaw from the Foundation of Nursing Studies who spoke about the work of her charity; Philippa Cox Consultant Midwife who explained the work of supervisor midwives; and Ann Russell, lecturer-practitioner for health visiting who gave an insight into the challenges and opportunities of health visiting in Hackney.

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Roll of Honour:Nurse of the Year: Egle Mattar, Nursery Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care

Egle was nominated by colleagues for her care of babies on the unit and, in particular, her work with those babies needing adoption has been outstanding. One such baby – 16 weeks preterm – was on the unit for many months and Egle took him under her wing.

She began a diary with photographs of his progress in the unit showing him being ventilated, starting to feed and grow, having his first bath and being cherished and nursed by the team. Thus the baby left the unit with a memory book which is his for life. Other diaries have followed. This work has been done in her own time and created fantastic memories that will travel with the babies for their future lives.

Runner-up – Yusuf Hossenbaccus, Charge Nurse, Outpatients Department

Yusuf was nominated by colleagues for his consistent and considerate care of patients. His high quality levels of care have been noted by many colleagues and senior staff in other wards and areas of the hospital.

There were three Outstanding Teams of the Year, one for each of the Trust’s clinical divisions.

The teams were:

Main Outpatients

Acute COPD Early Response Team

Sexual Health Services

Egle Mattar with her certificate (left) and above, Yusuf Hossenbaccus with his certificate

Signs and compliance

Hospital signs get betterThe new signs for wards and departments at Homerton Hospital are now all on show.

The signs are clear and colourful and – together with the fully spruced up rear entrance – add to the overall improved environment of the hospital.

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Staff are urged to…Get compliant – now!All managers, staff, contract staff and volunteers working at the Trust have been urged to ensure that they are up to date with their core training.

A 20 page magazine called Your Statutory and Mandatory Training has been produced and distributed to every member of staff.

It aims to highlight each and every aspect of training available for such varied topics as information governance and fire safety. There are also chapters on safeguarding both children and adults, infection control, dealing with complaints, health and safety, equality and diversity, and conflict resolution.

Staff are reminded of what the training requirements are and the ‘must dos’ to ensure that they are compliant in their knowledge and training.

Trust Chief Executive, Nancy Hallett said: “We as a Trust are committed to providing a safe environment for all our patients and staff, both in the hospital and community settings. In order to build and maintain these high safety standards, it is essential that all of us have the appropriate skills, knowledge and ability to undertake our roles.

“This booklet provides staff with the tools to fulfil core statutory (required by law) and mandatory (required by regulatory bodies or the Trust) safety obligations.”

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Welcome to the first edition of ‘Your Statutory and Mandatory Training’ booklet. I am delighted to launch this new and innovative method of delivering our statutory and mandatory training and hope that it will be welcomed by you as a useful and effective alternative to traditional methods of training.

We as a Trust are committed to providing a safe environment for all our patients and staff, both in the hospital and community settings. In order to build and maintain these high safety standards, it is essential that all of us have the appropriate skills, knowledge and ability to undertake our roles.This booklet will provide you with the tools you need to fulfil your core statutory (required by law) and mandatory (required by regulatory bodies or the Trust) safety obligations. Reading this booklet, making sure you understand the topics and implementing them in your practice is not optional. We are

required to ensure 100% of staff are up to date with all these issues and will be putting measures in place to make sure all staff have received their personal copy.Reading this booklet is not the end of the process and it is your responsibility to stay updated and make sure you raise any issues or concerns in relation to any of the topics in this booklet with either your line manager or the Editor of the booklet.I do hope you find this booklet as informative and useful as I have!Many thanks for your continued support.

Best Wishes

Nancy Hallett Chief Executive

www.homerton.nhs.uk


Here come the Games…and we are ready for themTrust 2012 Games Project Coordinator Felicity Canning gives an overview of our preparations for a frenetic month of sporting activity

Although we are the designated Olympic hospital the main message is ‘business as usual’ for the patients we serve 365 days of the year, year in year out.

The Trust has a specific role in the Olympics through our designated hospital status caring for the athletes and team officials.

But through years of planning, we are ready to meet our Games requirement and ensure local people do not experience any change in service provision.

With the Olympics only a matter of weeks away, the Trust is finalising all its preparations in readiness for the ‘greatest show on earth’ and a number of staff have been busy helping with preparations.

From July 27 more than 14,000 athletes will be competing in both the Olympics and Paralympics. Millions of people will gather in London to be part of a unique sporting and cultural event, the Olympics.

For 60 days, the length of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic Park in London will be the centre of the world.

Preparing for the Olympics


The bid commitment- what it means for HomertonThere will be a Hospital Olympic and Paralympic Liaison Officer (HOPLO) on site 24/7 from July 27 through to the end of the Games on September 9. This post will be shared by three senior managers who will act as the single point of contact between LOCOG (London Olympics Committee Organising Group) and the hospital.

A dedicated room will be established as the Olympics control room to support the smooth running of the organisation during the period of the Games and also ensure there is regular internal reporting and updates for staff.

If an athlete needs to be admitted, this will be on to the 2012 ward – a ward set aside to care for Games-linked patients.

Any issues that arise in relation to the Olympics or an Olympic family member, the HOPLO should be contacted.

We are completing our detailed planning work to ensure business as usual. Our regular suppliers have been working innovatively to ensure that we will still get hospital supplies - even if they are delivered during the night. Our staff have been fantastic in pulling together to make these changes work.

Mo Araeen, Distribution Manager for Procurement is working nights to ensure that our deliveries can be received safely and securely between midnight and 6am.

A number of Travel Awareness sessions have been running over the past few months. These sessions have been well attended with staff thinking creatively about their journeys to work.

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Homerton & Lower Clapton (N) Mon − Fri 7.30am−6.30pm Hackney Central (D) Mon − Sat 8.30am−11pmInc Zone D Displacement Mon − Sat 8.30am−6.30pmHackney South (D) Mon − Sat 8.30am−6.30pm Hackney Wick (K) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmHoxton (F) Mon − Fri 7.30am−6.30pm Sat 8.30am−1.30pmQueensbridge (J) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmSouth Homerton (L) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmVictoria Park Village (P) Mon − Fri 10am−12noonZone Q Mon − Fri 8.30am−5pm

Parking in HackneyLondon Borough of Hackney have introduced new event zone parking controls. Areas around the hospital that previously had no parking controls now have controlled parking zones in place effective from June 21 to September 14. Staff and patients will not be able to park in these zones unless your car has a business permit, a health and social care permit or you are a resident. For further detail www.hackney.gov.uk

Road closuresThere will be two road closures across the Borough of Hackney which will be effective for the same dates as the Olympic Route Network. Homerton Road (Marsh Hill) will be closed at the junction with Homerton High Street and Kenworthy Road. There will be a diversion in place at the junction of Homerton High Street diverting traffic down Kenworthy Road.

Chatsworth Road will be closed at the junction with Brooksby’s Walk so that there will be no access to Homerton High Street from Chatsworth Road or vice versa.



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Homerton & Lower Clapton (N) Mon − Fri 7.30am−6.30pm Hackney Central (D) Mon − Sat 8.30am−11pmInc Zone D Displacement Mon − Sat 8.30am−6.30pmHackney South (D) Mon − Sat 8.30am−6.30pm Hackney Wick (K) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmHoxton (F) Mon − Fri 7.30am−6.30pm Sat 8.30am−1.30pmQueensbridge (J) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmSouth Homerton (L) Mon − Fri 8.30am−6.30pmVictoria Park Village (P) Mon − Fri 10am−12noonZone Q Mon − Fri 8.30am−5pm

Major dates:

July 15 – The Olympic Village opens

July 21 – Torch relay through Hackney

July 27 – Olympic opening ceremony

August 12 – Olympic closing

August 29 – Paralympic opening

September 9 – Paralympic closing ceremony

Torch relayThe Torch relay through Hackney will take place on Saturday July 21. Details of the route and timings can be found on www.london2012.com/torch-relay/route/.

Olympic facts and figures:

9.2 million tickets for Olympics and Paralympics

63,400 uniforms (1,000,000 items)

140,000 square metres of temporary facilities

150,000 temporary seats

50,000 hotel rooms

Up to 60,000 meals daily in the Village

10 million litres of fuel

1 million pieces of sports equipment

An accredited workforce of over 150,000

15,000 beds in the Olympic Village

12 million meals (including spectators)

5,000 vehicles

1,000 magnetometer search arches

Patients

Allow more time when travelling to the hospital or one of the community health sites

Check Transport for London website for travel information on: www.getaheadofthegames.com

Refer to Homerton’s website for updates: www.homerton.nhs.uk

If in doubt call the PALs team on 020 8510 5144

Staff

Plan your journey to work ahead of the Games

Remember to wear your ID at all times whilst at work. Keep it with you at all times

Do not arrange for personal deliveries to be made to your workplace during the Olympics.

Please remember:

Patients:

Contact us to re-schedule your appointment if you are not going to be able to make it


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Clare carries the torch on Olympics eveClare Parsons has been in training for the past few weeks to ensure she is in shape for a once in a life time experience.

On Thursday July 26, the day before the opening of the 2012 Games, Clare will take her turn in joining the 8,000 privileged people who will carry the Olympic flame.

Clare, who is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working with local children at Hackney Ark, will take her turn to carry the torch on the Islington lap during the flame’s journey from Camden to Westminster (via Peckham!).

Said Clare: “I am absolutely thrilled to be carrying the torch on its progress through Islington and I hope to raise attention for the Lucy Faithful Foundation – a nationwide child protection charity – and Doctors of the World.

“My manager put me forward for the run and though I am not known for my sporting abilities, I hope I can manage to keep the Olympic spirit alive – and the flame alight - for a few minutes. I am sure that as this will be the day before the opening of the Games, there will be a great deal of excitement and expectation in the streets as the flame goes by. This really is a once in a life time experience.”

If you want to give to either of Clare’s charities go to:

http://lucyfaithfull.org/ http://www.medecinsdumonde.org.uk

Physio team boost sports serviceHomerton’s physiotherapy team have recently acquired new equipment for rehabilitation of patients with sports injuries as part of its Sport Injury Service. The team are pictured with the new equipment.



Homerton overseas

A&E Staff Nurse Angela Cave (right) gives an insight into her time spent caring for patients in the Sudan

Angela Out of AfricaDuring my year away from Homerton I spent 10 months working in Gogrial, Warrap State in the new South Sudan for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

This included being present for the independence of the new South Sudan in July 2011.

MSF is an international non-governmental medical relief organisation. I have actually worked with them on six ‘missions’ and I considered myself extremely lucky to take one year out from my job as a staff nurse in A&E to join the team in the Sudan.

Working in South Sudan was very challenging and I certainly faced many different situations which challenged all my skills. I also learnt many new skills. My job title was ‘Nurse Supervisor’, but in reality, as is often the case when working in rather primitive conditions, I was called upon to do a number of other things.

I was in charge of the nursing of the 30+ bed PHCC (Primary Health Care Centre). We had a surgical element and therefore there were lots of patients, including children, who needed surgical care. I was in charge of the sterilisation department.

We had a 90 litre electric sterilizer, which ran one or two cycles every day. All the surgical sets and instruments needed to be hand washed and disinfected before being packed in crepe paper ready to the 2 hour cycle. I was also in charge of the dispensary, where all the outpatient medications needed to be packed into little plastic bags and given to the patients.

We saw anything from 100 to 200 outpatients per day!

I also ran the outpatient treatment centre for children with malnutrition. This included a once a week mobile clinic where we saw over 100 young patients.

This was started from scratch during my time and enabled many children to avoid severe acute malnutrition by giving them weekly ready-to-use therapeutic food, health education and a piece of soap!

I was heavily involved with the hospital hygiene, which was very challenging, due to the fact that most patients are not culturally used to using a pit latrine!

My main task though, was being fully responsible and in charge of the pharmacy. This in effect meant managing ALL hospital supplies, drugs and material.

We were supplying 13 end user points out of two warehouses for weekly distribution and had over 1000 different items to manage, and at least half of those all had expiry dates to monitor.

Supply was very precarious and generally arrived either on a truck after five days of travel or on a small plane. The most important thing to do was make sure that there was absolutely no wastage because we would never know when the next supply would arrive.

Working in such conditions with such responsibility was tiring but extremely rewarding – and made me forever thankful for what we have at Homerton which we often take for granted.

I had an extremely interesting and rewarding experience and can’t wait to go again.

Rooms with a view

New process means greater fertility success

A new state of the art process which identifies the sperm with the best chance of successfully fertilising the egg is now being used in the Homerton Fertility Centre.

The process called IMSI (Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection) enables the Centre’s embryologists far stronger magnification and allows them to spot any abnormalities in individual sperm. Homerton is one of only a handful of fertility centres using the new equipment.

Consultant Mr Anil Gudi said:

“By looking at sperm using much higher magnifications, coupled with a digital imaging system, it is now possible to

identify structures within the sperm head known as vacuoles which cannot be seen with a normal microscope. The presence of these vacuoles indicates poorer DNA quality in the sperm and thus these sperm are not used for treatment.

“By selecting the best sperm we are able to gain better embryo quality, higher pregnancy rates and lower risks of miscarriage.”

New Fluoroscopy room opensA new fluoroscopy room has recently opened in the hospital’s Imaging Department.

The room and its equipment is designed to provide continuous imaging (fluoroscopy) which is the x-ray equivalent of ‘a video’.

The new room has the latest technology in that it is digital, has a vast array of automatic programmes, and can undertake an examination at one-seventh of the radiation dose of the previous unit. This is extremely important especially with women of child bearing age or children.

Colin West, Head of Radiology, said: “The unit undertakes examinations on ‘radiology’ patients, but also provides a service to our colleagues in the pain clinic, fertility centre and speech & language therapy. All the teams seem pleased with the performance!”

Cath Clerkin, Fluoroscopy Superintendent Radiographer, has been

training staff to use the machine. She said “The new equipment has made a vast difference to our everyday workload as it is much easier to operate and images can be automatically transferred to our PACS (picture archiving system) thus ensuring radiographers’ time is used more efficiently and effectively.

“The machine is very compact allowing more room for equipment manoeuvres especially when examining patients arriving on beds, trolleys and

wheelchairs. It is also much more user friendly and smaller than the 14 year old machine and not so intimidating for patients, especially children.”

Cath Clerkin carrying out the procedure

Laboratory Manager Hasmukh Joshi using the machine


London 2012Rooms with a view

Seeing through the smile‘Cone Beam Computed Tomography Orthopantomogram’ is a very long name for a very clever machine.

This recent introduction into the imaging arsenal is dedicated to dental and maxillo-facial examinations.

The original machine undertook panoramic dental imaging (the whole jaw and all teeth were shown on one image) and the new machine continues to offer this service but with the additional facility of being able to undertake a CT of the maxillary sinuses and even individual teeth!

The unit operates by completing a 360 degree rotation around the patient’s head. The x-rays are detected by a ‘plate’ – which is a sophisticated piece of imaging equipment costing £50,000 - and then converted into digital data. This data can then be manipulated and displayed as images.

The highly sophisticated computer programme associated with the unit can calculate exactly where in the patient the x-ray data came from - a process called ‘back projection’ for those of you with a PhD in Physics). It is then possible to manipulate the data (just as we do in CT) to give images in ‘slices’.

Apart from being wonderfully ‘techie’, the unit is incredibly useful in giving clinicians very accurate images of, for example, small fractures in the facial bones, and permits very accurate assessment of bone density prior to dental implants.

Lead Reporting Radiographer Denise Harris, who has been leading the training on this new machine, said: “This new equipment is making a real difference to patients requiring CT imaging of the jaw, facial bones and sinuses.

“In the past these patients had to be given booked appointments to be scanned on our full size body CT. The new CBCT scanner is dedicated for maxillary facial work and patients can be scanned standing up. Scan times are fast, the radiation dose is low and

3D reconstructions are achievable in seconds.

“We have the ability for a walk in service so the clinician can obtain a diagnosis or planning assessment within a single clinic session. The equipment is user friendly and the feedback from the radiographers has been really positive.”

Radiographers Jen Callanan and Jennie Clarkson with the new equipment



Around Homerton

Joy celebrates her big dayLong serving Friend of the hospital, Joy Geary was joined by friends and colleagues when she recently celebrated her 90th birthday.

Joy who has been with the League of Friends for 25 years said: “It was a lovely party and I had lots of friends helping me celebrate. When I retired in 1987 I didn’t stop working.”

Joy helps out a few days a week with the League of Friends’ tea bar near the outpatients department.

Update from the Stop Smoking ServiceSomething must have been in the water last year as it was a very successful year for those wanting to Quit Smoking. Many staff came through our doors and collectively achieved a quit rate which was double that of the national average!

If you have tried before but have been unsuccessful why not give it another go and get into the Spirit of a Healthier Life Style for the Olympics!!

We have the new mouth spray mist available which is proving to be really helpful.

Here’s what some of the staff who quit with the service had to say:

‘Having smoked for over 18 years I decided to try and give up for good and went to the stop smoking service. This time I used the patches and nicotine mouth spray which worked for me. I feel so much better for it and am hoping that I can stay feeling this way”.

‘I have smoked for 16 years and continued because I was addicted, and misinformed that it helped with stress. I knew I had to quit, my daughter was very concerned about what she had heard about smoking in primary school. I have now been smoke-free for three years and the difference for me was the amazing support I received from the Homerton adviser, and using the medication properly. I take everyday as it comes, and I am now really happy”.

To find out more email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Or leave the team a message on ext 7248

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Homerton links up with academia to set up London’s first University Technical College

London’s first ever University Technical College, specialising in Health and Digital Technologies is opening in Shoreditch this September.

Hackney UTC will offer an exciting, employer-led curriculum, where students take part in a range of employer-led projects. The emphasis will be on technical, vocational and employability skills – ensuring that all students will go on to get great jobs!

Homerton Hospital is one of the key partners and has influenced and developed the health curriculum. Students will gain the skills they need to access further and higher education or an apprenticeship or full time employment.

The new state of the art college will include a dedicated Health Tech suite and Homerton has provided expert

input to the layout and design. The new suite will offer A&E triage area, hospital ward beds, rehabilitation equipment, alongside an extensive range of health and social care equipment and resources. There really is no other school like it.

Admissions are now open for students currently in Year 9, going into Year 10 in September, and you can apply by emailing [email protected] – or via their website, www.hackneyutc.co.uk.

Follow us on Twitter @hackneyutc and look out for us on Facebook Hackney UTC.

Around Homerton


Images from around the world – through the lens of Homerton staffA display of nearly 30 framed photographs taken by the Trust’s avid ‘snappers’ has been on show in the Education Centre’s main concourse.

Staff were invited by email last autumn to submit their personal photographs for exhibition and the response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic and diverse.

The mostly colour photographs depict overseas travels, ethnographic portraits, landscapes, nature and abstract compositions that play with lighting effects.

Shaun Caton, the Trust’s Art Curator said: “It’s fantastic that so many staff have responded to this exhibition and contributed their precious images of holiday explorations and things that are personal to them for everyone to see.”

First sustainable travel week is celebrated with staff urged to…

Get on your bike

Staff were urged to get on their bikes as part of Homerton’s first Sustainable Travel Week.

The London Cycle Campaign (LCC), as well as LiftShare, came to the hospital to offer ideas and support.

LiftShare was signing up staff to encourage sharing journeys into work with colleagues who live nearby. An extra 20 people signed up on the day and a number of hard copy forms were given out. There are now over 50 people signed up to the scheme at the Trust and East Wing. Readers are urged to log on and see how to cut commuting costs and carbon footprint in half. Go to: www.HomertonNHS.liftshare.com

The LCC team showed staff how to carry out basic repairs to staff bikes (40 looked over), offering route planning advice or

receiving basic bicycle maintenance instruction.

The most exciting aspect of the day was when the sun finally came out for a couple of hours at lunch time and staff could come out and “have a go” on a bike; whether for the first time or just to remember how!

Ten staff had a go on either the LCC practice bike, a staff members’ rickshaw or one of the Trust’s two fold up bicycles that are available free of charge for all staff to book out (see cycling pages on the intranet).

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Lesley Rogers – the Trust’s Head of Healthcare Compliance

Dealing with the barks can stop the biteLesley joined the Trust last year and is responsible for ensuring that the Trust meets its legal obligation to comply with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

This means she works closely with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a health watchdog which checks whether hospitals, care homes and care services meet the Government’s Essential Standards of Quality and Safety.

Lesley says that her role at Homerton is a case of turning the tables on her past life in more ways than one. Lesley said: “I’ve lived in Hackney for over 20 years now so my family and I have seen Homerton from the inside as a patient, mainly in the maternity and children’s unit, and also in the community.

“I’ve also looked at the quality of health services as a lead for national reviews and studies and a Senior Assessment Manager at the Healthcare Commission, which was one of the CQC’s predecessor organisations.”

She added that these two themes of finding out how patients experience the services they received and looking objectively at evidence on the quality of care are constants throughout her career.

Lesley said: “These themes do seem to have run through most of my working life from doing a PhD at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School on how HIV alters the immune system of symptom free people, to helping patients make their voices heard as a community health council Chief Officer in Newham.”

Lesley is keen to bring regulation to life so that meeting the standards is embedded in the way we deliver care to patients. She says that one way of thinking about the CQC is like any watchdog in that they have a ‘bark’ i.e. they raise awareness of problems often via the media; and they have a ‘bite’ in the form of legal powers to impose fines and to even close down services where they pose a danger to patients. The CQC says this is what makes them different from previous health regulators.

The main way that the CQC judges whether a service complies with the national standards is by carrying out unannounced visits.

Lesley said: “I know that unannounced inspections or spot checks are stressful, but they have credibility with patients and they make sense to staff too. I think it’s really positive that some of our lead nurses have been involved as professional advisers and peer reviewers in two of CQC’s themed national inspection programmes. We did really well in the inspections last year - of the hospital in March and November and at Mary Seacole Nursing Home in October. We’ve got to build on that experience and ensure that we do as well in checks of our community based services when – not if – the inspectors call again.’

Lesley is based in the Education Centre and can be contacted on ext 7509. She is happy to come to speak to staff to demystify the Essential Standards and to visit services.

Congratulations to….Dr John Thornhill who works in the Department of Sexual Health who was awarded the Ian Williams Best Poster Presentation prize at the annual British HIV Association in Birmingham. The project presented looked at the treatment of anal intraepithelial neoplasia and the prevention of anal carcinoma. The project was a collaborative effort by DOSH team including Dr M Nathan, Kerstin Klein, Nicky Hicky and Damiloloa Awosika.

Dr David Watson, Consultant Intensivist, who is this year’s

recipient of the Drapers’ Award for Teaching for those clinicians nominated by students for the most significant contribution to teaching.

Dr Angshu Bhowmik, Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine on achieving an Honorary Clinical Lecturer title from the Barts and the London Medical School.

And finally Chief Nurse Charlie Sheldon on becoming a Honorary Visiting Professor for the City University, London.

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