The Sheffield Podiatry Service has won the Customer Service

Excellence award (previously known as the Charter Mark) for over 20

years. The team is one of a handful in the UK to hold this accredited

mark.

Friends and Family Test

Results

All patients who receive

NHS treatment are now

asked how likely they

would be to recommend

the service to friends and

family.

Recent results for podiatry

services are:

July 88%

August 93%

September 91%

October 87%

Welcome to the

Sheffield

Podiatry Ser-

vices Newslet-

ter. We hope

you will find this

update on what

is happening in

our service in-

formative.

Department news

S H E F F I E L D T E A C H I N G H O S P I T A L N H S F O U N D A T I O N T R U S T

Sheffield Podiatry Services Newsletter

November 2017

Complaints (January - Sep 2017)

Two formal complaints were received to the podiatry service during this time period, one of which was unfounded. One informal complaint was received and resolved by the service di-rectly.

Compliments We have received numerous compliments and all are shared with the staff in a monthly email

Thank you for taking the time to share your views

Selina Reidy has been developing the competency tests for

Forensic Podiatrists with the Chartered Society of Forensic Sci-ence. All staff working within the Forensic Podiatry department are undergoing the competency testing. She has also been working on governance issues around the forensic work that is done within the department.

Jai Saxelby is also now contributing to forensic work in the

department.

We have done 2 training sessions for staff this year, both of which were informative and very well received

The first session was given by Martin Fox, a vascular specialist Podi-atrist. The knowledge gained has been very helpful in further devel-oping our vascular service (see photo).

The second session was on dermatology (skin). Staff are keen to further develop this within their practice.

Staff training

Diabetes news

We have managed to secure some funding which will help us work towards meeting the NICE guidelines requirements for people with diabetic foot problems. This money has enabled us to recruit some temporary staff. This will help us give a better skill mix in the hospital and community sites.

The diabetes team have also been developing links with the

Renal team.

Forensic news

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Due to the high demand for nail surgery, we have received

some additional funding to carry out increased assessments

and operations. We have undertaken some extra clinics on

Saturday mornings at Northern General Hospital and have

set up an extra regular clinic at Limbrick for assessments.

Nail surgery procedures are carried out at Woodhouse Clinic

and Firth Park Clinic.

TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOP

On 16th October 24 clinicians from the Combined Community and Acute Care Group

attended a Technology in Health demonstration morning at the Advanced Wellbeing

Research Centre AWRC (Sheffield Hallam University). This included three of the podiatry team.

Christina King and Steve Haake from the Research Centre outlined the format of the workshop and

the partners who are working with the AWRC. There were a few presentations of how technologies

have been used in healthcare research. The group then spent 10 minutes at each demo station

where members of the centre where able to explain the different technologies that are available.

Everyone then had chance to put write down ideas of how these technologies might be used to

help answer some clinical questions. We are planning a review session in the New Year to consider

some of the ideas in more detail and see if any would be suitable to develop into a grant applica-

Nail Surgery update

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Any comments regarding this newsletter please contact Carolyn Woodhead on 3078200 or email carolyn.woodhead1@nhs.net

PodPAD Project

This study investigating a coordinated approach to the man-agement of people with Peripheral Vascular Disease (PAD) has now finished and the report is now being written up. Pa-tients received a tailored assessment and treatment pro-gramme involving podiatry, dietetics, exercise referral and smoking cessation services to improve symptoms of Periph-eral Arterial Disease.

Oliver Binns-Hall has completed a study with Prof Tesfaye investigating the early signs of neuropathy in patients with diabetes. It has been very well received and it is hoped that this will be published in a journal soon.

Our Empowerment

Team have been busy

visiting fairs and pro-

moting Foot Health

Month across Shef-

field.

Health Promotion

Staff news

Zarrin had a baby boy- Adam in September.

We have had a number of new clinical staff start with us– welcome to Khadiza, Iryna, Clare, Evy, Owen and Charlotte.

We said goodbye to Suras and Denise.

Research news

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to our service please phone (0114)

3078200

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starts with a 3 not 2

Please visit our website for more information about Sheffield Podiatry Services

http://www.sth.nhs.uk/services/a-z-of-communi-ty-services

Any commnets regard-ing this news-letter please contact Carolyn