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Heart SoulSummer 2013www.heartofengland.nhs.uk

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New pathology buildingp7

Governors election featurep12

Herioc lung cancer nurse wins Roy Castle unsung hero award

Research study on ventilation and breathing at MIDRU

Solihull community breast feeding service wins Baby Friendly Award

Jamie TheakstonHearts early starts

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A few words from Trust chief executive, Dr Mark Newbold

Welcome to the summer 2013 edition of our members’ and patients’ magazine.

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to visit our recently launched new Trust website at www.heartofengland.nhs.uk. We also have a new blog: www.heartofenglandblog.co.uk. Please do let us know what you think.

Your feedback on all aspects of our organisation and hospitals is very important to us – from details around the care you received, through to what you thought of the food, car parking and the information booklets we provided.

There are a variety of different ways to get in touch with us including on our website, blog and via a friendly voice on the phone. Did you know you can also follow the latest Trust news on twitter? Find us @heartofengland. You can also contact me personally on twitter @drmarknewbold

Lung cancer nurses’ heroic efforts are recognised

Heartlands lung cancer nurse specialist, Denise Silvey, received the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Unsung Hero award at a prestigious ceremony in Liverpool in June.

The nurse was nominated for the national award by colleagues and patients for her extraordinary commitment to running a patient support group for over 12 years.

The group was set up in 2000 to offer help, advice

and support to lung cancer patients, their families and carers in Birmingham, and Denise has been involved from the start.

Fellow lung cancer nurse specialist, Lynn Reaper, said: “The Roy Castle Foundation recognised Denise’s many years raising awareness of lung cancer both locally and nationally. All of the clinical nurse specialists are extremely proud of her and want to congratulate Denise on her achievements.”

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Persistent colds, coughs and chest infections -could an immune system disease be the cause?


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Patient case studyMargaret BennettMargaret was diagnosed with Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) in 2003. She was having regular throat and sinus infections but as a primary school teacher put it down to being in contact with ‘germ-ridden’ children. This continued throughout her 20s, 30s and 40s.

At 51, Margaret had an ear, throat and chest infection as well as conjunctivitis all at the same time and casually said to the GP that she thought she had a rubbish immune system. Although she worked at a school, her colleagues didn’t seem to get the same number of infections. The GP took some blood tests and referred her to Heartlands where she was diagnosed and started treatment.

Margaret said: “No-one noticed the trends with the long-term pattern of prescribing, it’s a condition no-one seems to be aware of. I’ve been so much better overall since I was diagnosed and started having infusions to treat the condition. This is something that has been going on for not years but decades.”

Heartlands centre is not immune to success

The Immunodeficiency Centre based at Heartlands received accreditation this summer from the UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network (UKPIN) for providing the highest standards of patient care and management. It is the only one in the region and one of five in the country to have this accreditation.

To learn about primary immunodeficency see the Trust’s Immunology website at http://immunology.heartofengland.nhs.uk

More than 150 primary immunodeficiency (PI) diseases, when part of the immune system is either absent or not functioning properly have been identified by researchers, but about 30% of cases are estimated to remain undiagnosed. This is because PI often presents itself in the form of ‘ordinary’ ear or chest infections, and the infection is treated while missing the underlying cause, allowing the illnesses to recur. In the long-term this then can leave that patient vulnerable to organ damage or physical disability.

So what signs should I look for?

1. Two or more new ear infections within a year 2. Two or more new sinus infections within a year, in the

absence of allergy3. One instance of pneumonia per year for more than a year4. Chronic diarrhoea with weight loss5. Recurrent viral infections (colds, herpes, warts)6. Recurrent need for antibiotics to clear infections7. Recurrent, deep abscesses of the skin or internal organs8. Persistent thrush or infection on the skin or elsewhere9. Infection with normally harmless tuberculosis-like

bacteria10. A family history of PI

Ref: The Jeffrey Modell Foundation Medical Advisory Board

Consultation with a GP is strongly suggested if you suspect you have a PI. Diagnosis involves a simple set of tests and with medical care, those diagnosed with a PI can live a full and independent life.

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Meet the new Board members

David Lock was called to the Birmingham Bar in 1985 and became a QC in 2011. He was elected as a Member of Parliament and appointed

to be a Minister at the Lord Chancellor’s Department from

1999 to 2001. David was a member of the Department of Health Expert Panel advising the Secretary of State on EU based patients coming to the UK for organ transplants.

Jammi Rao has extensive knowledge in the public health arena, having worked for Sandwell health authority,

North Birmingham PCT and the Department of Health. Jammi is also

a medically qualified tribunal member for the Ministry of Justice.

The Good Hope Fete will be held on Saturday 14 September.

For more information, contact the fundraising team on: 0121 424 3330.

Four new non-executive directors are welcomed to the Trust’s Board this summer:

Alison Lord has been a non-executive director at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust since 2007

and has held a series of director and chief executive roles since

1993. For the past year, Alison has worked with NHS Wales, providing strategic advice to restructuring under-performing health bodies.

Patrick Cadigan started his career as a cardiologist at Sandwell Hospital in 1981 and became a tutor for the Royal

College of Physicians (RCP) at Sandwell in 1986. Patrick has chaired

the medical board for the National Patient Safety Association and sat on the advisory group for national specialised services.

Lord Philip Hunt, Chairman of the Trust said: “Our new non-executive directors bring with them a wealth of experience and expertise which will prove invaluable as we

continue to drive improvements in

patient safety and standards of care across all our services. We are committed to being an open organisation which delivers the highest standards of care possible and the four new appointments will ensure that this agenda re-mains at the forefront of our decision-making.”


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With the multi-million pound investment in laboratory medicine services now complete, the new building is set to be officially opened this July. The service, based near to the Yardley Green Road entrance to Heartlands Hospital

now boasts new world class pathology facilities benefitting thousands of patients every year.

Key improvements include service redesign and investment in new high tech equipment to increase

efficiency and speed in turning around a multitude of test results. The team are also now able to provide a more accessible and flexible service for the Hospitals’ clinicians and GPs across the region.

New laboratory medicine building opens its doors

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Jamie Theakston’s clearly a glutton for punishment - in the week he wakes up in the early hours to present his radio breakfast show and at the weekends he’s indulgent about his young sons regularly jumping on him at 6am for play time.

“There’s no sleep for the wicked,” he jokes, as he describes his happiness in a life that may be sleep-deprived but is characterised by order and domestic contentment.

It’s a far cry from the days when he found fame presenting TV music programmes, from Top Of The Pops to Live & Kicking, and dating a string of glamorous girlfriends.

Nowadays, a bearded Theakston, 41, can boast 20 years of prestigious presenting roles on his CV, but he describes his current role - co-hosting Heart FM’s breakfast show - as his “dream job”.

“I love doing my breakfast show and can’t imagine doing anything else.

“The upside of early starts - I leave the house at 4.30am - is that I have the rest of the day to be at home, so I can be a real hands-on dad,” says Theakston, who has two boys, Sidney, four, and Kit, three, with his wife of five years, Sophie.

“When you go through

life you have a tendency to be very selfish, you’re trying to carve a career out for yourself, you don’t really have much time for anyone else but yourself.

“But that entirely changes when you marry and have kids, you’re, quite rightly, second, third, fourth down on the pecking order.”

The TV and radio presenter’s career began thanks to a chance encounter. He’d dreamt as a boy, growing up in Sussex, of becoming an actor and performed with the

National Youth Theatre. Later, however, he joined

Christie’s and trained as an auctioneer, but a meeting with the head of BBC children’s television landed him a job on pop show, The O-Zone.

Everything, he says, “has happened more by luck than design” but he looks back with no regrets.

“Now, in my forties, I have two wonderful children and a wife, so I don’t think I would have written the script to my life

any differently.”He’s a keen footballer,

and recently took up cycling to keep fit, but he believes sleep is the most essential element to maintaining health and wellbeing.

“I don’t think we sleep enough. We live in a world where people feel compelled to be busy and achieving things, but I think if we all just slowed down a bit and slept more, the world would be a better place,” he says.

“I have to be really strict about having early nights in the week so that I’m fresh and on top of my game when I get to work, so Fridays are reserved for going out.”

He’s promoting a new Sleep Art app, developed in conjunction with Ibis hotels, which visualises sleep in a work of art.

“The Sleep Art app allows you to capture all the movement and sounds of a night’s sleep and converts the data into a work of art,” he explains.

Although the app may make waking up in the early hours of the morning just that bit easier, a late lie-in remains elusive for Theakston.

“Sidney and Kit always climb on my face around 6am at the weekends, so lazing in bed is a thing of the past, but I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“If we all just slowed down a bit and slept

more, the world would be a

better place”


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JamieTheakstonRadio and TV presenter Jamie Theakston found fame on iconic music shows such as Top Of The Pops. He tells Hannah Shaddock about being transformed by fatherhood and how being a celebrity has changed from his early years.

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Volunteers are needed to get involved in an art project to benefit patients on the elderly care wards at Solihull Hospital.

Following the success of the memory lane project at Good Hope and Heartlands Hospital’s earlier this year, the arts department is now calling for creative volunteers to help bring arts activities to elderly care patients in Solihull. Volunteers encourage patients to take part in everything from simple water colour painting, threading beads, and compiling scrap books using old pictures of adverts, film posters, actors and musicians.

Volunteer service adviser,

Angela Butts, said: ‘Bringing patients together in groups with a volunteer for an hour or so always makes for a stimulating, sociable and friendly gathering. This leads to patients communicating with each other, smiling and sharing memories of days gone by. The benefit to patients’ wellbeing is significant and immeasurable.”

If you would like to become a volunteer and get involved with the project, please contact Sarah McGrory, arts manager, on 0121 424 0113. Alternatively, you can email Sarah at [email protected] for more information.

Get arty Come blog with us!

The new Trust blog: www.heartofenglandblog.co.uk is now live and we want you to join us in the blogosphere by sending us your blogs.

Blogging provides an informal way to communicate and engage with many different readers, from staff to patients, the public and beyond. We will be adding regular health blogs to the site, but we really want your contributions. If you are working on an exciting new technique at work, taking a trip abroad to do some charity work or volunteering for a project aside to the day job, why not have a go and write us a blog about it?

You can also see what the Trust’s chief executive is saying on his blog at: www.marknewbold.com

For more information, or if you have a blog you would like to share, please contact the communications team on 0121 424 3337.

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Good Hope has opened a new acute assessment unit on ward 21 as well as developing a 30 bedded short stay area on ward 19.

The new assessment area will provide assessment, treatment and stabilisation of acutely medically ill patients prior to their transfer onto the designated base ward or discharge within a 12 hour period. The short stay ward will cater for those patients who require short term treatment and admission within a 48-72 hour period.

New areas open

Locals enjoyed a day to remember at Solihull Hospital’s annual summer fete which was opened by the Mayor of Solihull and featured lots of great activities for the whole family. Friends of Solihull Hospital raised a record £4,500.

Fete fun for the family

A memorial service hosted for the first time by the Trust gave bereaved relatives and friends of renal patients an opportunity to remember their loved ones.

Held at the Renewal Centre in Solihull, relatives attended a service of reflective readings

and prayer and were offered the chance to place a card on a memory tree in recognition of the person they have lost.

The service was well received by the families and friends that attended and will now become an annual event.

Special memorial service helps relatives to remember

The Heartlands MIDRU research team is leading the way in developing more effective ways for patients on ventilation machines to breathe by themselves.

Led by Professor Gavin Perkins, consultant in intensive care, the team has

secured £1.3 million worth of funding to complete the research in partnership with the University of Warwick and the Intensive Care Foundation.

The results of this research will change or inform clinical practice in the local area.

Research study a breathe of fresh air


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The maximum term for governors has now been extended from six years to nine, with the re-election process remaining every three years. A total of 22 public governors and five staff governors will be appointed,

less than previous years due to a change in structure. The total number of governors has reduced from 44 to 34. There are now 22 public governors, seven stakeholder governors and five staff governors.

The key area of change this

year is the reconfiguration of the constituencies to align to the local authority. Take a look at the map to see how the new constituencies and classes cover our Trust:

Governor electionsThe 2013 election process took place across the summer, with the close of poll on 9 August.

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Trust governors

Public and staff governors are elected by the members of the Trust. Each governor is responsible for representing the interests and views of a particular group of members. Public governors will represent local people in their constituencies. Staff governors will represent the views of their colleagues in the hospital where they work.

Governors act together as a council of governors to advise and challenge the Trust Board. Governors also take an interest in specific areas of performance, for example, monitoring our patients’ experience, quality and safety and financial performance.

In addition to these specific duties, governors will be asked to:• Host meetings with

members to listen to their views, concerns and ideas

• Participate in meetings and meet with the board of directors to make sure that the Trust is aware of that information

• Attend joint meetings with people working in the Trust

• Discuss the Trust’s plans and ideas for development

• Plan how to engage and involve members in our activities

• Consider becoming a member of a Trust working group looking at specific issues depending on their interests

The council of governors

Our members will have the opportunity to elect representatives on to the council of governors.

Governors will be asked to serve on the council of governors for three years in the first instance.

The council of governors will work closely with the board of directors which is responsible for the management of the Trust.

They will also: • Ensure the Trust operates

within the terms of authorisation as a foundation trust

• Represent the interests of members, the local community, local partner organisations and staff

• Work with the board of directors on long term planning and future service improvements

• Appoint the chairman, the chief executive and the non-executive directors to the board, along with having the power to remove them

• Appoint auditors• Receive the annual report

and accounts• Be accountable to the public

and staff members of the Trust

Members can stand for election as a governor and may be elected by fellow members from their membership category to sit on a council of governors.


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Babies in Solihull are getting the best start in life, and it was made official when UNICEF accredited the Solihull community breast feeding service with the prestigious Baby Friendly Award. The team work with midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses, peer supporters and children centre staff across the borough, to raise awareness of the benefits of breast feeding and to ensure there is help and support available for mums.

Gaining this accreditation involved UNICEF staff interviewing pregnant women and new mothers to determine whether breast feeding best practice standards are being met.

Mum of four and a half year old twins, Alanis and Dante, and 13 month old, Eden, Rachel Pooler has taken on the role of peer supporter to offer help and advice to other local mums after benefitting from the

service herself. She said: “It can be such a great experience to breast feed your child. Just having someone to talk to and knowing things are normal can make a real difference.”

Carmen Baskerville, Infant feeding co-ordinator, said: “Breastfeeding is perfect for giving babies a healthy start, as breastfed babies are less likely to suffer with diarrhoea and vomiting, or chest or ear infections. It can also have a positive impact on future health, for example, preventing diabetes and obesity for baby and breast and ovarian cancer for mum.

“It is a great pleasure to accept the award from UNICEF in recognition of our gold standard breast feeding service.”

Anyone wanting help or advice from the breast feeding service can call: 07970 811026.

Mum’s the word Get walking for charity!The fundraising team is pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Charity Sponsored Walk.

Last year, around 100 doctors and nurses joined members of the public to raise money for a wide variety of areas. The walk will be held on Sunday 29 September.

Watch this space for more information, and register your interest at [email protected]

Why not getin touch

There are a number of different ways to contact us such as:

Twitter:@heartofengland

The new Trust Blog:www.heartofenglandblog.co.uk

Trust Website:www.heartofengland.nhs.uk


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More than 300 patients have benefitted from the recovery at home service (R@H) at Good Hope since its launch last autumn.

The service enables some patients to leave hospital as soon as they are clinically stable, which means they can complete the remainder of their acute care in the comfort on their own home, whilst still being offered 24 hour support.

How does R@H work? Each patient using R@H remains under care of the hospital consultant whilst receiving care in their home environment.

Am I eligible? There are specific inclusion and exclusion criteria for the different types of patients eligible for the service. These have been developed by working closely with clinical teams which include consultants, nurses and therapists. If you are a patient in hospital, ask your consultant about it.

Who can I call?R@H offers a 24 hour care bureau facility for patients using the service, which means alongside any care package they are receiving, they can call a locally based clinical team member at any time for support and advice.

Are R@H staff fully qualified?Yes, all of the staff are fully qualified, experienced health professionals including nurses, physiotherapists, healthcare support workers and occupational therapists.

Who do I contact if I wish to speak to someone about R@H?Please speak to your hospital consultant.

Good Hope’s recovery at home service

Communitytelevisionproject

Work between Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, The Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG), PrideStart and The Future Melting Pot has commenced to provide a community television facility in East Birmingham.

It will be run in conjunction with the local communities, particularly young people, delivering key health, safety and cohesion outcomes, initiatives, campaigns and messages. This is an opportunity for local people, especially young people, to offer to assist in the development of this exiting project. Health is an important part of ensuring the well-being of people of all ages and is an important component in the regeneration of communities.

For more information please contact: Simon Jarvis on: 0121 424 1115 or email: [email protected]

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• Alpha Community Festival Cattell Road, Small Heath July 27

• Healthy Eating Day Bordesley Gardeners Association August 31

Trust Board meetings are open to the public, so why not come along to find out more at our next meeting on:

• 10 September, 9.30am MIDRU, Heartlands Hospital

• 5 November, 9.30am St John’s Hotel, Warwick Rd Solihull

Trust members and the public are also invited to attend health talks at the Trust:

ArthritisDr Arvind Sinha18 July, 5pm – 7pmEducation Centre, Solihull Hospital

Update from the Chief Executive & Chairman Dr Mark Newbold and Lord Philip Hunt19 September, 5pm – 7pmEducation Centre, Good Hope Hospital If you would like to attend a seminar please contact Sandra White on 0121 424 1218.

If you would like any information in large print please call0121 424 1218


“My sincere thanks to all the staff on Ward 15, Solihull Hospital. My husband was admitted for a full hip replacement and whilst there he had the upmost care and attention given to him without having to ask.

He was treated with dignity and respect at all times. There has been a lot of bad publicity regarding care in hospitals but I was left with no worries of leaving my husband in the care of the nursing staff and doctors on Ward 15.”

You can contact Sandra White, membership and community engagement manager, if someone you know wants to become a member, if your contact details have changed or if you no longer wish to be a member.

T: 0121 424 1218E: [email protected]

Please also note our address:Stratford HouseHeartlands HospitalBordesley Green EastBirmingham B9 5SSeditor: Nikki Boileau, communicationsContributors: Surraya richards, Louise Berktay and Charlotte Calder Design: Stuart hudsonPhotography: hannah Causer, imke Daugs, adrian wressell

Council of Governors meeting - members are welcome to attend.

15 July, 4pmPartnership Learning CentreGood Hope Hospital

The Trust has teamed up with discounts company Medic-Care to offer discounts at a range of local businesses from cafes, pubs and restaurants to beauty salons and hairdressers to Heart of England staff and members of the Trust.

Discounts are available through the Medic-Care gold card which can be obtained from the membership team.

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