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January 2019

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Building work under way at all-new Heatherwood

Building work on a new Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot is starting, giving more local people access to state-of-the-art healthcare services on their doorstep for decades to come.

The Board of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust announced on 11 January that construction of the £98m development could begin and the new hospital should be complete by late 2021.

Dr Tim Ho, medical director at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: “This will be a fantastic hospital fit for the 21st century, offering state-of-the-art care for our patients and a first class working environment for our staff.”

The new facility will replace the ageing Heatherwood Hospital that has stood in Ascot for almost 100 years.

Within 10 years it will provide care for an estimated 168,000 people each year – 85,000 more than the current Heatherwood.

Proposals for the build were first announced in 2014 and the Trust has been working closely with staff, patients and local residents as the plans have developed. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead granted planning permission for the scheme in August 2017.

The new hospital is being built in woodland behind the current site.

It will offer peaceful views for patients who are undergoing or recovering from treatments.

The new Heatherwood will have six operating theatres and 48 inpatient beds, plus 22 day case cubicles.

It will specialise in planned, non-emergency procedures such as orthopaedics, general surgery, urology, gynaecology and endoscopy. Space for the Trust‟s private patient unit will also be included.

The hospital will also offer a range of outpatient and diagnostic facilities such as cardiology, radiology, lithotripsy, children‟s clinic, physiotherapy and orthodontics and space for a primary care hub with GPs, community nurses and other healthcare specialists.

The new Heatherwood

Hospital is the latest major development in Frimley Health‟s £200m capital investment programme.

In February 2018 the Trust unveiled a £10m upgrade to maternity services at Wexham Park Hospital, and a new £49m emergency and assessment centre is due to open on the site this spring.

The Trust is also spending a further £35m on improvements to its buildings and environments across other sites.

Frimley Health chief executive Neil Dardis said: “We are delighted that we can now deliver our vision for the Heatherwood site.

“The new hospital will ensure we can offer local patients the best care in the best environment and it is a key part of our strategy to remain an innovative and outstanding trust well into the future.”

Planned care centre to be ready in 2021

Heatherwood Hospital staff celebrate the start of the build

Artist’s view of the project

January 2019

Frimley’s diabetes team during Diabetes Awareness Week 2018

Constituency and governor meetings

Frimley Park gets DAFNE recognition

Constituency meeting 19 March, 7.30pm-9pm (Refreshments from 7pm) Address: Mercure Farnham Bush Hotel, The Borough, Farnham, GU9 7NN Constituency: Guildford, Waverley and Woking With: Mr Tom Poole, consultant ophthalmic surgeon – „Innovations in glaucoma and cataract surgery‟ Constituency meeting 2 April, 7.30pm-9pm (Refreshments from 7pm) Address: The Coppid Beech Hotel, John Nike Way, Bracknell, RG12 8TF Constituency: Bracknell Forest and Wokingham With: Dr Ottilia Speirs, consultant stroke physician – „FASTer management of stroke‟ Members and non-members are welcome to all constituency meetings. Governor/member meeting 26 February, 6.30pm-8pm Address: The Lakeside International Hotel, Wharf Road, Frimley Green, Camberley, GU16 6JR This meeting gives members a chance to meet governors without a director present, and with no clinical presentation.

Frimley Park Hospital‟s diabetes service has been recognised as a DAFNE teaching centre.

DAFNE, which stands for „dose adjustment for normal eating‟, has a wide evidence base for improving glycaemic control and quality of life in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

Patients attend a five-day course covering all areas of self-management, insulin dose adjustment and carbohydrate counting.

It has been funded through an ICS project bid commissioned by North

The urology departments at Wexham and Frimley Park have made significant improvements in the safe and accurate diagnosis of men with prostate cancer.

Around 11,000 men die annually from prostate cancer in the UK, and an earlier diagnosis in an improved pathway can improve outcomes.

Consultants Marc Laniado, pictured above right, and Simon Bott, pictured below right, run one-stop prostate cancer clinics with multi-parametric MRI and transperineal prostate biopsies on the same day.

About 20% of men can be reassured that significant prostate cancer is very unlikely without even needing prostate biopsies. For the rest, having a transperineal prostate biopsy with MRI-targeting means getting a confirmed diagnosis seven days later.

As a result, Frimley Health is one of the best performing trusts in the country for cancer targets.

Urologists use multiparametric MRI scans to exclude men from further diagnostic tests, but also to know the location of any cancer in the prostate.

Before MRI scans, urologists typically took untargeted transrectal biopsies, which risked missing cancers.

The lack of an mpMRI screen to immediately discharge those at minimal risk meant that some men were diagnosed with cancer that was potentially insignificant.

Significant progress in prostate care

East Hampshire and Farnham and Surrey Heath CCGs. The first course ran in April 2018 and a further

three have since been delivered. To refer a patient with Type 1 diabetes, please email fhft.dafne@nhs.net.

Referrals for intraoral lesions: Urgent v routine

The maxillofacial and oral surgery department at Wexham Park Hospital has provided the following guidance for colleagues when assessing intraoral lesions for referral. The aim is to ensure that all “two-week wait” referrals are appropriate and that patients have been referred using the most suitable pathway to serve their clinical need.