Trust Board papers November 2012 - Barking Havering and ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
TITLE:
Maternity Update – September 2012
BOARD/GROUP/COMMITTEE:
Trust Board
1. PURPOSE: REVIEWED BY (BOARD/COMMITTEE) and
DATE:
The purpose of this report is to provide the Trust
Board with an update on the monthly performance
for maternity services and other key issues.
The key areas to note are:
• Births continue to be high at 781 and are
red on the maternity dashboard.
• The escalation policy was implemented
once in September.
• 88% of women were seen in the triage by
a doctor within 30 minutes, in hours.
• Out of hours triage achieved 57% however
the data collection is not robust. A new
Proforma has been devised and
implemented. Early results are showing
significant improvements.
• The OAU achieved 95%.
• Women continue to be booked for delivery
at Bart’s Health to reduce activity at
BHRUT. The impact of this will commence
in late November 2012.
• A caseload transfer of women is likely to
occur in November 2012, the impact of this
on the deliveries will be in February 2013.
• A formal consultation on TUPE of staff has
commenced and will finish on 24 th October
2012. It is anticipated that 11 wte staff will
TUPE to Barts Health
• NELC are undertaking an assurance
review on 22 nd October 2012 to assess
readiness for reduction in capacity,
opening of QBC and closure of KGH
• Full recruitment of midwives for Queen’s
Birth Centre has taken place. The staff are
competent and trained.
• Discussions with Deanery continue with
regard to timing of closure of KGH
• Births are to be reduced to 8000 2013/14
• There were 2 SI’s reported SI’s in
September Full RCA are being
undertaken.
• Discussions have taken place with NELC
as to the future structure of the
performance report. The assurance
framework, maternity dashboard and
exemption report will now replace the
monthly reporting template The Directorate
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