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cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:47 Page 14 14 Accreditation for Imaging On the 23 and 24 April the Imaging department were visited by a nine strong inspection team who undertook an assessment of our imaging services and governance processes to see if we could be nationally accredited. The scheme is operated through The United Kingdom Accreditation Service and the Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme and requires organisations to be able to provide evidence relating to policies, practices, patient experiences, user and referrer feedback, clinical outcomes and safety measures across all sites they operate from. Which in our case includes Derriford Hospital, South Hams Hospital, Liskeard Hospital, The Cumberland Centre and the Radiology Academy in Plymouth. The accreditation is a relatively new development and only six organisations are currently accredited. Deborah Southon Project Manager, Steve Blake Superintendent Radiographer, Chris Haydon Senior Radiographer, Dr Simon Freeman Consultant Radiologist and Dr Gareth Porter, Consultant Radiologist Feedback was given at the end of the visit and, after submitting final evidence, we will be formally accredited in July. This is the culmination of over 18 months of hard work by the department and is a credit to them all. We will be the largest organisation nationally and the only one in the South West to be accredited. Awards and achievements ‘safe’ 4 Young People Congratulations to the GUM and PAC teams! The Department of Health’s You’re Welcome quality criteria lay out principles that will help services in the community to ‘get it right’ and become young people friendly. Services achieving the local You’re Welcome ‘safe’ badging scheme ensure young people are offered consistent sexual health advice where ever they see the ‘safe’ badge. In order for a service to gain the ‘safe’ accreditation they have to work through a comprehensive self-assessment toolkit which is then verified by the local ‘safe’ for young From left to right: Dr Zoe Warwick, Consultant in GU Medicine; Claire Kean, Support Manager; Sue Holmes, Prevention Worker for the Eddystone Trust and Dr Rachel Challenor, Consultant in GU Medicine people lead and this toolkit covers 9 sets of criteria: access; publicity; confidentiality and consent; environment; staff training; skills, attitudes and values; joined up working; monitoring and evaluation, and involvement of young people; health issues for young people; sexual and reproductive health (SRH) Plymouth’s Genitourinary Medicine & the Pregnancy Advisory Centre (GUM & PAC) have gone through the ‘safe’ process and are able to demonstrate that they are young people friendly in all of the nine criteria. Plymouth’s lead for ‘safe’ has verified the service and has awarded them with the ‘safe’ badge and comments as below: “All staff involved with GUM & PAC has worked extremely hard to evidence and ensure this service is able to offer a consistent and high quality sexual health service for young people. Everyone should be very proud of themselves for this achievement.”
cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:47 Page 15 15Awards and achievements Accreditation for Heart Service Staff in the Cardiology Department at Derriford Hospital are celebrating after the service they provide has been nationally recognised and formally accredited. It has taken several years of targeted hard work at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust in order to achieve the goal of British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) Departmental Accreditation and we are pleased to say we are the first department in the South West to gain this accolade. BSE Departmental Accreditation represents a benchmark of quality and excellence. It indicates to patients, commissioners and health professionals alike that an echocardiography department meets these standards. The hard work that has gone in to improving our service has had a direct beneficial impact on our patients. The Cardiology Department were visited by a small team of senior Cardiologists and Physiologists from the BSE who undertook an assessment of the service. Following this assessment the BSE have awarded the Cardiology Department accreditation in Transthoracic Echocardiology, Transoesophageal Echocardiology and in Training in Echocardiography. Dr Gareth Morgan-Hughes, Consultant Cardiologist at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, explains: “An echocardiogram, also known as an echo, is mainly carried out by Cardiac Physiologists to allow them to look at the structure of a patient’s heart and how well it functions. It uses sound waves that echo against the structures in the heart, which helps to build up a detailed picture of the heart. “Echocardiograms provide us with valuable information about valve and muscle function that can be important in very sick patients. This enables potentially life-threatening heart conditions to be diagnosed quickly and accurately.” Dr Morgan-Hughes continues: “As a department we have been accredited by the BSE for transthoracic echocardiograms, where a probe is placed on the chest wall and images are take through the chest wall so we can assess the overall health of the heart and for transoesphageal echocardiograms, where a probe is passed into the oesophagus (gullet), which lies behind the heart, so detailed images of the heart valves can be taken. In addition, we have been accredited to provide training in echocardiography to other healthcare professionals up to individual BSE accreditation levels. “Every member of the echo service here has contributed to enable us to achieve this accreditation and we are all proud of this.” Congratulations Rachel Rachel Garlick has been successful in being appointed to the role of Clinical Skills Tutor for the Peninsula Simulation Suite. This is a significant appointment which will help to increase the provision of simulation training across a wide variety of disciplines at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. Rachel will commence her new role on the 29th October 2012. Talking about her appointment Rachel said: “This is a really exciting opportunity and I can’t wait to get started.”
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