Cascade Summer/Autumn 2012 - Plymouth Hospitals
Cascade Summer/Autumn 2012 - Plymouth Hospitals
Cascade Summer/Autumn 2012 - Plymouth Hospitals
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cascade_summer_<strong>2012</strong>_1.5:<strong>Cascade</strong>_Winter_2011 23/10/<strong>2012</strong> 13:46 Page 5<br />
5News from around the Trust<br />
Peninsula Trauma Rehabilitation Prescription<br />
A key component and requirement for the Major Trauma Centre is for all patients to be discharged with a<br />
Rehabilitation Prescription to ensure<br />
patients receive the rehabilitation they<br />
need.<br />
The Trust has now been using this<br />
prescription for two months. At the end of<br />
April our Major Trauma Centre had the<br />
highest successful completion of the<br />
Rehabilitation Prescription - a huge<br />
achievement. This has been delivered by<br />
some really dedicated staff. Jude<br />
Fewings has co-ordinated and led the<br />
project for the Trust and has developed a<br />
professional document which has<br />
received favourable comments nationally.<br />
It could not have been done without the<br />
enormous assistance of the Trauma<br />
Nurse Co-ordinators Gemma Westran,<br />
Sharon Warne and Matthew Rawlins, who in<br />
the early days helped to firmly embed the<br />
new process and Julian Shafee the Trauma<br />
Network co-ordinator for helping with the<br />
many, many tweaks to the paper work.<br />
Back row L - R: Elfyn Thomas, Consultant; Sarah Godfree,<br />
Occupational Therapist; Katy Law, Physiotherapist; Jen<br />
Kingman, Speech and Language Therapist; Katie Ferns,<br />
Occupational Therapist<br />
Front row L - R:<br />
Emma McCulloch, Occupational Therapist; Matt Rawlins -<br />
Trauma Nurse Co-ordinator; Jude Fewings, Consultant<br />
Physiotherapist; Sharon Warne, Trauma Nurse Co-ordinator<br />
The development and the delivery of the<br />
prescription are down to our Allied Health Professionals on the wards. The bulk of the day to day<br />
completion falls to our physiotherapists, but everyone, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics and<br />
Speech and Language Therapy, are involved in the rehabilitation prescription and are sharing the<br />
responsibility for delivering completed prescriptions for our patients.<br />
Rehabilitation Prescriptions will need to be completed for patients on every transfer of their care in the<br />
future and so work will now start with the Trauma Units and our community colleagues to develop<br />
documentation fit for every stage of the patient’s journey. We are also keen for the nursing transfer<br />
documentation to be included with it so that the documentation identifies all of our patients needs on<br />
transfer.<br />
Unwanted motorcycle leathers,<br />
jackets or boots needed!<br />
The Peninsula Trauma Network is providing dedicated additional training to its trauma teams.<br />
They use the latest electronic mannequins to train but these need appropriate clothing.<br />
Motorcycle clothes will often need to be cut off and so they need to learn how to do this quickly<br />
and efficiently.<br />
If you can donate any of the above old clothing please contact<br />
Julian Shafee, Trauma Network Co-ordinator<br />
on 01752 437653 or julian.shafee@nhs.net