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cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:46 Page 6 6 Visual Identity Launched Last summer, a working group of interested staff, patient representatives from the Plymouth Local Improvement Network (LINk) and Governors worked with the Communications Team on creating a new visual identity (image and strapline) for the Trust. The strapline is built from our existing values, vision and patient promises and the aim was to create a visual that was clearly identifiable as Plymouth and healthcare. The Senior Management Team chose two of the four options put forward by the Working Group to put forward to a vote by all staff. We received 1,130 votes or comments from staff and key stakeholders and the below branding won by popular demand. Templates for Trust documents and user guidelines are now available on Healthnet, http://nww.picts.nhs.uk/PHNetLive/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=92. Please familiarise yourself with the guidelines before using the templates, it is essential that the visual is used consistently to retain the professional feel with which it has been put together. If you have any questions about the templates or how to use the imagery please contact the Press and Communications Team - pressoffice.phnt@nhs.net News from around the Trust Arise Sir Andrew Sir Andrew Hill KCIOM, Dip CII has been bestowed with the Rank of Knight Commander of the Illustrious Order of Merit by H.R.H. Prince Leonard of the Principality of Hutt River, Western Australia. Andrew was nominated for his voluntary work with Hospital Radio Plymouth. Andrew joined this charity as a 16-year-old school boy in 1983 and has volunteered continuously for it for 29 years. During that time he has won both internal and national awards for this work. He is well known for his commitment to visiting patients at their bedsides and engendering their interest in his shows before they go to air and getting them to choose songs or to have audio clips included in the shows from the patients and/or their families. The Principality of Hutt River is a micro-nation in Western Australia called which came into existence in 1970 and has operated under its own rule for the past 42 years.
cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:46 Page 7 7News from around the Trust Non-medical Prescribing: A Definite Change for the Better by Jonathan Palmer Over the past 20 years or so there have been massive changes to the way we manage the patient’s journey as they move along their disease trajectory. Indeed the way we work today would in many ways be completely ‘alien’ to a time travelling health professional from the late 80’s or early 90’s. Take for instance the issue of prescribing; prior to 1992 the only people who could legally prescribe in the UK were doctors, veterinary surgeons and dentists. Jonathon Palmer and some of the non-medical prescribing team The first changes to this prescribing ‘monopoly’ occurred in the early and mid 1990s when district nurses and health visitors were authorised to prescribe a very limited number of medicines from the Community Practitioners Formulary. Since the mid 2000s and increasingly over the past few years there are a number of Registered Health Professionals who can legally prescribe a wide range of drugs in an almost identical way to their medical colleagues. There are now in the region of 25 non-medical prescribers working within Plymouth Hospitals. The majority are nurses with a small but increasing number of pharmacists. Non-medical prescribers will have completed a year-long degree level course and work in amongst others paediatrics, neonatology, pain management, palliative care and thoracic medicine. Nonmedical prescribers can “prescribe timely, effective treatments for patients with specialist health needs”. This obviously benefits patients and the organisation. As well as providing more rapid access to medicines, non-medical prescribing has been shown to facilitate “more flexible patient orientated care”, “time savings” and “improved service efficiency”. Over the next few years as more training takes place there will be a growing number of non-medical prescribers both locally and across the NHS as whole. In the meantime further changes to legislation will enable physiotherapists and podiatrists to take on this exciting role. You can find out more about non-medical prescribing and its role with the NHS at: http://www.npc.nhs.uk/non_medical/ A Big Thank You to Amanda and Sarah Colin Putt from the Specialist Engineering Workshop in MEMS got in touch with Cascade recently... “I work in the Specialist Engineering workshop in MEMS, I am also the Officer in Charge of Plymouth Young Offenders Attendance Centre and recently staff from Derriford have delivered two excellent sessions at our centre on a Saturday. Amanda Clements delivered a superb session on drugs and alcohol and the effects on the body, this was a very important session because a lot of our attendees have issues relating to substance abuse. This session was followed two weeks later with a talk on resuscitation and emergency treatment delivered by Sarah Dormor. Both of these sessions were professionally delivered by these two dedicated and obviously committed staff to a, what most people consider a difficult target group. “The feedback from the young people, BRILLIANT. Thank you once again to Amanda and Sarah.” HCA Nicola Orme found the perfect way to keep warm - thanks to a considerate firefighter - during a recent fire alarm at the Royal Eye Infirmary!
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