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Agenda and supporting papers - Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

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the Forum in targeting winter funding.<br />

Bed Programme<br />

The aim of the Bed Programme was to deliver the appropriate bed<br />

base for the <strong>Trust</strong>’s patient flow by:<br />

• Ensuring patients were cared for in the most appropriate<br />

setting.<br />

• Preventing the<br />

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cancellation of surgical patients.<br />

• Operating at a manageable occupancy rate across medicine<br />

<strong>and</strong> surgery to provide personal, high quality, safe care.<br />

The Bed Programme identified the difference between current <strong>and</strong><br />

optimal capacity as 56 beds. It proposed the establishment of:<br />

R<br />

• 20 short stay medical beds driven by the known increase in<br />

patients who stay 0-2 days.<br />

• 26 Healthcare of the Elderly beds on Monkswell ward.<br />

• 10 in-ward escalation beds.<br />

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The cost of this investment in the current year was £2.246m for the<br />

additional 74.05WTE staff, with a full year effect of £3.388m. In<br />

addition, capital costs associated with relocating services, including a<br />

further relocation of the Preoperative Assessment Unit, totalled £665k.<br />

The main risks associated with delivery were:<br />

F<br />

• Recruitment.<br />

• Internal professional st<strong>and</strong>ards.<br />

Mr Brown drew the Board’s attention to the risks to delivery <strong>and</strong> to<br />

their mitigations set out in the presentation <strong>and</strong> in the accompanying<br />

report. Mr Brown suggested<br />

T<br />

that the most significant risk was the<br />

failure to deploy the enhanced community workforce to support<br />

patients in an alternative environment when winter pressures hit. Dr<br />

Williams stated that there was no reason why the <strong>Trust</strong> should not be<br />

proactive in this regard. Mr Baber agreed, staff could function outside<br />

of the footprint of the hospital; other organisations did so with a<br />

significant positive impact on bed availability.<br />

The Board considered the proposals. In so doing, the main points of<br />

discussion were:<br />

• Uncertainty as to whether 26 beds was sufficient to cope with<br />

the variation in dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> whether this number would meet<br />

changing local demographics. Ms O’Brien stated the <strong>Trust</strong><br />

would require thirteen additional beds to cope with future<br />

dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> a work stream was reviewing this.<br />

• Mr Wilkins queried the degree of clinical involvement in these<br />

proposals. Mr Baber stated that the Care Group Directors had<br />

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