ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

General Services
Portering Services
The department manages the provision of Portering services to a broad spectrum of hospital departments.
Departments serviced include complex areas such as Theatres, Laboratories, Pharmacy, Radiology and
Ambulatory Day Care Clinics. The department continues to develop its responsibility for the provision and
co-ordination of whole hospital activities such as waste management, post and patient transport.
Waste management continued to be a major focus and in 2007 the department was instrumental in
implementing a consolidated waste contract across all non-clinical waste streams. This saw a diverse
number of waste streams such as food, domestic, paper, building, WEEE, etc being consolidated under one
service provider. The new contractor Oxigen Limited had been working closely with the department in
developing initiatives such as recycling at source and the segregation of food waste.
The staff compliment in 2007 was 93. The Portering Services Manager is Gerry Noone. Gerry is in his 38th
year of service with the hospital. Finally congratulations to Dominic Loughlin for successfully completing
Fetac Level 5 and Anthony Walsh for completing Fetac Level 6 in Skills Vec.
Security
It is the intent of the St Vincent’s University Hospital to provide a safe and secure environment for all
employees, patients, visitors and contractors. Our security department plays a key role in the co-ordination
and delivery of our safety and security activities and operates on a 24-hour basis with particular focus on fire
and emergency response procedures.
Security was a key stakeholder in the development and implementation of a number of policies such as
Visiting Hours Policy, Patient Property Policy and a Restraint Handling Policy. The department participates
in a number of quality improvement committees such as the Safety, Risk and Quality Improvement Group,
Fire Safety Group and the Health & Safety Committee.
The department continued its roll-out programme for Access Control / ID cards with extra departments
coming on stream. To date all current employees have been issued with the new ID cards. This has
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