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Dispensing robot will cut wastage Pharmacy staff are planning a huge welcome to an important member of their team – an automated dispensing robot. The robot is part of the automation that will allow the team to spend more time on wards talking to patients, nurses and doctors about medicines and improving processes. It will help reduce wastage, for example, by giving pharmacy staff more time to check medicines that patients bring in and to review patients’ medical histories. It will also reduce the chance of dispensing errors and speed up the delivery of medicines. The current target turnaround time for pharmacy dispensing a discharge prescription is two hours from receipt of prescription. It is estimated the robot will half that time and help patients get home sooner. Around 80 percent of medicines kept in pharmacy will be held by the robot and be linked to the computer system within the department. When an order is placed, the required medicines will be picked by a robotic arm and delivered to the dispensary work station by conveyor belt. The robot installation cost An end to duplicate paper copies of letters GP practice staff will no longer receive paper copies of consultant’s outpatient letters from Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Last month, February, the paper system was switched off which means that practices will no longer receive both electronic and paper versions of the same correspondence. For the past few months both electronic and paper versions of letters have been sent to practices in parallel but this will remove any duplication. E-letters from Airedale are sent via a task on SystmOne so that GPs and practice staff are able to see the £410,000 which included design of the floor space and it is due to be completed by the end of this month (March). The giant piece of equipment (10m x 3m) will be located inside the current pharmacy department. It comes with two picking arms, a refrigerated section, and an additional set of cabinets for storage and management of controlled drugs. Nick Chilton, clinical director of pharmacy and medicine management at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The project has been in the Trust’s capital plan for some years and the pharmacy team is very excited. It has become a reality with help from the Department Of Health’s Safer Wards – Safer Hospital Fund and the Trust’s digital care programme. “Not only will the project improve safety and improve patient experience, it will also reduce stock holding of medicines within pharmacy. The robot is an integral part of redesigning the pharmacy department and a key development in supporting the transformation of pharmacy services. Altogether, it’s a great return on investment.” information from patients’ hospital outpatient appointments with consultants as soon as it is available. For practices that do not receive electronic communication, the system will automatically generate a printed letter. A number of other items of correspondence will continue to be sent via paper in the post but there should no longer be any duplicates. David Worth, programme director for digital care at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “This is another step towards a paperlite digital care record.” Over to you, dad: fathers can now support their partners overnight Dads can stay over too once baby is born New dads can now give extra support both night and day thanks to a new scheme that encourages partners to stay over after the birth of their baby. The new facility, on ward 21 at Airedale Hospital, was introduced in response to requests from parents. Supported by one of the hospital’s charities, Friends of Airedale, the maternity team have bought temporary folding beds for side rooms on the ward so that partners can stay over. Val Henson, ward manager on the maternity unit at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said they had received a very positive response to the new facilitity. She said: “Having a new baby is a special experience for both parents and many dads felt they were missing out when they had to leave at night. “By staying overnight they become involved in their babies’ care right from the start and also support their partner, which can really help, particularly if they are tired or not very mobile after the birth.” 3
Giant mural’s child-friendly appeal A giant mural has been created for the walls of Airedale Hospital’s Emergency Department to help parents distract their children as they wait to be seen. It is the first hospital project artist Lorraine Duff has ever worked on and the largest canvas – 47 square metres compared to A5 size greetings cards – almost 1,500 times larger. The design was digitally printed and installed by sign and graphics company New Vision, in Bradford, who have also provided lots of wall art for dementia projects for the Trust on four wards and have started to specialise in projects for various health organisations. They also designed the donor tree artwork in the lobby of Airedale’s Emergency Department. The £3,475 mural was funded by the Emergency Department Appeal and is on the children’s corridor which links the children’s waiting room to the children’s treatment rooms and X-ray measuring about 20m long. Meg Crossley, emergency department consultant at Airedale Pictured back from left, Paul Jennings, consultant; Tony Stead of New Vision and Alex Danecki consultant. Front row from left Oliver Brown aged three; Oliver Hird, four, and Amber O’Neill, four, from Nightingale’s nursery. NHS Foundation Trust, said previously the corridor was very long and plain. She said: “Many parents and children have told me they think the mural is lovely. It provides distraction and something to talk about as they move around the department and the corridor has a really friendly feel now.” Lorraine worked for many years as a designer in the greeting card industry. When she was made redundant she became a freelance illustrator and designer from her home in Birkenshaw and now helps to look after her 15-month-old grand daughter. She completed the design digitally at her home and created something she would like to see on her grand daughters’ bedroom wall. Lorraine said: “I have never worked on such a large scale project but I really enjoyed it. I love the outdoors, it was inspired by the countryside and the natural world. We do a lot of family walks and visits to the Sculpture Park with its ever changing exhibitions all set in a stunning landscape.” Artist Lorraine Duff Guests enjoy tour of new emergency department Around 70 guests enjoyed a tour of Airedale Hospital’s new £6.3m Emergency Department, before it opened on 3 December, to see its state-of-the-art facilities during a special preview event. You can see the new department for yourself as a video has been made for those who did not get the chance to take part. Visit our website at www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/services/ accident-and-emergency/ During the preview, Bridget Fletcher, chief executive of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, explained how the new unit fits in with future plans for urgent care and has benefits for the local community. Ron Drake, non-executive director, thanked everyone involved in the project and both Emergency Department staff and patients for their patience whilst using a temporary unit for the past 12 months. Meg Crossley, consultant and project lead, said how grateful her team were for the generous donations to buy new equipment Pictured cutting the celebratory cake are: Bridget Fletcher, chief executive; Ron Drake, deputy chair of Board; Meg Crossley; emergency department consultant, patients Martin Quirk and Gareth Scott and make improvements to the environment. The building of the new department began in Autumn 2013 and its new facilities include separate adult and children’s waiting areas, distraction walls in the paediatric treatment rooms, a quiet room for friends and families to use during stressful events and better privacy and dignity for vulnerable older patients and their families and carers. Enter and view visit goes well Healthwatch North Yorkshire carried out an enter and view visit to Airedale Hospital to gather the views of patients, relatives and carers about their experience of the services being provided. The teams visited ward 2 (medical admissions), 4 (acute elderly medicine), 5 (stroke) and 6 (endocrinology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine). They also visited outpatients and the Telehealth Hub. Findings showed that the hospital was operating to a very good standard of care, highlighting many positives but also some recommendations for driving services forward. Alison Fuller, assistant director for healthcare governance at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We welcome the findings of this visit, as they give us areas we can improve on, as well as highlighting positive work happening throughout the Trust.” The full report can be found at www.healthwatchnorthyorkshire. co.uk/enter-view-reports 4
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