Annual report 2010/11 - East Cheshire NHS Trust

Other awards and recognitionBritish Journal of Midwifery – National Midwife of the yearaward - Elaine Alston Practice Development Midwife andLabour Ward Co ordinator. Elaine has been described as aninspirational role model for midwives and works to supportexcellence in clinical practice and a safe service for mothersand babies.Royal College of Midwives – National Midwifery Team ofthe year - Sally Sharpley, Louise Yusef, Barbara Arrowsmithand Heather Millward Their winning project focused onmodernising maternity care at the trust, leading to aone-to-one care in labour rate of over 97%, a reducedlength of stay with a revised postnatal care pathway and arevamped parent education programme.UNICEF BFI stage 2 – The Maternity Unit staff undertook theUNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative UK award stage 2 assessmentin December and achieved a 100% success rate. The teamwere particularly complimented on their positive attitudetowards helping mothers to breastfeed and their hard workin improving practice since the previous assessment.Patient Passport – The ‘Patient passport’, developed withcolleagues at the David Lewis, Rossendale Trust, EastCheshire Advocacy and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership toease the path to medical treatment for people with learningdisabilities, was shortlisted for the Guardian Public Servicespartnership award in November 2010. The aim of the patientpassport is to improve the care and services available forpeople with learning disabilities. The new patient passportwas effectively used on the 9 December 2010 when anumber of students from Park Lane School came to visitMacclesfield District General Hospital. Starting at A&E, thegroup went on a guided tour of the areas they might visit inhospital. Showing their patient passports allowed trust staffto support their needs and enabled the students to practisewhat would happen on a real visit to a hospital.Staff wellbeingThe trust is in the second year of delivering an EmployeeWellbeing Strategy, which aims to support improvements instaff health and morale, and the associated increases inemployee productivity.Staff sickness and absenceOur trust target for sickness absence for the year is less than4.5%, which we achieved during 2010/11.The table below details the sickness absence percentagerate each month for the calendar year January toDecember 2010. Although these figures show seasonaldifferences (mainly during the winter months), the overalltrend is that sickness absence has continued to fall for thelast three years.Month% sicknessabsence rateJanuary 5.45February 4.60March 4.56April 4.08May 4.25June 4.03July 4.45August 4.42September 4.47During 2010 we promoted the message of staff health andwellbeing through a number of events, initiatives andregular publications focused on the key wellbeing objectivesto improve; physical and mental wellbeing, organisationalwellbeing and good people management, and economicand social wellbeing (with advice on retirement, pensionsand financial planning).October 4.30November 4.63December 5.54Total(12 month average) 4.46In 2011 we will continue to deliver this strategy, with aparticular focus on improving the way that absence fromwork is managed.4243