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WelcomeTop-speed service helps savepatient’s lifeBirth Centre welcomes 1,000thbaby!£513,000 cash boost to makehospital dementia-friendlyFirm’s efforts lead to £60,000donationYour NHS hero 5New governors elected to theCouncil of GovernorsWhat are ‘Quality Accounts’and why should they mattersCouncil of Governors BusinessupdatePatients Experience TeamPutting Patients First34456-778-910Our Headlines 11-14Annual Members Meeting andExperience MattersMembership ImprovementPriorities 2013/14Campaign tells patients it is‘OK to ask’ about clinical trialsMum raises money forneonatal unitMembership updates anddates for your diary1516171718Invitation to a Stroke Event 19Friends and Family Test 19Bradford doctor helps developnew endoscopy unit in St Lucia 20-21Every year as part of the Foundation Trust’sAnnual Report a ‘Review of the Year‘ is compiled.This year’s 2012/13 review gives us time to reflectand consider just how many positive achievementstake place day in, day out, across the whole ofour organisation. They also demonstrate acrossthe board how we continue to fulfil our vitalcorporate objectives:• Modern, Fit for Purpose Facilities and Equipment• More Care Closer to Patients’ Homes• The Best Quality and Safety of Care Resulting inoutstanding Patient Satisfaction• A Specialist Centre for West Yorkshire• A Nationally Recognised Centre of Excellence forEducation and Applied Health Research• The Right Staff, with the Right Training, in theRight Place at the Right TimeI hope you will take time to read this positivereview that celebrates our achievements as welook forward, with renewed vigour, to the yearahead.I would also like to use this opportunity toinvite you to join myself and our Governors onWednesday 18 September for our first AnnualMembers Meeting and our special showcase event‘Experience Matters; sharing expertise to developexcellence’. You can read more about this veryspecial day on page 15. Myself, our Governors, ourBoard of Directors and our staff look forward tomeeting you then.Trust welcomes new chaplains 22Special gift in babies’ memory 22Vitamin D and benefits itbrings to our bodies23David RichardsonChairmanUseful Contact InformationBack CoverFOCUS August 2013 page 2
Patient Keith Robertshaw is picturedwith Dr Hawraman Ramadan andnurse Sabina Akhtar.Picture courtesy of Guzelian.The swift action of ambulance and hospital staff has helped save thelife of a 70-year-old stroke patient who received clot-dissolving drugsjust 22 minutes after arriving at our Emergency Department.Doctors, nurses and radiographersall worked seamlessly to ensurethe 5cm clot in Keith Robertshaw’sbrain was shattered - and at 22minutes the team halved thenational average time taken athospitals which are centres ofexcellence for treating strokes.In that short time Keith, whowas paralysed down his right sideand unable to speak or see half ofhis right visual field, was assessed,had blood tests, was given a CTscan, had the scan results analysedand was administered the drug.It was also the biggest clot everseen by consultant neurologist,Dr Hawraman Ramadan whodescribed Keith’s recovery as‘miraculous.’In just 60 minutes from makingthat emergency call, he had beenrushed to hospital from his homein Sandy Lane, Bradford, and hadbeen given the drug by BRI stroketeam co-ordinator, Ian Melvin,which he desperately neededand which can only be given upto four and a half hours after thestroke.Dr Ramadan added: “Time isof the essence when it comes totreating strokes. For every minutewasted two million nerve cells inthe brain die. There are three keyparts to this story.“First Mrs Robertshaw’s swiftthinking, secondly the ambulancegetting to him quickly andwarning us he was coming in toA&E and then the A&E, stroke andCT teams working together andacting very fast.“The national average atcentres of excellence for strokesgiving the treatment he got fromus is 45 minutes but we did itin 22 minutes – we broke ourown record, halved the nationalaverage and he got the drughe needed 61 minutes after theonslaught of his stroke at home.“From a clot that size, thebiggest I have seen in thethousands of CT scans I’ve lookedat, I really did not expect thisrecovery. I had warned the familyto expect the worst.”A follow-up CT scan showedthe long clot had dissolved insidethe main artery which suppliesthe left-side of the brain withblood and Keith was back athome three weeks later, after ashort spell at St Luke’s stroke andneurology rehabilitation ward.Dr Ramadan said: “We willkeep an eye on Keith for a whileto make sure his blood pressure isunder control and advise him ona healthy lifestyle – then the ball isin his court.”A stroke can be diagnosed using FAST:Facial weakness - has the person’s face drooped, usually down one side.Arm weakness - is the person able to lift both arms above their head.Speech problems - does the person’s speech sound slurred.Time to call 999 if one or more of these symptoms are present.FOCUS August 2013 page 3
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