Inpatient Update

It has been a busy time for the inpatient areas with lots of exciting changes and new staff joining us: A very big and warm welcome to:

Georgia Curtis our housekeeper on delivery suite. Georgia is responsible for monitoring and reporting our equipment on delivery suite, stocking and supporting patient meals. Georgia is working Monday-Friday from 8-4pm on delivery suite.

Sharran White Orchard ward manager who is job sharing with Gemma Cook. Sharran has a wealth of experience as a ward, ANC and birthing centre Manager.

Changes to our areas:

Triage:

Change to triage area from delivery suite or orchard ward on 20/2/23 went very well. Thank you to everyone involved in making it a success. We have had positive feedback from staff who have worked in the triage area. Thank you to the staff who have taken the time to make suggestions to make further improvements to the area to support you working safely and effectively. The renovations to triage on delivery suite are progressing positively. The next area for renovation after the triage area will include the midwives station.

A gentle reminder to support you working in triage:

- Complete the daily checklist for triage to support safe practice, found In a clear folder in triage.

- Wheel chair should be made available at all times in triage for safe transfer. This is currently the main method for transferring women in a urgent situation to delivery suite.

- Daily chase up and action of the blood and microbiology tests in ICE folder

- Any patient who attends triage and is found to be in advance labour or not coping should be transferred for assessment on delivery suite. This will minimise the risk of a delivery in a nonappropriate area.

GBS3 trial at Bedford went live on 2/3/23 this will change care for our women from a GBS perspective. Please make sure all midwives and Obstetricians look at the video that Alex has sent and sign the declaration form to say verify that you have had training. This is a very important piece of research which will hopefully define the way we screen for GBS in the future for every pregnant women.

Gentle Reminder:

- Mattress checks to be carried out monthly on every bed on Delivery suite and Orchard ward

- Monthly drug and fluid checks to check for expiry dates, send any expired drugs back to pharmacy and carry out stock rotation for patient safety

- To complete the weekend cleaning book found on delivery suite and Orchard ward

- RESUSITIARES are checked twice per day at the start of the LD or LN shift on orchard ward and on delivery suite

I’m Alex, the research midwife for Bedford Hospital. I coordinate all maternity research studies conducted on the Bedford site. My job role includes, working out the feasibility of new studies for Bedford hospital, liaising with various maternity departments about current and upcoming studies, conducting staff education, formal patient consenting and follow ups for each study.

I qualified as a Midwife in 2021 from the University of Bedfordshire, I then worked clinically in Cambridge and then moved over to Research at the beginning of this year. I am currently working on the GBS3 study which opened on the 2nd of March - This study is looking at the Group B Streptococcus bacteria and if testing all women will reduce the rates of GBS caused Neonatal sepsis.

Kind regards,

Alex Gurton

Welcome to the international Midwives that joined us this Month Cohort 12:

Onyinye Assumpta Ndunwa-Chidi (BH)

Ayodeji Olayinka Adeyoriju (L+D)

Karimot Titilope Oladosu (L+D)

Riskatu Mohammed Amin (L+D)

Juliet Yamoah (L+D)

Judith richerson (L+D)

Midwives that passed there OSCE this month:

Sara Doustitalkohi

Chiliebele Becky Okobi

Mahnaz Rahmanpour