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Bus service linking sites changed to meet demand A bus service between New Cross Hospital and Cannock Chase Hospital has had a timetable change. The X68 Monday to Friday service began linking the two sites in February this year. The bus is free of charge for NHS patients with an appointment letter from RWT, Trust staff with an ID badge, children up to the age of five and people over 60 with an ID card. Hourly services start at 6.54am in Wolverhampton and 7.30am in Cannock with stops at Wolverhampton Bus Station, Wednesfield Road, The Blue Brick, New Cross Hospital, Featherstone, Red White and Blue public house, Longford Road, Longford Centre, Cannock Bus Station and Cannock Chase Hospital. There is an additional bus at lunchtime with the last services of the day leaving Cannock Chase Hospital at 6.30pm arriving in Wolverhampton Bus Station at 7.06pm.
Slight rise in parking cost at New Cross PARKING charges at the New Cross Hospital site are subject to small increase delayed from April. Up to 15 minutes is currently free and will continue to be free. Up to 1 hour will remain at £2.30 and up to 3 hours will stay at £3.30. Up to 5 hours will see an increase of 30p, from £4.30 to £4.60. Up to 24 hours is currently £5.30 and will increase to £5.80. The seven day concession will rise from £14.50 to £15.50.
Gemma Smallman has vowed to banish pressure sores in the Trust’s intensive care service. She is pictured, right, with colleagues.
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ENIOR Sister Gemma Smallman is a nurse on a mission – to make sure there are no avoidable pressure ulcers on her wards on her watch. Not one for sitting in an office, she leads from the front as her teams past and present raise the bar to prevent any patients suffering avoidable pressure ulcers and her approach is already paying huge dividends. Gemma, a nurse with more than ten years’ experience who has worked in a variety of roles including intensive care, joined The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust in 2011 and, at short notice, began managing B7 ward in 2013. She said: “Pressure ulcers just don’t happen on ITU so I was
Gemma’s mission pays off
IN INTENSIVE CARE mortified to find a patient with a pressure ulcer. “All I could think about was the poor man – he could easily have been my dad. I got quite emotional but didn’t want to single out any particular nurse so I made sure everyone knew exactly what was expected.” That set out a new way of working with open discussion,
bespoke training, a daily safety brief, better documentation and pressure area checks on every vulnerable patient eight times a day. It worked and there had not been a single avoidable pressure ulcer on the ward when Gemma left in March this year. Gemma is now managing the C18 respiratory ward where her
methods and standards of practice have already been implemented. Nominated for various awards, she said: “I was humbled to be nominated but it’s not about me, it’s about the team work of the nurses and auxiliaries involved. I’m so proud of their dedication and their commitment to provide compassionate care to vulnerable patients.”
Staff’s Bright Ideas help improve care across the Trust STAFF whose “Eureka” moments have helped to improve the hospital and the jobs they do on a daily basis have been awarded. Everyone who works at the Trust was encouraged to come forward with suggestions as part of the Bright Ideas campaign, launched earlier this year. Nine winners were chosen and their ideas are being implemented into working practices. Their Bright Ideas range from improving recycling across the Trust, payslip information and the mandatory training process to more cost effective printing and
intranet improvements. The winners – Kelly Kauldhar, Diane Davies, Bernadette Tranter, Julie Shillingford, Ravinder Reehal, James Orotayo, Kerry Castle, Adrian Evans, Richard Morse and Lynne Fieldhouse – all received Love To Shop vouchers, which were presented to them by Director of Planning and Contracting Maxine Espley. The campaign was co-ordinated by the Trust’s Transformation Team, who used Twitter, Facebook, emails and site events during Bright Ideas Week to encourage
people to come forward. PMO Support Officer Rachel Ashcroft said: “We would like to thank every member of staff who has taken the time to put forward their idea. “The majority of ideas are being looked at on a departmental basis, however, a number of key projects have been identified and are being developed by the Transformation Team in partnership with senior members of staff.” A second Bright Ideas Week will take place in November and organisers are hoping they will get another good response.