Here’s our latest nominations from Hertfordshire, Bradford, Sussex, Swansea and Surrey. To read the whole stories go to the ESTEEM gallery.
Hannah Twyford and the Covid-19 Physiotherapy Service, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust came together as a new team to provide a Covid-19 physiotherapy service across the learning disability and mental health units. They trained ward staff on physical health, positioning and managing the Covid-19 patient, particularly post viral rehab needs. They have safely supported staff and service users.
Elizabeth Newton and the Medical Respiratory Physiotherapy Team at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, (including non-respiratory physios) have been at the forefront of CPAP provision to COVID-19 patients outside Intensive Care. This enabled the Trust to focus its Critical Care bed base on patients who needed invasive ventilation and providing a safe environment for CPAP provision. They embraced true collaboration – vital to the Trust’s management of the pandemic.
Emma Francis, and the wonderful team of radiographers at Worthing and Chichester, Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust all pulled together to continue to provide a quality service. They altered shift patterns, increased night working and embraced training in unfamiliar areas. Sonographers and MRI radiographers supported a temporary on call service to provide 7-day access and the reporting radiographers changed their shift patterns to provide a 7-day service.
Charlotte Drinkald and the hard-working occupational therapy team at Gorseinon Hospital, Swansea Bay, comprising Charlotte, Tom, Georgia, Rhian and Julian, have done an amazing job facilitating discharges for many patients with complex needs. With the COVID outbreaks on the wards, it has been extremely difficult to work in PPE with physical tasks.
Alice Mayo and Gorseinon Hospital Physiotherapy at Swansea Bay comprising Myf, Alice, Jill, Beth, Ian, Alex, Alex, Kate, Anne and Becca have been fantastic, caring for a huge variety of patients with complex needs requiring rehabilitation and discharge. They faced many challenges such as wearing heavy PPE when rehabbing patients as well as adapting treatment plans without using a physio gym.
Wonderful work and care by the Community Physiotherapy team, Swansea Integrated Therapies who demonstrated an adaptive and flexible approach to delivering patient care to prevent hospital admission and continue urgent rehabilitation. The team provided face to face interventions in addition to telephone advice and utilising technology. For those unable to access physiotherapy, they posted home exercise programmes.
Gill Hickman and the Infection Control Team, Royal Surrey Foundation Trust increased their working hours overnight at the end of January 2020, way before the pandemic was declared, to handle the COVID-19 workload, supporting and training staff. The nurses moved to 7-day working with just 48-hours’ notice from mid-March and sustained this until June. They have been visible on all wards daily to help ensure safe placement and care of suspected and confirmed COVID patients.
We will be winding up the Advancing Healthcare ESTEEM in the next few weeks, so make your nominations now https://ahawards.co.uk/esteem/