However when new paper outlets who had ran the Noprthern Trust statment were appraoched on this none of yet are to print the information that shows that the Northern Trust lied to the public in their media statement
In a recent statement from the Northern Health Trust it was stated that there was improvements in their control of hospital acquired infections, however this could not be further from the Truth.
However when new paper outlets who had ran the Noprthern Trust statment were appraoched on this none of yet are to print the information that shows that the Northern Trust lied to the public in their media statement
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MId Ulster Hospital Cut as NHSCT Go Private for Inpatients - Brooklands Awarded £400k Contract11/29/2012 The Northern Health & Social Care Trust (NHSCT) has cut more inpatient beds in Trust owned facilities in favour of spending money to send patients to privately owned health clinics. The project was headed by former Director of Acute Services Valerie Jackson, read more on here removal from the NHSCT link On the 27th November 2012, at a publically recorded meeting hosted in the Sandal Centre, Coleraine, John Compton CEO of the Health & Social Care Board and Sean Donghy CEO of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust both stated that Northern Ireland has to many inpatient beds in its hospitals. While in the same instance they are so short for beds that they now have to pay private health companies to hire out their beds. Brooklands Private Health Centre as been awarded £430,155 of tax payers money to provide 15 intermediate health care beds, not unlike the type of beds that have recently been removed from the Mid Ulster Hospital. In addition to this Dalriada Urgent Care was awarded £86,418 to provide back up services. The question is are our Hospitals too big or too small? Evidence would suggest to small and getting smaller every month. The most affected people here will be elderly people living in Mid Ulster and their families. This is sickening that this is happening during the consultation for the future of health in Northern Ireland, how much do people in Mid Ulster have to suffer before there are clear, sustainable and identifiable services in Mid Ulster. Save The Mid revealed in October the loss of beds within the NHSCT, "Within the Northern Trust for the year 2011/12 a total of 97 beds was lost, 38% of which were in the Mid Ulster hospital. Since the Northern Trust came into effect a total of 362 beds have been lost. Although the Trust intends to open a new 24 bedded ward at the Antrim there will still be a net loss of beds, bed shortages are one of the most clinical dangers within the Trust, one which they compound by their own actions." - read more here BED LOSS NHSCT For more information the dangers of Bed Shortages read Rutter and Hinds report, as according to Valerie Jackson, former Director of Acute Services NHSCT, 90% of all patients left waiting in A&E was due to the fact there were no beds - Link The reason why Mid Ulster hospital in not utilised more is due to the fact that before the end of public consultation in January 2013 the government want to shut it down regardless of what the public say. Unfortunitly for Mid Ulster residents they have been mislead once again by the government in the publications that have been recieved. Contracts awarded by NHSCT
DRAFT DELIVERY PLAN 2012/13D
The NHSCT have published their Mid Year Assurance statement, this has shown several issues that the Trust are facing.
The Mid Year Assurance Statement has been received from Internal Audit and the following audits have received limited assurance:
There have been several reactions to the new A&E unit at Antrim Area Hospital:
Several questions must be answered before further reconfiguration of services: will the new A&E that is the same operational size as the previous one in Antrim really be able to serve 90,000 patients a year, & will it be able to admit patients any faster than its predecessor. In May 2012 the performance of Antirm A&E was the third worst in its history, yet there has been silence by the Health Minster and politicians regarding this. The below graphs show the constant downward spiral of performance at the troubled Antrim Area Hospital. Graph to show 5 year performance of Antrim A&E. Green line is performance, Purple line is the target it should be at. Graph to show the amount of patient treated between 4-12 hours at Antrim Area A&E. The bigger the lined area the more patients waiting over the target of 4 hours to get treated. Mr Hugh McCloy Save the Mid 1 June 2012 Dear Mr McCloy, Accident & Emergency Services At its meeting on Wednesday 20 June 2012 the Committee will be taking evidence from the Department for Health, Social Services & Public Safety on the work of the A&E Improvement Action Group. At its meeting on Wednesday 31 May the Committee agreed to write seeking your views on the current provision of Accident & Emergency Services and any ideas you would have for improving waiting times. I would be grateful if you could provide me with a response by Wednesday 13 June 2012. Yours sincerely Dr Kathryn Bell Save The Mid's full response will be available to download in due course Governance
Complaints received for April2012 totalled 50, with 39 (78%) being responded to within 20 working days. The target for 2010/11 was 72% within 20 working days and the Trust achieved 64%. The position for May is not yet available. Patients waiting in A&E over 12hrs for treatment must be reported as Serious Adverse Incidents under DHSSPS guidance. There were 240 cases reported to DHSSPS for May 2012. 14 of these cases were related to Ambulance breaches which were attributed to the Trust. Access Targets/Waiting Times Elective In-patients and daycases – As at the 31st May there were 1,612 NHSCT patients waiting over 13 weeks, 409 of which are IS transfers. 248 patients were breaching the Trust Plan backstop positions at the end of May 2012, 111 of which are IS transfers. 75% of total patients were waiting within 13 weeks. (Information validated weekly by operational staff). New backstops applied for quarter 1 2012/13. Out-patients - As at the 31st May there were 5,333 NHSCT patients waiting over 9 weeks, 2,103 of which are IS transfers. An additional 267 patients were waiting over 9 weeks for ICATS specialties. There were 404 patients breaching the Trust Plan backstop positions at the end of May 2012, 174 of which are IS transfers. (Information validated weekly by operational staff) New backstops applied for quarter 1 2012/13. Diagnostics – As at 31st May there were 515 Cardiology patients, 1 Respiratory Physiology and 28 Urodynamic patients waiting over 9 weeks. AHPs - As at 31st May there were 177 patients waiting over 9 weeks, 101 Occupational Therapy, 2 Orthoptics, 47 Physio and 27 Speech & Language. Mental Health waiting list – As at 31st May, there were 107 (CAMHS) patients in breach of the 9 week target. Psychological Therapies continues to be monitored against the 13 week target and there were 12 patients in breach of this target. Accident & Emergency All patients should be seen within 12 hours. During May the Trust had 240 patients in excess of this target. 14 of these breaches were requests to the NI Ambulance Service (NIAS) outside of a 4 hour request target. Within the overall Trust A&E sites there were 73% of patients who had been seen and discharged within 4 hours for May. The target is 95% at each individual site. Both Antrim and Causeway sites continue to fall below the target. An Unscheduled Care Programme Board has been setup including an Improvement group to identify and implement actions for A&E. Responsibility for 12-hour breaches for patients who require ambulance transport from the Emergency Department is as follows: - Where a patient requiring NIAS transport from the Emergency Department waits longer than 12 hours, the breach will be attributed to NIAS if the transport was requested within four hours of the patient presenting to the Emergency Department. - If however the request for ambulance transport is made after four hours of the patient presenting at the Emergency Department, the breach will be attributed to the relevant Trust. This is the first report from Save The Mid, it was created during the closure of Acute services at the Mid Ulster Hospital site.
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Ref: STM/10/0001 HAS THE NORTHERN TRUST, MISLED THE PUBLIC AND THE ASSEMBLY According to hospital statistics as provided by the DHSSPS (link), it shows that in terms of A&E care Antrim hospital was already underachieving in terms of dealing with the input of patients. With the closure of Mid Ulster and White Abbey a&e there will be a greater input of patients from the surrounding areas, in the range of 2500 +. Health Minister, Michael Mc Gimpsey, is already on record stating that the closure of the two sites in Mid Ulster and White Abbey is not based on a financial factor, but based on a factor of health and safety for patients. The following tables in two different formats clearly show that before the closure the health and safety of patients in Antrim hospital was at a critical standing, one that will in the coming months only be added to. Points of Interest · Waiting over 12 hours, Antrim. April 2009 = 17 / April 2010 = 299 · % seen in less than 4 hours, Antrim. April 2009 = 79% / April = 61.1% Edwin Poots denies the corridor ward at Antrim Hospital where hundreds of patients have been left waiting on trolleys since the removal of A&E services at the Mid Ulster Hospital, Magherafelt.
Edwin Poots knows this ward exists, as Save The Mid spoke of this ward in a face to face meeting with Save The Mid. CEO Sean Donaghy of the Northern Health & Social Care Trust also recognises the existence of this new corridor ward, when asked by Save The Mid on this ward, at Trust Board, Sean Donaghy spent some time explain to the board the location of the wards that are in the below assembly question. This discussion was held in Fern House, Antrim Area Hospital at the monthly Trust board meeting. Why now is the Health Minister saying it does not exist? There are real human beings inside this ward and to deny them is to deny the the Dignity of treatment that they should receive post the Rutter & Hinds report. Antrim Area Hospital Admissions Mr McClarty asked the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, in relation to the performance figures on emergency care published by his Department, to detail the number of patients at the Antrim Area Hospital admitted to the (i) short stay ward; (ii) clinical decision ward; and (iii) corridor ward located outside the clinical decision ward, between 1 September 2011 and 30 April 2012. (AQW 12478/11-15) Mr Poots: (i) Between 1 September 2011 and 30 April 2012, 614 patients left the Antrim Area Hospital Emergency Department to be admitted to the short stay ward. (ii) The ‘clinical decision ward’ within the Antrim Area hospital, closed in June 2011. (iii) There is no ‘corridor ward located outside the clinical decision ward’ within the Antrim Area Hospital. . No complacency when it comes to safety – Poots We must never be complacent when it comes to patient safety and quality care and continue to improve services.
~ Wednesday, 13 June 2012 That was the message from the Health Minister Edwin Poots as he addressed the Northern Ireland Patient Safety Conference today in the Stormont Hotel, Belfast. Speaking to national and regional experts in patient safety, the Minister said: “I have made clear from my first day as Minister that the underlying objective for the entire health system is to protect and improve the quality of services we deliver. The health service must be safe, effective and totally focussed on the patient. They are at the heart of everything we do. “We must be realistic. While the majority of patients experience care that is safe and of a very high quality, there are occasions, in such highly complex and stressful environments, things will go wrong for many different reasons. The onus is on everyone in the health service to learn from these incidents and minimise, if not completely eradicate the risk of reoccurrence. “It is for that reason that I launched my Department’s quality strategy – Quality 2020. This provides a framework and plan of action to protect and improve quality in health and social care over the next 10 years and beyond. “Of course, there will be challenges ahead, particularly around the financial constraints we face, but there are many opportunities to improve what we do and make the health service more effective. We must never be complacent, we must always strive for better and continue to question what we do.” Notes to editors: 1. The Department of Health's Quality 2020 strategy, can be found online |
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