The Department of Health and Social Care will be investing tens of millions of pounds into NHS Trusts in the South – welcome news for local residents, says Eastleigh MP Mims Davies.
Commenting, Mims said:
“This year the NHS celebrates 70 years of being there when we most need it and supporting the most vulnerable people in our communities. This has only been possible thanks to the many NHS living across the Eastleigh constituency and the fantastic work that they do in the NHS in various roles. Indeed, I have been delighted to meet with local junior doctors, representatives from the Royal College of Nurses when we have discussed NHS pay and working standards. I also welcomed the opportunity to recently thank one of our areas Cancer Ambassadors in person.
“Following these discussions, last week I welcomed confirmation that, thanks to our strong and growing economy, these amazing NHS staff together with their colleagues will receive a pay rise worth between 6.5% and 29% over three years. This week, there is further good news for the future of our NHS with the South’s local NHS Trusts receiving a cash injection totalling tens of millions of pounds.
“Having raised the need for extra capacity locally, I am particularly pleased to learn that four modern operating theatres will be created. This will vastly improve the experiences that my constituents have, with patients being treated more quickly and more operations taking place locally.
“I also welcome that this extra funding will lead to a better level of maternity care, both before, during and following the birth. This is an issue that I have met with campaigners over recently, and it is great to see the Department focussing on maternity services across our area.”
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THEATRES
The Solent Acute Alliance (SAA) is made up of three organisations University Hospitals Southampton, Portsmouth Hospitals and the Isle of Wight Hospital. Some patients have chosen an NHS hospital but cannot be accommodated due to capacity constraints. To address this both Portsmouth Hospitals and University Hospital Southampton need to expand their capacity. The STP sets out those surgical flows will continue to increase. New capacity is needed to deliver the 5.2% increase. The Hospitals in the SAA are currently outsourcing circa 3,000 cases of theatre activity per annum. Further cases are out-sourced directly to the private sector. Capacity is needed to repatriate the activity which is supporting the delivery of national performance targets and contracted volumes. It would deliver efficiencies and savings to the system. Both Portsmouth and Southampton could create new theatre capacity. University Hospital Southampton NHS FT (UHSFT) has a plan to create a new theatre. It also requires a 2nd theatre to repatriate further outsourced patients. Similarly Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT) has 2 theatre shells but would require capital to equip and commission them. This is the preferred option as this allows patients to be treated safely at a hospital of their choice; it maintains RTT performance and saves the NHS £1.6m. The key benefits of these schemes are: Patients will be able to be treated in a timely manner in the Hospital of their choice; Maintain RTT standards; Costs will be reduced as the ‘margin’ currently enjoyed by the private sector will form part of an NHS CIP scheme – this is valued at £1.6m. The physical assets obtained are 4 modern theatres.
PHARMACY – PROCUREMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
Portsmouth Hospital Trust Regional Drug Procurement Centre (RDPC) to become the main procurement site & distributor for alliance partners, enabling savings to be made on stock holding and metrics such as daily deliveries and improving use of pharmacy staff time. PHT to secure a larger site, and develop infrastructure to possess capacity to procure and distribute to alliance partners. Investment in technology to support electronic ordering, invoicing and payment, improving performance against carter metrics. Locate and procure a site appropriate to support increased activity, in a centralised location between all sites, before March 2020 when the current lease expires; Centralise all medicines procurement for PHT, IoWT and UHSFT through a single procurement, storage and distribution facility, location TBC, by the end of the first quarter of 2019; The scheme meets the needs of the Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan in delivering increased efficiency, quality, consistency and sustainability. Organisations impacted by this are Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, all customers of the current PHT RDPC and other stakeholders. Key Benefits: Improve performance in order to meet national targets; Reduction in costs through economies of scale; Better management of contracts and associated product changes; Reduction in stockholding on each site; More efficient use of staff time both clinical and clerical. The current PHT RDPC is not sufficient to service the requirements of expansion, and therefore a new site will be sourced, procured and refitted to meet the physical requirements of the new model RDPC.
MATERNITY CARE RECORD
The scheme will transform the traditional delivery of maternity services across Hampshire and IOW through : Implementation of an integrated digital infrastructure to support new models of care; An online record for the mother that can be accessed by the mother and all of her care givers along the maternity pathway in any care setting, delivered through My Medical Record an online patient service known as a patient held record (PHR) which has already been developed by UHS. A clinical tracker within MyMR allowing the mother and her care givers to track her pregnancy, birth and transition into postnatal care ensuring the right care and information is provided at the right time; A single maternity system for all four trusts in Hampshire providing realtime data collection and integration with other trust systems; Integration between the single maternity systems and the four trusts diagnostic services to ensure high availability of results and tests; Enhanced management and reporting through integrated information and the ability to collect maternity data in different care settings particularly in community. Current service issues are documented within the Better Births five year forward strategy which was an outcome of the National Maternity Review. These issues will be addressed by providing: an virtual online service for mothers that delivers : Personalised care, centred on the woman, her baby and her family, based around their needs and their decisions, where they have genuine choice, informed by unbiased information. My Medical Record can be customised for the women and provide her personal health record; Continuity of carer. The MyMR will allow care teams across Hampshire to collaborate with the women and manage her care. Geographical boundaries will no longer be an issue; Safer care, with professionals working together across; leadership for a safety culture within and across organisations; and investigation, honesty and learning when things go wrong.
The organisations impacted by the scheme are UHS, PHT, HHFT and IOW. Key benefits: Contemporaneous record keeping across SHIP; Improved Information Governance; Reduction in duplication/ repeat of tests; Improved opportunities for safeguarding of Children; Improved mother experience. Physical assets obtained are a single maternity system for the HIOW patch to be implemented in all four acute services. Full development of the MyMR platform to support maternity pathway. IT infrastructure to support solutions including servers, software licences and mobile devices.
DIGITAL OUT PATIENTS
The Outpatient digital scheme will transform the traditional delivery of outpatient services across Hampshire and IOW through :
Implementation of digital technologies in outpatient setting; new service models focused on supported self-management and co-production. Implementation of a single digital platform for patient communication and provision of care. Current service issues:The outpatient service is a traditional NHS system. This is highly inefficient and wastes both clinical and patient and carer’s time. Patients are required to wait to be seen in an outpatient clinic setting. Appointments are organised around the service model and availability of the service resources rather than for the convenience of the patient. Patients are required to travel to healthcare facilities. Waiting times are often excessive and clinics overrun. The content and completion of the appointment may have limited value to the patient. These issues will be addressed by providing: an alternative virtual service for patients. This will take a number of forms. The organisations impacted by the scheme are UHS, PHT and IOW. Key benefits: 10% reduction in face to face follow ups and therefore activity for the UHS, PHT and IO, Net savings to system by end of year 4 £1,049,000, Delivery of outpatient waiting targets, Improved patient experience. The solutions that are proposed have already been tried and tested in a variety of settings. This bid will scale up these solutions to make a demonstrable impact for the health economy. Physical assets obtained are networks, servers, video conferencing facilities, software licences potentially wearables/ monitoring devices for patients.