Public BoD papers 28.04.22

Public meeting of the Board of Directors Thursday 31 st March at 12.45 pm By virtual means

Present: Chair: Chris Outram (CO), Chairman

Kathryn Riddle (KR), Non-executive director Dr Jane Maher (JM), Non-executive Director Robert Ainsworth (RA), Non-executive Director Prof Kieran Walshe (KW), Non-executive Director Grenville Page (GP), Non-executive Director Alveena Malik (AM), Non-executive Director Roger Spencer (RS), Chief Executive Bernie Delahoyde (BD), Chief Operating Officer Eve Lightfoot (EL), Director of Workforce Prof Chris Harrison (CJH), Medical Director and Deputy CEO Prof Janelle Yorke (JY), Executive Chief Nurse Dr Neil Bayman (NB), Executive Medical Director Sally Parkinson (SP), Interim Director of Finance Prof Richard Fuller (RF), Director of Education Prof Fiona Blackhall (FB), Director of Research

In attendance: Jo D’Arcy, Assistant Company Secretary Scott Davies, Public Governor Salford

Helen Hunter, Assistant Director North West, NHS Confederation Alistair Reid-Pearson, Interim Chief Information Officer

Minutes:

Louise Westcott (LW), Company Secretary

Clinical presentation: Critical Care and Outreach Service - Vidiya Kasapandian (VK), Consultant in Acute & Critical Care, Kerry Millington (KM), Ward Manager, Acute & Critical Care, Jude McLellan (JMc) Outreach Nurse Specialist Lead and Seema Rahman (SR), Senior Physiotherapist VK introduced herself and oriented the meeting to where the Oncology Critical Care Unit (OCCU) is within the Trust. She showed the new changing room that was created by the Estates Team to decontaminate prior to entry to the unit. VK also showed the new oxygen flow meter that helps the staff to assess oxygen use to ensure it doesn’t run out. VK showed the 4 negative pressure side rooms – Royal College approved standard. One of the side rooms was shown and new techniques outlined such as walkie talkies and white boards to communicate with staff outside of the rooms when treating covid positive patients. During Covid, 2 additional side rooms were created for management of non-aerosol generating procedures to enable the team to look after more patients and not have to escalate out of the unit. KM introduced Maureen the Domestic on the unit who is an essential and integral member of the team. VK noted that other CCU’s have created 2 areas for covid/non-covid patients. We have managed within our footprint. Staff were moving between covid and non-covid patients and showering in between. JM was introduced as outreach lead, this is the bridge between the wards and OCCU. Patients are referred to the team to be assessed and they facilitate the transfer in and out and follow them up. Education & training of staff was key during covid to support the ward teams as well as the OCCU staff. JM talked about the camaraderie amongst the staff throughout the period. Acute care training continued, and no sessions were dropped. The team are 12 staff covering 24/7.

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