Paediatric Nurses Workshop & Forum - November The first Nurses Workshop was held on Thursday, 13th November at Stafford PGMC. The speaker was Liz Morgan, Professional Adviser for Children & Young People at the DH. Liz is keen to hear from nurses across the West Midlands about the key challenges that face the profession today, and the issues that will affect nursing in the future.
Paediatric Nurses Forum Programme 'Investing for Health' Step 2 In July 2007, NHS West Midlands produced a document - 'Investing for Health - a Strategic Framework for the West Midlands' - which explained how the NHS in the West Midlands was planning for the future. While this plan was being developed, the Government announced the review 'Our NHS, Our future' - which has been led by Lord Ara Darzi. The SHA have produced a summary report that is both the West Midlands' Our NHS, our Future vision' and ' Investing for Health Step 2: Delivering our clinical vision for a world-class health service'. The report stresses that local solutions need to be found to deliver the changes and these will involved dialogue and consultation with patients, carers, the public and NHS staff across the region. The second document is a summary of the Clinical pathway report on Children's services. It states: "Our vision for the development of all children's services is 'to provide high-quality children's healthcare that focuses on the needs of the child and is delivered at home, or as close to home as possible'. The needs of children and their families will drive this vision. All organisations, including local authorites and the education, health and voluntary sectors will integrate services. Organisational boundaries and contractual agreements will not stand in the way of providing best possible care". Copies of these reports and the full reports can be accessed at the NHS West Midlands website: www.westmidlands.nhs.uk/cms/
Paediatric Nurses Form - July The Inaugural meeting of the Nurses Forum, held on Wednesday 2nd July, was well attended. 19 nurses attended, representing 13 Acute Trusts and 1 PCT. All who attended agreed that there was a need for such a Forum. Some of the key issues / challenges facing nurses, that will be considered through the Forum are: It was agreed that the following issues were important ones that the Forum should address first:
PiP Welcomes Jenny Hawkes PiP are very pleased to welcome Jenny Hawkes who will be working with PiP for the next year as a Services Development Consultant. Initially Jenny will be working on the PiP Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) project, and liaising with clinicians and commissioners across the partnership area to progress this work. Having joined the NHS in 1980, she has worked across a number of NHS organisations in Cheshire and has commissioned community, children and maternity services for South Cheshire Health Authority.
Jenny Hawkes, Services Development Consultant PiP Annual Open Meeting - 'Pathways to the Future' The Open day took place on Thursday 9th October 2008 at The Village Hotel, Walsall. The theme of the Open Day was 'Developing Pathways of Care'. We were very pleased that Dr Simon Lenton, Consultant Paediatrician and Vice President of the RCPCH, agreed to give the key note speech. He presented the work that has been undertaken at National Level and combine this with the College's work around 'Modelling the Future' of Children's Services. Partners in Paediatrics Anaesthetic Study Day 2008 Thank you to all who attended the study day on 18th April 2008, at Stafford General Hospital. The day was attended by a number of Anaesthetists from the PiP area. Also, thank you to the four excellent speakers below who shared extremely educational and informative presentations in the field of paediatric anaesthesia;
Dr A Cranston Dr B Stanhope Dr T Smith Dr Potter Mr Clarke
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