LLR Alliance: University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester Partnership Trust, LLR Provider Company, East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and West Leicestershire CCG.

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Upcoming Events

14 May 2015

Alliance Management Board

21 May 2015

Clinical Reference Group

Better Care Together

28 May 2015

Patient and Public Partnership Group

2 June 2015

Alliance Leadership Board

11 June 2015

Alliance Management Board

18 June 2015

Clinical Reference Group

Better Care Together

25 June 2015

Patient and Public Partnership Group

Newsletter May 2015

The Alliance is delighted to welcome

Tamsin Hooton to the team as she

commenced her new role as Alliance

Director on 29th April 2015.

As we announced in the last edition,

Tamsin has over 20 years’ experience

working within the NHS. Tamsin is

looking forward to working with the

Alliance and all of its partners and

contributing to the exciting work ahead.

News

Electrolysis and Choose and Book for Oculoplastics

We are launching Choose and Book for Oculoplastics on 21st May at Melton.

The clinics will be week 1 and 3 at Melton and will start regularly from August.

A new Electrolysis machine was recently purchased for use at Melton and therefore any eyelashes problems can also be treated permanently at Melton Hospital. Previously patients had to have recurrent epilation.

Antonella Berry-Brincat, Locum Consultant

Staffing Changes

Dr Joy Osbourn and Dr Ian Cracknell both retired in April 2015.

We would like to wish them both very long, happy and peaceful

retirements.

Dr WM Turner has resigned from his post as the Dermatology

GPWSI at Hinckley Hospital. We would like to thank him for his

hard work and wish him well for the future.

Alison Hessey, currently acting Lead Nurse with the Alliance,

will be starting her new role as Matron for the Alliance on June

15th. The role of Lead Nurse will be taken by Nichola Crust.

We would like to wish both nurses the very best in their new

roles.

Enjoy the Summer Sun Safely

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skin-cancer/how-does-UV-cause-skin-

cancer/

LLR Alliance: University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester Partnership Trust, LLR Provider Company, East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and West Leicestershire CCG.

Rowena Jessiman attains Leadership Academy Award

We recently asked Rowena Jessiman to tell us about how she came to be the proud possessor of the NHS Leadership Academy Award. Rowena has made light of the hard work but we want to congratulate her anyway…

Rowena said ‘The journey started way back in October 2013 when I started the Mary Seacole Program through the NHS Leadership Academy and have been supported by both DCHS and the Alliance in order to attain this qualification.

It’s is a fully accredited programme leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership in which the study was a combination of face-to-face and online learning designed to fit around my schedule, though at times it was a tight schedule. The online learning part was completed through the Open University with the face to face days either in Nottingham or Loughborough for the cohort I was grouped in.

I found it to be a very interesting course which covered a variety of topics in 9 modules. It introduced me to new theories, concepts and modules which will be invaluable in the future. You are able to work through the modules at your own pace to a certain extent but there were strict deadlines for the assignments of which there were 5 in all. I would recommend this course to anyone with an interest in a leadership role especially in the quickly changing environment the NHS now finds itself in. For anyone unsure of whether leadership is for them or not there is another program (Edward Jenner) run by the Leadership Academy which is designed as an introduction and does not have the tight deadlines for assignments. It is purely a modular based online learning package which some may find of interest and you can complete it at your own pace. Rowena, Imaging Service Lead

Well Done Ashby

We want to take this opportunity to congratulate Ashby Hospital Outpatient Staff on their many years of outpa-tient services to the community.

March 2015 saw the end of an era for outpatient clin-ics at Ashby Hospital. Pictured are Eileen Smith, the last patient to be seen in the Outpatient clinic at Ash-by along with Mr David Parker, ENT Consultant, SN

Liz Woods, Elaine Rasmussen and Nicola Grady.

A Patient’s Story: Julie Booth from Shepshed, was referred for a podiatry operation via her GP and found the whole experience straightforward and would definitely recommend the Alliance services.

The Alliance offers patients the things that matter most to them as Julie explained to Andy Kemp, from the Public Patient Participation Group, who represent the patient voice.

“This was my first ever operation so I didn’t know what to expect. I knew the specialist I wanted to do the procedure so I asked if this was possible and was told that patient choice is at the heart of what the Alliance do - so I opted to go with my request. I was also happy for it to be done at Melton Hospital as I wanted a shorter waiting time.

The great thing was that all my pre and post operative care was delivered at my local hospital in Loughborough. I was quite worried before the operation but the staff were fantastic, they put me at ease, reassured me at every stage and I couldn’t have asked for anything better as a patient. I would say to anyone who is due to have elective surgery to think about what is important to them, to be aware that they have a choice and most of all, don’t be afraid to ask.”

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We would love to hear from you!

If you have any items for inclusion in our future Newsletters or have any feedback, or suggestions on how we can improve our Newsletter, please contact:

Jacquie Thornber on jthornber@llrpcl.co.uk.

Clinical News

The CRG has been working on the following items over the last few months: Hernia Pathway so that all patients with non-incisional hernias can be seen in Primary Care

settings and have their operations in either Primary Care under local anaesthetic, community hospitals or UHL as appropriate

An MSK pathway for both West Leicester CCG and East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG patients

Procedures that can be done in Primary Care and Community Hospital settings as preliminary work before working up business cases to move services.

LiA - You Said We did

You said that you needed new computers and we bought them.

‘I am finding the new computer brilliant, especially looking at letters which previously could take up to 2 minutes to open up, being an essential part of my work remit this would hold me up quite a lot during the day.

The larger screen is also a bonus enabling me to have the screen a little further back giving me the writing space I need in front of the screen without having to have my paper over the keyboard is

also nice and comfortable to use.’. Gillian Van Ristell

Pioneering Teams: The launch of the Pioneering teams is to be held on 15th May 2015. We will have a further update for you in the next newsletter with a synopsis of the projects and updates as to developments.

Calling all GPs with specialist interests

Expressions of Interest Requested

LLR Alliance would like to invite expressions of interest from any GP who has a current specialist in-

terest - or who would like to develop a specialist interest. This may include traditional specialties or

interest in being a theatre assistant or Anaesthetist.

For further information please contact Allister Grant on allister.j.grant@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Tonometer Presentation, 7th April 2015:

The tonometer was purchased using funds raised by the ladies and will be used in the ophthalmology clinics at Hinckley.

This will be an invaluable piece of equipment for the clinic as it can be used to measure pressures in both paediatric patients and adults particularly those who are wheelchair bound.

Nicola Grady

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Cardiology 6 UHL 5 UHCW 8

Pathmanathan -9 Adamson - 8 7 10 11 5

Dermatology 12 N/A 7 11 9 12 10

Diabetic Medicine 5 N/A 6 10 7 8 10

Ear, Nose, & Throat (ENT) 9 N/A 10 11 13 8 10

Falls 15 N/A 9 17 12 11 5

Gastroenterology 10 N/A 7 9 N/A N/A

General Medicine 5 N/A 7 N/A 13 10 N/A

General Surgery - Upper GI N/A 9 7 11 10 4

General Surgery - Colorectal 5 7 6 10 10 7 N/A

Gynaecology 6 4 6 7 3 4 9

Maxillofacial 6 N/A 3 2 5 8 N/A

Nephrology N/A N/A N/A 6 N/A N/A N/A

Neurology N/A N/A N/A 10 N/A N/A N/A

Ophthalmology list UHL and others separately 8 N/A

adult 9 aa 10

paed 10 11 12 11 13

Paediatric Surgery N/A N/A N/A 6 3 N/A N/A

Paediatrics 13 11 11 11 12 12 13

Pain Management N/A N/A 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A

Plastic Surgery 7 N/A Miss Agarwal 7

Mr Smith 7 6 7 6 3

Podiatric Surgery N/A N/A 2 3 12 11 7

Respiratory Medi-cine N/A N/A 3 10 N/A 7 N/A

Rheumatology 10 N/A 10 10 13 9 12

Trauma & Ortho-paedics

Hip / Knees 11 General

Bajora 7 Spaine 10 Upper 9 N/A

Hip 7 Knees 13 / 6 General 3 Spine 8 GEH 4

Hand 10

Hip: 11

Knees: 12 Gen-

eral:

Knees/Hips : 11 Backs : 11

Shoulders: 11

Knee/Hip : 3 Spine:Shoulder:

3 / 9

N/A

Urology - UHL 11 N/A UHL: 7

UHCW: 5 9 UHL: 7

UHCW: 8 9 6