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Introduction
What we are doing to improve the care of patients at Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals with regards to
- Nutrition – including food and drink
- Mixed sex accommodation
Caring for Our Patients: Nutrition and Single Sex Accommodation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Caring for Our Patients: Nutrition and Single Sex Accommodation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Caring for Our Patients: Nutrition and Single Sex Accommodation Joint Accountability - 25 July 2011 Colin Ovington Director of Nursing Introduction What we are doing to improve the care of patients at Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals
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Food
Ensuring that all patients have:
- Enough to eat
- A choice of foods to suit all diets and appetites
– Dieticians – Range of menus – In right sort of packaging/containers
- Help with eating if needed
– Red tray system – Hostesses – Volunteers/ Age UK
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Drink
Ensuring that all patients have:
- Enough to drink
- Right sort of fluids
- In right sort of containers
- Within reach
- Help with drinking if needed
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How do we check this is happening?
- Comfort rounds
– Fluid balance charts – Fluid balance audits
- Nutrition is one element of our Quality
Framework (based on Essence of Care 2010)
- Eating and drinking benchmarking
completed in June across all 18 wards
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Top three things that we found:-
That were Good
- Fresh fruit chopped by
hostesses and offered to patients mid afternoon (ward 10)
- Nutrition Board / Health
promotion boards in 4 areas
- 3 wards have completed
the meals module for productive ward That we need to improve
- Some wards need to
improve the implementation of the nutritional care pathway after assessment
- 5 ward areas did not
consistently offer wipes to patients before meals
- Some ward areas need to
reinforce the use of the red tray
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Who else is checking?
- Governors - unannounced visits
- Staffordshire LINk – enter and view
- Care Quality Commission - unannounced
visits
– In May 2011 CQC carried out an unannounced visit to Cannock Chase Hospital to review Dignity and Nutrition for older
- people. They reported “that Cannock Hospital
was meeting this essential standard”
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Mixed Sex Accommodation
- Declared non compliance on 1 April with aim to be
compliant by 31 August
- Areas where we had most issues with compliance:
– Acute Medical Unit – Endoscopy – Surgical Assessment Unit – Observation area of A&E
- Breaches every month including June
- Work undertaken to address all outstanding issues
- Will be reporting to Trust Board on 28 July that we now
compliant – seeking approval to declare compliance
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