Louise Jenkins Strategic Liaison Nurse Secondary & Tertiary - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Louise Jenkins

Strategic Liaison Nurse Secondary & Tertiary care

& Hilary Gardener

Strategic Liaison Nurse Primary Care

Screening

• Breast Screening - women age 47 -73 every 3

years.

• Bowel Screening- Everyone age 60-74 every 2
• years. People age 55 + invited for one off bowel scope
• Cervical Screening – Women age 25-49 every 3
• years. Aged 50 – 64 every 5 years
• AAA Screening – Men age 65 – 74
• Diabetic Eye Screening – every year for people

with diabetes

Remember – some illness’ hide in your body so it is really important that you go to screening checks to help you stay healthy.

Dementia

What are the Nurses Doing ?

• Regular Assessments – working with HPFT memory

Service.

• Help Care Providers and carers –

Dementia Page for Purple Folder Training to understand how it might feel

We are all working together on a clear pathway

Health Liaison Team

Acute Liaison Nurses Astrid Ubas (Lister Hospital) Jenny Gallimore (Lister Hospital) Dionne Nolan (Watford General Hospital) Tosin Opatola (Maternity leave) Specialist Epilepsy Nurses Steph Miragliotta Debbie Harris Andy Dorney Training Lead Linda Farquharson Expert by Experience Gavin Howcroft Creative Practitioner Kate Harding Lead Nurse Graham Duff Strategic Liaison Nurse Primary care Hilary Gardener Strategic Liaison Nurse Secondary & Tertiary care Louise Jenkins Community Learning Disability Nurses 7 Adult Disability Teams and 0-25 Together Nurses HPFT Nursing Pathway The Purple Star Strategy

Abby Russell [Nurse] Joseph Oliver [Admin support] Along with rest of HLT and Nurse service

Specialist Epilepsy Nursing Team

The Specialist Epilepsy Nurses are; Steph Miragliotta , Debbie Harris and Andy Dorney and work jointly with HPFT Doctors Future Plans;

• Epilepsy audits carried out by HPFT and Epilepsy Nurses

showed that extra work needed to ensure home risk assessments are in place

• Future Nurse led Epilepsy Clinics to run alongside HPFT

doctors as Steph Miragliotta and Debbie Harris both completed their Nurse Prescribing course

Working with our local hospitals

• Recent Serious Incident at Lister Hospital
• Learning from this led to changes in hospital procedures with

PEG Feeding tubes

• New Support Worker roles in Hospital Specialing Team to

provide additional support to patients with learning disabilities in hospital

• New Admission Pathway for people with learning disabilities

who need investigations under sedation

• New QE11 Ambulatory Care getting their Purple Star Strategy

award December 21st.

Community Nurses Project Groups

• Obesity and Diabetes
• Sepsis
• First Aid for people Living in supported living or

Independently

• Wheelchair Weighing
• Smoking
• Sexuality
• Undiagnosed Learning Disability Pathway
• Gypsy and Traveller community support
• Transgender Support
• Needle Phobia
• Positive Behaviour Support
• Mental Wellbeing and Mindfulness
• Bone Health in Epilepsy
• Cervical Screening
• Constipation
• Dysphagia and GORD
• Dementia pathway
• Makaton
• Dental hygiene
• Links with School Nurses

Thank you for listening. Do you have any questions? Hilary Gardener & Louise Jenkins