Information And Infection Control Staff Initiatives Are Praised At Awards
Winners of the Best Idea category, Amanda Colman and Sylvia Lowrey (L-R)
Staff at Poole Hospital have been commended for coming up with new ideas for providing information to help take the fear out of treatment for patients with learning disabilities and for combating infection.
Amanda Colman, Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) Manager, and Sylvia Lowrey, Endoscopy Sister, were winners in the Best Idea category of the Meggitt Staff Excellence Awards 2007. Amanda and Sylvia worked closely with patients to create an easy-read leaflet that uses clear imagery to explain each stage of endoscopy testing.
Close on their heels, the Hospital’s Medical Physics ‘IRIS’ team were judged highly commended in the category for the introduction of flexible, cleanable keyboard covers – a simple and cheap way to combat the risk of infections spreading through the use of computers in clinical areas.
This was the tenth year that Meggitt PLC, the international aerospace, defence and electronics group based at Bournemouth Airport, has generously sponsored the Staff Excellence Awards and Bursary. The awards were presented by Philip Green, Group Corporate Affairs Director.
This year a new Special Award was created to recognise consistently good work that has been maintained over a period of years. The winner in the group category was the Catering Department, whose consistently high standards led to the Hospital’s food being judged the best in the region in an independent survey earlier this year. The Hospital’s Car Parking staff received the Highly Commended award. The individual winner in this category was Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist Andrea Graham, for her work in combating pressure sores.
Other winners were:
Best Ward:
Winners: The Acute Stroke Care Unit (Rockley Ward)
Highly Commended: Critical Care Unit
Best Department:
Joint winners: Dorset Breast Screening Unit; Clinical Coding Department
Highly commended: Trauma Assessment & Co-ordination Team
Individual Award for Achievement:
Mandy Layzell, Acute Pain Control Team
The £1500 Meggitt Study Bursary
This year was split between four staff:
Polly Cameron, Acute Pain Control Team, and three staff from the radiotherapy
department – Karen Bew, Usman Lula and Frances Rye. The money will be used
to fund travel to other healthcare sites to learn more about the most up-to-date
treatments in each of their fields.
Date: 14 December 2007