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Welcome to our newsletter! You are among the first to hear the most important news and updates happening across the East of England Trauma Network. Newsletters will be issued every two months. (Volume 1 / Issue 2) |
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Covid-19 Update Sadly we are all seeing increasing numbers of symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in patients and healthcare workers. The reported new variant of the virus represents over 60% of the cases in our region, and we know that this strain spreads much more rapidly. As always, a reminder that trauma patients, particularly those that have a reduced GCS, may be infected and appropriate PPE is needed until test results are confirmed. |
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The winter capacity pressures are also with us across the NHS now and we are supporting the region’s trauma patients through a new system-wide escalation policy for major trauma and a Network Status website showing the operational pressures of all our pre-hospital and hospital providers. More details are below. For staff, we know that the next few weeks would normally include time spent with loved ones and families, but this year will be very different. Thank you for your continuing care of major trauma patients. Please make sure that you stay safe, look after yourselves and your loved ones, and take some time away from work to enjoy all that Is important to you. |
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Trauma East Voices We are interested in hearing about the experience of patients and their loved ones using the trauma system in the East of England. Trauma East Voices was created as a patient experience group designed to allow members to meet regularly to discuss trauma related experiences, highlight great care and suggest improvements. We were sadly forced to postpone all face-to-face engagement due to Covid-19 including this group but with hope and the vaccine now being administered we have planned the first regeneration of the group for those who were already members prior to the pandemic, with following meetings planned to open to a wider audience and new members. Further details will be distributed to members relating to the upcoming planned meeting in February 2021. Keeping our fingers crossed that we aren’t forced to postpone again. If you are interested in becoming a member for future meetings please click here to share your details with us. |
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Welcome our (not so) new Network Administrator Many of you are probably familiar with Kitti as she has worked with the Network since 2017. She worked in a joint role with the Major Trauma Service, working part time for both Department. Less than a month ago we welcomed her into our team full time. Congratulations with the new position! |
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Meet Kitti: My name is Kitti Czegledi. I originally moved here from Hungary, seven years ago. I always had a great interest in health care but my carrier path took another direction when I went to University. Because I still wanted to be involved in healthcare somehow, so I became a first aid trainer and supervised many students events and concerts helping the ambulance service in Hungary. Here in the UK, I was lucky enough to get a job in the NHS with the Rare Disease team, as a Clinical Data Co-ordinator. I was responsible for managing my own projects, that I thoroughly enjoyed, especially the clinical coding part. I met with great people and I learned a lots of new things and skills. I achieved to finish my first project in six months and I knew I did something amazing to help people. |
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After that position I started to work as a Major Trauma Administrator, which was a joint role between the Trauma Network and the Major Trauma Service. I undertook a wide range of variety administrative work, did data entry and assisted to organise different events including trainings and conferences. A few weeks ago I joined to the EoE Trauma Network as a full time Administrator. I'm pleased that I can be part of this dynamic team and excited to continue the work, we have started already. |
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Stepping into a virtual life - learning online Training and education has been severely affected by COVID-19 this year, but the positive to take from it is the development of virtual and online learning. The Trauma Network, along with colleagues from the Paediatric Critical Care and Neonatal Networks, have joined forces with Health Education East of England in order to deliver education via the Bridge and Panopto platforms. These platforms are currently available to all EoE trainee doctors, and are being used to deliver regional training, but will now also be available to nurses and AHP’s involved in trauma care. |
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Content is currently being developed that will support the Trauma Team Essentials Course (TTEC), and completion of the Level 1 trauma competencies for Emergency Department nurses. Once nurses and AHP’s have completed the TTEC, they will be provided with a log in by the Network that will enable them to access the supporting materials. It is hoped that this will encourage the completion of the competencies by providing additional education to complement clinical practice. |
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It is possible to upload recorded live teaching sessions, and to convert PowerPoint presentations, so if you are delivering a teaching session on anything trauma related, please consider whether it would benefit a wider audience through being available on Bridge or Panopto. I would be particularly interested in sessions relating to ward nursing care and rehabilitation topics in order to build content that will support the ward based trauma competencies. |
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Upcoming new escalation document Following recent changes in retiring the ‘Divert Policy’ document from use within the network we are to introduce a new escalation document which will align the network activity with the nationally recognised OPEL scoring system. The document has been circulated to key trauma leads across the network with comments incorporated into the current draft. The document is in its final stages of regional sign off and when compete the final version will be shared across the network. |
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The Trauma OPEL score from within the document will be utilised to support the new changes in the Network Status website – Should you need support with the Trauma OPEL scores prior to regional sign off please email the team at trauma.east@nhs.net |
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New feature on the Network Status website Firstly thank you to all of you who have updated your hospital’s trauma network status recently, your work with this is appreciated. Introducing the upcoming and new website look and functionality which will go live on Monday 21st December 2020. It will open into a new map dashboard for you all to see what Trauma OPEL (coming soon) score you are in a RAG colour. Hovering over each icon will open a box displaying when data was last updated. To access your hospital or pre-hospital service, please click on your icon and it’ll take you straight through to your data input page. Some minor changes will be found here like ‘Agreed Divert’ is now ‘Trauma OPEL’ score but otherwise please use it as before. A new how-to guide and video will be produced and made available in the coming weeks. |
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TEMPO - our guidance We are looking for contributors who would be happy to help us reviewing and updating TEMPO (Trauma East Manual of Operations and Procedures). If you think you could help us or would like to get more information, please get in touch with us at trauma.east@nhs.net. | | |
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Logo competition! Tick - tock Time is ticking! Still looking for those talented individuals who would like to help us redress the Trauma Network. All you need to do is grab a paper and a pen, and start to scribble. Sometimes the best arts come without thinking about it too much. And what's in it for you? The winner will receive £500 for their local Trauma committee along with our gratitude. | | |
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What's new on the website... We are constantly working on improving our website to provide you with the best experience. That is why we created an Archive on the website, so you don't have to worry if you missed any of our newsletters. From now on you can simply can look back at all of our news in one place. | | |
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We would love to hear your suggestions and ideas as to how we can make our website even better. We have created a feedback form to ensure, getting in touch with us is quick and hassle free. |
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How to get involved? From injury prevention to rehabilitation, trauma care covers all interests. Get involved with your local Trauma Committee or send us in your ideas. We will be developing more ways for you to get involved with our Specialist Advisory Groups and with your patients through Trauma East Voices. | | |
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