Making Hospital at Night Mainstream and Beyond
Held at the QEII Conference Centre, London on 19th September, 2008
As hospitals work towards meeting the Working Time Directive 2009 requirement for junior doctors, the role of teamwork solutions supporting medical staff working at night and beyond becomes more focussed.
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With the Hospital at Night solution well established in the UK, Workforce Projects Team held a conference to showcase the contribution of Hospital at Night teams, the journey to date and the future direction with special emphasis on patient safety, leadership while supporting service delivery and its contribution to meeting WTD 2009.
The conference:
- Promoted the benefits of Hospital at Night
- Showcased best practice and emerging models
- Celebrated the achievements learning over the last five years
- Showed how the model is being translated internationally
- And showed how to apply the real time learning to out-of-hours and 24:7.
The conference was applicable to medical directors, NHS trust board members and clinical leads as well as governance leads and senior managers.
The conference was applicable to medical directors, NHS trust board members and clinical leads as well as governance leads and senior managers.
Hospital at Night provides a practical solution for hospitals by bringing the out of hours team members together to meet the needs of patients.
Workshop details
Participants: Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
- How the Hospital at Night method was developed and taken forward
- How success was achieved
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
Participants: Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- The approaches by each hospital, building on H@N
- 24/7 approach
- Hospital by Day approach
- How was success achieved
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
Participants: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust
- How Hospital at Night was developed
- How was success achieved
- Any indicators used?
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
The Rural Perspective
Participants: Welsh Assembly Government
- How Hospital at Night has been applied in a rural setting
- Key challenges and achievements in implementing the model/approach
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
The Mental Health Perspective
Participants: Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust
- How Hospital at Night has been adapted for mental health
- Key learning points from implementation
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
The Paediatric Perspective
Participants: Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children (GOSH)
- How GOSH adapted Hospital at Night principles to paediatrics
- Development of their competences around paediatric care
- Challenges faced and how they have been overcome
- Key lessons learned.
Leadership of Teams
Participants: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Dr Patricia Hamilton
- What are the key components of effective teams
- Leadership of teams, leader and follower skills
- How to translate leadership into Hospital at Night teams and beyond
- Training and development opportunities.
Integrating 'Hospital at Night' and Critical Care Outreach Team Services
Participants: The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
- How to make the links between Hospital at Night and Critical Care
- How Hospital at Night and Critical Care Outreach Teams support the NICE50 guidance
- Challenges linking/integrating two services
- Key lessons and learning.
The iBleep solution
Participants: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust
- How iBleep links to Hospital at Night and supports the patient safety and
organisational agendas
- Infrastructure needed
- Practical tips for implementation
- Key lessons learned.
Infoflex Solution
Participants: South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- What is Infoflex ?
- How Infoflex supports Hospital at Night /Hospital by Day
- Demonstration of the tool.
Salisbury Handover & Hospital at Night Tool
Participants: Salisbury Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Drivers behind the tool and how the tool was developed
- Key components of the tools (Consultant list/Hospital at Night list/ Morbidity & Mortality element)
- Benefits to patients, consultant teams and the Hospital at Night team
- Demonstration of handover tool
- Key lessons learned from the development.
Hospital at Night SOS
Session 2
Q&A
Participants: The national HaN team, Miss Wendy Reid, Dr John Coakley and Dr. Diana Hamilton-Fairley
- An opportunity for trusts to ask questions about challenges facing organisations or teams with Hospital at Night implementation.
Hospital at Night SOS
Session 3
Q&A
Participants: The national HaN team, Miss Wendy Reid, Dr John Coakley and Dr. Diana Hamilton-Fairley
- An opportunity for trusts to ask questions about challenges facing organisations or teams with Hospital at Night implementation.
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