Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

“we have signed up to the 'NHS App' radiology reporting service whereby patients now receive a copy of their own imaging reports to their personal NHS App. The reports include a summary of clinical findings that can be read by patients to improve communication and understanding of their own health record.”

“We are in the process of devising a 'Shared Care Record' with colleagues across the Integrated Care Board enabling unified access to patient records. The collaboration includes us, Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT), Primary Care, Social Care and other key stakeholders set out below.”

“implemented a daily staffing huddle which takes place at 08:15AM Monday-Friday. The huddle review the staffing position across the site and senior colleagues make immediate redeployment/mitigation plans as required”

“All Mid and South Essex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ('MSE') sites have now adopted an electronic prescribing and medication administration (EPMA) platform. EPMA facilitates team members across specialties to record accurately and contemporaneously in one place. The system allows all registered users to clearly see what other medications have been administered and by whom. Staff details are visible against the record so that each interaction is name and date stamped within the patient record.”

“have also retrospectively reported the incident to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).”

“We have therefore added a new flowchart to our 'Admission & Treatment of Patients with a Mental Health Disorder in an Acute Hospital Setting' Policy. A copy of the flowchart is attached for reference.”

“we have completed an audit of neurology clinic records during February and March 2024.The results of this audit showed overall good compliance with dictation, headers, footers, and onward referrals. Small deviations that were picked up were fed back to the team and actioned. Audit reviews will continue quarterly to provide assurance to the divisional governance meeting. These are in addition to the Trust wide record keeping audits.”

“We are planning to launch a ward manager supervisory role with linked key performance indicators later this month which will allow closer supervision and audit of the nursing care provided This will include monitoring the quality of the nursing care we provide”

“The guidelines have been updated to reflect the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recent guideline on Assisted Vaginal Birth (April, 2020)1, this includes a risk assessment to assist with decision making for an assisted vaginal birth, an improved documentation pro forma following an assisted vaginal birth and reference to ensuring that the baby's head is checked immediately at birth for signs of trauma when obstetric instruments have been applied.”