NEWS Recruitment success for Trust’s
training programmes More than 100 nurses have been offered posts and 170 doctors have joined The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) since the launch of two innovative training programmes. The achievement was celebrated at a special ceremony held at the Molineux Stadium, which was attended by Professor Geoff Layer, vice chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton, David Loughton CBE, chief executive of RWT, as well as clinical and nursing fellows. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Clinical
Fellowship Programmes provide opportunities for staff to join a structured training programme in a range of clinical specialties, through secondary and primary care. To support internal staff with career development, the Trust also has more than 50 internal UK clinical fellow nurses completing their BSc Nursing Studies or MSc in clinical nursing. Rachel Fisher, associate clinical research nurse at RWT, said: “Being part of the Clinical Nursing Fellowship has made me feel valued, that my employers have an interest in me and my development. Taking part has enabled me to take charge of my development and identify the direction that I want my future nursing career to follow.”
The clinical fellow posts offer the opportunity to gain a broad range of experience, working in RWT or with a local NHS partner organisation. The programme has partnered with other NHS Trusts and through these partnerships the
programme has recruited 12 senior fellow posts in psychiatry, and up to 30 clinical fellows in medical specialties. It is suitable for UK and International applicants seeking clinical experience, a high quality training programme, enhanced qualifications and career progression. The programme also runs a successful
Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) programme, supporting doctors to become consultants. The programme has 40 doctors actively completing the CESR process in specialties such as ED, trauma and orthopaedics, oncology, dermatology. The Trust has recently appointed Dr Mark
Whitsey, a consultant in Stroke, who completed one year in the fellowship programme before finishing his Health Education England training programme.
One of the Clinical Fellows, Dr Paul Bolaji
said: “The Clinical Fellowship Programme has been a very important part of my life. It has been a very wonderful experience for me. What has changed my life has been the Masters programme because previously I never had any formal discussion or reflective practice. That is the first time I had that experience and that has changed my practice.” The Trust was awarded ‘Best Recruitment Experience’ by the Nursing Times in 2018 and the ‘Best Organisation for Learning and Development’ accolade at the 2019 Nursing Times awards.
Female external catheter wins ‘Pitch In Five’ session at IPS Conference
Clinipak now operating as Key Surgical in UK market
Clinipak has officially merged with the Key Surgical brand and will now operate as such in the UK market. Key Surgical, with its headquarters in the US, has been a brand innovator since 1988 and is building on the legacy of Clinipak, while updating to the brand of Key Surgical in the UK. Clinipak has been primarily known for sterilisation packaging, such as barrier wrap, tray liners, soaker sheets, and transport wrap. As Key Surgical the company will continue to be a provider for these but can now offer you a more diverse product range, designed to meet the needs in CSSD, the operating theatre, and endoscopy.
NOVEMBER 2019 Ross Tustain, managing director, said: “As
Key Surgical globalises, we’re in a unique position to continue providing the high-quality range of Clinipak sterilisation wrap while expanding our product offering to include items such as instrument cleaning brushes, documentation labels and tags, instrument protection, PPE, trays, and so much more. “We are now positioned to better support the sterile processing industry; we can truly deliver the one-stop shop experience and service our customers need in order to perform their best work in hospitals and surgical facilities.”
The Purewick Female external catheter from BD was awarded first prize for the ‘Pitch in Five’ session held at the recent IPS meeting in Liverpool. The ‘Pitch in Five’ was one of four components of the Infection Prevention Show held on Monday 23 September 2019. The essence of the session was to showcase technologies or products that do or can make a big difference in helping combat avoidable infections. David Newton – BD national nurse manager for urology, delivered the ‘pitch’ for Purewick on behalf of BD. Six firms each pitched for five minutes on the characteristics of their products or technologies, with an audience live-vote held after each presentation on their perception of a range of qualities - such as whether the product would make realisable savings; be affordable by the NHS; enhance efforts to improve patient safety; provide noticeable benefits to the practice of infection prevention. Any commercial organisation with a product or technology in the HCAI space was eligible to apply for inclusion and consideration. Applications were reviewed and chosen by a panel of senior IPS members. Purewick is an alternative to incontinence pads and indwelling catheters for female patients, helping to reduce urinary catheter days thus lowering risk of CAUTIs. It also helps reduce the risk of moisture lesions by wicking away urine from the body. It is said to be the first female external catheter to address the need for an effective, non-invasive method of managing urine output in women.
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