Health bosses at Lincolnshire’s hospitals say the trust is moving forward — however, the trust has yet to get out of special measures.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust received an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’ following inspections from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) between February and April.
Trust bosses say the report shows the trust is ‘moving in the right direction’ and have praised dedicated staff for helping to improve the standards of the trust, resulting in 72% of inspection areas being rated as ‘good’.
However, the trust remains in special measures, something Chief Executive Jan Sobieraj says was not unexpected.
Yet he remained optimistic, saying: “Special measures has all sorts of negative connotations, but it’s the system saying we need more support, so in my head special circumstances mean special measures.
“The trust has been challenged for getting on for a couple of decades now; the flag of special measures for finance and quality means we get additional help, we get more people in, a bit of extra cash and support generally across a whole range of activities.
“I’m not unhappy that work continues over the next 12 months, because I think an organisation this big we need all the help we can get to continue the progress we’ve made.”
Mr Sobieraj points to a number of successes at the trust, which has been beset with campaigns calling for services to be retained, improved and reopened.
They include children and young persons services at Boston Pilgrim facing substantial changes and Grantham Accident and Emergency being reopened due to staffing shortages.
The trust points to a number of improvements including progress on recruitment of staff, and a ‘back to basics’ approach to quality of care.
In its report CQC said it felt that the trust should remain in special measures so it can receive the support it needs to make further progress.
CQC told the trust to make a number of changes, including improving the quality of data, ensuring there are effective governance processes around locum staff procedures and assuring the board of the quality and delivery of surgical care for children.
It was also told to take immediate action to address the significant levels of violence and abuse experienced by staff.
Notable points for each hospital include:
Lincoln County Hospital – Overall ‘requires improvement’
Outstanding practice was found including the emergency department at Lincoln County Hospital which had developed a quality improvement project which helped staff identify and diagnose aortic dissections and ensured patients received appropriate care and treatment.
The trust was told however that it must ensure emergency department patients were triaged within 15 minutes and that ambulances are handed over within 30 minutes.
It must ensure patients run from admittance to discharge within four hours.
Boston Pilgrim Hospital – Overall ‘inadequate’
Particular praise was given to medical care, with the stroke ward and mental health provision coming under the spotlight. Outpatients were also praised, with a project to sew bras for cancer patients highlighted.
Pilgrim saw a number of improvements listed for outpatients including recording outcomes, mandatory training and ensuring data is used in a way to improve services
Urgent and Emergency Care also saw a number of improvements needed including ensuring an effective escalation processes were in place for the front door of emergency departments
Grantham – Overall rated as ‘good’
The trust was told to improve in medical care where it needed to increase compliance and review systems for identifying expired medicines.
It was also told to improve in surgery where it needed to ensure equipment is serviced in a timely manner, and ensure each page of a patients medical records were signed and dated as well as make sure infection guidelines were up to date on the surgical ward at Louth Hospital
Louth – Overall rated as ‘good’
Improvements were suggested to, like Grantham, ensure equipment was serviced as soon as possible and to make sure the medicine cupboards remained locked at all times.
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Picture the scene: you’re about to order a delivery to your house, and the address you give is “Fatty Bum Bum Street”. Well, according to Google Maps, that’s what one side street in the village of Saxilby near Lincoln is called.
A driveway which has three houses alongside it on Westcroft Drive in Saxilby is officially part of that street, but an amusing name has appeared on Google Maps to give it its own identity.
Those three houses, unofficially, are now situated on “fatty bum bum”, and it is unclear as to how and why it was given this name.
Fatty bum bum is on Westcroft Drive, and you can add that to the list of sentences I never dreamed of typing. | Photo: The Lincolnite
There is no road sign in place, but anyone who goes on Google Maps can find the street in question by simply typing “fatty bum bum Saxilby”. No, genuinely, try it.
I wonder who lives at the unlucky three houses on fatty bum bum. | Photo: Google Maps
The road sign for Westcroft Drive is heavily covered by overgrown bushes, so maybe a new name was needed all along? Who knows.
Westcroft Drive’s road sign is hardly visible, so maybe the whole street should be called “fatty bum bum” as well? | Photo: The Lincolnite
One thing we do know is that this is highly amusing, if not a bit confusing.
The Lincolnite has contacted West Lindsey District Council for a comment, but are yet to receive a reply.
Of course we also wanted to try to speak to people living on “Fatty bum bum” Street, but nobody was willing to come on the record.
There have been 99 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire on Monday as the Prime Minister says July 19 is still his “terminus” for lockdown restrictions, but a “rough winter” awaits.
The latest figures are a rise of 14% compared to 87 cases last Monday.
The government’s COVID-19 dashboard recorded on Monday 42 new cases in Lincolnshire, 45 in North East Lincolnshire and 12 in North Lincolnshire.
There were no deaths reported in government or NHS figures on Monday.
Nationally on Monday, cases increased by 10,633 to 4,640,507 while a further five deaths took the tally to 127,981.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said July 19 is still looking to be the “terminus point” to end all coronavirus restrictions during a visit to the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control on Monday.
Suggestions that the lockdown lift could be brought forward have been mooted by Downing Street today, who said they will continue to monitor cases day-by-day.
Lincolnshire’s coronavirus cases up to June 21.
Mr Johnson added that he was “looking at” allowing people “exemptions” from quarantine if they had two doses of the vaccine, but added: “The emphasis is going to be making sure we can protect the country from the virus coming back in.”
He warned cases of the Delta variant are rising at a rate of around 30% week on week.
He added that the UK was in for a “rough winter” with the return of flu and that the NHS needed to be given “breathing space” by reducing cases before then.
However, he did not rule out further lockdowns in the winter.
“You can never exclude that there will be some new disease, some new horror that we simply haven’t budgeted for or accounted for,” he said.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Monday, June 21
61,873 cases (up 99)
42,756 in Lincolnshire (up 42)
9,881 in North Lincolnshire (up 12)
9,236 in North East Lincolnshire (up 45)
2,194 deaths (no change)
1,622 from Lincolnshire (no change)
302 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
270 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,312 hospital deaths (no change)
816 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
42 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
453 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (no change)
4,640,507 UK cases, 127,981 deaths
DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF THE LATEST UPDATE. POSTCODE DATA INCLUDES DEATHS NOT IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR IN HOSPITALS OUTSIDE AUTHORITY BOUNDARIES.
A cyclist in his 20s has suffered head injuries after being knocked off his bike by a car in a hit and run in Stamford.
The crash happened just after 1am on Thursday, June 17, near to the junction of Emlyns Street in the town.
The vehicle which hit into the cyclist did not stop at the scene and police are now investigating the crash.
The victim, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with head injuries that are not life-threatening.
Officers are seeking information about the vehicle and driver, Lincolnshire Police said on June 21.
Anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage in the Alexandra Road and Emlyns Street area, between 1am and 1.20am on June 17, is being asked to contact police in one of the following ways:
Call 101 and quote incident 17 of June 17
Email [email protected] and quote the same incident reference in the subject box
Whatsapp
