Lung cancer awareness

We have backed the new ‘Be clear on cancer’ campaign promoting awareness to get an earlier diagnosis of lung cancer.

Despite lung cancer killing more people than any other form of cancer in England, public awareness of the symptoms to look out for and when to seek medical advice is poor. Lung cancer affects 33,000 people every year in England with the majority of cases occurring in people over the age of 55. When diagnosed at its earliest stage, as many as 80 per cent of people are alive, five years after diagnosis, compared with only seven per cent diagnosed at a later stage. Full story...

Our staff have signed up to a hand hygiene pledge in support of the World Health Organisation ‘Save Lives: Clean your hands’ 2012 campaign.

Director of Nursing & Patient Care Em Wilkinson-Brice and Joint Medical Director Dr Vaughan Lewis (pictured) showed their support for this international awareness day at an information stand hosted by our infection prevention and control team. Colleagues were invited to pledge a commitment to comply with good practice, challenge non-compliant staff and be ‘bare below the elbows’ for more effective easier hand hygiene.

Our adult inpatients have rated highly their experience of RD&E hospital care in the 2011 Care Quality Commission satisfaction survey.

They scored us out of 10 for a range of standards. Overall the results confirm our patients have confidence and trust in our staff and feel respected and informed throughout their care. Full story....

The contribution our staff made to an innovative approach to patient care to speed up the successful recovery after surgery was recognised at a national launch summit this week.

The RD&E was instrumental in the development and adoption of The Enhanced Recovery programme which is being rolled out across the NHS nationally.

On Monday 30 April a London summit event was held to launchthe publication ‘Fulfilling the potential: a better journey for patients, a better deal for the NHS’ which sets out how patients can benefit from the good practice learned and shared through this initiative. Full story....