Louise Jenkins Strategic Liaison Nurse Secondary & Tertiary care & Hilary Gardener Strategic Liaison Nurse Primary Care
Screening Remember – some illness’ hide in your body so it is really important that you go to screening checks to help you stay healthy. Breast Screening - women age 47 -73 every 3 • years. Bowel Screening- Everyone age 60-74 every 2 • years. People age 55 + invited for one off bowel scope Cervical Screening – Women age 25-49 every 3 • years. Aged 50 – 64 every 5 years AAA Screening – Men age 65 – 74 • Diabetic Eye Screening – every year for people • with diabetes
Dementia What are the Nurses Doing ? • Regular Assessments – working with HPFT memory Service. • Help Care Providers and carers – Dementia Page for Purple Folder Training to understand how it might feel We are all working together on a clear pathway
Health Liaison Team Acute Liaison Nurses The Purple Star Strategy Astrid Ubas (Lister Hospital) Jenny Gallimore (Lister Hospital) Abby Russell [Nurse] Dionne Nolan (Watford General Hospital) Joseph Oliver [Admin Tosin Opatola (Maternity leave) support] Along with rest of HLT and Nurse service Lead Nurse Graham Duff Specialist Epilepsy Nurses Strategic Liaison Nurse Primary care Steph Miragliotta Hilary Gardener Creative Practitioner Debbie Harris Kate Harding Andy Dorney Strategic Liaison Nurse Secondary & Tertiary care Louise Jenkins Community Learning Disability Nurses Expert by Experience Gavin Howcroft 7 Adult Disability Teams and 0-25 Together Nurses Training Lead Linda Farquharson HPFT Nursing Pathway
Specialist Epilepsy Nursing Team The Specialist Epilepsy Nurses are; Steph Miragliotta , Debbie Harris and Andy Dorney and work jointly with HPFT Doctors Future Plans; Epilepsy audits carried out by HPFT and Epilepsy Nurses • showed that extra work needed to ensure home risk assessments are in place Future Nurse led Epilepsy Clinics to run alongside HPFT • doctors as Steph Miragliotta and Debbie Harris both completed their Nurse Prescribing course
Working with our local hospitals Recent Serious Incident at Lister Hospital • Learning from this led to changes in hospital procedures with • PEG Feeding tubes New Support Worker roles in Hospital Specialing Team to • provide additional support to patients with learning disabilities in hospital New Admission Pathway for people with learning disabilities • who need investigations under sedation New QE11 Ambulatory Care getting their Purple Star Strategy • award December 21 st .
Community Nurses Project Groups Obesity and Diabetes • Sepsis • First Aid for people Living in supported living or • Independently Wheelchair Weighing • Smoking • Sexuality • Undiagnosed Learning Disability Pathway • Gypsy and Traveller community support • Transgender Support • Needle Phobia • Positive Behaviour Support • Mental Wellbeing and Mindfulness • Bone Health in Epilepsy • Cervical Screening • Constipation • Dysphagia and GORD • Dementia pathway • Makaton • Dental hygiene • Links with School Nurses •
Thank you for listening. Do you have any questions? Hilary Gardener & Louise Jenkins
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