Effective Handover W/C 5.9.2022

Maternity Effective Handover

Week Commencing 5th September 2022

Trust

Majority of asymptomatic Covid-19 testing for patients and staff to
be paused

NHS England, acting on advice from the UK Health Security Agency, has issued updated guidance to NHS
Trusts in relation to patient and staff Covid-19 testing.

As a result, the majority of asymptomatic patient and staff testing will pause from today (Thursday 1st
September). Please be advised testing will continue for both staff and patients that have symptoms.

Colleagues are asked to ensure they adhere to the following guidelines:

Patients
Requirements to carry out routine Covid swabbing on admission will no longer be necessary, except in the
following instances:

• If a patient is symptomatic
• For patients on Wards 34, 35 and 50
• Interhospital transfers to Cardiothoracic Critical Care, General Critical Care and Ward 43 (Rapid PCR

swab)
• Immunocompromised patients (outside of the areas outlined above) where clinicians require a result to

enable clinical practice

Patients being discharged to a Nursing home or with a package of care still need to be swabbed before they
leave hospital.

Trust

Trust

Our new salary sacrifice schemes – which let you spread the cost of purchases direct from
your salary – are available for staff.
The schemes use Payroll Pay®, which enables you to spread the cost through monthly
salary reductions with no credit checks or up-front costs. This means you may save on
National Insurance and NHS Pension Scheme contributions on the value of the items
ordered.

EPR

Maternity

K2

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K2

K2

Risk Assessment

Maternity

Commences 30th May 2022

Maternity

Maternity

Recruitment

As per trust standard all staff who
predominantly work nights are required
to work 2 weeks of days every 12 months,
this does not include any study days
attended.
This is a mandatory requirement and all
staff will be allocated a consecutive 2
weeks on the rosters.

Sharon Gouldingay
Modern Matron for Antenatal and
Postnatal inpatient services

Maternity

PRECEPT: MgSo4 & Steroids:
Please complete the Antenatal Steroid and Magnesium Sulphate Wizards on K2,
so accurate and up to date information can be transferred across to Badger Net.
Compliance has improved greatly over the last two months however not
everyone is completing the wizard.

Computerised CTG for RFM:
Any admission to LWT or FWB for RFM alone must have a computerised CTG,
this is part of Saving Babies Lives recommendations and forms part of our CNST
compliance. At present our compliance is 55% this is audited each month and to
improve our compliance all women presenting with RFM and no abdo pain must
be monitored using the K2 fetal wellbeing wizard. Please contact Wendy Taylor if
you need further training.

K2: Please remember it is your own responsibility to complete your K2 online
learning before it expires: Regular email reminders are sent out 6 weeks before it
is due to be completed. Please liaise with your ward manager or manager of the
area you are working in if you are struggling to complete this mandatory training,
so you can be allocated time for this to be completed during your working day.

Maternity

Maternity

As part of an action from a formal complaint, we have revised the
process for following up clinical results which are pending on
discharge.
This includes MSU’s, placental swabs or any other investigations
noted as pending on CRRS.

With immediate effect, if you are discharging a patient who has a
clinical result pending, please phone Labour ward triage on ext.
27333 to add this to the results book.
The team in triage regularly review results and ensure appropriate
action is taken in a timely manner.

Emma Johnson-Howe
Postnatal Ward
Manager | Ward 25

Maternity

Please can I remind all staff members that ferrinject
booking is via the online diary and is limited to 2 a day.
Further requests for ferrinjects can be made to Robyn
Ward or Louise Dean and will be done on an individual

basis.
Please refer to the ferrinject guideline before referring

patients in to ensure they meet the criteria.

Robyn Ward
Triage Manager

Clinical Risk

Key safety message.
Following a recent incident please can all staff ensure all
management plans are recorded on K2
This includes any management plans that are recorded on CRRS,
they must also be reflected on K2.
This is until the new EPR system is implemented.

Key Safety Messages

All datixs are reviewed at the Maternity Grand Safety huddle, every Tuesday afternoon 2-3pm in
the ward 24 seminar room and on Microsoft teams. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Key issues identified;

• All entries onto K2 must be checked as correct by staff inputting data
• All staff to ensure good communication between areas particularly in times of high

acuity to ensure safe patient care
• Station of fetal head should always be well ascertained when assessing Bishop

score prior to ARM
• Ensure drug kardex is thoroughly reviewed on admission to the ward to avoid

omitted drugs
• Ensure emergency equipment must be ready to use in the event of an emergency

Datix investigators – If you need any help closing datixs please let me know. There are currently 250
open datixs.

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