Update from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW)
To provide an update/presentation on service
developments at the St. Cross Hospital in Rugby and the recent
closure of the Hoskyn ward.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Committee received a presentation from
Professor Andy Hardy, Chief Executive and Justine Richards, Chief
Strategy and Transformation Officer of UHCW. There had been
reported concerns regarding the closure of the Hoskyn ward at the
St Cross Hospital, Rugby and the presentation informed members of
the service developments taking place at this hospital. The slides
covered the following areas:
- Transforming services at the
Hospital of St Cross, Rugby.
- The vision for the hospital, with
context on how this had been developed, the aims for some services
to be delivered in communities and in partnership, with a focus on
elective surgical procedures at this hospital:
- ‘More than a
Hospital’ committed to transform the Hospital of St
Cross, build modern facilities and improve staff and patient
experience.
- Regional leader for elective care
– GIRFT (get it right first time). The hospital was one of
only 36 sites nationally to be accredited as a surgical hub.
- To deliver expanded and modern
elective services to meet the needs of a growing population in
Rugby. Evidence of the high proportion of orthopaedic services
already delivered at this hospital.
- Separating emergency and planned
care onto two distinct sites, with less disruption to planned
procedures and driving down waiting lists.
- ‘Health on the High
Street’ development for some outpatient services to improve
accessibility. The former Wilko retail premises was being leased.
Reference also to the better transport links to the town centre and
economic benefits of increasing footfall from the use of such
premises.
- Multi-phase 10-year plan with a
Strategic Partner – Development Control Plan.
- Investing in the Hospital of St
Cross since 2021:
- Modular build of two new theatres
– expanding surgical capacity.
- £1 million Haematology and
Oncology Maple Unit opened in 2021 - increasing outpatient
appointments numbers for local people.
- A specialist breast care unit
offering surgical and nurse-led clinics, reconstruction, plastic
surgery and breast surgery physiotherapy.
- New ultrasound unit in outpatients.
An extra scanner doing 4000 more procedures each year.
- New modular endoscopy unit, with a
dedicated two-storey unit, delivering 30% more tests for patients
with potentially life-threatening conditions. This had resulted in
73,000 additional tests from Rugby since the start of the
diagnostics programme.
- Investment in wayfinding and
signage, with a new site map and plans for a single entrance to the
hospital.
- An Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC),
which currently was adjacent to the out of hours GP service. This
formed part of a C&W wide review by the ICB. The expectation
was for a doctor-led UTC at this location. There had been
investment in a virtual consultant link to UHCW.
- Over £4 million in
energy-saving measures. It was one of greenest hospitals in the
country, utilising air source heat pumps and solar panels which
would contribute to becoming to carbon neutral by 2045.
Andy Hardy concluded that the St Cross
Hospital was central to the UHCW vision, with significant
investment being made.
In response to this part of the presentation,
more detail was sought on surgical hubs, what impact they had
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