Firstly, same faces, but new names and new roles
Mike Robinson
Hillingdon PCT is now known as NHS Hillingdon, bringing it into line with other PCs that have made a similar name change. Until a few days ago its Chairman was Mike Robinson, but he has now moved over to Hillingdon Hospital as Interim Chairman there, with Mike Whitlam taking over as Interim Chairman of NHS Hillingdon. It is like playing musical chairs!
30th June PCT Board report on finance
As part of the process for paying off the last £19m of its historic debt, the PCT has to satisfy the other London PCTs that it will not get into financial trouble again so it has been told to put its house in order in various ways, including improving its relationship with Hillingdon Hospital. Is popping the PCT Chairman into the hospital part of that package? Of course no one chooses to comment!
PCT performance and targets
In June Board papers, neither routine ambulance response times nor A&E waiting times quite met targets but both were moving in that direction. Hillingdon still fails to achieve targets for chlamydia, staff satisfaction, teenage pregnancy and a number of other performance issues including primary care access, cardiovascular mortality, childhood immunisations and breast feeding targets.
Swine Flu
Although the World Health Organisation has declared a pandemic globally, the UK had not yet done so nationally. Hillingdon has had a small number of mild cases of swine flu, but it is well prepared for a local escalation it that happens.
Healthcare for London public consultation on stroke and trauma proposals
Over 9000 individuals responded to the consultation plus 602 organisations. The majority endorsed the preferred options – four major trauma centres including St Mary’s Hospital – 8 hyper acute stroke centres, including Charing Cross Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital, plus over 20 local stroke units, including Hillingdon Hospital.
It is relevant that Hillingdon PCT currently has about one major trauma case per month, currently treated at Charing Cross Hospital. However Hillingdon has more stroke cases, about 300 per month of which 75 would benefit from thrombolysis – currently these patients are treated at Hillingdon Hospital, which can guarantee a CT scan within 30 minutes only from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, so it does not meet the 24 hours / 7 days a week criteria for designation as a hyper acute stroke centre, and hence it is expected to be a stroke unit concentrating on follow-up care.
Joan
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