Improving Day Hospice Services
A preferred option for Day Hospice Services
across Sandwell and West Birmingham
Tammy DaviesNurse Manager / Service Lead Palliative and End of Life Care
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust
Phil LydonEngagement Manager
NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group
About Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG
Set up in April 2013, we are a clinically led membership group of 99 GP practices across the Sandwell and West Birmingham areas, caring for more than 567,000 patients.
Led by experienced GPs, we are responsible for improving, designing and commissioning (buying) local health services.
One of the services we commission from Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Hospital Trust is End of Life Care.
Dr Ayaz Ahmed is the CCG clinical lead for End of Life Care and Sally Sandel is the commissioning lead.
About Sandwell and West
Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust (SWBH)
WBH serves approximately 530,000 people across Sandwell and West Birmingham with acute and community services.
We were awarded the contract for End of Life care services for those in the last 12 months of their life in April 2016.
This has enabled us to expand on our current Specialist Palliative Care Service, consisting of Palliative Medicine Consultants and Specialist Nurses working in the hospital and community.
We now offer a palliative Care Coordination Hub, Urgent Response Team and work in partnership with local hospices and voluntary sector organisations to offer holistic care for local people at the end of life.
We now need to develop our Day Hospice Service to meet the needs of the community
Improving local Day Hospice
Services
Following a number of internal reviews, CQC reports and stakeholder events we have identified that the current Day Hospice service is not fit for purpose. The day hospice services need to be improved to meet the needs of the people we serve.
Currently in Sandwell, services are provided at
Bradbury House in Oldbury.
This location restricts and inhibits the quality and range of services we can deliver and we want to seek your opinions on a improved service in a new location.
What are Day Hospice services?
Day Hospice services provide care for people who have a diagnosis of advanced life limiting illness
Symptoms may be physical, psychological, spiritual, social, or a family and carer orientated issue
Attendance may also be for respite care to support family members and carers
Hospice services aim to feel more homely than hospitals do
Teams include doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, counsellors, and trained volunteers
Current Day Hospice Services
In Sandwell, we have Bradbury House which offers short programmes of care over four days a week. The programme offers social support with some palliative care advice
In Birmingham, we have John Taylor Hospice in Erdington and St Mary’s Hospice in Selly Park which offer good levels of staffing, equipment and services
Why do we need to change?
Bradbury House is limited in size and a stand alone site
It has limited access to healthcare staff
Excludes those with mobility difficulties
Lack of security for staff and patients
Bradbury House is not owned by the Trust or the CCG
Our Engagement so far …
April 2014 - Agewell UK carried out an independent study on End of Life therapies
February 2016 – Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust engaged with current and previous patients, staff and volunteers
You have told us what is important to you:
Accessibility
Availability of related services
Positive environment
Our Day Hospice Base Location
Our preferred option which would enable us to deliver safely and effectively our new Day Hospice model is Rowley Regis Hospital for the following reasons:
A range of on-site staff, facilities and catering
Size and capacity including gardens
Accessibility of the building
Improved parking and public transport
More of a homely feel than a general hospital
NHS transport will continue
Other options which have been considered
Leasowes Intermediate Care, Smethwick
Sandwell General Hospital
City Hospital
None of these sites offered the benefits of Rowley Regis Hospital
Listening to your views on Day Hospice Services
What aspects of day hospice services are important to you?
Is our vision for high quality day hospice care right?
Do you agree with our preferred option?
Get involved
Public consultation meetings:
13 October 2016 6pm
The Wesley Centre,
Wednesbury
18 October 2016 6pm
Portway Leisure Centre,
Oldbury.
3 November 2016 2pm
Brasshouse,
Smethwick.
10 November 2016 2pm
Lozell’s Methodist Centre,
Lozells.
Get involved
Online survey:
Paper survey: Please collect one of our booklets and send back the survey to our freepost address
RTHG-KAKC-RTBZ
Engagement, Sandwell and West Birmingham
Clinical Commissioning Group
Kingston House
438 High Street
West Bromwich
B70 9LD
Email:
Telephone:0121 612 1447
What happens next?
We are speaking to patients, clinicians and the public
The consultation ends on the 24 November 2016
The CCG governing body will be presented with feedback from the consultation and decide whether they will support the Trust’s preferred option