Russells Hall Hospital | |
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The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | |
![]() The main entrance of Russells Hall Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 52°30′09″N 2°07′09″W / 52.5024°N 2.1191°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
History | |
Opened | 1983 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Russells Hall Hospital is an NHS general hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England, managed by the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is south-west of the town centre on the A4101 road, which connects to the Kingswinford area of the borough.
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Mobile pharmacy at Russells Hall Hospital
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Discharging a patient from hospital can sometimes take hours longer than necessary all too often they're waiting for busy ward staff to take a trip to the pharmacy to collect their medication "Medicines management is really the art and science of getting a tablet from a wholesalers into a patient and as Head of Pharmacy, my responsibility is to all the patients that we see here, is trying to get that as safe as we can." As part of that process, all patients should ideally visit the pharmacist but using some new technology, the pharmacy at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, can now visit every patient "This is actually a mobile pharmacy, its got everything on it the computer system has that we've got in the dispensary so we can dispense prescriptions down on the ward We've got a printer here, we've got some drugs that we keep on with us, so that if we get any prescriptions for patients we can do it here. We can get the prescriptions straight away, it hasn't got to wait for a nurse to go down to pharmacy the chart doesn't have to leave the ward, we do it here and it's done for the patients." "Just like that, that's why it's good having these, you can do it straight away." "What do you call them?" "They're called a C.O.W Cart on Wheels, I love it, its great Five of these carts on wheels circulate through the hospital every day and if a patients prescription changes while they're out on the ward, they're automatically updated using wireless technology "We've used technology to take the systems and processes you see in the dispensary here which is clinically checking if the drug is right for the patient, assembling the medicines so the label is right, the drugs are right and the boxes are right, and then checking that's all correct is moving that up onto the ward so we've invested a little in that and certainly benefited not just from the care of the patients but also having our pharmacy staff closer to the nurses and doctors and the patients, I think its helped everybody "Hello Rita, I'm from the pharmacy department, I'm just looking at your medicine chart for you I see the doctors already got your regular medicines down did you bring any into hospital with you?" "Yes" The system can take into account existing medication the patient might have brought with them "We do like to use the patient's existing medication if we can because they're used to the brand the chemists give them so thats nice, they're familiar with them and of course it does help on the cost issue as well because we haven't got to supply them with anything This is like a patients history, this is actually what they take." Using the hospital's WiFi network, Tina can update the pharmacy's computer with the patients own drugs so when Rita is discharged a fresh supply will be automatically brought to her bedside in one of these carts "It's much better for the patients because we can get all the work done for them, they can go home quicker so its a better service."
History
The facility was first planned in the 1960s as a general hospital for Dudley and the surrounding area. The first phase of the hospital opened in the Russells Hall area of Dudley in 1976 as a laundry centre for the borough's hospitals, and the general hospital buildings were built within the next five years, but a shortage of equipment meant that it did not open to patients until March 1984, becoming fully operational in May that year.[1]
The new hospital included an accident and emergency unit to replace those at the Guest Hospital and the Corbett Hospital in Stourbridge. Around this time, the NHS first began to consider the closure of Guest Hospital. In 1992, plans were unveiled for Russells Hall to be expanded as part of plans to close Wordsley and Guest hospitals, as well as parts of the Corbett Hospital. There was much protest against this, and over the next few years there were several amendments to the proposals - including a move which would have seen Wordsley Hospital keep its maternity services but for all other services to relocate to Russells Hall.[2]
In April 1998, however, it was decided that Wordsley Hospital would close completely and Corbett and Guest would be downsized to out-patient services only, with Russells Hall being expanded to include all of the borough's in-patient services. The rationalisation was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2001. The new facilities, which were designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership[3] and built by Sir Robert McAlpine,[4] were completed in 2005 and the Princess Royal opened the revamped hospital on 22 February 2006 – 22 years after she had opened the original hospital.[5]
In preparation for the completion of the expanded hospital and inevitable rise in traffic, the main road towards Dudley town centre - Kingswinford Road - was widened into a dual carriageway in 2003. The car park was also expanded around the same time - a move which saw several houses along High Street demolished in 1999.[6]
Cricketer Ian Botham, famous for his charity work, opened a state of the art leukemia unit at the hospital in 1998.[7]
Pop star and actor Martin Kemp opened the hospital's new CT scanning suite in January 2006, a decade after he recovered from brain cancer with the help of pioneering treatment.[8]
Services
The hospital now has its own bus station, which gives a direct bus link to Dudley's centre, Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Birmingham and Stourbridge. Russells Hall Hospital is currently home to Dudley Hospital Radio which is a free service available to the beds in the hospital. The radio station, which is run as a charity, originally started at the Guest Hospital in 1975 before moving to Russells Hall in 1999.[9]
Performance
The trust was given four enforcement notices in 2018 by the Care Quality Commission because of continued concerns regarding patient safety at the "inadequate" A&E department at Russells Hall.[10]
2018 Inquiry
It was announced in September 2018 that the A&E department was being investigated after concerns had been raised about the deaths of 54 patients in a 6-month period.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Freedom of Information Response" (PDF). The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Corbett Hospital Timeline". Amblecote History Society. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Dudley Hospital". Integrated Health Projects. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Sir Robert chases health job losses". Construction News. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Princess Royal visits hospital pharmacy". Pharmaceutical Journal. 11 March 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "MIDLAND: Princess Anne Opens Hospital - Health News". redOrbit. 23 February 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "5th July 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the birth of the NHS" Archived 23 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Spandau star is just the tonic; DUDLEY. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Hospital's radio is a hit online". Dudley News. 24 March 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "'Extremely concerning' A&E issued with fourth CQC notice". Health Service Journal. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Inquiry after 54 deaths at Russells Hall Hospital's A&E". BBC News. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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