NEWS
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MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS STAYING TOO LONG IN A&E Presentation by: Dean Henderson, Borough Director - C&H 4 PowerPoint Slides |
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March 2019
17 pages
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PLEASE NOTE:
PFLAS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (5.15pm)
To be followed by:
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN OUR ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS - 12 HOURS PLUS WAITS IN A&E (5.30pm)
Zoom Links below ...
PFLAS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (5.15pm)
To be followed by:
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN OUR ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS - 12 HOURS PLUS WAITS IN A&E (5.30pm)
Zoom Links below ...
PFLAS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 5.15pm
Zoom Meeting: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 @ 5.15pm - 5.30pm
The AGM will precede the Patients' Forum meeting on the Mental Health Crisis to be held at 5.30pm - as below.
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84575504831?pwd=WmFlTCtHa2ZCOWMzOHF2VEtXcjBmQT09
Meeting ID: 845 7550 4831
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AGENDA
Zoom Meeting: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 @ 5.15pm - 5.30pm
The AGM will precede the Patients' Forum meeting on the Mental Health Crisis to be held at 5.30pm - as below.
Join the AGM
https://tinyurl.com/3nfxa53n
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84575504831?pwd=WmFlTCtHa2ZCOWMzOHF2VEtXcjBmQT09
Meeting ID: 845 7550 4831
Passcode: 804617
AGENDA
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN OUR ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS - 12 HOURS PLUS WAITS IN A&E
Zoom Meeting: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 @ 5.30pm - 7.00pm
https://tinyurl.com/3nfxa53n
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84575504831?pwd=WmFlTCtHa2ZCOWMzOHF2VEtXcjBmQT09
Meeting ID: 845 7550 4831
Passcode: 804617
AGENDA
Zoom Meeting: Tuesday, 01 November 2022 @ 5.30pm - 7.00pm
https://tinyurl.com/3nfxa53n
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84575504831?pwd=WmFlTCtHa2ZCOWMzOHF2VEtXcjBmQT09
Meeting ID: 845 7550 4831
Passcode: 804617
AGENDA
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Speakers:
Patients suffering a mental health crisis are experiencing exceptionally long waits in A&E for a bed. These waits can exceed 12 hours. The shortage of mental health beds is a matter of major concern, as is the system of returning patients in a mental health crisis to their home area, or another area where a bed can be 'purchased'. We need to find a solution to the terrible situation where extremely ill patients are spending in excess of 12 hours waiting for admission to the first available bed. That means that we need more beds, better community services and more effective discharge arrangements. |
LETTER TO ANDREW THOMPSON, VICE PRESIDENT, WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE SERVICES LIMITED
From: Malcolm Alexander, Patients' Forum for the LAS and Roxana Khan Williams, The Organise Network ... 11 October 2022
From: Malcolm Alexander, Patients' Forum for the LAS and Roxana Khan Williams, The Organise Network ... 11 October 2022
- We want to convince you of the importance of Boots UK changing its national strategy on the installation of defibrillators.
- We are involving MPs across the country in this campaign
- It is essential that in addition to being ready to install defibrillators on the external walls of your stores, that Boots UK also acknowledges its duty to the communities it serves, by bearing the cost of the defibrillators.
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HAVING A DEFIBRILLATOR NEAR SOMEONE SUFFERING A CARDIAC ARREST CAN HELP SAVE THEIR LIFE
Article in: MyLondon - 06 October 2022 re. 'Boots refusal to pay for life-saving equipment outside every shop' ... 3 pages The man at the front of the campaign is Malcolm Alexander, who runs the Patient Forum for the London Ambulance Service and has been in correspondence with Boots for 5 years, lobbying for them to install defibrillators in all their stores. |
RESOLUTION TO COG – 22-9-22
The Council of Governors is concerned about the large number of 12 hour plus waits in the Homerton Emergency Department in recent weeks for patients suffering from a mental health crisis. This is bad for the patients and puts a strain on the ED staff and capacity. It calls upon the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to work with ELFT and other partners in the City and Hackney Health and Care Partnership and the NEL ICS to reduce and eventually eliminate these very long waits with the aim of bringing waiting times for patients in a mental health crisis back to no more than four hours for admission.
Proposed by Malcolm Alexander
Seconded by Penny Crick
The Council of Governors is concerned about the large number of 12 hour plus waits in the Homerton Emergency Department in recent weeks for patients suffering from a mental health crisis. This is bad for the patients and puts a strain on the ED staff and capacity. It calls upon the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to work with ELFT and other partners in the City and Hackney Health and Care Partnership and the NEL ICS to reduce and eventually eliminate these very long waits with the aim of bringing waiting times for patients in a mental health crisis back to no more than four hours for admission.
Proposed by Malcolm Alexander
Seconded by Penny Crick
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The current data for patients held in Homerton Emergency Department for more than 12 hours - after decision to admit.
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THE COVID ACTION CAMPAIGN
Joseph Healy - Steering Committee Member, Zero COVID
Zoom Meeting - Wednesday, 21 September - 5.30pm - 7.00pm
https://tinyurl.com/mr3hphte
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84002951330?pwd=SkJFZnBONVF6UWdRaW9HbWx3eWtjUT09
Meeting ID: 840 0295 1330 Passcode: 480214
Joseph Healy - Steering Committee Member, Zero COVID
Zoom Meeting - Wednesday, 21 September - 5.30pm - 7.00pm
https://tinyurl.com/mr3hphte
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84002951330?pwd=SkJFZnBONVF6UWdRaW9HbWx3eWtjUT09
Meeting ID: 840 0295 1330 Passcode: 480214
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Joseph Healy speaks about COVID Action's campaign for the Government and the media to recognise the COVID Pandemic is not over, and that precautionary public health measures must be taken to slow down community transmission as we go into Autumn and Winter.
Booster shots for just a section of the population is not enough. Everyone must be entitled to a Booster. Vaccines alone are also not enough. There is a need for safe, effectively ventilated workplaces and schools, free testing, mask wearing on public transport and crowded indoor venues, decent sick pay and enforceable air quality standards. |
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A&E ATTENDANCES AND EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS MONTHLY STATISTICS - July 2022
Excel Spreadsheet (very large) |
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AMBULANCE SERVICES ON FRINGE OF COLLAPSE - PARAMEDIC
By: Sean Clare and David Grossman BBC News -Published 15 July 2022 ... 5 pages Ambulance services are under intense pressure, with record numbers of callouts and the most urgent, Category One, calls last month. |
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EXCLUSIVE: MINISTER MISLED PARLIAMENT OVER AMBULANCE ACCESS
By Alison Moore - 14 July 2022 - 2 pages A Health Minister incorrectly told the Commons yesterday that a Contract was in place for providing surge capacity for ambulance services, despite the Contract not having been awarded, HSJ has learned. There are also doubts about two other point made by Health Minister, Maria Caulfield in Parliament yesterday in a debate about the current high pressure on ambulance services. |
Maria Caulfield - Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Care
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Wes Streeting - Ilford North (Labour)
Mark Pritchard - The Wrekin (Conservative) Daisy Cooper - St. Albans (Liberal Democrat) Scott Benton - Blackpool South (Conservative Graham Norris - Easington (Labour) Theresa Villiers - Chipping Barnet (Conservative) Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South (Labour) Alex Chalk - Cheltenham (Conservative) Taiwo Owatemi - Coventry North West (Labour) Barry Gardiner - Brent North (Labour) Chi Onwurah - Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Labour) |
Tony Lloyd - Rochdale (Labour)
Hilary Benn - Leeds Central (Labour) Steve McCabe - Birmingham, Selly Oak (Labour) Margaret Greenwood - Wirral West (Labour) Naz Shah - Bradford West (Labour) Matt Rodda - Reading East (Labour) Marry Kelly Foy - City of Durham (Labour) Matt Western - Wrwick and Leamington (Labour) Dame Diana Johns - Kingston upon Hull North (Labour) Mr. Speaker Jim Shannon - Strangford (DUP) |
THE QUEST FOR PATIENT SAFETY AND JUSTICE IN THE NHS
Peter Walsh, CEO, Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
ZOOM MEETING - MONDAY, 18 JULY 2022 @ 5.30pm
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Meeting ID: 868 6720 7263
Passcode: 263939
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DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT - To be led by Wera Hobhouse, MP
- Notification re. Debate in Parliament on Waiting Times for Ambulance and Emergency Department Care -
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13 PowerPoint Slides
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THE IMPACT OF COVID ON SICKLE CELL DISORDER COMMUNITIES
John James, Chief Executive, Sickle Cell Society
ZOOM MEETING - MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2022 @ 5.30pm
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MEETING ID: 878 9135 8454
John James, Chief Executive, Sickle Cell Society
ZOOM MEETING - MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2022 @ 5.30pm
https://US02web.zoom.us/J/87891358454
MEETING ID: 878 9135 8454
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FOR YOUR DIARY ... 23 MAY 2022 5.30pm - 7.00pm Zoom Meeting with Briony Sloper, Deputy Director, Health and Care in the Community NHS London Region Zoom Code: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82194126945?pwd=K9F0ZbPtMPT3oqOL5TMfUB-wLZnD8v.1 |
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JOE KERR'S EXPERIENCE OF THE LAS ON -1 APRIL 2022
Letter to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, Healthwatch Hackney - dated 09 April 2022 ... 2 pages
Letter to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, Healthwatch Hackney - dated 09 April 2022 ... 2 pages
I give you permission and consent to share with the LAS, Healthwatch and other parties the contents of this letter. I would also like this investigated by the LAS as a formal complaint.
Joe Kerr
Joe Kerr
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CONTENT
1. Executive Summary 2. Background 3. Structured Clinical Review 4. Review Methodology 5. Review Results 6. Summary of Findings 7. Conclusion Appendices A. Harm Levels B. Context information for 4th January2021 C. Case studies and staff experiences of hospital ;handover delays D. UK NHS Ambulance Services |
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WITH GRATITUDE TO CHRIS HARTLEY-SHARPE
The Patients' Forum expresses its deepest appreciation to Chris Hartley-Sharpe for his great contribution to the London Ambulance Service as Paramedic, Training Lead for First Responders, and Inspiration to the LAS and volunteers in terms of saving lives through CPR and Resuscitation. We value the ways in which Chris Hartley-Sharpe, in a highly professional way, has collaborated with and empowered the Patients' Forum to promote CPR and Resuscitation in the Community. Chris Hartley-Sharpe has supported the Patients' Forum through annual training of our Members and by supporting our campaigns to install Defibrillators in Churches and Supermarkets, which led to the installation of Defibrillators in hundreds of Supermarkets across the country. We applaud the way Chris Hartley-Sharpe has always been supportive of the Forum's work and has responded so positively to our Defibrillator and CPR campaigns. Chris Hartley-Sharpe's leadership of the LAS's CPR and Resuscitation campaigns has saved very many lives and his work commands the Forum's greatest respect. We wish Chris Hartley-Sharpe the very best for the future and hope that in his retirement he will play a continuing role in saving the lives of those who suffer Cardiac Arrest. Presented this 21st Day of March 2022 Signed on behalf of the Patients' Forum by:
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