A single PAS for UHD is imminent – here's what you need to do

A single patient administration system (PAS) for the whole of UHD brings a range of benefits, including the creation of single waiting lists, single patient records and simpler cross-site transfers. Here's what you need to do now ahead of its arrival in the coming weeks:

• Managers – if you have not received new access details for your current Poole CaMIS users, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to provide details of relevant staff.
• Poole CaMIS users – please speak to your line manager to ensure they have received your new log-in details for when your service goes live
• New users – please go through the usual training process to get access
• RBH and XCH users - will already have access to the shared system when it comes online

For more on the project please see the PAS pages of the UHD intranet.

End of current staff vaccinations programme

Over the past two years, we've vaccinated thousands of UHD staff – more than 92 per cent of you – with at least two Covid-19 vaccination doses. We've also administered the vaccine to many thousands of our partners working in health and social care in Dorset, as well as the public.

This week marked the end of our current Covid-19 and flu vaccination programme. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who have made our programme a great success, and helped protect not only colleagues but crucially, our vulnerable patients, against the virus. Look out for news about furthers staff vaccination programmes, currently scheduled for the autumn, in the Staff Bulletin, The Brief and other internal communications.

Click here to book Covid-19 vaccinations outside of our hospitals, which remain available through the national booking service.

Understanding Covid-19 and its effects on staff

As part of our work to fully understand the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on staff, our occupational health team would like to hear from those who have recorded a positive PCR Covid-19 swab test result at any time during the pandemic.

Your answers to a short survey will help us better understand the pandemic's effect on our staff, and identify any areas that we can learn from. This includes helping us better assess whether staff contracted Covid-19 as a result of their work and if any protocols, policies or practices need to be reviewed.

The survey is part of our commitment to RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) and takes just a few minutes to complete. Complete it online here by 14 April.

Ask Aly, our chief medical officer, your questions next Thursday

Join us at 12pm next Thursday (10 March) for Ask Aly, hosted by our chief medical officer, Dr Alyson O'Donnell.

It's a great opportunity to ask questions, raise concerns or share your views. You can join the meeting here and if you'd like to send any questions in advance, pop them through to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we can ask on your behalf.

RBH: Pathology result delays this evening

There will be delays to biochemistry results from 8pm tonight to 8am tomorrow (4-5 March), as samples will be transported from RBH to Poole for analysis.

There is no anticipated interruption of service, but there will be a slight delay to cover the time of the specimen transport between sites.

Please ensure all samples are sent to the lab promptly to avoid unnecessary extension to the overall turnaround time.

Thank you to our overseas workers!

Today is NHS Overseas Workers Day, which gives us all the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of our international staff, and the huge difference they make to our patient care, and to the diverse culture of UHD. We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our overseas colleagues for everything they do for our hospitals.

You can learn more about two of our international staff on our social media today. Read a quote from Elemar Lubrica, AMU acting deputy sister, here and watch Pabalelo Pule, staff nurse, share his experience here.

Reminder: an exciting new sustainability programme is coming... and we need your help!

We're developing a new engagement programme that rewards colleagues for taking part in a range of sustainability and wellbeing related actions – and we're asking you to put forward suggestions for its name.

Working with colleagues across Dorset, the initiative will have a number of sustainability and wellbeing themes, to enable staff to find out about activities they may want to participate in, and earn points for doing so. Find out more about the programme and how you can get involved here. The deadline to put forward suggestions is 7 March.

It's time to update your computer

To ensure our Windows PCs and laptops are kept up to date all Windows 10 devices across the trust need a large update installed, which each of us will need to activate on our own devices. This update will take approximately 30 minutes and your device will need to restart.

You can find out which version of Windows 10 you are using by clicking on the start button (bottom left-hand corner), typing 'about' and clicking on 'about your PC'. This shows the version under Windows specification, and if it states 'Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1909' please complete the update.

The update can be found in the software centre/update section which can be located on your desktop or via the start menu. Follow the below steps to complete the installation and plan the reboot of your machine - taking into consideration the longer process and ensuring you do not power off the device whilst it is updating.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have any problems.

Contribute to our Covid-19 service of reflection, part of national events

We will be holding special services across our hospitals from 11.45am on 23 March to reflect on the pandemic and to remember the family, friends, neighbours and colleagues we've lost.

The simultaneous services at Christchurch, Poole and the Royal Bournemouth will be led by our chaplains and include the observation of a minute's silence at 12pm. You are welcome to bring your own ribbon and tie it to one of our ribbon trees on the day.

We are looking for staff members or volunteers to read one of the poems on each site on the day – if you're interested, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You can join our services in person or watch them via our social media channels.

• XCH: at the front of Christchurch Hospital
• Poole: on the lawn behind Churchfield House
• RBH: by the lake

POOLE: Fire alarm testing next week

Next week (7-11 Match) there will be fire alarm sounder testing across the hospital.

Monday morning: B6 offices, penthouse suites, wards A4 and A5, underpass, ladybird unit, breast screening unit

Monday afternoon: ward C4, F3 theatre staff area

Tuesday morning: F2 theatres, ward A2 and A3

Tuesday afternoon: ward B2, B2 coronary care, D block

Wednesday morning: C1 children's unit, C1 admin and switchboard, ward B1, B1 respiratory, Bravery Way, EB radiotherapy, EB oncology/haematology

Wednesday afternoon: F1 Labs and management corridor, ward A1, B block basement

Thursday morning: EG maxiofacial, EG day theatres, emergency department, CT scanner, ultrasound, north entrance, x-ray, outpatients clinics, new pre op area

Thursday afternoon: FG labs, urgent treatment centre, AG Ward (AMU), restaurant, kitchens

Friday morning: aseptic suite, pharmacy/dispensary, nuclear medicine, dome areas

Friday afternoon: physiotherapy, equipment library, hospedia, A block lower ground floor, F block lower ground floor

RBH: Limited acute kidney injury (AKI) service this month

Our AKI nurse is on annual leave from March 7-28, and there will be no AKI service across our sites during this time.

If you need advice, please contact our Poole site nurse lead This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.ext 2044 or the Prince of Wales ward at Dorset County Hospital on 01305255139 and ask for the on call registrar.

'Understanding endometriosis' talk postponed

Unfortunately, the Understanding Health talk on endometriosis that was scheduled for Monday (7 March) has been postponed.

We will share the rescheduled date as soon as it has been rearranged.

Stay vigilant on cyber-security

Please continue to be vigilant around IT security – for example unusual requests for information by email, messages with unexpected attachments you are not expecting that you are invited to download, messages containing links you do not recognise – to ensure our IT systems remain as robust as possible.

See the IT security section of the intranet for more information, or contact the IT helpdesk for more advice.

Did you miss Dorset's 'adding value with patient initiated follow-up' webinar?

If you missed the webinar on patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) with Professor Alastair Hutchison, chief medical director at Dorset County Hospital, you can catch up here. This is a private link please only share with Dorset ICS colleagues.

This webinar covers how PIFU is being used locally and nationally to support reduction in follow-up waiting lists and as an effective tool for elective recovery.

The intention is for formal patient-initiated follow-up to be reviewed and implemented across all outpatient specialties over the coming months in Dorset. This process will be fully supported by the team within Dorset's outpatient transformation programme, and we ask you to begin to look with your teams at how PIFU will add value within your service.

Our lead contact for implementation is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Limited dementia and delirium cover

RBH: there will be no specialist dementia and delirium nurse available on 8 and 11 March and very limited cover on 7, 9 and 10 March. Referrals will be prioritised, so please expect delays in reviews and new assessments.

Poole: there will be no dementia service from 9-16 March and 22-25 March, so please expect delays with response to referrals.

RBH: Improving dermatology referrals

We're keen to improve our dermatology inpatient referral pathway from Bournemouth to Christchurch Hospital.

If you use the referral pathway, please complete this one-minute survey to help us understand and improve the current practice.

RBH: Corridor flooring renewal

From Monday (7 March) a month of flooring renewal work will take place on the first floor, west corridor.

The work will begin between wards 14 and 15 (glazed section of corridor) an will be carried out at night from Monday to Friday. During this time there will be no access to the area, so please follow the directions to the stairwells.

The estates department apologise for any inconvenience caused during these works.

Reminder: PCA cassettes at critically low level

Prefilled morphine cassettes are still available to order through pharmacy so consider if there is a clinical reason to have an alternative. In the event we run out of cassettes completely and a patient requires IV analgesia, this will need to be prescribed and given as IV bolus doses titrated to pain.

Please could all stores and stocks be checked for any cassettes that may be unaccounted for.

Join Rachel Ellison on Teams this International Women's Day (IWD)

This IWD (8 March) former BBC news reporter, Rachel Ellison, will be discussing 'dilemmas and choices – what one female leader did when a day at work went drastically wrong'.

Rachel will share the story of a female leader posted to work in a volatile region while working for an international non-governmental development aid organisation. Through breakout sessions and general group discussions, participants will be invited to explore the situation and share their thoughts.

The event runs on Teams on March 8 from 12-1.30pm. Click here to join.

The countdown is on - make a staff lottery bid to benefit your team

Time is running out to place your staff lottery bid for something that could benefit the wellbeing of your team or department.

This is a great opportunity to promote your team or departments wellbeing, and to think of what extra support could really benefit you and your colleagues. Bids should be made for resources that are not available for funding through any other route.

To find out more and make your bid check the staff lottery pages by 31 March.

Spaces available at 'leading teams through change' workshops

Are you leading a team through change? There are spaces available on our leadership development workshops. These workshops will help you to gain knowledge on leading through times of uncertainty and network with other leaders across UHD.

Check the leaership development pages on the RBCH intranet for more information and workshop dates.

Are you taking part in March for Men 2022?

Instead of handing out their usual race numbers this year UHD charity would like you to write your reason for taking part on your bib. These personal touches will show just how many important, unique, reasons there are to raise funds for men's health services.

Whatever your reason for taking part, share your March for Men motivation – sign up here to take part, receive your bib and March for Men t-shirt.