Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

We wanted to share with you news about one of our high value equipment replacement projects... Watch the film to find out more about the work being done to update Cath Lab 1 (Cardiology Catheterisation Laboratory, in full) at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Service continuity is assured with the installation of a mobile cath lab for planned patient care, while the refurbishment and upgrade of the lab and staff changing rooms has also meant that we have already fitted out a new Changing Places facility in Trelawny Wing. The project work will continue until Christmas this year, with patients being welcomed into the upgraded laboratory early in the new year 2025. InHealth Siemens Healthineers TClarke #hospital #infrastructure #JourneyOfImprovement #OustandingCrae

One day left to submit an abstract of up to 500 words to showcase your work at our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium in August! Please send your submissions to [email protected] To find out more about the event and register for a virtual place, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dpSftBSB #EHTS24 Jaya Shrivastava James Clark Lisa Trembath Bianca Mills

More gongs for our new Trelawny Scanning Suite and Lowen Ward Last week we were delighted to attend the Constructing Excellence South West awards alongside BAM UK & Ireland when they picked another top honour for our new Trelawny Scanning Suite and Lowen Ward building. It was named Infrastructure Project of the Year (over £5 million). On the same night, this fantastic building was recognised again when Jets Group #Otters and TClarke were named runners up in the Innovation category for the vacuum toilets installation. Having already been recognised at the Michelmores Property Awards and The Concrete Society Southwest Awards, we're so proud that this outstanding building is being recognised for its design and innovation. It was also the first new building at the Royal Cornwall Hospital to have the benefit of our Accessibility Advisory Group's input - ensuring good colour contrasts throughout, video intercom entry system, accessible bathroom designs and Makaton signage. Together with our many partners and stakeholders, we have created a wonderful and wonderfully accessible, environment in which we can deliver outstanding care for our patients. Andrew Witnall MCIOB Roberta Fuller Lewis Saundry IEng MICE MAPM Beth Andrew Kris Wojcik Rob Faro CMgr MCMI EngTech MIHEEM Phillips Healthcare disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Cornwall Disability Alliance #CESW2024

LAST CALL for abstracts for our Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium being held next month. Find out more and book your place at our hybrid event using the QR code below. Please submit your abstract for consideration to [email protected] by Friday 26 July. Jaya Shrivastava Bianca Mills Lisa Trembath James Clark

Last month, we installed a new state-of-the-art gamma camera in our Nuclear Medicine Department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. It's a vital piece of kit, in a highly specialised area of the hospital that sees a diverse range of patients. Work included the installation of the replacement high-value Discovery NM30 camera provided by GE HealthCare, a new air handling unit (to improve ventilation), a complete room upgrade, and improvements to the department’s dispensary. A wonderful skylight was also installed in the gamma camera room, thanks to RCHT Charity funding. The new gamma camera technology delivers a wealth of improvements including better scan times, more diverse and better quality images, and less analogue noise. In some cases, the level of radioactive dose used can also be reduced. The outcome is an outstanding scanning room that has improved the patient and staff experience immeasurably. Our thanks to our construction partner Kier Group, and to Lewis Saundry IEng MICE MAPM from the hospital's Major Capital Projects team, who led on this project, and to Rachel Rhodes, the Clinical Lead. #Hospital #Imaging #JourneyOfImprovement #BuildingForOutstandingCare

Have you booked your place at the RCHT Research Team's August conference yet? Our Emerging Healthcare Technologies research symposium is just six weeks away. Join us to learn how some of the latest technologies and medical advances are benefiting patients in Cornwall and hear from local and nationally acclaimed speakers including: - Prof Guang Zhong Yang, Director and Founder of Precision Robotics - Dr Pierre Berthet-Rayne, CTO and Co-founder of Caranx Medical  - Dr Robert Meertens, Director of Business Engagement and Innovation (Health and Care Professions) University of Exeter There's still two weeks to submit abstracts for poster and oral presentations at the event where you can showcase innovations and new technologies you've introduced in your practice. Just send a summary of up to 500 words to [email protected] by 26 July 2024.

We're bursting with pride today... Our Critical Care Healing Garden at the Royal Cornwall Hospital has won “Community Engagement Project of the Year” at the national, and highly prestigious, Construction News Awards. The Critical Care Healing Garden was opened in September 2023 after an extensive community fundraising campaign led by Cornish explorer Sir Robin Hanbury-Tenison alongside the RCHT Charity RCHT team, and the Critical Care team. Funded entirely by charitable donations, the courtyard can accommodate two hospital beds, as well as other critically-ill patients in wheelchairs, alongside their carers, families, and even pets. It is also one of the first gardens in the UK to be fitted with piped medical gases, making it accessible to even the most poorly of patients, who can experience the outdoors and nature as part of their recovery. Most days, the garden accommodates up to four patients, helping them to cope with their treatment and rehabilitation. The garden was designed by local Cornwall-based landscape architect Lavigne Lonsdale with extensive input from patients and staff. Construction was led by local contractor CORMAC, alongside Southwest Surfacing Specialists, also based in Cornwall. Truro-based WARD WILLIAMS ASSOCIATES LLP provided cost advice free of charge. Donations of time and materials were made from organisations, groups and individuals across the county, including from local artist Kurt Jackson, and the head gardeners from The Lost Gardens of Heligan, National Trust: Glendurgan Garden and The Palace Gardener. Lisa Niemand, Critical Care Matron at RCHT said: “Winning this award means a huge amount to our Critical Care team. It recognises the input and collaboration of the whole community – patients, families, RCHT staff, contractors and suppliers, artists, fundraisers, and more! This journey would not have been achieved without everyone working together and combining clinical need with hospital constraints to deliver our outstanding healing garden.” Karen Murrish. RCHT Charity’s Fundraising Manager said: “We are thrilled the Critical Care Healing Garden has been recognised by Construction News as the best community engagement project in the UK this year. The RCHT Charity team is very proud to have supported the fundraising campaign and grateful to all of those who have donated and helped to make it possible.” Roberta Fuller, Associate Director for Major Capital Projects at RCHT, said: “It’s amazing to win this award for our Critical Care Healing Garden. It’s been a true community effort, not only in achieving the fundraising, but also all the local contractors who worked on the project, as well the generous donations made from local businesses. All have played a massive role in delivering this outstanding space for our critically-ill patients.” Martyn Lonsdale Craig T. Robert Hague MCMI Lynne Lees Kym Vigus Carolyn Garman

We have a vacancy for a Clinical Non-Executive Director at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT). This is an exceptional opportunity to share your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people served by RCHT. We are looking for someone with senior level clinical and patient safety expertise with a genuine commitment to patients and the promotion of excellent health care services. To find out more and apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/ey8A5AkX

Launching the Inaugural Emerging Healthcare Technologies Symposium 2024! A call for abstract submissions for poster and oral presentations is now open. The closing date is 26 July 2024. Please submit abstracts to: [email protected] For more information: https://lnkd.in/eSYVWz_S Jaya Shrivastava Bianca Mills James Clark Lisa Trembath

Great to see our Trelawny Scanning Suite and Lowen Ward win Project of the Year at last night’s Michelmores Property Awards. Huge congratulations to our Major Capital Projects team and everyone involved in the project. BAM UK & Ireland Stride Treglown TClarke Philips Modus