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Issue 15 Date: 21 December 2020This is where you will find key operational news and policy updates for across the NCA.?All managers and supervisors are required to ensure that this information and key updates are shared with your staff and teams, especially those who do not have regular access to a work computer or our intranet.?For information – Staff message from newly appointed NCA chair, Professor Michael LugerThe formal appointment of our new Chairman for the NCA Group was announced this week at the Board meeting of the Committees in Common (CiC). Professor Michael Luger, former Dean of Manchester Business School and former Chair of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, has been appointed by our Group’s Council of Governors. Michael starts in post in January 2021 for a three year term in office. The appointment follows the retirement of our former Chair, Mr Jim Potter, who led the Board of Directors at Salford Royal for more than 20 years and then latterly as part of the NCA Group (including The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust) for the last five years. Professor Luger holds an academic background as a PhD public sector economist. He completed an interim role as Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) and Dean of the Faculty ofBusiness and Management at Regent’s University London. He is appointed to the Board of the Office of Rail and Road, where his term ends in 2021. Michael is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester.To read a message to staff from Professor Luger click here. To hear a video message click hereFor information – Sending emails between Salford and PAT and Emails containing personal/identifiable data between the NCA Care Organisations using srft.nhs.uk, pat.nhs.uk and are now secured. This means you are no longer required to use [secure] in the subject line, press the Encrypt button or password protect files attached to emails between (sending or receiving) these three email services. This applies to all addresses. We are currently assessing whether email to and from mft.nhs.uk are secured. In the meantime, please ensure emails are encrypted or password protected if sending identifiable/personal data between an NCA email address and mft.nhs.uk. For more details go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Care this Christmas gifts and hampersThanks to NorthCare Charity, all patients will receive a special gift on Christmas Day. These are being delivered to teams across our sites over the next few days. Boxes are clearly marked and include tags and wrapping paper, where appropriate.Porters will also be delivering hampers for staff working on Christmas Day. These include a range of treats to be shared among staff within departments over the festive period. These are a thank you from the charity for everyone’s hard work over the year. Where appropriate, and with relevant permissions, please feel free to take photos and share with the charity on social media using @NCareCharityFor information – NHSEI 2019/20 Pensions annual allowance charge compensation policyIn November 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) announced that clinical staff who exceed their annual allowance for the 2019/20 tax year and who use Scheme Pays to pay the tax charge can be compensated in retirement for any reduction to their NHS Pension Scheme benefits.? For full details on this, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Research placements on offer at BRCThere are new opportunities for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals currently working in NHS Trusts in the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre Partnership (which includes Salford Royal) to undertake backfilled clinical research placements. The call is also open to nursing, medical, midwifery and other healthcare students. For more information go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Undergraduate Medical Education AwardsThe Undergraduate Medical Education team are immensely proud of their students’ achievements and also of their engaged and supportive educators, who students tell us, make such a difference to their learning. For details on the successes of the academic year, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – MIAA Anti-Fraud Alert Issue 10The NCA's counter fraud team have shared the latest MIAA Anti-Fraud alert newsletter with a round-up of all the latest fraud news and updates. This month's newsletter includes information about: fake IDs and theft of NHS supplies; patient fraud?and people using fake IDs to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination early and online shopping?and the danger of electronic skimming. ?Read the latest MIAA Anti-Fraud newsletter - Issue 10 For information – Staff urged to be vigilant to ‘POPOOLA’ email fraud scam The NCA's counter fraud team are asking staff to be vigilant to a new e-mail scam targeting NHS staff. The 'Popoola' scam is infecting NHS email accounts with a virus. The scam involves an email sent to staff alleging that their NHS email account has been infected with a virus. Staff are then asked to reactivate their account by clicking on a link, which infects their PC with a virus. The subject title of the scam email is 'POPOOLA'. For more details go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Funding our hospitals at Oldham, Bury, Rochdale and North ManchesterDid you know that the total financial running costs on an annual basis across all of North Manchester, Bury,?Oldham?and?Rochdale?is in excess of ?650 million pounds? The way this is financed is directly linked to how we record the patients that we treat. Each patient, unless from overseas (Non UK), is usually registered with a General Practitioner who in turn is part of a Clinical Commissioning Group, or a Local Health Board if registered in one of the devolved administrations such as Wales. Each Clinical Commissioning Group or Local Health Board is then charged for the treatment of patients that fall under their responsibility. For more details go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.DIGITAL NEWSFor information – Covid-19 swab test remindersFrom 17 December 2020 ‘Covid -19 Swab Tests’ can be prescribed and administered from?ePMA from the ‘Adult Prescribing Protocols’ section. For more information and training guides, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – LAN infrastructure programme – information for Rochdale staffWe are now close to completing implementation at Rochdale Infirmary. All departments and services on the main hospital site have now been migrated to the new network infrastructure with the exception of: radiology, booking & scheduling, Oasis Unit, antenatal, facilities, catering and education. We are preparing for implementation in these areas to start during the week ending 8th January. Detailed planning is in progress as this will require some unavoidable network downtime to complete over a period of 2 to 3 days. For more details on this programme of work, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – LAN refresh migration programme at BuryWe are expecting to start around the end of January 2021, and the phased rollout across site is estimated to take approximately 6 or 7 weeks.?More detailed planning information will be issued shortly to explain which departments and services will be impacted and when. For more information go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.?CARE ORGANISATION SITE NEWSFor information – Salford Royal’s first colorectal robotic surgerySalford Royal’s first colorectal robotic surgery took place successfully last week. Using the Da Vinci Xi system, surgeons operate a robot as a tool to perform complex surgical procedures. For more details on this, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Salford’s outpatient ambulance waiting lounge currently out of useChanges have been made to the arrangements for patients requiring transport.?The ambulance waiting lounge in Hope Building is no longer available for use due to reallocation of the space. Patients need to be collected from individual outpatient areas. For details on how to arrange transport, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Pharmacy services for Salford from 24 Dec to 4 Jan The schedule for pharmacy services for Salford Care Organisation 24th December 2020 to 4th January 2021 can be found by clicking hereFor information – Salford Royal festive season eateries opening timesSalford Royal has shared its festive opening times for El Cid Middle Eastern Kitchen and the Plaza Restaurant. For more information go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Christmas bank holiday Salford PPE distribution During the Christmas Bank Holiday period (25 to 28 December and 1 to 3 Jan 2021) there will be no Covid PPE distribution to both acute and community locations within Salford. Departments are asked to increase orders of Covid PPE in the coming weeks to ensure they have sufficient stocks to last for the four day Christmas bank holiday period. Deliveries of PPE will resume as normal on the 29 to 31 December where departments should re build stock for the New Year bank holiday period. Normal deliveries will resume on 4 Jan. In case of emergency, the PPE stock room will be fully stocked with access available via the site co-ordinater as per normal weekend working for both bank holiday periods.For information – Salford workforce information team Christmas and new year opening times 20/21The Christmas and new year opening times for the Salford workforce information team can be found on the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – New consultant plastic surgeons at SalfordSalford’s department of trauma, orthopaedic & plastic surgery are delighted to announce the commencement in post of new consultant plastic surgeons Miss Susie Yao, Miss Christina Lipede and Mr Richard Atkinson. For more information, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.For information – Oldham Foodbank Appeal thank you The integrated discharge and emergency duty social worker teams would like to thank everyone at?The Royal Oldham Hospital who has donated food items?to support Oldham?Foodbank this Christmas.? Oldham Foodbank collate any donations and make them into parcels that the hospital can share with patients?who are in need of support from the foodbank on discharge from hospital.If you would like to donate some food, you can still do so. For more information, go to the Inform pages on the intranet or here.EVENTSFor information – Join us for our first Virtual Kindness Café session – Tuesday 22nd December The first Virtual Kindness Cafe will be taking place via MS Teams at Oldham on Tuesday 22nd December, 10am - 11am - and you're invited! A virtual Kindness Café is a safe space for staff to have a positive, strength-based conversation around your experiences. The café is a great forum for staff to support each other by offering solutions, self-care and wellbeing tips and helping individuals to find their own solutions. For more information go to the Inform pages on the intranet here or email Jenna Lancaster: jenna.lancaster@pat.nhs.uk or Lisa Killeen: lisa.killeen@pat.nhs.uk.For information – Bike Dr sessions at Salford in the new year Bike repair sessions at Salford Royal will be held in the New Year.? Please book your appointment via the link herecenter0This area is for you to insert any local news:00This area is for you to insert any local news:Submitting key updates – information for all staff??To submit items for future editions of Inform?please fill in the Inform submission form via the homepage of the intranet.?Where possible please check with your service or divisional manager to avoid duplication and ensure we are receiving the most up to date, approved?information?for publication.??? ................
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