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Items from the 70th AGM held in April 2000. Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has started. It covers 43 GP practices (110 GPs) and their staff and will commission services from other NHS Trusts for local patients as well as managing Mile End Hospital. The Archives were recently awarded a £50 000 lottery grant to expand its service. It featured in a two-page photo-spread in the Eastendlife. Miss Margaret Stevenson was very ill but in her usual determined fashion she sent her love to all the League members and her thanks for all the flowers, letters and cards. Trudy Wood was re-elected President by the Executive Committee at their meeting in November. Barbara Thompson was re-elected as Honorary Treasurer. Membership stands at 1741 Elected to the Executive: Hilary Austin, Ursula Brinn, Betty Betson, Jean McIntosh and Pam Padelopoulos. The next meeting of the Executive will be on 10 May. Jonathan Ashbridge, Acting Chief Executive for the Barts and the London Trust reflected on the last six months. He said that since January 2001 there had been a stream of new directives - at a rate of 1.5 a day. Fundamental changes included improving the environment and a new licensing body for nursing from April 2002. This would include lay membership, and would bring anticipated developments in licensing specialist nurses and some ancillary workers, as well as creating common education standards for the four countries. It would be 10 years before the new hospital would be completed so a ward refurbishment programme would start in a few months time. The Royal London Hospital would become one of five centres in London for patients with severe injuries. The high-dependency beds have increased to 24 and a further 3 ITU beds are available. Nurse recruitment was good with 125 nurses starting in January, including 25 from overseas. The staff from the two Care of the Elderly wards at RLH are now managed by the Trust and from April 2002 the community midwives will also be managed by it. Alison Knapp, Acting Chief Nurse, gave a report from the School of Nursing and Midwifery on behalf of Margaret Lane, the Associate Dean for Nursing & Midwifery students. This will be carried in full in The Review. Alison then went on to report on activities at The Royal London Hospital. A new Chair for the Trust has commenced and interviews for the Chief Executive post were underway. The new Centre for Practice Development and Nursing Research has been established. The updated Nursing Strategy includes an audit tool. Guidance on the 'modern matrons' has been received. The CHI visit is well underway: the feedback starts on 14th May. This will provide a useful overview for the incoming Chief Executive. The Walk-in centre is now open 07.000 to 22.00 Monday to Friday and 09.00 to 22.00 at weekends. The centre's 12 nurses and doctor offer information, advice and treatment for minor illnesses, and the 'morning after' pill. Alison's report was provided in full in 2001 The Review. Page last updated by DEB on 6/8/02 |
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