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Patient care
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Vital service in demand
Esi offers a maximum of 24 sessions to allow time to build a
therapeutic alliance. These sessions can be face-to-face, online
video consultations and even over the phone, as she has learned
that some children prefer this medium.
Awareness of Esi’s amazing work is growing both inside and
outside of Moorfields. Referrals can only be made internally in
order to ensure that they are Moorfields’ patients, however
growth in awareness about the service means that she is receiving
referrals for Moorfields’ patients across the UK. She has received
overwhelmingly positive feedback from patients, their families,
and colleagues, demonstrating how invaluable this service is.
It is hugely rewarding to recognise a moment in which
a child has taken a step forward in their therapy or realises
that they no longer need to speak to me.
Esi Noonoo, Counsellor for children and young people
We would like to thank
the Masonic Charitable
Foundation for generously
funding the expansion of
this service.
Digital keys installed in hospital
department and in a surgical
ward. We’re very pleased to
support the digital keys and
Moorfields staff in the delivery
of outstanding and safe patient
care through our innovation
grant programme. Staff can
now access medicines more
easily, increasing the time
available to care for patients.
Digital keys to medicine
cupboards have been installed
at Moorfields Eye Hospital
City Road in the busy A&E
Medication is dispensed more
efficiently and safely as it
helps control drug stocks and
creates audit trails. The keys
This digital approach has significantly helped us manage
medicines. Nurses save up to 40 minutes per shift in wasted
time looking for keys, patients get their medication on time
and ultimately this gives nurses more time to provide the
excellent patient care Moorfields is known for.
Sarah Needham, Deputy chief nurse, Moorfields
provide an electronic register
of who, when and where
medication cupboards have
been accessed.
The digital keys have benefits
across service improvement,
financial efficiencies and
improved patient care.
Sarah Needham and her team
are evaluating this initiative
with plans to roll it out across
the entire trust and also
for it to become a standard
approach in Oriel.