3. Mobile Healthcare Facilities
Ready to receive
patients in as
little as two
weeks
Can move
between
multiple sites
Require little
enabling work
Complete
flexibility in
hire period
4. The Shrewsbury and Telford
Hospital NHS Trust
• Operates two large acute hospitals:
The Princess Royal Hospital and the
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
• The main provider of acute hospital
care for over 500,000 people from
Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and
mid Wales
6. Three challenges
1. February 2014 – The Trust is required to refurbish one of two endoscopy
suites to gain JAG accreditation, doing so will significantly impede
endoscopy activity
2. June 2014 – The Trust experiences growing waiting lists in two of its busiest
specialities
3. November 2015 – In anticipation of a busy winter period, the Trust
dedicates a number of wards to medicine, slowing day surgery activity
10. Outcomes
Treatment remained at The
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital –
carried out by NHS Clinicians
Patients continued to
receive timely care
Achieved JAG
accreditation
13. A Visiting Hospital
The Visiting
Hospital was on
site at the
Princess Royal
Hospital for 134
working days...
... Allowing NHS
clinicians to
treat 742
patients on site
18. An ongoing success
The latest partnership between the Trust and Vanguard Healthcare is
ongoing, to date the following outcomes have been achieved:
Over 400 patients
treated
Safeguarded
elective capacity
Increased emergency
access
20. Partnership
Vanguard offered
options for equipping
and staffing the unit
Total flexibility around
the timing of each project
Vanguard offered
tailored support including
logistics, training and
business planning
Question: How have mobile healthcare facilities factored into the operational resilience of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust?
Answer: Mark briefly runs through each of the contracts (Run time: 00:40)
Question: What role did the mobile endoscopy suite play in helping the Trust achieve JAG accreditation?
Answer: Need to build single-sex wards, thus ongoing refurbishment works with existing facilities decanted into the mobile unit (Run time: 01:00)
Question: Did the Trust consider any alternatives to bringing Vanguard’s units on site to deal with this backlog? If so what made utilising a mobile facility preferable?
Answer: Other options included outsourcing; there were issues finding providers with capacity and even then patients are unhappy to leave the site for treatment. Vanguard allowed the Trust to control the entire pathway. (Run time: 00:48)
Contract ran: 16.06.14 - 19.01. 15
Question 1: It’s not uncommon for Hospitals to dedicate additional ward space to medicine over winter, as you have done here, what has the Vanguard unit allowed you to do differently?
Answer 1: No escalation area, creative scheme which saw medical ward into day unit and day activity to the mobile unit. Preserving activity over winter and preventing a growing waiting list
Question 2: How successfully has this worked into your winter contingency planning?
Answer 2: Allowed the Trust to move low risk patients into the unit
(Run time: 01:31)
Question: How has the Trust’s partnership with Vanguard developed as each new challenge has been addressed?
Answer: The relationship has evolved over the last three years, staff are familiar with the units, set up is simple – the trust are looking at a major overhaul over the next few years and Vanguard can offer clinical space to decant services to (Run time: 01:05)