A visit to two innovative services was a highlight for members at last week’s Executive Flow Oversight Board (EFOB).
Continuing to hold regular meetings around our sites, the EFOB team enjoyed the first in a series of departmental tours when they were shown around the Planned Investigation Unit (PIU) and the OPAT outpatient antibiotic therapy unit at University Hospital Monklands.
The two outpatient services have been co-located as part of the Monklands-wide drive to mirror the forward-thinking clinical model designed for the new University Hospital Monklands.
Senior Charge Nurse Anne Waye gave the group a tour of the PIU, a one-stop unit that provides specialist investigations and initiation and delivery of treatment. In OPAT, Staff Nurse Cheryl Hastie described the work of the service, which allows patients who need long-term intravenous antibiotic treatment, but are otherwise fit, to be treated as an outpatient.
Before the tour, EFOB met and heard an overview of developments at our acute hospitals and within the University Health & Social Care Partnerships, followed by a presentation focused on work at Monklands by the hospital’s Site Director Stephen Peebles.
The key objective of EFOB is to oversee and connect the various strands of priority work across the health board and the partnerships, to bring performance improvement, enhanced patient safety and even greater staff wellbeing.
