New University Hospital Monklands – MRP flash report April 2022

Posted: April 11, 2022

The Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) is our exciting vision for the new University Hospital Monklands.

Our monthly flash report provides a short summary of what’s happening with some of the project’s various workstreams.

Laura Ireland, workforce lead

Workforce

“Meetings were held with regard to the requirements for medical staffing and the role of advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs) within the new clinical model,” said workforce lead Laura Ireland.

“A workforce planning group has been established as a separate MRP sub-group, addressing all job families and closely aligned to the project’s service redesign work.”

Service Planning

Redesign lead Donna McHenry said: “A short life working group has been established and met weekly during March to develop admin & office requirements, specifically for the medical workforce.

“Work is continuing for outpatients, primarily on workforce, and sub-department leads will review their funded staffing in relation to their model in the new layout.”

Donna McHenry
Kathryn Henderson project manager

Digital

“There have been mapping exercises with department representatives from the digital workstream to understand current patient and staff flows and potential digital solutions that would assist,” said senior project manager Kate Henderson.

“University Hospital Monklands will be first to test the Patientrack digital observation system’s ‘hard alerting’ component, which highlights patient deterioration to clinical teams via automatic phone alerts.”

Monklands Engagement FImage of Bob Smythorum (MEF)

Communications & engagement officer Bob Smyth said: “The MEF, which involves engagement with representatives from community groups, discussed topics including communications, digital, assurance and clinical innovations.

“Coming up, the forum will have the opportunity to review developments in outpatient service design. A review of the group’s terms of reference will also be undertaken.”

Bob Smyth

Soft Landings

“There has been good progress on the business case delivery plan for ‘soft landings’ – aligning the interests of those who plan, design, construct the hospital with those who then operate and use it,” said MRP soft landings champion Donna McHenry.

“We’ll have continued representation at soft landings meetings alongside other health boards which have National Treatment Centre programmes. This has been useful in terms of sharing lessons learned and progress against delivery plan activities.”

Other News

  • We’re delighted to welcome new team members Maureen McGinn, digital lead, and Nicola Layden, admin support assistant.
  • Thanks to all who took part in the MRP planning consultation in March. We’re putting together a consultation report for submission with the planning application.

For full information on the Monklands Replacement Project visit the MRP webpage www.monklands.scot.nhs.uk.

Flash reports are also included as an infographic in the staff briefing and published on the MRP webpage.

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