A quarterly newsletter from The Friends of Moorfields

162 City Road, London EC1V 2PD, tel: 020 7251 1240

friends@moorfields.nhs.uk

www.friendsofmoorfields.org.uk

registered charity No 228637

THE PEACOCK ISSUE 55 AUGUST 2014

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Dear Reader,

I regret I printed an error in the last Peacock on page 9 I said in the title that the play equipment was donated to the Ronald MacDonald Children’s Eye Centre and

should have said Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre. Sorry for the misinformation.

I do hope you enjoy this edition of The Peacock and, as always, please let me know any ideas you may have for future publications.

Best wishes

Come and support us - dates for your diary: Station collections - 5 September - Liverpool Street, 9 September - Old Street, 1 October - Barbican - please let us know in the office if you can help Book sales - 23 September, 28 October, 25 November, 16 December

Mini mart - 9 September, 14 October, 11 November, 9 December Art & jewellery sales: 2 & 4 September, 30 September & 1 October

Please come along you may find just what you’re looking for!

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Grants Awarded in July 2014

Special scanner for Ocular Oncology The Friends were asked to fund an Anterior Segment OCT Scanner at a cost of £43,200. The scanner would allow the Ocular Oncology team (and other clinics such as Glaucoma) to perform scans in Clinic 11 on the lower ground floor instead of sending patients upstairs. At the moment this can extend patient visits by two or three hours – on top of other tests being carried out. The OCT scanner was discussed by the trustees at their meeting in July and one of the consultants at the meeting suggested that there might be another more versatile scanner which would suit more clinics. The applicant agreed that there were two, but it would add £20,000 - taking the cost over Friends’ normal grant limit of £50,000. Following these discussions, the Ultrasound Department has arranged for a trial of two scanners during August and the Friends trustees will consider whether to agree to increase the funding at their meeting in September.

Counsellor for children and young people This pilot project will provide specific psychological help for young patients, thereby preventing further distress to those who have received bad news about their eyes. Counsellors who work with under 18s need special qualifications. The Committee considered this scheme as highly suitable for funding by the Friends. The appointment would be for 2 years subject to reports after 1 year. Cost £21,376 a year.

Part time play leader for one day a week The play leader’s role is to distract children from unpleasant medical procedures and entertain waiting children with toys, games and family friendly activities (it keeps parents happy too!). The one day per week will provide cover in the A&E department where there is currently cover on only four days. Cost £6,130.00 a year

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Extracts from a letter from:

Gordon Hay, Fellow in Oncology Service Marie Restori , Consultant Physicist , Department of Ultrasound Mandeep Sagoo, Consultant Ophthalmologist ,MR & Oncology Service

We are delighted to have the opportunity to thank the Friends of Moorfields for funding the Sonosite M Turbo Ultrasound Scanner at a cost of £28,210.25 in July 2013. The scanner purchased by the Friends is based in Clinic 11 on the Lower Ground Floor.

The Sonosite M-Turbo is a robust, easy to use and state of the art scanner. For its compact size it produces scans almost comparable to top of the range machines. It takes only a few minutes training for the operator to obtain full functionality. The machine is in absolute pleasure to use. The scans are easily reproducible between patient visits.

It has been invaluable in improving the patient journey through clinics. Prior to its purchase all patients in the Thursday morning Medical Retina and Oncology Services were sent to the first floor for an Ultrasound Scan. This would often be upwards of 50 patients and the patient journey was lengthened by several hours as a result of this due to the inevitable long queues in the Department of Ultrasound. Having a new scanner within Clinic 11 now means that returning patients often have a scan within minutes of checking in. As the test itself takes only a few minutes to perform, this has therefore, had a dramatic impact on amount of time the patients wait in the clinic. Since its arrival, in August 2013, it has benefit-ted almost 100 patients per week in the Medical Retina and Oncology Services.

We are extremely grateful for the purchase of this system with funds from the Friends of Moorfields

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Basil Bramble - brings a smile to some of our patients

Basil delivered a huge bag of knitting from his friend Iris and her pals Pat, Jackie, Zena, Movia and Barbara from the “Knit and Natter Group” in the South Chingford Community Library. The knitting is absolutely beautiful and is on sale in the Friends Shop. You can see Basil handing over the knitting to Liz Fisher.

We send huge thanks to Basil and his friends for all their help. Basil - we’re always glad to see you.

One of our regular helpers Basil Bramble came into the hospital on 24 June. He spent time visiting the clinics chatting to patients (he is very friendly!) and selling some raffle tickets.

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PLEASE SUPPORT THE

FRIENDS OF MOORFIELDS

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE 2014

Tickets for this raffle are now on sale, from the office or the shop, priced at £1 each

Some great prizes:

A week in a holiday cottage in Brittany in 2015 (by arrangement with the owner) plus £200 towards travel costs 32” flat screen television A weekend stay for two at a Young’s Hotel in the UK (kindly donated by Young’s) Dinner for two to the value of £120 at the Hyatt Regency (kindly donated by the Hyatt Regency) £100 shopping vouchers

The draw will take place in the hospital on 16 December

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Hello to Sandra Bracey who

serves in The Friends shop

on Tuesday afternoons and

helped for the first time at our

Liverpool Street station

collection on 11 June raising

141.27. Thanks very much to

all our station collectors who

give their time to raise money

- you are very much

appreciated.

Thank you also to Sandra’s

daughter, Elizabeth Kamau,

who supplied the photo and

who works as a Station Sup-

port Assistant at Liverpool

Street and Fenchurch Street

Stations.

THANK YOU!

We all at The Friends would like to say a great big thank you to Neil Gilchrest who very kindly responded to our plea in the last Peacock for someone to transport some paintings from an address in Cheam to the hospital.

Thank you very much Neil – we’re very grateful for your help

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THE SECOND MOORFIELDS’S GOT TALENT Wednesday 9 July at Kings Place

The overall winner - as voted by the audience - was Simon Pearce who had everyone enthralled with his rendition of Mustang Sally

A choir of HR staff members sang a selection of war songs accompanied by Simon Kealy on the piano and conducted by Jo Kelsey. They dedicated their act to the doctors and nurses from Moorfields who fell in action in World War II and those who died when a V1 bomb hit the hospital in 1944.

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The judges this year comprised Director of Nursing & Allied Health Professions, Tracy Luckett, Director of Strategy and Business Development, Rob Elek, and Stacey Strong, a doctor at Moorfields (who very kindly stepped in at the last minute). They all had great fun - as you can see!

Ginny Salter, Chairman of The Friends of Moorfields, congratulated everyone on their superb performances which contributed to a great evening.

Jose Manuel Torres, winner of the Judges’s Choice for best performer prize with the judges and ‘Al and Dec’

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The comperes for the evening were our very own ‘Al and Dec’, Consultant Alex Ionides and Medical Director, Declan Flanagan. Here they are with John Pelly (on the left), Chief Executive, winner of Best Technical Performance for his Chopin Nocturne.

THE PERFORMERS

Hiranthi Fernando (piano): ‘ Moonlight’ Sonata (First movement) – Ludwig van Beethoven

Gordon Plant (clarinet) and Ronald Kam (piano): The Entertainer – Scott Joplin

Pwakusari Taduggoronno (voice and piano): Performing her own composition, The Promise

The Can’t Sing Singers of the HR Choir (choral and piano): A selection of war songs

John Pelly (piano): Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 – Frédéric Chopin

Phil & Debs (voice and piano): musical duet

Brian Little (magic): A mix of close-up and stage magic

Julie Campbell (voice): Cry Me a River

Andrew Nebel (spoken word): The Battle of Hastings - Edgar

(José) Manuel Torres (voice): All of Me

Vineeta Tripathi (dance): Kathak (Indian classical dance)

Simon Pearce (voice): Mustang Sally

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THE SUMMER DRAW

Made at Moorfields Got Talent, 9th July (All prizes were generously donated)

PRIZE WINNER

Tea for two at the 5* Grange Hotel St Pauls

K Marais

Dinner for Two to the value of £120 at the Hyatt Regency

Mrs B Edwards

Pair of top price for a performance of Coppelia by the English National Ballet at the London Coliseum

Ms E Poulter

Chelsea FC football signed by the cur-rent team

Ms H Camp

Arsenal FC shirt signed by the 2011/12 team

Ms L Heywood

£100 shopping vouchers A Karmel

Some special thank yous for Moorfields’s Got Talent: Liz Fisher wishes to thank Rebecca Kingdom-Kruszewski, the Moorfields Events Manager, whose special expertise helped to make Moorfields’s Got Talent such a great success - and in her own time too!

Thank you to Kings Place for excellent organisation and ‘can do’ attitude. Thank you too to Anesta Broad Photography for the delightful pictures on these pages and our front cover.

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A report from Andrew Crerar:

The Moorfields Way (In your shoes) – refreshing our values)

In the May edition of The Friends of Moorfields newsletter, we introduced The Moorfields Way – a Trust campaign designed to improve the care we provide to our patients so we can be at our best more consistently in the future.

Our ambition for Moorfields is to provide safe, compassionate and high-quality care to all our patients. We are equally focused on ensuring that our trust is a great place to work for our staff. But we know that, for one reason or another, we don’t always live up to the high standards to which we aspire.

To address these inconsistencies The Moorfields Way was launched in June to help us understand, from our patients and staff, what is great about our trust and where we have room to improve.

By listening to our patients and staff talk honestly about Moorfields, we will capture and articulate a set of values and

A group of Moorfields’s patients shared their experiences

with Andrew’s team. - 1 July 2014

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shared expectations. The values we create will be an agreement between our patients and staff about how we will behave so we can continue to foster a great working environment for our staff and deliver excellent care for our patients

Over the past two months, we have been capturing our patients’ feedback through a series of listening events, called “In Your Shoes”, and an online survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Moorfieldsvalues-patient (which is still open should you wish to contribute). The series of “In Your Shoes” events held during June and July brought staff and patients together to talk about the things that impact on patient experience the most and how we can continue to improve the care we provide right across the trust. The events were extremely successful with over 140 people volunteering their time to help us understand how we need to improve our services and care.

While patients are the centre of everything we do, The Moorfields Way is also about listening to our staff. Through this campaign we have already asked over 600 staff members to tell us what will improve their experience at work, because we know that more motivated and satisfied staff will provide better care for our patients.

Over the next two months, The Moorfields Way will continue to engage patients and staff so that together we can create a set of guiding principles that describe how we will work every day and ensure that our approach is consistent across every site, clinic and department.

For more information on how The Moorfields Way is improving our trust for everyone, please contact Andrew Crerar or Jackie Tumelty in the learning and development team via email to InOurShoes@Moorfields.nhs.uk or call 020 7566 2905. To follow our progress, please visit: www.Moorfields.nhs.uk/TheMoorfieldsWay or pick up the November copy of The Friends’ Peacock newsletter.

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Mrs Margaret ffytche

Do you know the whereabouts of Joyce Mavis Thompson or Alvin Thompson? Previously known as Mavis Joyce Fowlin and Reg G Thompson who came from Kingston, Jamaica to London by boat in the early 1950s? If you have any information please telephone SAM (Sally-Anne Maidment) on 07949 074989 in confidence or email:

maidmentsam@btinternet.com

The Friends were asked by Tim ffytche to find a part-time assistant for half a day a week for the Moorfields Association (newly formed from an amalgamation of the Moorfields Surgeons Association and the Moorfields Alumni Association) which prompted memories of Tim’s mother, Mrs Margaret ffytche.

Encouraged by Tim, Margaret became a volunteer of The Friends of Moorfields as a comparatively young woman, firstly at the High Holborn branch and then following the amalgamation of the Hospital at City Road, spending two regular days a week in the shop where she worked tirelessly to ensure its success.

Margaret was an expert knitter and also found time to provide the shop with an endless supply of beautifully made dolls that sold as soon as a new batch arrived. She was also called upon by the Hospital as a translator of Spanish whenever needed.

Margaret died on 20 July 1996 aged 86 years. She will be remembered by many as a neat and small person, always immaculately turned out. Her charm penetrated to patients and Hospital staff alike who were aware of her unquestionable friendliness and commitment.

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For Sale:

A brand new colour version MAX

Enhanced Vision Digital

Magnifier has been donated to us.

We understand these sell at around

£129. If you would find this item

useful please call Liz or Natalia in

the office and make us an offer.

Are you interested in Art?

The Moorfields Arts Programme is looking for a committed and enthusiastic volunteer to join the Arts Committee to help with the organisation of occasional events and activities in Moorfields. Committee meetings are held roughly every two months at City Road - usually at lunchtime. If you are interested, please contact Liz Fisher in the office.

On the left you can see a photograph of a knitted retina produced by ladies from the Institute of Ophthalmology for display in the lower ground

floor clinics along with some stunning artwork featuring the retina. Take a look when you next visit Moorfields.

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NEWS FROM THE PEACOCK LOTTERY Draw 31 takes place at the end of November so newcomers please send in your applications soon. The annual fee (covering entry to four quarterly draws) is £20.00, of which 50% goes to funds and the remainder to the prize pot.

The Peacock Lottery is a fundraiser and is entirely separate from membership of the Friends itself. You

can be part of either or both!

I would like a PEACOCK LOTTERY lucky number please!

Name:_______________________________

Address:____________________________________________

_____________________________Postcode: ______________

Tel: __________________Email: _________________________ PLEASE TICK THIS BOX IF THIS IS A BRAND NEW APPLICATION or PLEASE TICK THIS BOX IF YOU ARE RENEWING

Please send to Peacock Lottery: Friends of Moorfields, 162 City Road, London EC1V 2PD with your cheque for £20.00 (payable to Friends of Moorfields

CONGRATULATIONS TO DRAW NO 29 PRIZE WINNERS, MAY 2014 Draw made by Sandra Bracey Available pot : £442.50

1st prize: token No 214 - £265.50 (60% of pot) - Mr & Mrs Hassell, Gravesend

2nd prize: token No 482 - £110.62 (25% of pot) - Mrs G Lavelle, London

3rd prize: token No 288 - £66.38 (15% of pot) - Mr E K Davis, Bexley