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Big Red Heart Appeal

Over the next 18 months to 2 years, we at the GHDC are looking to raise in excess of £1.5 million to develop the Cardiac Services at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby.

Here is a view of some of the improvements we would like to develop. Right now it`s a dream but with your help and support we will make it happen.

Clinical area for development of TILT testing services

1.   NSF for elderly - Falls service requires use of TILT test services.  Previously provided at Louth but now likely to disappear given the management and medical service provision changes occurring in Louth. The nearest centre for this testing is Leeds. Opportinity to develop business locally and fulfil NSF requirements. We have the equipment but not the building.

Cardiac Catheter lab with an appropriately sixed recovery area

1.   Catheter lab located close to all technical support and staff and secretarial support.

2.   Catheter lab close to Coronary Care Unit - improved availability of staff skilled in the management of acutely ill patients ( cardiac resuscitation ), shorter transfers of acutely ill cardiac patients into the diagnostic lab, possibility of rotating nursing staff through CCU, step down, cardiac catheter labs hence improving the pool of staff who are multi-skilled.

3.   Sufficient recovery areas ( 8 beds? ) to allow the potential to perform 6-7 elective cardiac catheters per list, hence singificantly reducing waiting list pressures whilst enabling the possibility of running 2 separate lists at the same time ( TOE`s ( complex heart scans ) and Angiography for example.

4.    Dedicated area to admit and prepare elective cases to ensure no bed blocking between morning and afternoon, pre-assessment clinic area.

Coronary Care Unit with sufficient step down beds - Benefits

1.   CCU located closer and integrated with the place of all diagnostic cardiac investigations ( invasive and non invasive )-improvement diagnostic delivery early in course of admission reduce lenge of stay, best use of acute care beds.

2.   CCU located closer to the predominant work place of the Cardiology middle grade and senior grade doctors - improve imput to complex cases, improved patient care, rapid appropriate diagnostic, management and supervision.

3.   Dedicated step down beds with telemetry - better acute bed utilization for all ACS cases, reduce CCU bed blocking therby easing bed pressures on MAU and hence ECC ( A&E ) expanded admission criteria for arrhythmia and CCF hence improving cardiology expertise input early in admission.