Current visiting times

We know how important it is for patients and families to be able to see visitors. Please help us keep our patients and staff as safe as possible by checking the guidance below before you visiting. 

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Messages for loved ones and keeping in touch

We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication.  Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Voluntary Services team can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.

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Current visiting times

After suspending visiting earlier in the year, we are now able to offer limited visiting to some wards at the discretion of the nurse in-charge.”

Read more on visiting times...


Messages for loved ones and keeping in touch

We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication.  Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.

Read more information about messages for loved ones…

Our Strategy – Working Together, Improving Together

Our strategy sets out our vision, values, strategic aims and most importantly, how we will deliver against these ambitions for our patients, communities, and people in the future.

It is not just a document, it is for and about everyone at PHU, building on what we have achieved with a renewed focus on continuous improvement and the need to continue to work together and improve together to achieve our goals. 

A full copy of the strategy can be downloaded here.

For more information, please visit our strategy webpage.

There are lots of opportunities for you to get involved with the Trust, from volunteering to attending our public meetings, our Annual General Meeting or our hospital open day which is held every year.

ALERT® Adult

Last updated: 20 December 2023

 

ALERT® uses a structured and prioritised system of patient assessment and management to enable a pre-emptive approach to critical illness. It instructs staff in the recognition of impending clinical deterioration, the management of disordered physiology and other aspects of the delivery of acute care.

It is expected that the introduction of the ALERT® course will result in specific benefits to patients, their relatives and hospital staff, such as:

  • improvements in the general ward care of patients
  • a reduced number of cardiac arrest calls on general wards
  • earlier, and more appropriate referrals to the intensive care unit
  • fewer avoidable in-hospital deaths
  • improved decision-making regarding the resuscitation status of patients
  • improved multi-professional teamwork & communication

Course structure

The ALERT® course is:

  • a blended, flexible, learning programme
  • multi-disciplinary
  • practical demonstrations
  • live seminars 
  • role-play clinical scenarios
  • encourages candidates to reflect on their actions and to consider “What would I do next?”

An ALERT® course manual, for pre–course reading, is provided to all attendees.

For more information please contact us.

 

ALERT® course documents

ALERT® course dates

One-day open courses are being held at our training centre based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have established a number of adaptations and changes in the way in which we advise an ALERT® course to be run for the foreseeable future. 

Dates available at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust for internal & external candidates for Jan - May 2024 are below (subject to availability) :

January - 9th, 10th, 16th & 24th

February - 6th & 26th

March - 5th, 13th & 19th

April - 9th & 16th

May - 7th & 28th 

TRAIN THE TRAINER COURSE DATES 2024 :

28th February 

12th June

9th Oct

22nd Oct

References:

Clarke, S, 2013, Stay alert, stay aware, Nursing Standard 28(12) 71

Featherstone, P. et al 2005, Impact of one-day inter-professional course (ALERT) on attitudes and confidence in managing critically ill adult patients, Resuscitation 65 329-36

Salim, S, 2014, Recognition and treatment of life-threatening events in the community setting - part 1: the journey, British Journal of Community Nursing 19(9) 453-7

Smith, Gary B., Osgood, Vicky M. and Crane, Sue. 2002 ALERT™ - a multiprofessional training course in the care of the acutely ill adult patient, Resuscitation 52 281-86

 

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