This document summarizes the Intestinal Failure (IF) service at St Mark's Hospital, including:
- The multidisciplinary team of over 50 staff from various specialties who provide care.
- Facilities like a dedicated 20-bed IF unit and services for nutrition, surgery, psychology and more.
- Clinical activities including over 8,000 inpatient days, 100+ new patient admissions annually, and care for 323 long-term HPN patients.
- Research, teaching and quality initiatives to advance IF care and outcomes for patients.
5. Extended services
• Dr Yoram Inspector (IF & eating disorders specialist)
• 2 Psychologists (Esther Serranos-Ikkos and Megan Virtue)
• Further plans to develop this unit
Psychological medicine unit
• Drainage of abdominal sepsis
• Venoplasty, stenting & recannalisation
Interventional radiology
• Close working relationship
Microbiology
• Visiting plastic surgeons from St Thomas’ hospital (David Ross & Joannis
Constantinitis)
Plastic surgery
6. Integration with transplant services
• Simon Gabe & Steve Middleton (Cambridge)
• Jeremy Nightingale & Peter Friend (Oxford)
Joint transplant clinics
• St Mark’s – Addenbrooke’s
Senior clinical IF & transplant fellow
Shared aftercare for transplanted patients
• Meetings every 2 months
• St Mark’s, Hope, Addenbrooke’s, Oxford
NASIT (National Adult Small Intestinal) Forum
7. HIFNET
Aim to improve quality & access to
services
Core list of 30 services which Trusts
needed to demonstrate they met
30 Trusts submitted June 2012
Peer reviews completed Jan 2014
Current tender process (34 Trusts applied)
Next stage commissioner & clinician
allocation
Approved Trusts will be reimbursed
from NHS England
BUT currency still not been established!
Launch April 2016 (but no tariff)
DoH (2008)
13. 2014/15: IF inpatient activity
IF Activity St Mark’s
Occupied bed days 8455
ICU days 79
HDU 98
Total 8632
14. 2014/15: surgery on IF patients
Hospital Surgery type No Operation type No
St Mark’s IF surgery 58
Fistula repair 12
Restoration of continuity 36
Other 10
18. 2014/15: IF activity
Admissions
New patient admissions 109
Known patient admissions 193
Outpatients
Total new patients 26
Total follow-ups 893
Inpatients
Occupied bed days 8455
ICU & HDU days 177
19. In house training
• All disciplines
• Advanced surgical training
and medical IF training in
place
• Refresher course for HPN
patients
• Observers
• National & international
• Doctors, nurses, dietitians,
pharmacists
National teaching courses
• 15th National IF &
Rehabilitation course
• Standard & advanced
training for homecare nurses
• Baxter National Intestinal
Failure Forum
• CVC & EN tube masterclasses
• EC fistula masterclass
• Members of IF team
regularly invited speakers
nationally & internationally
Training & teaching
20. Research & audit
Research themes
• Mesenteric infarction
• HPN & transplant
prognostic risk factors
• Development of a novel
ORS
• Growth factors: GLP-2
• Tissue engineering
• Immunological profiling
• PROM development
Audit themes
• CVC complications
• Fractures, infection
• Occlusion, thrombosis
• Management of PN
• Refeeding
• Lipids
• Reducing dependency
• Nutritional status
• Micronutrient status
• HPN training
• PN CVC pressures
24. Future plans & service developments
• Patient-controlled electronic medical records (PKB)
• Development of a PROM (St Marks & Salford)
Improving the patient experience
• Pharmacy & nursing staff monitoring contracts
HPN contracts with healthcare provider
• Plan to expand posts and develop PICC service
IF nurse practitioner post
• Awaiting the start of HIFNET
• Many established patients will be wary of being transferred
Shared & devolved care
• Development of enteral and parenteral tubes and devices
Collaboration with industry